20th January

…bholua ‘Jacqueline Postill’ First, and very early, flowers on the Drimys winteri which looked completely leafless and dead in The Beast last March. A full recovery here much to my…

9th March

…First flowers (and very early) on Azalea ‘Black Hawk’. Azalea ‘Black Hawk’ The view from Rookery across to the Drimys winteri and the Magnolia campbellii ‘Alba’ seedling with a Rhododendron…

2nd May

…has more new shoots than we expected. It will get the Mount Congreve treatment to the stems. The drimys look much better than I feared and need a tidy up…