…Ewe line at best and at least six doubles also Lady Clare and Lady Bullen. Hamamelis at best. Camellia Cornish Snow had a few flowers for some time. Rho ririei…

…Rhododendron ‘Lady Alice Fitzwilliam’ is on the way out from honey fungus by the cash point despite all the big buds. It will be dead by April and the leaves…

…manages to escape most days to the beach to see his ‘friends’. Otherwise largely crippled up there is still plenty of ‘spring’ in him at the thought of a lady….

…japonica ‘Lady Clare’ on the castle wall almost at its best weeks earlier than usual. Camellia japonica ‘Lady Clare’ Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ still in tight bud in the Rookery…

…(KR 10084) Rhododendron fulvum (KR 10084) Rhododendron fulvum (KR 10084) Rhododendron ‘Lady Montagu Group’ bent over with the weight of its flowers and the rain. Rhododendron ‘Lady Montagu Group’ The…

…Rose’ Betula ‘China Rose’ Carpinus caroliniana (from Mexico) also still in full leaf like Carpinus japonica seen yesterday. Carpinus caroliniana (from Mexico) First flower on Camellia japonica ‘Lady Clare’. Camellia…

…Camellia sasanqua ‘Hugh Evans’ But no flowers on Camellia ‘Lady Clare’ outside the front door although others are out in the garden. Camellia ‘Lady Clare’ A strong running sea and…

…attaching here an article from the Irish Garden Plant Society about the Marchioness of Londonderry, Lady Edith, who created the garden at Mount Stewart and her granddaughter Lady Rose with…

…in the Auklandii Garden. Azalea indica Last year the Tropaeolum speciosum struggled to reach the top of the Camellia ‘Lady Clare’. I guess it did not have to die down…

…colchica ‘Black Beauty’ Staphylea colchica ‘Black Beauty’ Sapium sebiferum very late into leaf but very much alive and well. Sapium sebiferum 2023 – CHW Camellia reticulata ‘Lovely Lady’ still with…