There is no Journal today as we are doing a internet live radio show; This is show 9 of 13. You can listen by visiting the www.radioteesdale.co.uk website and clicking the 'Listen Live' button. The broadcast is between 7.00pm & 9.00pm BST. Feel free... [more]

The plant in today's image is an unusual lime called Tilia cordata 'Winter Orange'. Grown primarily for the colouration of its winter stems which are a vibrant golden orange, it also delivers attractive butter yellow foliage from October to leaf... [more]

Horticulture is full of surprises. Here, some of my best plants, grafted forms of the variegated tulip tree 'Liriodendron aureovariegata' and also the silver variegated liquidambar 'Silver King' are suffering some kind of identity crisis and masquerading themselves as a... [more]

I do not know of a shrub that can better the late summer through autumn colouration of this plant. Meet Enkianthus campanulatus, a Japanese shrub of exquisite beauty, form, and colour, bearing in spring masses of drooping, veined, cup shaped... [more]

This is not a hippopotamus's haemorrhoid, it is in fact a hideous looking russet apple that hails from my old local town where I attended school and drank an abundance of stout & cider...a particular favourite beverage back then. Midhurst... [more]