…bit singed by a bonfire earlier in the year. It has however made a good recovery with lots of new shoots. I think it is Ilex x koehneana ‘Chestnut Leaf’…

…sasanqua ‘Sugar Dream’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Sugar Dream’ Laurel cutting below the Main Ride and a good bonfire. Laurel cutting Laurel trimming and leaf blowing along the Main Ride. We cannot…

…group of three but only one survivor. I think the other two were stupidly planted on the site of a former large bonfire. Viburnum betulifolium Viburnum betulifolium Viburnum betulifolium 1924…

…‘Star Wars’ Magnolia ‘Star Wars’ A clump of seedling Eriobotrya japonica (fourth japonica in three days!) planted on an old bonfire where I thought they would never live or thrive….

…Pinus pinaster When having a bonfire in strong winds near other plants cut a few laurel branches to protect nearby plants that could get singed. Nutty rather obscures this. laurel…

…(as yet) on Hypericum lancasteri. Hypericum lancasteri Another windblown branch from Acacia citrinoviridis on the bonfire pile. Acacia citrinoviridis Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ has small flowers this year and not…

…top have gone and it is for the bonfire and stump digger now this spring. Seedlings are coming on. Symplocos dryophylla Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ and Camellia reticulata ‘Mary Williams’ now…

…big bonfire in the gardens today clearing a large dead Rhododendron ‘Red Admiral’ which was planted below Slip Rail some 50 to 60 years ago as part of a clump….

…the suckering root growths each year to try to maintain a single stemmed tree. At Wisley they had not done this yet but will soon need to from what I…

…As of today’s date very similar to ‘Wisley Queen’? Cornus kousa ‘WCBCRI’ Nyssa aquatica is very late into leaf. The leaves are oblong and light green at first. Odd bark…