8th September

…‘Flesh Pink’ The ancient Lapageria rosea has been out for a while with one flower low down and embedded in the Alstroemeria. Lapageria rosea Lapageria rosea ‘Picotee’ beneath the scaffolding…

5th December

…Prunus autumnalis, on caucasicum series not much. A very cold wind no real ice so far. 1929 – JCW The worst wind smash in the New Planting we have ever…

26th March

‘Rosea’ has a pink stripe but is not really pink. Impossible to photograph well as its now too tall and the flowers are too far away. Magnolia salicifolia ‘Rosea’ Magnolia…

15th October

…still and some lower flowers dropping. Lapageria rosea ‘Picotee’ Lapageria rosea ‘Picotee’ Lapageria rosea ‘Picotee’ Sorbus japonica covered in berries. When you look at them you could be forgiven for…

19th November

rosea ‘Picotee’ is only now coming out. All the 3 other forms of Lapageria rosea Camellia x williamsii ‘Rosemary Williams’ well out into flower today. A good month early as…

31st August

…year. One had faded to near white. Lapageria rosea ‘Flesh Pink’ Lapageria rosea ‘Picotee’ is only just starting into flower. Unlike last year not much of a show. Lapageria rosea

1st April

…reticulata. Camellia reticulata (white) Stapylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ with more flower than I have ever seen before on such a small tree. Fourteen years from planting. Stapylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ Stapylea holocarpa…

10th July

…the true black form). Alcea rosea ‘Nigra’ Outside the Yacht Club workshop and growing from the edge of the pavement is a large clump of yellow hollyhocks – Alcea rosea

13th December

…2019 – CHW Lapageria rosea ‘Flesh Pink’ with its last flower. Lapageria rosea ‘Flesh Pink’ Lapageria rosea with its last flower. Lapageria rosea Lapageria rosea Amazingly a flower still on…

30th April

…chinensis Staphylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ is especially fine above the greenhouse. Strangely the pure S holocarpa (white) nearby is not showing colour yet. Staphylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ Staphylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’ Rhododendron edgeworthii…