15th March

…seedlings Magnolia mollicomata seedlings 2022 – CHW Magnolia ‘Burgundy Star’ just out on a warm sunny day (at last). What a colour and what a shape to the flower. Magnolia…

27th September

…Yunnan and apparently a dwarf form although it does not look it at present. Pinus yunnanensis Abies concolor. Abies concolor Ilex x attenuata ‘Sunny Foster’. Ilex x attenuata ‘Sunny Foster’…

5th March

…mollicomata ‘Werrington’ very fine! Magnolia mollicomata ‘Werrington’ Magnolia mollicomata ‘Black Tulip’ just showing colour. Magnolia mollicomata ‘Black Tulip’ 2022 – CHW A cold but still and sunny day. 236 visitors…

31st August

…not been gobbled up by pheasants. Crataegus laevigata ‘Crimson Cloud’ A sunny bank holiday with the beach full but not that hot a day. 2019 – CHW The Abies delavayi…

11th November

…collage of autumn colour pictures on sunny days (not today!). Here is a selection of what has now largely blown away for another year.Alan Clark delivers the following rhododendrons from…

12th April

…coming into first leaf on a sunny day but still near frost overnight.Camellia ‘Fairy Wand’ Camellia ‘Fairy Wand’ Sorbus dunnii with leaf coming and old fruits still there. Sorbus dunnii…

12th July

…garden). We had a beauty last night with flagpoles rattling and lots of rain and noise in ‘sunny’ Seaview. No sign of the ‘yachties’ early on this morning as the…

13th November

…CHW On a fine and sunny Remembrance Sunday a few pictures of the estate showing that autumn has arrived and most of the leaves are off. autumn has arrived autumn…

3rd February

…harvest and recolonise woodland areas with over mature trees (ie holes) and existing dreys. On sunny days when going around the garden you can still frequently see squirrels foraging far…

19th November

…Zanthoxylum piperitum which is much smaller growing). Strongly aromatic peppery smell. Work at the Hovel progressing well. 2019 – CHW Another sunny day. Perhaps the weather is on the turn…