…Another good yellow conifer showing up which I first saw at The Savill Garden. Picea glauca ‘Piccolo’ which is dwarf growing and colours up well in cold. Picea glauca ‘Piccolo’…

…in December. Is this secondary flowering or has the drought confused things for this species? Rhododendron mucronulatum Rhododendron mucronulatum Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca’ absolutely smothered in flower cones. Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca’…

…in the heat of Burns Bank but never flowered. Telopea speciosa Telopea speciosa An unknown banana in flower. banana Neil sets fire to his Xanthorrhoea glauca to avoid the stems…

…fit and its plumage is changing colour. cygnet A fine white cock pheasant near the Bottom Lodge. pheasant Pheasants dry off around the Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca’ planted by HRH Prince…

…the Pinus austriaca is good. The Magnolia delavayi’s are flowering. Also Mag hypoleuca and parviflora. M glauca is not quite open. Rhodo’ discolor is good. Harrow hybrids fair, also Eriogynum…

…this oak. Once a tree this is a surviving sucker shoot from the base. My father called it Quercus glabra and it is not the Quercus glauca which is what…

…atlantica but, although green needled in winter, its new growth is certainly now a glaucous blue. Perhaps not as blue as our other Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca’ trees though. Anyway, you…

…fronting Festuca glauca ‘Elijah Blue’. Ajuga reptans ‘Burgundy Glow’ 2018 – CHW On Sunday we went off to the Royal Isle of Wight County Show where I had been asked…

…near Reevesia The one Corylopsis not ?? marked The Pyrus flaggiana C. H. C’s Syringa The big Glauca Oak near Melinanthus The Ribes longisternosum 1902 – JCW Minimus going back,…

…Uok’ Magnolia glauca Magnolia maudiae (hardy -20) Magnolia sinostellata Magnolia spaerantha Pterocarya macrocarpa var insignis Pterocarya rhederiana ‘Fern Leaf’ 2016 – CHW George Williams and friends arrive for a flying…