It was a terrible day for taking photographs, when it wasn't actually raining it was desperately dull. It was however, mild, and that had brought a number of plants into flower since last week. Peter Betteley left his camellia collection to the park and amongst it are two bushes, planted side by side and both … Continue reading Mt Edgcumbe roundup

It can be very easy to decide that a plant is labelled incorrectly: the flower is white when it should be red, single when it should be double. It is almost never as simple to decide what it actually is. There is in Section 1G a low, wide spreading plant that is flowering white in … Continue reading What’s in a name?