To add a balanced view of yesterdays plant, I am showing today a photograph taken earlier in the year of the flower (bracts) on the same bush, I had intended to write up the journal to include this image about... [more]

This image of autumnal colour is Cornus kousa ‘Satomi’ a relatively recent introduction from Japan of the, sometimes called ‘Chinese Dogwood’. The flowering cornus are great favourites of mine and this selection with its strong purple-red colouration remains a dramatic focal... [more]

This is one of my very favourite conifers; I would not have a garden without one. Cryptomeria japonica ‘Elegans’ is a form of the ‘Japanese cedar’ which was introduced from Japan by the plant collector Thomas Lobb in 1854. It... [more]

It is difficult to imagine a more beautiful picture of autumnal colour than today’s image. No matter where I travel and what sights I see before me, there is always something comforting, cyclical, timeless, and simply breathtaking about colouring foliage... [more]

The “Blue Hollies” were raised by Mrs Kathleen Meserve from New York. It was here desire to raise some ornamental hollies for the Eastern side of the United States where the normal ‘Ilex aquifolium’ is not quite hardy enough. Today’s... [more]