…which we avidly collected a few. A smallish shrub with remarkable pink tinged horn like capsules and orange-red seeds hanging below. Unremarkable in flower but startling today with seeds. Euonymus…

…walled garden. Burncoose stocked this once and should do so again. Fritillaria imperialis ‘Aurea’ Fritillaria imperialis ‘Aurea’ Fritillaria imperialis ‘Aurea’ Ambrose restored this greenhouse but it is a wreck again…

…peculiar coloured leaves. Carpodetus serratus Carpodetus serratus The hidden valley. hidden valley Ternstroemia japonica – a red rarity which I have never seen in flower. Ternstroemia japonica Ternstroemia japonica Abies…

…considered ‘early’ either although many of them will never have witnessed magnolias in flower beside them. Rh moupinense, Rh mucronulatum, Rh delavayi and even Rh ‘Cornish Red’ are out on…

…C. japonica ‘Tiffany’ and C. lutchuensis which was bred in New Zealand. Camellia lutchuensis Final leaves dropping on the lower branches of Prunus pilosiuscula. I cut the ivy on this…

…and good red variety. Camellia japonica seedlings Camellia japonica seedlings Camellia japonica seedlings Contrast it with these 3 more or less pure Camellia japonica seedlings. No contest at all really….

…apace. laurel cutting laurel cutting Velvet covered flower buds nearly ready to flower on Michelia ‘Fairy White’. About a fortnight I guess unless the weather changes. Michelia ‘Fairy White’ Michelia…

…in full leaf like Carpinus japonica seen yesterday. Carpinus caroliniana (from Mexico) First flower on Camellia japonica ‘Lady Clare’. Camellia japonica ‘Lady Clare’ Camellia japonica ‘White Swan’ is covered in…

…was covered in yellowy-orange seed pods showing real seeds. Ours dropped long ago. His Schefflera delavayi still in flower. Ours now with ripe seeds. Euonymus myrianthus Having said all that…

…japonica ‘Takanini’ nicely fronts the orange-red branches of Tilia cordata ‘Winter Orange’ in Kennel Close. An excellent colour combination! Camellia japonica ‘Takanini’ Camellia japonica ‘Takanini’ Little leaf drop yet on…

…– CHW A cold southerly wind and another (as yet unnamed) storm on the way. Sorbus dunnii still covered in fruits. Only planted a year or so ago. Sorbus dunnii…

…wangii Ilex paraguariensis to go in the Rookery. Tom Hudson first introduced us to this species which I have acquired from Mark Bulk. Ilex paraguariensis Ilex paraguariensis Ilex paraguariensis Ilex…

back to the 27th April Today Guincho and then to Mahee Island. Right beside the Sambucus seedling is Euonymus lucidus with its gorgeous reddish new growth. Euonymus lucidus Coprosma ‘Beatson’s…

…Camellia gigantocarpa is flowering for the first time here by the Camellia ‘George Blandford’. The flowers are rather battered and the buds are brown not green. The leaves too suffered…

…moupinense, scabrifolium, parvifolium, lutescens and dahuricum and a few red arb’ms x Thompsonii now in flower. Bobs heath is very nice. Leucojum vernum, C coum, wild snowdrops and Aconites open…

…impressive bark and much older than you would expect. Eucalyptus urnigera The view down the slope – herbaceous borders recently split and redug. The view down the slope Banksia marginata…

…garlic well up for New Year’s Day! clump of garlic 2018 – CHW Sorbus japonica (10 years from planting) still has plenty of orange to orange-red fruits in evidence. Worth…

…styracaceae. Alniphyllum aff eberhardtii Alniphyllum aff eberhardtii Alniphyllum aff eberhardtii Flower buds on Michelia doltsopa still covered in velvet indumentum. Two years ago they were blown open in January on…

…nobleanum, R barbatum, R moupinense, Thomsonii x a blood red, R oleifolium, R lutescens, R chrysanthum and a bit of Pearl. The snowdrops, coums and aconites are fair, no daffodils…

…First daffs out on the drive near Nobleanum. 1973 – FJW First snowdrop. Flowers on Talavera and Red Admiral – mild wet winter to date.1963 – FJW Heaviest fall of…