13th October

…leaflets in 7-9 pairs, glabious but pale in colour below, fruits red. (ie the second 2 pictures featured here – PERHAPS! but search also for earlier pictures of fruit of…

21st September

…seeds in it on Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Picture’ x Magnolia soulangeana ‘Pickards Sundew’. Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Picture’ x Magnolia soulangeana ‘Pickards Sundew’ A strange leaf structure to the old leaves…

28th January

…Coltman-Rogers of Stanage Park sends me this late 1970’s picture of my father on a visit there. CV 7500 on the Rolls Royce was inherited from P.M. Williams of Burncoose….

29th March

…time so photography impossible. Jim Gardiner sends me a great picture of Jaimie receiving his RHS Award in London. Jaimie receiving his RHS Award in London The press release regarding…

6th August

…Korea and has only recently come into cultivation. The picture of the fruits in this book match exactly the picture shown here of our plant. The red berries will turn…

9th October

…japonicus Another picture of the pruned Gevuina avellana. Gevuina avellana A low limb on an elderly Scots pine needs removing by Georges Hut. Scots pine This Stewartia rostrata, growing in…

10th March

…but I was not with him myself. I had thought that I had photographed berries on this small tree in the past but a search of the Diary pictures proves…

18th December

…other plant accord with the pictures from Dr Clifford Parks (+ 2 Chinese authors) book on Camellia species. Is Camellia gigantocarpa this variable in its leaf form. Camellia gigantocarpa Camellia…

1st January

…posterity, I attach a copy of our 2023 Christmas card. This year only a few things pictured on it would actually have been in flower on Christmas day. More cold…

11th May

…2021 – CHW The Primula candelabra clump beside our new rhododendron planting is expanding. Primula candelabra Primula candelabra A young Enkianthus deflexus (APA 112 C31 027064) is pictured here. The…