…it full open to assess the final flower shape. Perhaps 6 or 7 out of 10. The top plant below the leylandii but well up from Red Linney is labelled…

…quagmire but lots of room to replant. He has also demolished what was left still upright and what was not from an old leylandii hedge. Most of it blown over…

…2021 – CHW A digger has removed the stumps on the felled leylandii hedge in Kennel Close. Lots of room for planting! New magnolia varieties due in from Germany shortly…

…‘Forrests Pink’ was felled to a 4ft tall stump by a leylandii in the autumn but is now reshooting vigorously. Magnolia denudata ‘Forrests Pink’ Camellia ‘Konronkoku’ (‘Konron-jura’) still full out…

…bit early. looks like Rhododendron ‘Tally Ho’ Endless variation in Rhododendron yunnanense from rose to white. Falling leylandii have just crushed half the group here in the Rookery. Rhododendron yunnanense…

…has tilted too far one way only. Tim has recently passed his chainsaw course and, earlier last week, he felled a huge leylandii above the Auklandii Garden to make way…

…of Cupressus macrocarpa was planted 40 years ago as a windbreak. Under planting now needed and some leylandii to remove. Cupressus macrocarpa 2019 – CHW An inspection of the young…

…named Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’. Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’ The leylandii stumps have gone! stumps have gone 2021 – CHW Magnolia ‘Black Bird’ (parentage unknown) has come out properly in the Isla…

…the three leylandii blew over. Metasequoia glyptostroboides ‘Amber Glow’ Metasequoia glyptostroboides ‘Amber Glow’ Aesculus neglecta ‘Erythroblastos’ – superb new growth which radically changes colour as it emerges. Aesculus neglecta ‘Erythroblastos’…