…castle wall. new sasanqua bank Hydrangea paniculata ‘Vanille Fraise’ has finally faded to brown. What a show in the last two months! Hydrangea paniculata ‘Vanille Fraise’ Cornus wilsonii (record tree)…

…to show that these are Meadow Puffballs (Lycoperdon pratense) and not Common Puffballs. Both start white and then go brown but the Meadow Puffballs seem too go darker and develop…

…microphylla ‘Sun King’ – out rather early. Sophora microphylla ‘Sun King’ Microbiota decussata – our stock plant with interesting ranges of brown colouration in its foliage. Microbiota decussata Helleborus sternii…

…felled beech trees. The base of one of them was exactly here where an extraordinary fungus (only seen once before) is appearing. It starts as a series of brown shell…

…brown with the runoff. sea And the river has overflowed into the lake. I do not remember this ever happening in summer let alone August. lake The last of the…

…flowers in their full normal colour they will dry off as brown rather than retaining the unusual dappled colours as the flowers fade out.The flowers on Hydrangea ‘Mme E Mouilliere’…

…new plants which might be additions to the 2020 Burncoose website. Pennisetum ‘Cherry Sparkler’ Pennisetum ‘Cherry Sparkler’ Cyperus eragrotis Cyperus eragrotis Cyperus eragrotis Rudbeckia ‘Summerina Brown’ Rudbeckia ‘Summerina Brown’ Rudbeckia…

…to turn brown so time to collect them and dry them off indoors where they will split where the ripe seed can be collected in a bag rather than blown…

…difference is not the spread or the size of the floret rays but in the covering of the eventual seed cluster below the flower itself. Centaurea nigra has dark black/brown…

…does not have as good a brown velvety indumentum. Also masses of seed collected from Zanthoxylum simulans also in the main clearing in Forty Acres (but none on the nearby…