…species. Caerhays won the evergreen azalea section with ‘Caerhays Lavender’ and Windsor won the centenary cup with a superb vase of Rhododendron schlippenbachii. Then onto the Wisley tour with the…

…an odd leaf with three points at the end of it. I saw this at Windsor on Monday and had coveted it then but forgotten it was on order anyway…

…All three came from Windsor in 1991. Apparently Cotoneaster frigidus is rare in cultivation but this specimen does have ‘broad elliptic leaves’ as it should. No way this is going…

…what it was until I went to work at Windsor and discovered ‘daphnes’. Today we have here two or three forms of the short lived Daphne bholua varieties. I have…

…this clump well frosted in December and the leaves turned to mush. Zantedeschia aethiopica Escallonia bifida now pruned back. Escallonia bifida Likewise Escallonia resinosa (a gift from Windsor Great Park…

…further. We did identify a mystery plant near the Engine House as Ilex verticillata (near the Windsor Ilex spinigera) which gives us a second Ilex verticillata. Tom also confirms the…

…under this name which are the same. Ehretia thrysiflora Ehretia thrysiflora Ehretia macrophylla is more easily recognised as an Ehretia by its ‘raspy’ leaf. This was a gift from Windsor…

…the outsides. We saw this last year at Windsor and it was an absolutely excellent newish variety there which was flowering late in the season. Similar perhaps to the colour…

…top wall in shelter. From Windsor 40+ years ago. The other plants in the top of the garden have died of old age and were more pink in flower. Rhododendron…