6th April

…the suckering root growths each year to try to maintain a single stemmed tree. At Wisley they had not done this yet but will soon need to from what I…

17th June

…As of today’s date very similar to ‘Wisley Queen’? Cornus kousa ‘WCBCRI’ Nyssa aquatica is very late into leaf. The leaves are oblong and light green at first. Odd bark…

22nd November

…the sun today in their fallen trunk. wild black bees I have missed most of the Nyssa colours this year. Nyssa sylvatica ‘Wisley Bonfire’ is leafless but this one still…

13th February

…Peter Smithers’ – a darker form from Wisley Daphne bholua ‘Sir Peter Smithers’ Daphne bholua ‘Sir Peter Smithers’ A Dichroa cynea with fruits. Exotic and unseen by us before. Purple…

19th July

…suckering tree which needs a huge amount of room to develop into a clump unless you cut the suckers off each year as they do at Wisley and Tregothnan. Pterocarya…

11th February

…Purple Breeze Purple Eye Purple Star Rose Marie Rominas Pink Sybille dawsoniana Valley Splendour stellata Wisley Stardust R&G Celtis sinensisPavia Euonymus americanusAvaxa 1 Acer macrophyllum 1 Berberis jamesiana 1 Berberis…

31st October

…of some size. Rhododendron mucronulatum Rhododendron mucronulatum 1987 – FJW October a miserable month – Iran, Stock Exchange, hurricane in south of England. Wakehurst, Exbury, Wisley, Kew very badly HIT….

9th November

‘Wisley Bonfire’ on Burns Bank is superb in the sun. This is a new entry in the 2017 Burncoose catalogue and will be a certain hit. 2015 – CHW Progress…

24th October

…‘Snow Flurry’ Two of the four Nyssa’s on Burns Bank starting to turn lower down. One is ‘Wisley Bonfire’ but not on the planting plans. Nyssa’s Nyssa’s Neither is this…

9th May

…typical of the RHS Wisley to assume the private garden owner is too ‘thick’ to know what is actually planted in his own garden and hope to rely on other…