…likely perhaps? A very cold east wind caught other evergreens about this time last spring and this may be a delayed reaction? We have one other decent big plant and…

…kennels is progressing. Roof trusses now installed and the kitchen garden walls re-slated with some holes filled in but other big ones still to do where the water build up…

…zaylanicum (?) Rhododendron arboreum ssp. zaylanicum (?) Magnolia ‘Rebecca’s Perfume’ in the Isla Rose Plantation – scent overpowering! Magnolia ‘Rebecca’s Perfume’ Magnolia ‘Big Dude’ now a single flower from above….

…in flower. Rhododendron sinogrande Rhododendron sinogrande Yet another dead big leafed rhododendron. dead big leafed rhododendron 2023 – CHW Replanting a cleared and tidied area at The Vean. Replanting at…

…Jury’ Helwingia chinensis is a suckering, spreading shrub so we have put another beside the existing one. Note how much bigger the leaves are on the plant from the frames….

…buds blown off Rhododendron sutchuenense before they could open. Rhododendron sutchuenense A yew tree growing from a fallen tree fern trunk which I found by accident. yew tree Big leaf…

…2025 with about 6 magnolias showing. This big leaf rhododendron blew over a year or two ago but some roots remained and the plant is slowly trying to upright itself….

…Hat’. Camellia ‘High Hat’ Fruits nearly ripe on Schefflera pauciflora (WWJ 1199). Schefflera pauciflora Schefflera pauciflora 2021 – CHW Real frost again on New Year’s Day.Big leafed rhododendrons expressing their…

…outside is still doing well. Sollya heterophylla Sollya heterophylla A big rhododendron with little new growth this year is struggling big rhododendron 2022 – CHW A decent thunderstorm breaks over…

…flowering for the first time. Enkianthus serrulatus Enkianthus campanulatus ‘Ruby Glow’ just out. Also a newly planted group and with loads of flower. Enkianthus campanulatus ‘Ruby Glow’ Then a big…

…utilis ‘Chris Lane’: Black – big white calcocils Betula utilis dark form: Black – small white calcocils Betula utilis ‘Melony Sanders’: Very red peeling stem Camellia bailinshanica: Red new growth…

…hybrid groups there? Rhododendron ‘Tibet’ Rhododendron ‘Tibet’ A rare flower on a struggling big leafed rhododendron. Despite watering of the nursery bed these plants had horrid time in the drought…

…Dwarfish growing. Delphinium ‘Bolero’ We have all voted Brexit in the UK referendum today in the Magnolia Tea Rooms polling station here. The two tellers expected a ‘big turnout’ but…

…been near to to report your COVID symptoms. The Big Brother is watching fraternity and the civil liberties people will hate that and claim Chinese style state control. All nonsense…

…leaves, larger and longer flowers and much bigger seed heads as here. The P. media appear to have flowered and set seed already while P. lanceolata are still flowering. Quite…

…was over mature, very elderly and in serious need of rejuvenation but a big risk with a historic tree which came here in 1923. Osmanthus yunnanensis Osmanthus yunnanensis Eucryphia x…

…big show high up. Magnolia x thompsoniana Magnolia x thompsoniana Eucryphia lucida is nearly over above the greenhouse – I missed it. Eucryphia lucida A young Lithocarpus corneus (CMBS 692)…

…letting in more east and northeast wind into the main garden so we must expect a few big trees to blow down above the clearing. Fortunately the laurel, beech and…

…three buds at different stages of development. Only three years from planting which is a big bonus. I guess it must be a Manglietia but it is, again, not on…

…what is now a sun scorched summer. Another week of this heat with no rain and there will be serious casualties amongst the new plantings and with the big leafed…