28th June

Ilex aquifolium ‘Madame Briot’ with attractive yellow variegation. Ilex aquifolium ‘Madame Briot’ Ilex verticillata in flower which one seldom notices. Ilex verticillata Olearia ‘Moondance’ was removed from our website as…

31st May

…objective was to photograph a few pittosporum species in flower.Ilex yunnanensis in full growth with flower buds showing. Ilex yunnanensis Lithocarpus glabrata (from Crûg) in full new growth. Looking at…

3rd October

Ilex verticillata Ilex verticillata This is the large stock plant of Ilex mutchagara at Burncoose with Rob Toy in front of it. No flowers or berries to be seen! Ilex

28th September

…Burncoose website as being for sale so here are a few pictures of the tree, its odd trunk and its purple twigs. Previously called Ilex centrochinensis. Ilex corallina Ilex corallina…

1st April

…trees. Ilex cyrtura Ilex cyrtura Ilex cyrtura Ilex cyrtura A record Nothofagus cunninghamii. Nothofagus cunninghamii Nothofagus cunninghamii Laurelia serrata with an even more trailing habit than ours. A wall of…

3rd January

…here and there all over the garden. Ilex kingiana Ilex kingiana Ilex kingiana The elderly quince tree below Slip Rail has a few early flowers, quite a bit of new…

3rd August

Ilex aquifolium ‘Myrtifolia’ which would be a good hedging plant. Ilex aquifolium ‘Myrtifolia’ Forsythia ‘Fiesta’ – attractive leaf colouration even without the early season flowers. Forsythia ‘Fiesta’ Cistus ‘Gold Prize’…

13th June

…pair of female plants with peculiar flower clusters. The Paper Mulberry. Ilex latifolia Ilex latifolia – who would have expected a holly to be producing an abundance of red berries…

12th September

…the leaf shape suggests that this seedling may well in fact be a hybrid between Ilex perado ‘Perado’ and Ilex platyphylla. This may explain the large quantity of emerging berries.The…

27th February

…sun. Magnolia campbellii ‘Sidbury’ Magnolia campbellii ‘Sidbury’ Magnolia campbellii ‘Sidbury’ A fine young Ilex kingiana is doing really well in Penvergate. I had previously thought it to be Ilex latifolia…