…‘Moonlight Star’ Agapanthus ‘Moonlight Star’ Agapanthus ‘Little Dutch White’ Agapanthus ‘Little Dutch White’ Agapanthus ‘Little Dutch White’ Agapanthus ‘Little Dutch White’ An interesting new low growing Sedum spurium “Dragon’s Blood”….

…and well staked without a single blemish. Galega x hartlandii ‘Alba’ a riot of colour in the white border. A new plant to me. Cestrum elegans – the true form…

…on the fallen oak in White Styles. fallen oak Already Salix gracilistyla ‘Mount Aso’ is covered in flower by the Old Dog Kennels. Salix gracilistyla ‘Mount Aso’ Salix gracilistyla ‘Mount…

…a good medium sized red mophead. Hydrangea ‘Libelle’ and Hydrangea ‘Lanarth White’ growing together by the Green Gate. Hydrangea ‘Lanarth’ – a bit different to the one on the drive…

…White Stiles Cottage (as we call them today) at The Hovel (a coal hovel from when coal was transported by sea and kept well away from any other habitation because…

…gifts and annual plantings seems to have omitted it. white climbing rose white climbing rose white climbing rose The Rhododendron weyrichii (in the shade) in the Rockery is a dark…

…Elm A late white rhododendron tinged pink in the group grown from Major Howell’s seeds 30 years or so ago. No idea at all of its name/parentage! A late white…

…Lindera erythrocarpa Lindera erythrocarpa 2021 – CHW Placing out the 18 cherry trees (two of each) in the newly fenced off strip below White Styles with Jaimie. We put in…

…campbellii var. alba ‘Strybing White’ Magnolia campbellii var. alba ‘Strybing White’ The lower down buds still have both outer casings. The second photograph shows one bud frosted. buds Tetrapanax papyrifera…

…Camellia x williamsii ‘Caerhays’. Camellia x williamsii ‘Caerhays’ First flowers out exceptionally early on Michelia ‘Fairy White’. A bit of frost damage. Michelia ‘Fairy White’ Flowers now showing properly on…

…Last few white flowers on one of the ancient Camellia sasanqua – later than normal. Camellia sasanqua Loads of fuchsias still with flowers and some leaves reflecting no frosts at…

…its bulbous white flowers. Trevarno has a superb Agathis australis, which I had then never seen before. I wonder if it still survives today under Russian ownership? Trevarno (after Peter’s…

…the other way around. ‘Winton’ is a light pink and ‘Cornish Snow’ a pure white. I prefer the white! Alongside ‘Winton’, quite literally, and totally unknown previously to me, is…

…flower. Camellia japonica ‘White Swan’ Camellia japonica ‘White Swan’ First few flowers out on Camellia x williamsii ‘Beatrice Michael’. Camellia x williamsii ‘Beatrice Michael’ 2022 – CHW The new and…

…Mahonia japonica White cyclamen on the lawn under the yew trees. Is there a pure white form of the autumn flowering Cyclamen hederifolium? Assume so. White cyclamen 1981 – FJW…

…mild weather is over soon. Azalea ‘Glendoick Glacier’ covered in semi-double, pure white, flowers. It has performed in winter before but never this well. Azalea ‘Glendoick Glacier’ Flowers now well…

…with white fruits which have black markings. Despite its scruffy and leafless appearance this has doubled in size in 3 years. More fruits than ever before. Melicytus crassifolius Melicytus crassifolius…

…of undamaged flowers at the very top of Magnolia campbellii ‘Strybing White’. Magnolia campbellii ‘Strybing White’ The bark of Styrax serrulatus showing up well today. Very typical twisting and colouration…

…even flower! Diospyros lotus Courtenay Smale sent me this picture of the azurites which he displayed at the Munich mineral show. azurites Jaimie sends me pictures of white spindles –…

…‘Joseph Banks’ and Hydrangea paniculata ‘White Lace’. Hydrangea ‘Joseph Banks’ and Hydrangea paniculata ‘White Lace’ Hydrangea ‘Zorro’ and Hydrangea paniculata ‘Kyushu’. Hydrangea ‘Zorro’ and Hydrangea paniculata ‘Kyushu’ Hydrangea ‘Zorro’ and…