…doltsopa and not M floribunda at all. So all seven of our enormous michelias are all the same species. Mighty odd that only one michelia species has survived 80 to…

…not yet juicy, black and ripe. Symplocos aff. sumuntia The last (poor) flower on Clethra kaipoensis. Clethra kaipoensis 2020 – CHW Frankie and his mighty machine clear up a fallen…

…one has a 2 year old yew seedling in its trunk which did not enjoy the last dry summer. There is a yew tree nearby and presumably a mouse or…

…eaten by a pheasant or a mouse? Ten days early perhaps. snowdrop flower A primrose similarly devoured by something. primrose Wild daffodils almost with flower buds showing. Only a few…

…are fairly low in their mouse proof cage which is the cold frame. Lithocarpus pachyphyllus 2018 – CHW Cold east wind again. Rhododendron ‘Bo-Peep’ (pink form) on the drive is…

…fell here or was deposited into the fibrous trunk, perhaps by a mouse, and has been growing away quite happily for five or six years by the look of it….

…not a sycopsis only flower in January/February? Perhaps not this species. Sycopsis tutcheri Sycopsis tutcheri Photinia nitakayensis has just finished flowering. Photinia nitakayensis Photinia nitakayensis Aristolochia sempervirens with peculiar ‘mouse-like’…

…The third bud was eaten by something – probably a mouse or a tree rat! Magnolia tamaulipana 2019 – CHW This huge Osmanthus yunnanensis fell over last year and was…