…years and you can see how the secondary new growth can get frosted. However the flowers on the other plant accord with the pictures from Dr Clifford Parks (+ 2…

…slope on the site it drained off fairly well in the sun today and planting in freshly turned over soil is quite quick and easy. Jaimie’s picture of the plants…

…– CHW Serena gives me a perfect picture of Lamorna arriving here and pleased to be at the castle. Charles & Lamorna I attach another picture of Manglietia 0695 which…

…but pale in colour below, fruits red. (ie the second 2 pictures featured here – PERHAPS! but search also for earlier pictures of fruit of this species in the diary)I…

…on Quercus insignis. Quercus insignis Mallotus japonicus has grown on well this year. A few flower heads. Mallotus japonicus Another picture of the pruned Gevuina avellana. Gevuina avellana A low…

…with some leaves entirely yellow makes a startling show in the nursery car park on a drab day. Eleagnus x ebbingei ‘Gilt Edge’ 2020 – CHW Pictures from Burncoose seem…

…it on Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Picture’ x Magnolia soulangeana ‘Pickards Sundew’. Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Picture’ x Magnolia soulangeana ‘Pickards Sundew’ A strange leaf structure to the old leaves on Berberis…

…that we do need to fell this one. dead oak tree 2022 – CHW My gardening friend, Peter Shotter, sends me this wonderful picture of a (pale) Lapageria rosea in…

…– Another howling gale with torrential rain until lunchtime. For 10 days or so I have meant to picture the first ‘wild’ daffodils out in the garden by the Four…

…or in the size of its leaves as we saw. Frankly the IDS pictures of M. cuneifolia don’t match Toms plant either and there is only one IDS photograph with…

…yesterday and is paler than Jim Gardiner’s picture in the Eisenhut book. I do not remember M. fraseri flowering this early even in a very early year. Magnolia fraseri Magnolia…

…was occupied from about 1955 by Gilbert Anning. The door on the left of the picture goes into his dog kennels which, amusingly, today is our central computer hub. The…

…actually a huge flower. I fear that this plant might be wrongly named? This cross is M.‘Wada’s Picture’ x M. sprengeri ‘Diva’. I grant you that it could be but…

…fled leaving trees in a dangerous state as you can see in these pictures. Police do actually do something! The owner of the van rings to say not him (of…

…pity we do not have a picture of the wrecked roof.Welcome warm rain this afternoon as the leaf on the trees fills out.Karol’s picture of the leaf stipules (scars on…

…are pictures of the plant last summer, then wrapping it in woolen socks and packing it with birch leaves, and the unpacking of the plant recently. As you can see…

…Pseudotaxus chienii with attractive new growth. Pseudotaxus chienii New growth on a young Carya ovata. Carya ovata 2022 – CHW Jaimie sends me this picture of a blackbird nesting for…

…of the developing stand pictures of the developing stand pictures of the developing stand pictures of the developing stand pictures of the developing stand pictures of the developing stand 2016…

…Vietnam by Sue and Bleddyn Wynn-Jones of Crûg Farm. Here are Tom’s comments and a picture of leaves from his four plants together with pictures of his (supposed) Rhodoleia henryi….

…Rhododendron ‘Tortoiseshell Orange’ Rhododendron ‘Tortoiseshell Orange’ 2017 – CHW The Daily Telegraph has a picture of a 16ft tall Echium pininana growing outside. This beats the 14ft one growing at…