…Acanthopanax aff. sessiliflorus covered in black fruit as usual. Acanthopanax aff. sessiliflorus Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ with yet more secondary flowers. Two crops of these in reality. Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ Rhus…

…tree on a bank. The pheasants have already eaten the few black berries there were this year. Cornus walteri Cornus walteri Cornus walteri Cornus walteri Cotoneaster franchetii still covered in…

…Rostrincula dependens in flower below the Tower. Buddleia like flowers. In our mild winters this is becoming a 4ftx4ft shrub with a woody trunk. It sets a fine crop of…

Next Day >< Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2024 – CHW Rosa ‘American Pillar’ full out on the tower on the lawn. Rosa ‘American…

…we never want to see this stock again in our future breeding programme. A fledgling blackbird makes an unsteady appearance in a Mahonia. Fledgling blackbird Deutzia subulata given to us…

…Malus planting plan based on ultimate size and shape etc. Daffodil planting Daffodil planting Azalea luteum and Cotoneaster franchetii in the sun below the tower. Cotoneaster franchetii A few secondary…

…below the tower on the lawn. Buddleja salviifolia Even more incredible is Firmiana simplex at 15-20 feet again with no shelter to speak of. No leaves as yet. Ours is…

…the tower. Cotoneaster franchetti Cotoneaster franchetti 2020 – CHW Mespilus germanica with just a few ripe and well split medlars remaining on the tree. A few did not develop properly…

…a private garden named after a place in Portugal and a Sambucus seedling collected and named by Sir Harold Hillier while at Guincho. It has dark, but not exactly black,…

…from bare branches is well underway all over the tree. Multiple shoots on most twigs while the previously frosted ‘new’ leaves still hang there black and dead ‘bending the knee’….