15th December

…becomes deciduous. Magnolia decidua Cotoneaster frigidus ‘Inchmery’ with its salmon pink ripe fruits. Cotoneaster frigidus ‘Inchmery’ Cotoneaster frigidus ‘Inchmery’ The last slightly frosted flowers on Camellia taliensis. Camellia taliensis In…

25th January

…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’…

28th February

…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…

17th February

…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…

14th February

…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…

9th February

…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…

8th February

…the Back Yard but they are a muddy colour and frosted albeit on another mild and overcast day. magnolia outside the Back Yard 2023 – CHW One flower now fully…

1st April

…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…

19th June

…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…

18th December

…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…