…now purplish-black.A replacement Schefflera macrophylla planted this year. Schefflera macrophylla The flower on Oreopanax incisus is now full out. Oreopanax incisus A roe deer buck has attacked a eucalyptus with…

…‘Magical Beauty’ Allium ‘Millennium Lavender Bubbles’ Allium ‘Millennium Lavender Bubbles’ Geranium ‘Hocus Pocus’ with near black leaves. Geranium ‘Hocus Pocus’ 2020 – CHW Sloes forming up nicely but only just…

…brown or nearly black new growth. I have never seen this before. Schefflera alpina Schefflera alpina Another dead mature magnolia! This time Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Woodsman’. No obvious cause. Magnolia…

…Narcissus ‘Paper White’ from Spain and southern France. Narcissus papyraceus Narcissus papyraceus A ripe black fruit on Sarcococca salignus by the front gate. I seem to have missed the flowers…

…‘Atropurpurea Nana’ particularly striking today. Photinia x fraseri ‘Atropurpurea Nana’ A novelty Aquilegia now in the Burncoose catalogue this year! A. viridiflora ‘Chocolate Soldier’. Yellowish ‘granny’s bonnets’ then turn brown-black….

…wilsoniana Acanthopanax aff. sessiflorus (now eleutherococcus presumably) we saw last autumn with clusters of black fruits but we did not see these extraordinary flowers in spherical heads. Quite bizarre really….

…grown this ourselves from seed but never from cuttings as yet. Rhododendron stenaulum Camellia ‘Nightrider’ has its first almost black flowers in the greenhouse. It looks very tender. The plant…

…for the Charity Clay Shoot on Saturday. water meadows Scaffolding goes up to paint the windows on the towers. Scaffolding Compare these dry parkland pictures to 1976 and you can…

…snowdrop Hydrangea lobbii is, absurdly, now coming into full flower as expected. Hydrangea lobbii Black berries on Sarcococca saligna. Most flowers are already over in the main. Sarcococca saligna 2020…

…Osmanthus fragrans var. aurantiacus Passiflora edulis with delicious ripe fruit. The ones I photographed recently in the nursery have yet to turn black and ripe like this. Passiflora edulis Talauma…