…the base. The uprighted bit still has one small live branch and some still live reshooting. Little cause for optimism. Osmanthus yunnanensis Osmanthus yunnanensis Osmanthus yunnanensis The old Litsea glauca…

…Another good yellow conifer showing up which I first saw at The Savill Garden. Picea glauca ‘Piccolo’ which is dwarf growing and colours up well in cold. Picea glauca ‘Piccolo’…

…in December. Is this secondary flowering or has the drought confused things for this species? Rhododendron mucronulatum Rhododendron mucronulatum Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca’ absolutely smothered in flower cones. Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca’…

…Xanthorrhoea glauca to avoid the stems getting top heavy with old leaves and snapping off in the wind. Xanthorrhoea glauca Aeonium arboreum (?) in flower. Again too many species on…

…fit and its plumage is changing colour. cygnet A fine white cock pheasant near the Bottom Lodge. pheasant Pheasants dry off around the Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca’ planted by HRH Prince…

…the Pinus austriaca is good. The Magnolia delavayi’s are flowering. Also Mag hypoleuca and parviflora. M glauca is not quite open. Rhodo’ discolor is good. Harrow hybrids fair, also Eriogynum…

…base. My father called it Quercus glabra and it is not the Quercus glauca which is what Allen Coombes wants. Thomas Methuen-Campbell thought this was Lithocarpus edulis. Quercus glabra Quercus…

…atlantica but, although green needled in winter, its new growth is certainly now a glaucous blue. Perhaps not as blue as our other Cedrus atlantica ‘Glauca’ trees though. Anyway, you…

…fronting Festuca glauca ‘Elijah Blue’. Ajuga reptans ‘Burgundy Glow’ 2018 – CHW On Sunday we went off to the Royal Isle of Wight County Show where I had been asked…

…near Reevesia The one Corylopsis not ?? marked The Pyrus flaggiana C. H. C’s Syringa The big Glauca Oak near Melinanthus The Ribes longisternosum 1902 – JCW Minimus going back,…