…robusta Queen Mother Magnolia Red Lion Caerhays Surprise_and sargentiana robusta Queen Mother Magnolia Red Lion Magnolia Purple Sensation Mr Julian and Betty Jessel Magnolia Mr Julian and Caerhays Splendour Magnolia…

…looking good. A pleasant surprise. Hydrangea paniculata ‘Grandiflora’ Dead Rhododendrons by Higher Quarry Nursery. Dead Rhododendrons The Queen Mother’s magnolia shedding leaves prematurely with die back from the uppermost twigs…

…been who collected this rubbish from a site? fly tipping fly tipping In 1981 the Queen Mother planted this magnolia seedling by Georges Hut. A Magnolia mollicomata x Magnolia sargentiana…

…on the Today programme until recently.One swan is back on the lake. A mother and two very mature cygnets left about 10 days ago. Normally the parents drive the cygnets…

…mother’s favourites, nicely out on a wall. After a severe pruning two years ago to make way for repointing the wall it is at last flowering again decently. Rosa banksiae…

…think ‘walnut’ but that is what it is. There was only ever one rather spindly juglans in the garden which blew over about eight years ago. My mother planted one…

…from their mother under a gate. In 2001 it was they who were gated or killed (often unnecessarily) by a horrid disease. Today it is us! I do however discover…

…be a much larger clump under the yew tree but my mother and I dug it up to make room for a swing some 50 years ago. This whole area…

…I planted exactly where a larger old plant died some 30 years ago. My mother cut it down, dried it off and used it as a Christmas decoration all sprayed…

…rose A hen pheasant laid an egg in a pot containing a Daphne bholua outside the front door early this morning. No wonder they are such hopeless mothers laying randomly…