…Michael also has slightly larger flowers. Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ Abies firma was planted in Donkey Shoe only in 2019 as replacement for a huge Abies grandis which split in half….

…Davidia involucrata in the Auklandii Garden. This tree replaced the one here before whose trunk split out three ways. It was probably three Davidias planted together as there used to…

…year old plant with 15 or so huge seed pods which were just starting to split open but still had their seeds inside. The plant is growing in full sun…

…with a good crop of fruits too which have yet to split to reveal the orange seeds. Euonymus europaeus A few excellent autumn colour photos on the drive today. autumn…

…under them although I think I have seen them here before in other years. fungi fungi fungi Another wind split laurel trunk. laurel 2018 – CHW Camellia x williamsii ‘November…

…The Diary. Camellia ‘Nobilissima’ 2021 – CHW A trip to the greenhouse to find a few plant presents for gardening friends this week.Seeds now ripe and splitting on Hedychium coronarium….

…has seen a series of severe westerly gales. The other half of the tree split out some years ago. The Pinus was probably only around, or just over, a hundred…

…rostrata have dried and split open in the recent warm spell. Stewartia rostrata Stewartia rostrata The gales took away all the autumn colour on Acer palmatum ‘Osakasuki’ leaving just a…

…The leak was outside Karol’s backdoor where the old alkathene pipe had split. He had noticed a ‘damp patch’! This is the brick lined well culvert below the Cart House…

…split off another tree by the 1955 planted Magnolia ‘Lanarth’. another bit Flowers and a seedpod on a Camellia sinensis grown from Tregrehan cuttings. Camellia sinensis 2020 – CHW The…

…Magnolia liliiflora ‘Nigra’. Magnolia liliiflora ‘Nigra’ Magnolia liliiflora ‘Nigra’ 2022 – CHW Finally dry enough to burn up the huge Ilex oak branch which split out in August. The dene…

…the autumn to avoid losses in another dry summer. 2018 – CHW More clearing up after the Friday/Saturday storm on the main ride. An Arbutus unedo had split out and…

…2 hot summers and, now, a wet one or is the old plant about to die? Lithocarpus cleistocarpus Lithocarpus cleistocarpus Maackia chinensis has split out earlier on one side but…

…top of a mature beech tree has split out and crashed down narrowly missing the borehole water tanks. It has smashed a few camellias but not too ghastly. Should the…

…full leaf below the tower on the lawn. Hedychium 2023 – CHW Just before Christmas the split out snakebark maple was cut up and burnt with some uplifting of nearby…

…it is out. New on the website but, so far, a sparse flowerer. Daphne ‘Guardsman’ I now discover that a huge beech tree above the sales area split in half…

…attractive bright red. Sorbus wilsoniana Sorbus wilsoniana Even now the remnants of The Beast are still showing up. Luma apiculata (Myrtus luma) has considerable bark split from the cold although…

…split petals. Unusual! Tom thinks hardy enough for outside rather than in the greenhouse as here. Camellia yunsiense Camellia yunsiense Grevillea ‘Fireworks’ was excellent and just coming out. One we…

…the blood red form Just above it is a huge Camellia reticulata ‘Francie L’ is full out and excellent with a bit of wind damage and a branch split out….

…split apart leaving only one shoot. White flowers. We have always called it Camellia taliensis but this does not fit with the Chinese book on camellia species. Camellia taliensis Camellia…