13th July

…or would without the dead aucuba! three big batches of hydrangeas three big batches of hydrangeas Just seen a bullfinch from the window as I write this. A once common…

8th April

…new (this year’s) plantings The rhododendron season really is upon us and the rain on Sunday night has had a big stimulus on the buds. I need to do some…

5th December

…winter is a big one. Looking at these two young plants with, as yet, unstraightened stems which are heavily staked one can clearly see why the problem arises. young plants…

1st April

…Magnolia ‘Albatross’ Magnolia ‘Albatross’ Magnolia ‘Albatross’ Magnolia ‘Atlas’ is showing colour too further along the path. No damage! Magnolia ‘Atlas’ Surprisingly the big leafed Rhododendron suoilenhense is opening fast. This…

25th December

…is a big clump and has been frequently cut back from the path which makes it flower better. Mahonia japonica Mahonia japonica Acacia cultriformis just about to come out. A…

6th May

…fret. Perfect growing weather for the garden but not perhaps the weather that King Charles III would have chosen for HIS big event! 10 signets have hatched off on the…

21st May

…CHW The echiums have not made it so go into the skip which leaves rather a big empty hole. The Magnolia sieboldii has flopped and has to be cut down…

16th March

…about fit the description in Dorothy Callaway’s magnolia book. The tepals are white inside. Magnolia ‘Big Dude’ Magnolia ‘Big Dude’ Magnolia ‘Big Dude’ A first flowering for the newly planted…

14th March

…taken to Chelsea in 2016. A sad disaster. Rhododendron sinogrande Beside it however is a survivor now in flower. Rhododendron sinogrande Rhododendron sinogrande Yet another dead big leafed rhododendron. dead…

8th March

…planted Jan 2024. Magnolia ‘Big Ben’ Magnolia ‘Big Ben’ A wind battered flower or two left on Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x M. campbelli subsp mollicomata ‘Werrington’. Lunaplant have ‘Avalon’ and…