6th September

…caught the eye with its large chubby bright red berries. In the main cotoneasters are pretty dull even when in berry but this is rather good. I doubt the berries…

15th June

…by the Hovel. Superb as usual. Deutzia ‘Strawberry Fields’ Deutzia ‘Strawberry Fields’ First flowering of three small Rhododendron cumberlandense. One more red than the others which have a yellowish orange…

2nd September

berry right at the entrance to the garden. A forgotten plant. Cotoneaster bullatus Acer x freemanii ‘Autumn Blaze’ just starting to turn at the tips of the branches. Acer x…

1st September

…Cotoneaster thimphuensis Cotoneaster thimphuensis Cotoneaster hillieri was rated second best in berry last year but only now just turning. We have two plants and the pheasants can reach the berries…

16th February

…forrestii perhaps or then misidentified as Ilex ficoidea. Are your plants still going and could you let me have a few pictures please of the leaf/trunk? Even a berry or…

28th December

…nicely out in the Auklandii Garden. Camellia x williamsii ‘Inspiration’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Inspiration’ Sarcococca wallichii now properly out with the odd black berry still on the plant. Sarcococca wallichii…

12th November

…uncut. 1990 – FJW Picked first noblissima from outside front door – Sasanqua full out. A great deal of berry on the holly – rhodo’s have not enjoyed 1990. Freddy…

29th October

…a new catalogue addition for 2022. Globba schomburkii Globba schomburkii Cotoneaster ‘Hybridus Pendulus’ in full berry. Cotoneaster ‘Hybridus Pendulus’ Viburnum plicatum ‘Lanarth’ with attractive reddish-brown tints. Viburnum plicatum ‘Lanarth’ The…

31st December

…I do not know. A Roundabarrow nursery purchase. Sorbus dunnii And just a few berry remnants on Cornus drummondii ‘Sunshiny Drops’. I have missed the show if there was one….

17th October

…just coming into flower in the Isla Rose. Callicarpa dichotoma Callicarpa psilocalyx with bud, flower and berry. Only 1 survives from the 5 planted in 2017 but this shrub is…