…when I look at the ones still greenish-yellow and much more rounded they do look like the seed heads in Koen Camelbeke’s article dated 16.10.11. Stewartia sinensis Stewartia sinensis Stewartia…

…from Asia’s greenhouse. Originally it was used to boil up rabbits and eggs to feed young pheasants before the first world war. pinched from Asia’s greenhouse Sweeping up rubbish starts…

…green three weeks ago. Glyptostrobus pensilis ‘Wooly Mammoth’ Glyptostrobus pensilis ‘Wooly Mammoth’ Magnolia decidua finally dropping its leaves. This species does look evergreen until now despite its name. Magnolia decidua…

…green hue in the base of the trumpets. These dwarfish plants may have once been indoor Christmas azaleas which surprisingly survived. Late flowering evergreen azalea Late flowering evergreen azalea Late…

…wadanum ‘Album’ – sub species of Rhododendron reticulatum perhaps? Surely a Rh. reticulatum subspecies would have some evergreen leaves? Rhododendron wadanum ‘Album’ Staphylea colchica ‘Black Beauty’ now into leaf. It…

…ride which I have not taken in before. semi evergreen azalea semi evergreen azalea The pinkish form of Rhododendron (or Azalea if you prefer) viscosum is out below the Gunnera…

…has only struggled into new growth in a few lower branches. Droughts again! Magnolia nitida Laurel stumps all gone above the greenhouse. Laurel stumps all gone 2023 – CHW Wonderful…

…propagate this. Weinmannia racemosa 2020 – CHW The usual exciting new things in the greenhouses on a sunny day.The fallen ash on the drive all now cleared up and much…

…reintroduced to cultivation about 35 years ago and had long been thought of as a form of the native Ilex aquifolium. We have a plant in the greenhouse which Susyn…