…is always very early. Camellia japonica ‘High Hat’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Paradise Blush’ is the second and only just starting. Camellia sasanqua ‘Paradise Blush’ Styrax shiraianus has no autumn colour to…

…female cones on Araucaria angustifolia are just starting to turn brown and ripe. Araucaria angustifolia Stachyurus chinensis ‘Magpie’ is not at all a bad show today. Stachyurus chinensis ‘Magpie’ 2023…

…two clumps are from the best bark birches at Werrington. Quick growing and they should not mind the cold. birches birches Starting to fill up! Starting to fill up! Starting…

…Magnolia ‘Red Lion’ full out on Bond Street. I prefer this to its sister seedling, the ever popular, ‘Star Wars’. Magnolia ‘Red Lion’ We intend to clear the old kitchen…

…planted in 2007. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Gum Ball’ Hilliers says that ‘Oconee’ has better colours that ‘Gum Ball’. This evidence would suggest the reverse. Interestingly ‘Red Star’ lost its leaves weeks…

…of these last spring at the Trewithen nursery sale. Sadly they are not even faintly true to name. Camellia ‘Desire’ Chamaecyparis thyoides ‘Rubicon’ (‘Red Star’) looks completely dead at this…

…‘Lanarth’ seedling Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ seedling This Old Park Magnolia campbellii (one of two) had been in too dark a place to flower properly. After recent clearance it is starting to…

…now full out on Bond Street; certainly it looks better today than Magnolia ‘Star Wars’, its sister seedling. the water meadows the water meadows Magnolia ‘Red Lion’ So is the…

…early season flowerers with dwarfish habit are short lived – 30 to 40 years. 1969 – FJW Peacock tapestry started – mild after bad week.1963 – FJW East wind started…

…Grant. In the till area some startling Amaryllis belladonna or so they are labelled? Could they in fact be Nerine? Amaryllis belladonna Different coloured berries on Pyracantha starting to colour…

…a vlog of this for the Caerhays website with film also of Magnolia ‘Star Wars’ and a young Magnolia doltsopa. The makeover was ‘what you are missing today’. Karol kept…

…been nibbled by deer and was a very leggy plant to start with. Reshooting a little. Is this our fifth schefflera species? I still do not like them but they…

Next Day > < Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2025 – CHW The Styrax season is just starting even though most of our plants…

…Hedychium tengchongense ‘Trum Trom’ Final clearance of the Kitchen Garden now completed by Frankie and old paths and bridges reinstalled. Planting of the start of the new Malus collection can…

…‘Harrow Hybrids’ on Hovel Cart Road just starting. Rhododendron ‘Harrow Hybrids’ Fat young wrens in a circular nest. Fat young wrens 2024 – CHW During our visit to Devon yesterday…

…c. 2000 I have no idea or even whether it was our seed/ label/ growing muddle to start with. Anyway Alan is absolutely right and identifies them both as Q….

…to ferry visitors the church. A fleet of Tuk-tucks Bouncy castle. Bouncy castle The start of the 5km race. The start of the 5km race Morris dancers in the back…

…plan obscure but it looks starlike!). Attractive the way the bracts twirl about. Cornus kousa ‘Summer Stars’ Cornus kousa ‘Summer Stars’ Azalea ‘Moidart’ is a gentle colour growing in the…

…‘Starlight’ Prunus ‘Starlight’ Other entries are featured here. Mahonia eurybracteata subsp. ganpinensis ‘Meteor’ – no flowers! Mahonia eurybracteata subsp. ganpinensis ‘Meteor’ Agastache ‘Beelicious Pink’ – not a great plant! Agastache…

…Burncoose has sold on occasion. Erica cerinthoides Echium gentianoides was a startling blue. Echium gentianoides Echium gentianoides Thymus citriodorus ‘Archer’s Gold’ covering a seating area. When you sit you get…