…Tilia dasystyla Viburnum prunifolium, the ‘black haw’ is its common name and you can readily see why! The fruits are sweet and edible. One to take to the Garden Society…

…Buddleia veitchii wanes. Myrtles good. R decorum nice. R auriculatum opening. 1906 – JCW Sweet peas and tea roses good, leaving for Scotland. 1900 – JCW Some lapageria flowers open….

…with the flies and wasps enjoying the sweet juicy yellowish pith in the ‘strawberries’ surrounding the individual seeds. It all made a good little video in the sun today. Do…

…growing in full sun beyond the Playhouse. Visited Old Park and Forty Acres (without crossing the bridge in a vehicle) to view the sweet chestnut trees to be felled /…

…the felled sweet chestnut trunks have been dragged out and the mess on the path tidied up by Frankie. Old Park Old Park Camellia ‘Gay Baby’ just out rather later…

…bud. Prunus ‘Gyoiko’ Frankie has sorted out the collapsed bank on the drive when the sweet chestnut fell in. collapsed bank Frankie has now dug up the sacrifice camellias in…

…feet or so. So we lost three mature oaks and three sweet chestnuts here. However half of the original Sorbus torminalis has survived. Original Mags from the 1920’s MAGNOLIA soulangeana…

…it really any different from our old friend Daphne bholua ‘Alba’? Daphne bholua ‘Garden House Ghost’ First few sweetly scented flowers on Chimonanthus praecox which was only planted in 2021….

…white variegated flowers rather than pure red ones as they should be. Much like Camellia ‘Anticipation Variegated’. We must try to propagate this as it is equally good. Magnolia ‘Sweet…

…all show bits of flower, and primulinum. 1906 – JCW No frost and begonia etc etc V.G. Sweet peas just over. 1905 – JCW First hard and white frost knocked…