…setting on Meliosma oldhamii on the drive. Meliosma oldhamii Jenny Knuckey now has 2 carers and is at home bedridden. Nevertheless, in her garden, a superb Dierama. superb Dierama Back…

…many as the Caerhays plant actually. Meliosma oldhamii Meliosma oldhamii Long hanging trusses of lichen growing from the branches of an elderly yew tree overhanging the walled garden. I have…

…well. Meliosma oldhamii Meliosma oldhamii Rhododendron maddenii has wilted in the heat before it even came out properly. Rhododendron maddenii Rhododendron sanguineum by George’s Hut. Rhododendron sanguineum 2022 – CHW…

…aggregata Lindera aggregata Meliosma dilleniifolia var cuneifolia has huge pendulous seed clusters to match its flowering habit above the two M x veitchii specimens. The seed is not ripe yet…

…legs but not quite there yet. Meliosma beaniana Meliosma beaniana Acer nickoense (now maximowiczianum) on its last legs too. Cut down this winter? Replacement well away on the drive. Acer…

…sends me this pictures of his Meliosma rigida which has started to exhibit its colourful bark splitting and resultant coloured patination. Not a species of Meliosma which we grow or…

back to 12 March Visit to Tregrehan – 12th March 2022 Meliosma pungens Meliosma pungens Meliosma pungens Lithocarpus henryi Lithocarpus henryi Lithocarpus henryi Lithocarpus henryi Pachystegia insignis at the garden…

…to three weeks later than all the others. deciduous azaleas deciduous azaleas deciduous azaleas deciduous azaleas Meliosma oldhamii is still not out but the inflorescences are huge. Meliosma oldhamii Meliosma…

…still not actually out although they are so massive that branches are being bent over. Meliosma oldhamii Meliosma oldhamii This is our original and totally deciduous Magnolia virginiana just out….

…Our Meliosma oldhamii does not have bark like this but it did set seed last year. Meliosma simplicifolia subsp. rigida Magnolia maudiae var. platypetala just coming out. Magnolia maudiae platypetala…