…dying ash we sought a felling licence to clear the bottom of the Portholland Valley below Parnalls Hill Wood. The licence did not arrive on time due to COVID so…

…hupehensis Violets in flower above the top wall. Violets A variegated Cornus with mole damage. The mole hill has covered the graft in soil and this would have been a…

…from the Lovegrove’s Hill Farm near Bembridge facing south. Ash disease is taking hold all over the farm. view from the Lovegrove’s Hill Farm 2018 – CHW The garden here…

…Amelanchier laevis ‘Princess Diana’ Amelanchier grandiflora ‘Robin Hill’ with a hint of pink in bud. I had not noticed this before in the nursery. Amelanchier grandiflora ‘Robin Hill’ Amelanchier laevis…

…sprengeri var. Diva ‘Marwood Hill’ near the old dog kennels with its first flowers. Magnolia sprengeri var. Diva ‘Marwood Hill’ Another unnamed hybrid of Jaimie’s looking good above the kennels….

…small plants. Philadelphus ‘Petite Perfume White’ Viburnum x hillieri ‘Winton’ full out in the nursery as it is at Caerhays. Viburnum x hillieri ‘Winton’ Passiflora ‘Damsel’s Delight’ not that different…

…Zealander. Magnolia ‘Old Port’ 2023 – CHW A Brookland Travel tour today with Andy McIndoe, formally MD of Hilliers, and an elderly group.Magnolia x veitchii ‘Peter Veitchii’ at its stunning…

…‘Don Quixote’ which is a Knap-Hill bred variety and the synonym ‘Soho’.Galle’s gigantic reference book on Azaleas lists pages of named Knap-Hill azaleas but not one named ‘Don Quixote’. Galle…

…(‘Majestic’) Amelanchier laevis ‘Snow Cloud’ (‘Majestic’) Amelanchier grandiflora ‘Robin Hill’ Amelanchier grandiflora ‘Robin Hill’ Amelanchier ‘La Paloma’ F.C.C. – large flowers and large clusters. Amelanchier ‘La Paloma’ Amelanchier ‘La Paloma’…

…planted small tree. No picture or proper description in the RHS guide to Hawthorns and Medlars by James Phipps. Not in Hillier’s either? Crataegus jozana First flower on Magnolia ‘Illini…

…remained the same size for 20 years. SORBUS ‘Hilling Spire’ SORBUS ‘Hilling Spire’ Sorbus ‘Hilling Spire’ – this plant was a present from Trevor (Yorkshire) Green who grafts sorbus as…

…Guy Hands Gemma Arterton & John Hill Gemma Arterton & protea ‘Little Prince’ John Hill from Burncoose Nurseries, Gemma Arterton, Gabby Evans from the Prince’s Trust Enterprise Programme, Charles Williams…

…in Leedstown to photograph this extraordinarily large Datura sanguinea growing outside in someone’s garden. Leedstown is on top of a hill at the edge of the Lizard Peninsula but still…

…early! These plants will be planted in the cleared scrubland on Treveor Hill when it becomes dry enough underfoot to even think of planting anything! A record? Certainly a record…

…an area of new woodland planting after the 1990 hurricane. One day the top of the hill may have a purple blotch from afar!Time for a bit of thinning around…

…a decent root system. We cannot face taking it too far – just down the hill in fact. Whether it will reshoot without a hard pruning is doubtful but will…

…Photinia prionophylla in the Rhododendron ririei opening more covered in fruits than I have ever seen. The fruits are described in Hillier’s as ‘crimson’ and, I suppose, they may yet…

…planted in 2007. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Gum Ball’ Hilliers says that ‘Oconee’ has better colours that ‘Gum Ball’. This evidence would suggest the reverse. Interestingly ‘Red Star’ lost its leaves weeks…

…plant was one of Jimmy Smart’s hybrids from Marwood Hill which the late Laurence Banks thought might have been lost at Marwood. First flower not properly formed I fear. No…

…so much at the very top of the hill in the garden, completely unfrosted. Camellia x williamsii ‘Celebration’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Celebration’ Attractive bark and swelling buds in the sun…