…tit for tat after what he once wrote about David Knuckey and Burncoose some 30 years ago. Magnolia ‘Peter Smithers’ Magnolia ‘Peter Smithers’ 2004 – FJW Dry January. Seaweed left…

…on the National Collection of Chaenomeles earlier last week. The collection holder, David Ford, has 109 varieties in Surrey and all are grown in pots in his garden. Japanese quinces…

…good. 2001 – FJW House martins back and active. Cold – damp – miserable – but a little sun. 1998 – FJW David Clarke died. 1968 – FJW Dry spell…

…calycinca Hemiptelea davidii with viscous spines (Zelkova davidii). Introduced to the UK in 1908 but native also to Korea. Hemiptelea davidii Chorizema cordatum now nicely out. I bought this a…

…around to viewing a four minute (and in English) trailer for the new David Attenborough type series of plant programmes which is about to be broadcast on Chinese prime time…

…state to crassum – another Chelsea ‘too soon’. Rhododendron ‘Nancor’ Rhododendron griersonianum (beside ‘May Day’ but one of May Day’s parents) still in tight bud. Rhododendron griersonianum Rhododendron davidsonianum ‘Caerhays…

…David and Jenny Knuckey (my long since retired partners from Burncoose) are doing Serena’s flowers. The nursery have failed to send up the bowls or oasis with the stockplants for…

…of this on the BBC of course who continue to keep Cummings top of the news agenda. David Starkey has a good (long) video or two about the BBC’s ‘cultural…

…FJW David took first solo steps. 1962 – FJW As expected magnolias poor – Salicifolia, Diva, Robusta, Campbellii and molicomata in that order of success. Reticulatas skinned of leaf. No…

…sent to me by David Lake: https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=share&v=8UvFhIFzaac&app=desktop. Unlike the alarmist bleatings of the BBC and government funded scientists this is a rather different scientific view representing totally different arguments involving…