6th October

…‘sunny’ I have no idea! Ilex altaclarensis ‘Sunny Foster’ Ilex altaclarensis ‘Sunny Foster’ Hammamelis x intermedia ‘Rubin’ is a new (German) cultivar with red flowers. Although the leaves are full…

14th December

…jasminum ‘Album’ still with flower in a tunnel. Solarium jasminum ‘Album’ Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Jelena’ just out. Other varieties still to show colour. Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Jelena’ Schizostylis coccinea ‘Major’…

23rd May

…x cantabrigiense ‘Intense’ Geranium x cantabrigiense ‘Intense’ Rhododendron ‘Stardust Pink’ (stenophyllum ‘Linearifolium’ refined a bit) Rhododendron ‘Stardust Pink’ Forsythia x intermedia ‘Discovery’ Forsythia x intermedia ‘Discovery’ Armeria pseudoarmeria ‘Dreamland’ came…

21st June

…Discolor in the A.G. – others not. Tropaeolum speciosum, Eucryphia intermedia (above Orchid House), Styrax wilsoni, Cornus cuspidata, kousa and walteri, Kalmia, Euonymus wilsonii, Styrax japonica (at its best) ditto…

9th August

…part, trifoliate which would have made this a Eucryphia x intermedia variety. Eucryphia x lucida Eucryphia x lucida Yet another large clump of 30 to 40 year old Rhododendron decorum….

7th August

…sucker from the rootstock. The sucker was in fact Sorbus intermedia (Swedish Whitebeam). I had not realised that the sucker was coming from the top graft itself and not the…