…shooting in the Auklandii Garden. garlic Plenty of early and scattered individual flowers as usual on Azalea ‘Hinomayo’. Azalea ‘Hinomayo’ 2021 – CHW Underneath a few elderly and moss covered…

…var. praecox 2023 – CHW A welcome and unexpected day off as two shooting parties appeared yesterday at 9am on the same day. Consternation but the second shooting party had…

…to catch up with a few as we complete another phase of spring planting. This is what most of the public are missing seeing today! A battered and perhaps slightly…

…even a decent shower and the flowers are irreparably buggered!You can see I got bored with the photography! Paparer orientale ‘Royal Wedding’ 2015 – CHW The tiny frogs are still…

…the main stem on Ehretia dicksonii. A very gnarled habit. Ehretia dicksonii The podocarps on a female Podocarpus matudae are suddenly ripe and now dropping as they turn from red…

…wet one. Better with the dead twigs now removed. Disanthus cercidifolius just starting its autumn colour. Disanthus cercidifolius This elderly Illicium anisatum was pictured in this diary as dead at…

…habit to the others. 8 feet tall with a truss of leaves only at the top. Bare single stem. Schefflera rhododendrifolia (CWJ 9075) Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ covered in flowers but…

…stamens. We have seedlings with the red stamens that we have tentatively, not registered, called C.’Rafe’ (we need to find an “Eddie” next for a full family!). Yours looks different…

…ago. Still a reddish tinge to the flowers but this has faded. Vaccinium dunalianum v. megaphyllum Vaccinium dunalianum v. megaphyllum Steve Dance took this photograph of Aloysia citrodora flowering at…

…Kalmia latifolia ‘Ostbo Red’. Kalmia latifolia ‘Ostbo Red’ Kalmia latifolia f. fuscata. Kalmia latifolia f. fuscata Flower heads on Dipteronia sinensis. Dipteronia sinensis Viburnum parvifolium nicely in flower on Hovel…