…is said to be rather tender. Chinese origin. We await the ‘hawthorn-like’ flowers sometime in the next few years. Osteomeles subrotunda A few 2017 planted magnolias in the Isla Rose…

…blackboard at the garden entrance has much to say about biodiversity and nature but is clearly also a tacit admission that the place is becoming scruffy and untended. A botanic…

…just coming. Rhododendron moorii Betula albosinensis ‘Chinese Garden’ (syn. ‘China Rose’) with wonderful peeling bark. Betula albosinensis ‘Chinese Garden’ Betula albosinensis ‘Chinese Garden’ Wonderful trunks and bark on Lithocarpus hancei….

…original Chinese introduction here which still survives) Meliosma alba (formerly Meliosma beaniana – original Chinese introduction here which still survives) Meliosma veitchiorum (the only one to retain its original name…

…by the Chinese as a bad omen. I wonder if China has a similar massive flowering in its bamboo species today?! I dare say the flat earth nutters on social…

…a subspecies of Aucuba chinensis by Chinese taxonmoists or simply a form of Aucuba chinensis. Roy begs to differ and it is hard not to agree with him. This is…

…IDS website reports a recent name change to Cladrastis delavayi. This is the Chinese species which is said to be a far more reliable flowerer in the UK than Cladrastis…

…of a blackbird nesting for the third year running in the same place in ivy behind a Callistemon rigidus (as you can see from the gnarled seedpods). Lots to be…

…another example of how mad this is all getting.However I do not see much Chinese involvement in our 5G networks happening whatever the government said pre COVID. The wisteria on…