…late flowering Rhodos beside the Podocarpus salignus clump but superb today and one to add to the layering list. Easy layers here as you can see. late flowering Rhodos late…

…with orange-red flowers. late flowering rhododendron late flowering rhododendron late flowering rhododendron Our oldest surviving clump of Hydrangea sargentiana which used to be upright but is now collapsing. The slugs…

…the pinks and yellows now long dead. Rhododendron royalii hybrid Rhododendron royalii hybrid A very late evergreen azalea (unnamed) has the merit of lateness but not much else. Evergreen azalea…

…reticulata ‘Lary Piet’ – a new one to us. Camellia reticulata ‘Lary Piet’ Camellia reticulata ‘Lovely Lady’ – ditto. Camellia reticulata ‘Lovely Lady’ I have often wondered how many of…

…a useful record. Magnoliastore Coates Darkest Purple x Betty Jessel First Love cylindrica Hohman J.C. Williams x Apollo John Bond Katja Landner Lilac Chalice virginiana Ludoviciana Melon Sky Peter Dummer…

Next Day >< Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2023 – CHW Hedychium densiflorum ‘Assam Orange’ out a bit later than the other gingers this…

…today we have Storm Debie. The BBC weathermen love this virtue signalling of safety and wellbeing as though, by naming a storm, it is somehow benign and they have saved…

…on Burns Bank. I also see a third plant gifted by Tom Hudson nearby. Staphylea bumalda (BSWJ 115) The late flowering daffodils on Hovel Cart Road which are normally still…

…the Plant of the Year finalists begins at 2pm in the president’s pavilion suite. Here is the setting. We are (of course) running late as the president’s lunch ends with…

…on our Syringa species which flower later than the Syringa vulgaris varieties that are well over. Syringa wilsonii (S. tomentella) in its second year of flowering. The flowers spikes are…