18th March

…aquifolium ‘Argentea Marginata’ which is unusual for mid-March. Ilex aquifolium ‘Argentea Marginata’ Lonicera kamtschatica in full flower and dripping in rain. Lonicera kamtschatica 2023 – CHW Unfortunately I was in…

16th May

…administrators who chucked their elderly and senile patients into care homes and not Boris!Lonicera serifera showing up well as a 4-5ft tall shrub. Delicate flowers that go from yellow to…

14th May

…Rhododendron ‘Germania’ Rhododendron ‘Germania’ Rhododendron ‘Germania’ Rhododendron ‘Norfolk Candy’ shot its bolt and flowered in December. Very little flower today. Rhododendron ‘Norfolk Candy’ Rhododendron ‘Norfolk Candy’ Lonicera periclymenum ‘Belgica’ growing…

23rd August

…planipes with ripe and splitting seed heads. Euonymus planipes Lonicera x americana still nicely in flower. Lonicera x americana Styrax japonicus ‘Pink Chimes’ with what looks like a secondary flowering….

26th November

…rhodo. Lonicera halleana been good for two months. 1912 – JCW Daffs moving slowly, a very nice lot of roses. C sasanqua has been poor. 1907 – JCW Two year…

5th June

…calycina Looking good in the nursery today: Nepeta subsesillensis Deutzia compacta Hydrangea serrata ‘Vearle’ Lonicera tragophylla ‘Maurice Foster’ Round seeds on Eremurus robustus. Watsonia ardenei Papaver ‘Heartbeat’ The climbing Rosa…

7th July

…at their best, Lonicera tragophylla is good. Azalea arborescens would be fine if we had a group of it, Mikado is over. Dracoenas just over. Escallonia pteroclaydon is good. 1915…

17th February

…Half the pyrus tree was dead and has now gone. The hydrangeas have had a ‘proper’ prune as has the Lonicera nitida. All the ivy gone too but two bags…

18th February

…Clifford Parks’ Camellia reticulata ‘Dr Clifford Parks’ Work moves on apace in the Kitchen Garden and Frankie has got through to the top bit and burnt the infestation of Lonicera

17th June

…walled garden. Most effective as it flows over the sides. water feature Lupinus chamissonis scrambling beautifully through a clipped hedge of Lonicera nitida. A very nice Lupin species which we…