…at least 50 years. Echinops battanicus Echinops battanicus 2015 – CHW Rhododendrons dying A little rain yesterday after a very dry month. The first rhododendrons are responding to it being…

…shade on Sinogrande Walk. Quite a bit of tidying up to do along here this winter to tree conifers encroaching laurels and a large set of regrowth from an old…

…A 20ft tall flower on an Agave americana. You can see that the rest of the plant is dying off. Agave americana Kniphofia caulescens from South Africa at its best….

…I fear the michelias are dying. The flower buds which seemed ok are now dead but the new growth buds are intact. However the main stem is going black so…

…T6278) A young Rhododendron arboreum dying after the drought. Rhododendron arboreum dying Deer damage to a main stem on Rhododedron royalii with consequent reshooting. Rhododedron royalii Interesting that after the…

…dying of its very own and peculiar phytophthora. This has continued slowly for years and years. aucuba The tail end of Azalea ‘Moidart’ on Hovel Cart Road growing in too…

…lockdown with no one having been there for three weeks. All quiet but still a lot of tidying to do in the shrub borders as instructed in January.Phlomis fruiticosa just…

…crowns. After a bit we established they were not diseased with something ‘new’ and were merely old trees dying slowly. Undaunted the Forestry Commission then came looking in late February…

…Rhododendron ‘Ginny Gee’ A solitary flower on a dying clump of Rhododendron campylogynum. These plants live only 20 or so years with us before expiring. Another species to start again…

…worth growing. Cotoneaster rubens Cotoneaster rubens Cotoneaster rhytidophyllus in varying stages of ripeness. Cotoneaster rhytidophyllus Cotoneaster rhytidophyllus Cotoneaster tengyuehensis may well be dying. Cotoneaster tengyuehensis Cotoneaster ‘Saint Andrews Blaze’ was…