11th July

…books describe this as an annual but it clearly is not in a warm seaside location. A vigorous climbing or scrambling plant which flowers away for months and months. It…

28th October

…Stewartia rostrata have dried and split open in the recent warm spell. Stewartia rostrata Stewartia rostrata The gales took away all the autumn colour on Acer palmatum ‘Osakasuki’ leaving just…

11th April

…with male catkins. Quercus dentata ‘Carl Ferris Miller’ 2023 – CHW After a warm Easter weekend the first bluebells appear outside the front door over the Bank Holiday. first bluebells…

10th November

…Pieris Acer rubrum ‘Red Sunset’ has not turned red in this very mild and warm November. Acer rubrum ‘Red Sunset’ Acer rubrum ‘Red Sunset’ 2021 – CHW A visit to…

26th October

…would have been a casualty soon without remedial action mole hill Another peculiar clump of fungi. fungi 2018 – CHW A warm day at Burncoose on Tuesday.The climbing Senecio confusus…

29th June

…They last only a couple of days and even less in this strong warm east wind. The three outer sepals recurve as, it would seem, in all Manglietia. Manglietia chingii…

4th November

…have a plant but New Trees records it as ‘fizzling out’ in a warm but dry location. Camptotheca acuminata Camptotheca acuminata Camptotheca acuminata A couple of Nyssa trees not performing…

28th March

…startlingly good. The tree has attractive bark and is now about 12-15ft tall with two main stems. Very glossy leaves and clearly tender so grown in a warm and very…

2nd April

…of those days where all was well in the world (even if it still is not). Warm and sunny with birdsong, lambs bleating and scent after a long Hook Norton…

1st April

…– camellia very good. 1990 – FJW Very dry, very warm March. All deciduous Magnolias out at once – brozzoni, campbellii. 1973 – FJW 1 flower still on lapageria. 1972…