…A wonderful grevillea species which flowers all year around. Grevillea rhyolitica Grevillea rhyolitica Merrilopanax alpinus (BSWJ 13939), another arm and limb which we have already. Merrilopanax alpinus Merrilopanax alpinus Merrilopanax…

…has only struggled into new growth in a few lower branches. Droughts again! Magnolia nitida Laurel stumps all gone above the greenhouse. Laurel stumps all gone 2023 – CHW Wonderful…

…did wonder if these were Rhododendron viscosum but think not because of the extreme length of the anthers and stamens in relation to the flower. A very delicate pink in…

…hookeriana now in leaf and wonderful white felting on the underside of its leaves. Salix hookeriana Salix hookeriana 2022 – CHW Yesterday afternoon we cut some budded Embothrium for the…

…not fully open Magnolia ‘Felix Jury’ 2020 – CHW The country enters lockdown and we all wonder how to carry on. £400-500k in tourist income probably down the drain with…

…contradiction in terms. However I do wonder how many of those furloughed will actually find that they have jobs to come back to in the highstreets, catering and hospitality sectors….

…Camellia ‘Hooker’ is another new one – an odd shaped single. I wonder about the origins of the name? Camellia ‘Hooker’ Camellia ‘Carolyn Tuttle’ is also new. Camellia ‘Carolyn Tuttle’…

…back again at the old hunt kennels I wonder how many magnolia flowers we have just experienced in Old Park? If we said 500 to 1,000 per tree (surely and…

…named as ‘Anne Leitner’. Excellent and very saleable. Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x Magnolia ‘JC Williams’ Magnolia sprengeri ‘Daisy Diva’ performing well although one wonders at it really being a sprengeri?…