19th December

Salix moupinense (but Salix fargesii nearby has none). Beautiful orange-yellow berries on a Sorbus for which we have lost the label. Any ideas please? Sorbus I did reply to Roy’s…

9th December

…flowers. Camellia ‘Nobilissima’ Camellia ‘Nobilissima’ Salix udensis ‘Golden Sunshine’ not bad at all as autumn colour in the sun, although we would normally grow it for spring and summer colour….

15th March

…day.Clematis armandii coming out in the nursery. Clematis armandii Daphne ‘Perfume Princess White’ is a recent new entry to the website. Daphne ‘Perfume Princess White’ Catkins on Salix caprea ‘Kilmarnock’…

9th July

…the field. Courgettes and lettuce Beside a stream I spy a mature Salix integra ‘Hakuro-nishiki’ (‘Fuiji koriangi’) with a 10-12ft crown. Twenty years ago Burncoose sold thousands of these pretty…

9th May

…tiny and initially rounded leaves as yet. Carpinus orientalis Salix magnifica living up to its name. Salix magnifica Carpinus henryana flowerless still. Carpinus henryana Aesculus x bushii (Aesculus mississipiensis) is,…

5th June

…rugosa Decaisnea insignis Myrtus paraguayensis Viburnum awabuki Viburnum atrocyanea Plus Thomas Methuen-Campbell gives us from Penrice: Callistrus (a rare conifer) Quercus hypoxantha Salix aff moupinense (TH Vietnam) 2015 – CHW…

19th June

…ask. hydrangea hydrangea hydrangea Hydrangea serrata ‘Mount Aso’. The Salix ‘Mount Aso’ flowering here for the first time in March was a good pink but this is better. What is…

10th October

…a strange flattening of some of its stems rather like Salix udensis ‘Selika’ or Cryptomeria ‘Sekkan-sugi’. I have never seen this before in a podocarpus and wonder if it is…

30th December

…need to do a video of ‘fasciation’ or stem swelling and distorting. Here in Podocarpus acutifolis with fascicles. More commonly seen on Salix udensis ‘Sekka’ and a number of smaller…

18th August

…at The Cottage in Yorkshire. It lives in a greenhouse in Borrowby for the rest of the year. Cyrtanthus elatus Also in The Cottage garden are Elaeagnus ‘Quicksilver’ and Salix