30th May

…reference book is written by a Fred C Galle. More pictures and less obscure Japanese names would be great. How many times is one asked ‘are azaleas all rhododendrons or…

30th April

…held back in the cool for Chelsea. Calycanthus raulstonii ‘Hartlage Wine’ Do not the Viburnum plicatum ‘Kilimanjaro Sunrise’ look a great batch too. This is the larger size. No pink…

19th October

…– Viburnum plicatum ‘Kilimanjaro Sunrise’. Viburnum plicatum ‘Kilimanjaro Sunrise’ Cercidiphyllum japonicum just turning. This was a 1991 replacement for the Record Tree destroyed in the 1990 hurricane in the same…

11th August

…Our plant of the decade is taking off – Viburnum plicatum ‘Kilimanjaro Sunrise’. Viburnum plicatum ‘Kilimanjaro Sunrise’ Aesculus parviflora is said to be a suckering shrub but the clump of…

8th January

…Ingram’ Omphalodes cappadocica ‘Cherry Ingram’ Geranium sanguineum ‘Striatum’. Geranium sanguineum ‘Striatum’ Hesperantha coccinea ‘Sunrise’. Hesperantha coccinea ‘Sunrise’ The gingers have still not died down. gingers Newly delivered are a few…

17th May

…of our Saler cattle in happier times Viburnum plicatum ‘Kilimanjaro Sunrise’ This disastrous news is countered by the arrival of Viburnum plicatum ‘Kilimanjaro Sunrise’ which is to be entered into…

13th May

…palmatum ‘Ukigumo’ Our very own Plant of the Decade (2010 to 2020) – Viburnum plicatum ‘Kilimanjaro Sunrise’ – should be spot on for the show. Viburnum plicatum ‘Kilimanjaro Sunrise’ Aesculus…

21st May

…Voting is underway for the RHS Virtual Chelsea ‘Plant of the Decade’. Our 2015 winner in the form of Viburnum plicatum ‘Kilimanjaro Sunrise’ is one of the 10 which you…

22nd April

…fall on his sword and resign but how many NHS bigwigs will he take with him? None presumably! Larix kaempferi, Japanese larch, just coming into leaf. As attractive now as…

4th August

…no flowers that I have seen as yet. Viburnum atrocyaneum Viburnum atrocyaneum Viburnum phlebotricum struggling in the heat. A Japanese species which grows to about 10 feet if it survives?…