…all the pink stellatas and loebneris had been a very pale colour this year? Not as I had noticed but thinking about the pink stellatas this may well be right….

…form I was given by Windsor) and Rhododendron ‘Rebecca’ 2020 – CHWSo Archbishop Pell has been released from jail for paedophilia by the Australian appeal court. This set me thinking…

…new laundry now has a sink, and the windows are in. new laundry new laundry Amelanchier alnifolia ‘Obelisk’ coming into flower at the sales point. I am thinking of starting…

…thinking about how to create something serious. They have been staying in St Mawes and have visited Heligan and Tregothnan before Caerhays. The outstanding new things which we saw today…

…Magnolia Group which was to be integrated and has now been exiled. A long and boring story of RHS muddled thinking and changes of mind during restructuring and cost saving….

…not to be thinking about a future class action (funded by one of the firms that take the main risk in these sorts of cases and are the only ones…

…track with his swing shovel which is excellent. Good thinking by Jaimie as Frankie moves down the valley to start clearing dykes. bottom track Attractive early new growth on the…

…attached here. Lots of fun in lockdown reading up about these new things and thinking where we might put them. The owners of Crug had planned to stay and visit…

…Illicium majus Illicium majus Another, rather paler, young Hydrangea sargentiana at Donkey Shoe. Planted as a three but only one survives. One died because I stupidly cut it back thinking…

…regrowth. Quercus glauca Quercus glauca This is one of the four 1920s Quercus acuta in the same clump. You could be forgiven for thinking the leaves are quite different from…

…Leucadendron argenteum This wonderful clump forming South Africa plant is Moraea huttonii. You could be forgiven for thinking it was an iris! Moraea huttonii Moraea huttonii Polygala fruticosa ‘Africana’. Polygala…

…fizz (36 bottles for 24). No London traffic or weekend wedding celebration noise into the evening/night. Total quiet and a start to thinking about our 2016 catalogue. Karol (grumpy) and…

…delineate parvipetala and henryi. I’m thinking that these two species may be merged in due course. I’m going to have to play the waiting game here to get more flowers…

…the Giddle Orchard ready for replanting in the autumn. I will enjoy thinking about what would grow well there over the summer. Perhaps some rare oaks or something with copper…

…Donkey Shoe Manglietia below Donkey Shoe Manglietia below Donkey Shoe Manglietia below Donkey Shoe I cannot find this young Manglietia caveana on any list? Perhaps I am wrong in thinking…

…as depicted in the watercolour in George Johnstone’s 1950s book on magnolias. We purchased from Eisenhut Magnolia sargentiana pure thinking it was from scions we had supplied and planted it…