…lambs 2021 – CHW A trip to Forty Acres but every magnolia frosted and just a few coming now with little colour. Old Park is much the same story.Magnolia x…

…Christmas Just before Christmas Just before Christmas Just before Christmas We may have had only one nights frost so far but this is the end of this big leaf seedling…

…but not as good a colour as usual. Paled by frost and cold. Magnolia ‘Genie’ Magnolia ‘Genie’ I fear the michelias are dying. The flower buds which seemed ok are…

…Magnolia ‘Olav Kallenberg’ Sorbus matsumurana in bud but not yet out. Never seen here before. Sorbus matsumurana A localised frost or cold wind has recently caught the new growth on…

…plants – interesting to see them next year. 1945 – CW Swallow seen. 1934 – JCW Fairly free from frost or storms so far. No sign of a maddeni hybrid…

…is really what woodland gardening is all about. Scent and colour everywhere. 2017 – CHW Slight frost last night but nothing serious. Gloves needed in the sun and still no…

…who also lost it two times. Tregrehan have it but not at this size. Extraordinary new growth. From the tropics of India, Malaya and Indonesia. Not even faintly frost hardy…

…prominent than on the much vaunted Magnolia ‘Star Wars’ autumn showing. Magnolia ‘March till Frost’ Magnolia ‘March till Frost’ Nearby is the wonderful Cornus kousa ‘Satomi’, easily the best cornus…

…Few plants have longer lasting flowers! Lapageria ‘Picotee’ White argymanthemum full out! A clear sign of no frost yet. White argymanthemum 1996 – FJW Very similar to 1986 – but…

…Camellia ‘Noblissima’ but you can see how the confusion has arisen. 1974 – FJW Potatoes at last in ground. Very wet year. 1950 – CW Snow and some frost. Not…

…by day but a clear moonlit sky overnight will bring the second proper frost of the year.Leaf blowing nearly finished on the drive. I enquired why it needs four vehicles…

…frost left yesterday and Rho moupinense showed colour at once. Some lapagerias and Camellia sasanqua retain a few flowers. 1916 – JCW A recent hard frost has cut away all…

…already lifted and potted a large number in case of frost. Echium seedlings Zantedeschia aethiopia still in full growth and untouched by frost. A big contrast to how things looked…

…gives us the best flowers now but no Rhodo’s. 1932 – JCW Caucasicums good again after late frost, Speciosa first open in the wood ( note, not quite over on…

…moupinense 2016 – CHW Frost has caught what I thought from a distance was another Rhododendron ‘Christmas Cheer’ which was full out. According to the 2008 planting plan it is…

…now dominates membership in the camellia world after the US as I suppose it should! Camellia ‘Cinnamon Cindy’ Camellia ‘Cinnamon Cindy’ 2016 – CHW Despite a little frost on Saturday…

…cold and frost nothing moving. Hamamelis mollis has been good for a month and in all the frost and snow. 1910 – JCW All far behind the above, Snowdrops open…

…harsh cold, Erica darlyense and Hamamelis mollis are an easy best. 1914 – JCW Mild again after the frost, a flower or two on C. Lady Clare, C coums good,…

…leaves on the Gunnera manicata which proves how little frost we have had thus far. The huge rhizomes look as though the new leaves are not far away either. Gunnera…

…Despite the frost Magnolia campbellii ‘Strybing White’ flowers on against a blue sky. Magnolia campbellii ‘Strybing White’ Camellia japonica ‘Mary Costa’ untouched by frost. Camellia japonica ‘Mary Costa’ Next to…