…and thinking spring has come and time to mate. I fear they may yet be in for a nasty shock.Seed heads still cling onto a young Halesia macgregorii. The ones…

…the Back Yard. I was asked if all the pink stellatas and loebneris had been a very pale colour this year? Not as I had noticed but thinking about the…

…the garden properly. They have a new garden in Dorset and are thinking about how to create something serious. They have been staying in St Mawes and have visited Heligan…

…integrated and has now been exiled. A long and boring story of RHS muddled thinking and changes of mind during restructuring and cost saving. MAGNOLIA ‘Margaret Helen’ MAGNOLIA ‘Margaret Helen’…

…forgiven for thinking it was an iris! Moraea huttonii Moraea huttonii Polygala fruticosa ‘Africana’. Polygala fruticosa ‘Africana’ Erodium ‘Bishop’s Form’. Erodium ‘Bishop’s Form’ Melaleuca diosmifolia in full flower. Melaleuca diosmifolia…

…profession not to be thinking about a future class action (funded by one of the firms that take the main risk in these sorts of cases and are the only…

…exactly as depicted in the watercolour in George Johnstone’s 1950s book on magnolias. We purchased from Eisenhut Magnolia sargentiana pure thinking it was from scions we had supplied and planted…

…flowers are yellowish not pure white. You could be forgiven for thinking that the leaves were those of a Lithocarpus. Ours is clearly wrongly named. Schima argentea Schima argentea Schima…

…and we will all be home working soon as the country shuts down completely. Plenty of time for writing and thinking amid the gloom. The Cornwall Garden Society show at…

…characters that delineate parvipetala and henryi. I’m thinking that these two species may be merged in due course. I’m going to have to play the waiting game here to get…