…is, at best, an arboreum hybrid. Possibly a self-sown seedling? Very early which is why I suspect none of us have really clocked it before. arboreum hybrid arboreum hybrid arboreum…

…year? I really don’t like Mangaves! ‘Mission to Mars’ indeed? Bollocks! Mangaves! ‘Mission to Mars’ Mangave ‘Moonglow’ likewise. Mangave ‘Moonglow’ Lonicera periclymenum ‘Red Gables’ wasn’t bad although not that different….

…with partially mottled leaves Photinia ‘Pink Crispy’ Photinia ‘Pink Crispy’ Lots of glass behind the garden centre. All neat, tidy and well laid out but no customers in the continuing…

…recently been potted on. magnolias from Belgium Another batch of larger named magnolias to go out into the garden in the next two months. All neat and tidy! larger named…

…small tree? Ucodendron whartonii Daphniphyllum macropodum var. humile with attractive flower buds and soft new growth. A very compact and neat small rounded shrub. Daphniphyllum macropodum var. humile Daphniphyllum macropodum…

…Slip Rail. quinces quinces 2020 – CHW A neat job on the laurel hedge below Rookery (top) Path which needed a hard pruning. laurel hedge And a clear up of…

…not really tell the two apart. I am sure propagators have added to the muddle along the decades. The original M. ‘Pegasus’ was a seedling of M. cylindrica supplied by…

…conversions at what we now call White Stiles Cottages. A neat and tidy job by Treleaven tree services. sycamore The berries are now ripe on Cotoneaster ‘Rothschildianus’. I am not…

…never realise it is there. Rhododendron loderi ‘King George’ Below it Rhododendron wilsoniae which is always a sparse flowerer (now supposedly Rh. latoucheae). Rhododendron wilsoniae Pale yellow flowers on Pittosporum…

…some years I was flabbergasted at the development of the garden. It IS a really great garden even without the extraordinary sculptures. An amazing achievement as a garden and, now,…