7th February

Next Day > < Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2024 – CHW Rather surprising to find flowers out on Sorbus aff. ligustrinum (HWJ 948)…

1st July

Next Day >< Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2023 – CHW Seed pods turning pink on Cercis canadensis ‘Flame’. Asia should collect before too…

18th November

Next Day >< Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2023 – CHW The garden at Penvergate now tidied and ready for new tenants. The garden…

6th January

Next Day > < Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2024 – CHW Each year I have a trawl down from the Top Lodge to…

29th January

Next Day > < Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2024 – CHW Camellia lutchuensis has hardly opened at all in the last fortnight. Camellia…

4th July

Next Day >< Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2023 – CHW All rather strange and sad without the company of Nicky on my garden…

28th June

Next Day >< Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2023 – CHW The one seedling from Araucaria angustifolia which Jaimie and Michael found in the…

21st November

Next Day >< Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2023 – CHW Something approaching autumn colour on Nyssa sinensis. Nyssa sinensis The top ten feet…

17th February

…sprengeri ‘Dusty Pink’ Magnolia sprengeri ‘Dusty Pink’ Magnolia ‘Princess Margaret’. Magnolia ‘Princess Margaret’ The Magnolia campbellii above Crinodendron Hedge perfect in the gloom and rain. Magnolia campbellii above Crinodendron Hedge…

26th July

…to London. My father spent much of his pre Alzheimer’s time in retirement working on exactly this but, as my mother always predicted, he never consolidated years of notes (usually…