…featured/photographed this year. 1989 – FJW Harvest all in – very very dry – spring barley poor, winter barley good. 1950 – CW First lapageria out 2 days ago. Eucryphia…

…Eucryphia glutinosa Eucryphia glutinosa 36 acres of the winter corn at Rosevallon cut and the straw bailed up before it came into rain. Arthur’s attempts to install solar panels to…

…down at all in the winter. An attractive colour combination with the red corolla fading to blueish-purple. I cannot find this one in my reference books. It will be a…

…Helleborus x sahinii ‘Winterbells’. Helleborus x sahinii ‘Winterbells’ Secondary flowers and ripe seed heads on Magnolia sieboldii. Magnolia sieboldii Magnolia sieboldii The Eucryphias at Burncoose seem later into flower than…

…see why the camellias and magnolias are later than last year despite the very mild winter (as in 2015)! A surging cold east wind arrives to chill and plunder. It…

…died about eight years ago. Rosa ‘Wedding Day’ Rosa ‘Wedding Day’ Tropaeolum ciliatum full out already as it never died down in the mild winter. It is invading the nearby…

…winter) Magnolia ‘Todds Forty-Niner’ is virtually untouched. It has not moved on much in a fortnight and there is some slug and hail damage. However the plant is at least…

…going over. Cotoneaster confusus The clump of three Hypericum lancastriense has taken a cold winter hammering with dieback but is now reshooting vigorously. Needs a good pruning. Hypericum lancastriense 2020…

…tender plant has revived from the 2012 coldish winter and the March 2018 Beast from the East which largely defoliated it. Hoheria populnea ‘Alba Variegata’ Hoheria populnea ‘Alba Variegata’ Gevuina…

…A young Taxus baccata ‘Aurea’ with particularly fine new growth in the shade on Sinogrande Walk. Quite a bit of tidying up to do along here this winter to tree…