…of the stems. No autumn colour yet. Crataegus x grignoniensis has huge and very bright red berries. Another topgrafted plant but extremely effective today with the sun on it. This…

…Catalpa ovata Bright red leaves here and there on Luculia gratissima (KR 11263) and flower buds forming. Important for Asia to propagate this. Luculia gratissima (KR 11263) 2022 – CHW…

Next Day >< Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2024 – CHW Much colder but bright sunshine for a change. Magnolia grandiflora ‘Galissonniere’ catching the…

…First poor flower on Camellia sasanqua ‘Dazzler’. Camellia sasanqua ‘Dazzler’ 2021 – CHW Nyssa leptophylla with the odd bright red leaf so far and the customary deer nibbling lower down….

…etc. Pentapanax verticillatus Pentapanax verticillatus Parrotia subaequalis has attractive blackish autumn colour but still also with bright green secondary new growth. This is the third time we have planted this…

…place. new planting place 2017 – CHW Two extraordinary new things in the frames:Berberis xanthoclada with rich bright red autumn foliage. A new species to us. As red as it…

…large tree. Huge pale green leaves. Indumented below, yellow flowers. April/May. CWT6336. Rhododendron excellens. Maddenia subsection. Forms a spreading shrub. Large, shiny bright green leaves. Long lily like, scented white…

…excitements in the delivery from Crug Farm when I have time to examine it more closely. Euonymus porphyreus still has several bright pink star-like seed pods but no seeds still…

…So now the first real frost of the year. Minus 5°C overnight with hail but bright and clear by day. The Echiums do not like it! Echiums Neither did the…

…Rookery. Quite a bright colour on an overcast day but, as yet, unblemished by wind or frost. Rhododendron ‘Winter Intruder’ Rhododendron ‘Winter Intruder’ Rhododendron ‘Winter Intruder’ Alongside it Camellia ‘Winton’…

…like a holly or an Osmanthus than a Griselinia. Very rare. Griselinia jodonifolia Griselinia jodonifolia Griselinia jodonifolia Luzurgia polyphylla is also from Chile. A dainty climbing plant with round bright…

…very bright red by March. This tree self seeds itself (via birds) here and there all over the garden. Ilex kingiana Ilex kingiana Ilex kingiana The elderly quince tree below…

…to Tin Garden and suddenly caught the eye with its large chubby bright red berries. In the main cotoneasters are pretty dull even when in berry but this is rather…

…Bright guys… bad mistake. We’ve killed tens of thousands – for nothing But because we panicked, we’ve added hugely to the toll. Excess mortality between March and May was around…

…‘bright red’ or ‘crimson’. I would say the former. Cestrum fasciculatum Cestrum fasciculatum Cestrum fasciculatum Philadelphus pekinensis with faintly scented creamy then white flowers. Philadelphus pekinensis Deutzia pulchra is a…

…Sorbus gonggashonica with berries. We may have seen the first seeds last year? What a name! Sorbus gonggashonica Sorbus gonggashonica Sorbus commixta aff. var. sachalinensis with bright red-orange berries hidden…

…we do not leave until evening.The night before we all went to the Blue Lagoon restaurant in the old fire station in Kings Road where we observed innumerable bright young…

…– small leaved form. Thamnocalamus crassinodus ‘Merlyn’ Thamnocalamus crassinodus ‘Merlyn’ Thamnocalamus crassinodus ‘Merlyn’ Phyllostachys aurea ‘Koi’ – golden yellow canes striped with bright green in the groove. Phyllostachys aurea ‘Koi’…

…‘Dusky Pink’ 2022 – CHW A bright and sunny day for a tour with John & Vanessa Marston. First flowers out on the scented Rhododendron ‘Jim Russel’ – ridiculously early….

…young Magnolia sprengeri ‘Diva’ now full out. Magnolia sprengeri ‘Diva’ Magnolia sprengeri ‘Diva’ Magnolia ‘Pristine’ just out by Georges Hut. A small bright pure white as the name implies. Magnolia…