…on Cotoneaster franchetti below the tower. Cotoneaster franchetti Cotoneaster franchetti 2020 – CHW Mespilus germanica with just a few ripe and well split medlars remaining on the tree. A few…

…trees which will hopefully produce edible fruit occasionally in this hot spot. aroma and currants to go in now with a few lotus trees Nearest the Jacobean watch tower will…

…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…

…Another Prunus ‘Kursar’ coming nicely into flower below the tower. Prunus ‘Kursar’ Prunus ‘Kursar’ Six-hundred 3L laurels have just been delivered for thickening up the shelterbelts above the rookery. laurels…

…ready for the impending visitor season.Prunus x incam ‘Okame’ is full out below the Tower On The Lawn. The other similar plants in the garden are still a few days…

…2019 – CHW I almost missed Rostrincula dependens in flower below the Tower. Buddleia like flowers. In our mild winters this is becoming a 4ftx4ft shrub with a woody trunk….

…is very difficult from cuttings. Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi Magnolia delavayi Further along the wall towards the Tower is Magnolia grandiflora from the USA doing exactly the same job with…

…weather due to end. New maples starting to grow. 1960 – FJW First rain since April 17th. 1947 – CW Picked good bunch of Tower, Triandrus, Jonquil 455, Green eye…

…more and a much better colour than last year. wisteria wisteria 2019 – CHW Fuchsia ‘Lady Bacon’ below the tower. Fuchsia ‘Lady Bacon’ Fuchsia ‘Lady Bacon’ Seed heads on Dipteronia…

…veitchii ‘Isca’ (white) Prunus ‘Beni-Yutaka’ is the best cherry for flower below the tower. These cherries came from Thornhayes nursery who have a very odd trade discount system and do…

…now in extreme old age. The Irish yew is not and neither is the enormous Virginia creeper to be seen on the main tower which I remember being cut down…

…dealt with in October. Another big batch of plants Another big batch of plants 2022 – CHW First flowers out on Ceanothus arboreus ‘Trewithen Blue’ below the Tower. Ceanothus arboreus…

…Dog Kennels. bottom end of the Kitchen Garden Prunus ‘Kursar’ out below the tower. Prunus ‘Kursar’ Prunus ‘Kursar’ Camellia japonica ‘Midnight’ out in Kennel Close. First flowers out on Rhododendron…

…Heritage lecture on Windsor rhododendrons. I guess it was originally a Tower Court hybrid? Rhododendron ‘Choremia’ Rhododendron ‘Choremia’ A young Magnolia sprengeri var. Diva ‘Burncoose’ just out. Magnolia sprengeri var….

…Veitch 1892 listings (nearest the round tower of the Stable Flat). When you google it, you prove the point, so we all seem to agree Philip was correct. Camellia ‘Preston’s…

…Rhododendron ‘Anne Teese’ AND now to the closing meet of the Four Burrow Hunt at the beach. Saw the first house martin by the big tower at 7.15pm. A day…

…coming out beside the tower. Magnolia stellata ‘Centennial’ Magnolia stellata ‘Centennial’ The afternoon is spent with the architect and contractor restoring the old dog kennels and the kitchen garden walls….

…‘Pussy Willow’ (Salix caprea) under Dry Walls. ‘Pussy Willow’ (Salix caprea) ‘Pussy Willow’ (Salix caprea) Cattle at rest beside the cherries under the tower. Cattle at rest Pterocarya fraxinifolia needs…

…yet. new sluice gate in Penvergate Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Geisha Girl’ is just coming into flower by the tower. Chaenomeles speciosa ‘Geisha Girl’ Magnolia x loebneri ‘Snowdrift’ is flowering above Four…

…Ceanothus ‘Trewithen Blue’ and Metasequoia glyptostroboides ‘Gold Rush’. Ceanothus ‘Trewithen Blue’ Prunus ‘Gyoiko’ with its greenish-white semi-double flowers streaked green below the Tower. Prunus ‘Gyoiko’ The rather dull Prunus mahaleb,…