…when ripe. I have once seen this shrub in flower before but it was late last summer. Very tender, rare in the UK, and attractive. Halleria lucida Halleria lucida Halleria…

…RHS email (late on Saturday evening) to confirm the award (in case we had not heard yet!) and to permit us to use the RHS Plant of the Decade logo…

…flowering here for 20 to 30 years of Magnolia fraseri. As at Borde Hill this is out now but I remember the old trees flowering here only in late summer….

…or so ago. No idea at all of its name/parentage! A late white rhododendron A late white rhododendron A very late flower and a couple of buds on Magnolia ‘Caerhays…

…than just writing this long pictorial diary online each day (with or without the odd non gardening topic of late).Keeping Volume 2 of the garden diary (only four family authors…

…of the other evergreen azaleas. Azalea ‘Greenway’ Prunus ‘Chocolate Ice’ (let us forget the Japanese name here) living up to its name perfectly. Prunus ‘Chocolate Ice’ Prunus ‘Chocolate Ice’ Prunus…

…visible today only where there are no flower buds. Rhododendron megacalyx Rhododendron ‘Lady Alice Fitzwilliam’ beside the greenhouse. Rhododendron ‘Lady Alice Fitzwilliam’ Rhododendron ‘Tinkerbird’ is just coming out rather later…

…and is still worth growing as it flowers so late. Magnolia ‘Large Yellow’ Magnolia ‘Large Yellow’ When we cleared Old Park in 2010 to 2012 we left a few clumps…

…Not worth cutting out the rest at this late stage. Cornus kousa ‘Wolf Eyes’ The huge clump of Azalea indica outside the front gate has several different colours and not…

…below White Stiles in late October but it is currently leafless as a young plant. Another wander about later in the day to help dissipate the effects of a very…