29th October

…2019 – CHW A search for some surviving autumn colour after the gales have led to heavy leaf falls. Most trees and shrubs with heavy seeds will now be scattered…

19th August

…electricity lines near the castle after heavy rainstorms checking for breaks. There was a blackout just before we left for The Cottage in Yorkshire and many others through the country…

3rd March

…‘Mrs D W Davis’ with its huge blousy (but irregular and somewhat varied) flowers is full out below Donkey Shoe. The flowers are so heavy that they bend the branches…

2nd August

…– intermittent but welcome heavy showers after a night of heavy rain. The Meliosma oldhamii at Burncoose did have more than the one flower I had originally thought. Nearly as…

1st August

…allows this? Cornus controversa seedlings 2017 – CHW A garden centre trip with heavy rain threatening. I just get to Arreton in time to beat it. First up is the…

13th September

…tree below Brownberry which was blocking the river. Heavy lifting machinery Heavy lifting machinery Another huge Pinus insignis below Forty Acres was doing the same and trying to move it…

13th August

…cold in April and early May. Even the Sorbus aucuparia are sparse. The hazels do however have a heavy crop untouched as yet by squirrels. hazels hazels 2020 – CHW…

4th February

…2004 – FJW Bishop Peter shows colour.2002 – FJW A week of storms and heavy rain – though North and central parts of British Isles affected worse than us. Beach…

13th November

…sasanqua ‘Paradise Hilda’ in the heavy rain. Ran for cover rather than photographing the rest of the clump. Camellia sasanqua ‘Paradise Hilda’ 2022 – CHW Autumn colour on Fagus sylvatica…

1st April

…cold east wind but not too bad in the Rockery. Heavy rain in the evening and overnight just for a change. Easter egg hunt Easter egg hunt Easter egg hunt…