…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…

…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…

…but still a big empty hole behind the cash point. So a hasty trip to Hillier’s to beg half a dozen big evergreen ‘things’ to fill the hole. Hillier’s have…

…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…

…garden but not perhaps the weather that King Charles III would have chosen for HIS big event! 10 signets have hatched off on the lake and the parents allowed us…

…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…

…furry/hairy new growth Betula skvortsovii Betula utilis ‘Chris Lane’: Black – big white calcocils Betula utilis dark form: Black – small white calcocils Betula utilis ‘Melony Sanders’: Very red peeling…

…batch of some 200 house martins circling above the pond but at a great height. As big a group of arrivals as I have ever seen together before they moved…

…yet, much foliage. So a big plant when it arrived from Crûg Farm and clearly not yet a big seller for them. I suspect this diary may have helped improve…

…Guide (which always has been too big for even my largest pocket). Rhododendron haemaleum var. atrorubum Here are a few pictures of my (third) granddaughter, Lamorna, at her first family…