15th September

…well beside it. white arboreum white arboreum One Camellia reticulata ‘Captain Rawes’ ringbarked by a strimmer but still alive. Its neighbour is not. Strimmer not drought! Keep the wire netting…

20th April

…year but de minimis by comparison to then.This plant of Rhododendron arboreum ‘Blood Red’ has been exposed to view by the lifting of the crown on the nearby pendulous Cedrus…

28th June

…with us retaining a few to replace the elderly plants growing here. Rhododendron arboreum. Rhododendron arboreum Rhododendron hyperythrum. Rhododendron hyperythrum Rhododendron tephropeplum. Rhododendron tephropeplum Rhododendron protistum var. giganteum. Rhododendron protistum…

8th March

…‘Bishop Michael’ Rhododendron arboreum ‘Tony Schilling’ with only a few flowers this year. Rhododendron arboreum ‘Tony Schilling’ Rhododendron arboreum ‘Tony Schilling’ An original Magnolia campbellii var. mollicomata above Roger’s Quarry….

1st February

…well when cut back but not in extreme old age (i.e. 50 years plus). Rhododendron formosum Rhododendron arboreum subsp. delavayi full out high up above the Main Quarry. This original…

10th May

…R.GRIFFITHIANUM x purple splendour cross R.GRIFFITHIANUM x JC Williams cross R.GRIFFITHIANUM x arboreum sub delavayii cross R.GRIFFITHIANUM x cetewayo cross 2016 – CHW A tour with Mike and Annabelle Lloyd…

2nd February

…on the peculiarly coloured Rhododendron arboreum subsp. cinnamomium but still not full out. Rhododendron arboreum subsp. cinnamomium Rhododendron arboreum subsp. cinnamomium First flower fully out on Rhododendron ‘Bo-Peep’ (yellow) and…

7th February

…them more light. Rhododendron arboreum Rhododendron arboreum A big consignment of new plants from Burncoose from my annual ‘wish list’ accumulated from what I have seen on webcasts and garden…

22nd February

…‘Red Admiral’ Rhododendron ‘Red Admiral’ And on a blood red form of Rhododendron arboreum. Rhododendron arboreum Rhododendron arboreum 2024 – CHW Literally hundreds of magnolias are now out and coming…

13th February

…up in the rush before opening as it was on Thursday in the freezing cold and alarmingly strong gusts of beastly east wind. Rhododendron arboreum Rhododendron arboreum It now looks…

18th March

…truss R. arboreum – 2nd Any species one spray R. moulmainense – 1st R. arboreum – 2nd Any species of falconera or grandia one truss R. macabeanum – 2nd Any…

1st April

…I have seen. Rhododendron arboreum ‘Sir Charles Lemon’ Rhododendron arboreum ‘Sir Charles Lemon’ Magnolia ‘Genie’ is now coming out properly with only a few premature windblown flowers frosted. The start…

13th April

…others coming on. R racemosum good in the beds. Clematis alpinia V.G. Rho spinuliferum is super – white Auklandii x Arboreums coming on. Daffs going off. Arboreum x Thomsonii over….

16th April

…Tilia paucicostata just in leaf. A rare newly introduced species not in Hilliers. Tilia paucicostata Rhododendron arboreum ‘Sir Charles Lemon’ is seldom quite as floriferous as this as a young…

22nd April

…needs propagating by Asia later in the summer. A particularly good form of Rhododendron ‘Sir Charles Lemon’ (arboreum). Better than 2 or 3 others in the garden. Rhododendron ‘Lady Montagu’…

4th May

…neglect.An enormous Oxydendron arboreum. Oxydendron arboreum Cryptomeria japonica araucarioides – extraordinary! Cryptomeria japonica araucarioides Cryptomeria japonica araucarioides I had not been to High Beeches for 20+ years and had not…

3rd February 1897 – 2020

…No daffs in the Tin Garden, Irroratum, Moupinense, blood red Arboreum and blood red [?] show flower, Barbatum open and Scabrifolium is very good, also several Primroses are open and…

23rd December

…damaged flowers on Rhododendron arboreum subsp. delavayi. Rhododendron arboreum subsp. delavayi What an overnight gale can do to a camellia in full flower. overnight gale The only time in recent…

24th December

…of seed clusters which I collect for Asia to grow. Crabiodendron yunnanense Crabiodendron yunnanense Saxegothaea conspicua is doing well. Saxegothaea conspicua As are a row of Rhododendron arboreum but in…

5th January

…ririei Rhododendron ririei Nearly out too is Rhododendron arboreum ssp. cinnamomeum. Rhododendron arboreum ssp. cinnamomeum Berries colouring up on Ilex kingiana. Ilex kingiana Aralia vietnamensis has had its leaves frosted…