…castle wall. Surprisingly unfrosted. Camellia japonica ‘Lady Clare’ A young Dicksonia antarctica above a large and cut throat Rubus squarrosus in a damp corner. Dicksonia antarctica Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’…

…kind with a gnome or two. Wherever could we reasonably put this? ‘joke’ 2020 – CHW A magnolia which often gets frosted is this campbellii seedling on Bond Street surrounded…

…an original scion from the lawn at Lanarth propagated by Eisenhut in Switzerland. There are five perfect Lanarth flowers now sadly frosted and over but a major acquisition for the…

…Camellia ‘Sode-gashuki’ is now a frosted, windblown, petal blighted mess by the front door but there are still a few new flowers. It was first out this year in October…

…Magnolia sprengeri var elongata blown open but frosted by Tin Garden. Jaimie’s view is that it is a light coloured Magnolia campbellii and that I have muddled the two adjacent…

…pinks were frosted out but what we have left here is all near white with faint pink markings. All much the same, all very dull and unremarkable and largely not…

…Lemon’ Magnolia ‘Genie’ is now coming out properly with only a few premature windblown flowers frosted. The start of the typical white edging on the petals can be seen here…

…twigs while the previously frosted ‘new’ leaves still hang there black and dead ‘bending the knee’. Magnolia dawsoniana Magnolia dawsoniana The clump of 15-18ft tall Echium pininana have nearly finished…

…leaves. Largely smooth rather than bullate leaves. No flowers here after 15 years and you can see how the secondary new growth can get frosted. However the flowers on the…

…water pipe Camellia japonica ‘Nobilissima’ now well frosted Camellia japonica ‘Nobilissima’ Camellia japonica ‘Nobilissima’ The one flower on the Arum Lily now deceased. Arum Lily First colour showing on Daphne…