…here. An azalea gall 2022 – CHW Four hours of welcome heavy rain overnight and more to come to dampen the Jubilee festivities. rain Another decent plant of Pterostyrax psilophyllus…

…The very elderly owner will not have far to travel!Then to the absurdly named Jubilee Nurseries which was even more funerial. Most plants were windblown and unsaleable like ours in…

…I have seen these turn into clusters of 5/7 black berries so I am probably wrong. Bees and flies all over the flowers. Planted 2011. Eleutherococcus (Acanthopanax) aff. sessilenis Eleutherococcus…

…itself. Malus ‘Pink Glow’ Malus ‘Pink Glow’ Malus ‘Pink Glow’ 2017 – CHW Off to Busy Bees fairly awful garden centre in the rain. Crammed with coach loads. Verbena rigida…

…in Monday’s storm. Good scent and loads of bees. Unusual bark too. Styrax wuyuanensis Styrax wuyuanensis Styrax wuyuanensis Styrax wuyuanensis Styrax wuyuanensis b) Styrax japonicus ‘Fargesii’ is only just out….

…Plantation sign An old honeycomb dug out, presumably, by crows from a wild bees nest. Perhaps squirrels but would they not have chewed it up on the ground? No sign…

…off with nothing in them but this year looks more promising. Magnolia rostrata Magnolia rostrata The wild black bees whose home got felled are still very much in evidence in…

…‘White Phantom’ and an application for registration will go off shortly to Magnolia Society International. Honey bees out and about foraging. Honey bees To Burncoose gardens to do a rhododendron…

…a colony of wild black bees who are decidedly displeased at events. Ross will ring an apiarist tonight to see if he can box them up and then rehouse them…

…turbine 2015 – CHWTo Buzy Bees Garden Centre on a photography mission and to try to find worthwhile and popular ‘new’ plants for next year’s Burncoose catalogue. Huge expense on…