7th February

…apples in profusion on one of the three different malus on Bond Street. This is the smallest and bottom one of the three (see earlier attempts at naming the three…

3rd January

…Looking closely it would seem to be new flower heads in profusion. I must assume that both the plants pictured with admittedly rather different growth habits are both males? Hillier’s…

26th August

…bought at Treseders Nursery in lockdown is flowering nicely and in profusion. A new species to me with pink flowers but typical hairy Tibouchina stems and leaves. Certainly one to…

9th February

…plenty of salty gales. Quercus franchettii Amazingly Prunus laurocerasus is actually in flower already below Tin Garden. Prunus laurocerasus A female Podocarpus henkelii with ripening podocarps in profusion. Podocarpus henkelii…

31st August

…are popping up in profusion again all over the bank above the lawn. Thankfully just after the second grass cut. cyclamen 2016 – CHW This 1996 planting of five Hydrangea…

21st July

…which I cannot, as yet, locate in the reference books. White flowers in profusion. Callicarpa cathayana Callicarpa cathayana Callicarpa cathayana Finally I find what I now think is Osmanthus heterophyllus…

19th September

…solandrii still has some flower. One normally thinks of this as a winter foliage plant but it does have tiny white flowers in profusion which one tends not to notice…

19th February

…where only the lower and more sheltered branches remain evergreen. Yellow anthers tinged red and a profusion of buds this year. Quite attractive bark too. x Sycoparrotia semidecidua x Sycoparrotia…

21st February

…seedling Yellow berries in profusion on several lophomyrtus below Tin Garden. lophomyrtus lophomyrtus Recent frost damage on the leaves of Aralia vietnamensis. It should recover. Aralia vietnamensis Aralia vietnamensis This…

8th June

…has blue podocarps forming in profusion which I have not seen before on this supposedly tender South African species. Wonderful foliage colour and the new growth is perfect now for…