…In a mild winter there are at least some flowers for at least nine months. Magnolia grandiflora Liquidamber styraciflua ‘Red Star’ is perhaps at its best but far less red…

…‘Profusion’ Callicarpa psilocalyx is clearly the most tender of the three species growing in Tin Garden and in the Isla Rose Plantation. Much dieback even after a mild winter and…

…to show in this batch of eight different plants. Camellia sasanqua ‘Winters Toughie’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Winters Toughie’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Winters Toughie’ Nyssa sylvatica ‘Wisley Bonfire’ has changed colours in the…

…year. drought casualty Acer morifolium which blew over and split in a winter gale is clearly not going to reshoot. Acer morifolium Hoheria ‘Glory of Amlwch’ just opening. This is…

…(?) ‘Lynwood’ nearly full out in mid November. What does this tell us? Another absurdly mild winter? I think I planted this 45 years ago. Forsythia (?) ‘Lynwood’ Forsythia (?)…

…has not been cold and yet the leaves already look as though they have had a cold winter. Quercus lamellosa Acer takesimense has coloured even more in the last three…

…needled in winter, its new growth is certainly now a glaucous blue. Perhaps not as blue as our other Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca’ trees though. Anyway, you can see three stages…

…windows are in. new laundry new laundry Amelanchier alnifolia ‘Obelisk’ coming into flower at the sales point. I am thinking of starting an Amelanchier collection next winter in Old Park….

…recent years. It died over winter. These trees live only 30 years or so as we have proved yet again. Time to plant several more as the others dotted about…

…plot clearance of the area around the two huge beech trees which fell in the winter. Ready for a major replant next spring when all the stumps dug out. Nevertheless…