…as it gets as I well remember from 3 years ago. Paul Young-Jamieson 2017 – CHW Glorious sun and a blue sky for the magnolias. I will let the pictures…

…The Olive grove has been tidied up We are trying to grow Brahea armata – Mexican Blue Palm – in Kennel Close and above the greenhouse. So far they are…

…it is in August. Fuchsia and Echium seedlings The evergreen Salvia guaranitica ‘Black and Blue’ is excellent as well. Salvia guaranitica ‘Black and Blue’ Salvia guaranitica ‘Black and Blue’ Garrya…

…Sheep A pen of Batch Blue Texels. Texels And a Jacob sheep. Jacob sheep Calf judging. Calf Miniature goats. goats And miniature donkeys! donkeys Pigs in repose. Pigs Rows of…

…against a blue sky. Embothrium ‘Lanceolatum Group’ Embothrium ‘Lanceolatum Group’ Embothrium ‘Lanceolatum Group’ We used to call this Michelia crassipes – now also (supposedly) Magnolia laevigata. Only in flower very…

…paxii: Blue undersides to leaves Acer sacchorum subsp. skutchii: Mexico Acer wardii Actinidia rubrifolia var. coriacea: Red flowers Betula calcicola: Dwarf shrub curled and furry/hairy new growth Betula skvortsovii Betula…

…factory in Lowestoft and to discuss their show garden. Blueberry fruit changing colour already in the Harrod Horticultural vegetable garden. Blueberry fruit Wisteria venusta starting to grow up the new…

…laundry building laundry building laundry building These blue barrels will be used as supplementary pheasant feeders for all the birds which survived the last, much-shortened, shooting season. blue barrels Prunus…

…blue carpet. bluebells The Asiatic magnolia season reached its zenith this week and will now fade out with a few New Zealanders still to go. Despite the early start in…

…down by the pond. Rhododendron augustinii ‘Penheale Blue’ Rhododendron augustinii ‘Penheale Blue’ First flower out on the pure white form of Staphylea holocarpa. We do not have the white form…

…‘Yakeo’. Rhododendron ‘Martha Wright’ Magnolia ‘Yakeo’ and Rhododendron veitchianum ‘Cubittii Group’. Magnolia ‘Yakeo’ Rhododendron ‘Blue Tit’ and Rhododendron ‘Elizabeth’. Rhododendron ‘Blue Tit’ A single tiny flower on the aptly named…

…now too against a cold blue sky. Magnolia ‘Petit Chicon’ Magnolia ‘Cleopatra’ has been out for weeks. Still holding up well despite all the east wind and some frost. Magnolia…

…blue as the other in bud. Magnolia ‘Woodsman’ x ‘Patriot’ Magnolia ‘Woodsman’ x ‘Patriot’ Araucaria angustifolia was planted out in early March but the recent frost has done for it…

…it has few flowers this year after the cold winter. Despite there being few flowers out the ground is carpeted with buds pecked in half by blue tits seeking the…

…Nurseries) with a strange blue hue to its large leaves. Eucalyptus delegatensis Eucalyptus delegatensis Eucalyptus gregsoniana (also Roundabarrow) with a fine set of new growth. Eucalyptus gregsoniana Quercus trojana just…

…Magnolia ‘Southern Belle’ Magnolia acuminata ‘Blue Opal’ flowering for the first time. Two previous plants died. Magnolia acuminata ‘Blue Opal’ 2020 – CHW Over the bank holiday weekend many emails…

…grow here. This one in full sun and fully exposed to the wind. Pittosporum dallii Podocarpus elongatus ‘Blue Chip’ growing (unlike ours) in a windy position. Podocarpus elongatus ‘Blue Chip’…

…this oak but I have sadly forgotten it. oak Sorbus dunnii looking good. Sorbus dunnii Viburnum dentatum ‘Blue Muffin’. Viburnum dentatum ‘Blue Muffin’ Brassaiopsis dumicola (KWJ 12217) growing on rather…

…Aconitum ‘Newry Blue’ in the sun. Aconitum ‘Newry Blue’ A few camellias with early flowers in our tunnel of saleable three litre plants: Camellia x oleifera ‘Winter’s Joy’ Camellia x…

…blue cedar was planted on 24th April 1984. I could not remember the other day. blue cedar Camellia ‘Show Girl’ is out. A tiny bud but a huge flower which…