27th December

…deserved trade price of £30 have survived. Semi evergreen but out before the other D. bholua varieties. ‘Jacqueline Postill’ nearby is not yet showing colour. Another thing that is rather…

10th July

…west in the lower garden. Good mature magnolias, great pruning on the Magnolia delavayi on the house, the best Populus lasiocarpa I have ever seen. Outstanding in every respect and…

6th May

…fret. Perfect growing weather for the garden but not perhaps the weather that King Charles III would have chosen for HIS big event! 10 signets have hatched off on the…

24th May

…driven to the scrapheap and the country driven even further into a recession as no one living has ever seen UNLESS (careful) common sense prevails at last.The recession will be…

22nd May

…The first journalist The Savills sponsored garden with subsequently received a Silver Gilt Medal. Savills invited 994 clients to the show over the 6 days. Ticket price c. £100 per…

9th July

…people and shows what a farm tenant with only three or four fields could achieve. Weeds everywhere exactly as they used to be 50 years ago when many farmers used…

10th March

…omeiensis Aucuba omeiensis Aucuba omeiensis Roy also found Viburnum triphyllum (BSWJ 10757) growing near Tin Garden. It is an evergreen and, very unusually for a Viburnum, a native of Columbia…

20th April

…have to get the economy going! The government cannot bail out everyone and every business for very much longer.The death rates may turn out to be double the hoped for…

12th May

…Quarry. No name here either but that one is a much darker red. evergreen azalea clump evergreen azalea clump As far as I can pin this old clump to a…

3rd August

…Ilex aquifolium ‘Myrtifolia’ which would be a good hedging plant. Ilex aquifolium ‘Myrtifolia’ Forsythia ‘Fiesta’ – attractive leaf colouration even without the early season flowers. Forsythia ‘Fiesta’ Cistus ‘Gold Prize’…