28th July

Hedychium gardnerianum Hedychium gardnerianum Hedychium gardnerianum Crinum powellii ‘Album’ looking very fine and no slug damage! Crinum powellii ‘Album’ Crinum powellii ‘Album’ Crinum powellii ‘Album’ Clerodendron trochotomum growing as a…

11th September

…at the bases of the Hedychiums. They are just starting on these ones which have finished flowering. Hedychiums 2020 – CHW The new limit of six people in a social…

11th November

…wall. ‘ginger lilies’ (hedychium) ‘ginger lilies’ (hedychium) ‘ginger lilies’ (hedychium) A nice new clearing at the end of Sinogrande Walk now that a few more of the dreaded leylandii have…

28th August

…years (barring COVID last year). Peter Bickford-Smith Hedychium gardnerianum ‘Assam Orange’ just out below the Rabbit Warren in its new site. Hedychium gardnerianum ‘Assam Orange’ The prize giving after the…

12th November

Hedychium gardnerianum Hedychium gardnerianum Hedychium gardnerianum Camellia x williamsii ‘November Pink’ is full out on time. An absolutely enormous plant which is looking a bit in need of a hard…

18th October

…up cotoneaster berries here is Cotoneaster horizontalis with berries overripe and dropping. Cotoneaster horizontalis This (finally) is Hedychium gardnerianum. I have misidentified other Hedychium in the past as this species….

21st December

…A very dark and threatening sea on a cold day. dark and threatening sea Hedychium maximum (BSWJ 8261a) is about to flower. Hedychium maximum Seed heads now ripe on Hedychium

20th March

…new crevices with long extending roots. Hedychium Hedychium Hedychium Euonymus trapococcus – bark. Euonymus trapococcus Tom’s Magnolia sprengeri (TH 2823) was planted in 2005. It is delightful and massively different…

Visit to Tregrehan – 5th October

…seed is not yet ripe (sadly). Camellia trichocarpa Camellia trichocarpa Camellia trichocarpa Hedychium gardnerianum but not exactly like ours here. I need to do more research into Hedychiums. Hedychium gardnerianum…

5th November

…ripe and much smaller than Hedychium coronarium. Hedychium densiflorum ‘Assam Orange’ Lapageria rosea now with a better show of flowers on this very old plant. Lapageria rosea Fuchsia and the…