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Oh so satisfying! Three hebes making a beautiful shape in the Shrubby Veronica trial RHS Harlow Carr, three years growing without any clipping! Veronica rakaiensis 🏆

A sea of blues (pink + white) on the Delphinium grandiflorum bed in the Trials Garden RHS Garden Wisley, from seed sown undercover in February. Watch out for the larger elatum delphiniums putting out some late flowers this year, more next year!

Ficus tikoua this week RHS Garden Wisley, it certainly rebounded after the winter.

Many members of the #TOPC committee gathered for one of their annual meetings at RHS Garden Wisley on Monday and were treated to a guided tour of the brand new #Orchid house display in the #Glasshouse, which is very impressive and also contains many fascinating #Tender plants!

A tent full of dazzling dahlias! And votes for the People's Choice dahlia from the trial RHS Garden Wisley are coming in. Which is your favourite?

Bog Salvia standard! Salvia uliginosa is belying it's moisture-loving disposition, performing alongside it's drought-tolerant neighbours in the Trials Garden RHS Garden Wisley

And other great articles on Aucuba, Bulbinella (James Hitchmough), Cassytha (Alex Summers), Chaenomeles, Hibiscus syriacus breeding, Lobelia bridgesii, Melanoselinum, Ruscus, eponyms, apples and Banks & Solander. #ThePlantReview

Exciting! My copy of the new The Orchid Review yearbook arrived today. Get yours from Summerfield Books summerfieldbooks.com

Hebe ‘Amy’ in a car park flowering it’s socks off in the middle of November. What a fantastic plant!

We've been fascinated by the different shapes and sizes of Muscari, or grape hyacinth, bulbs 🧄🧅 that we have been planting up into containers this month. Look out for our trial of 50(!) different Muscari in the Trials Garden RHS Garden Wisley flowering in spring🏆🪻 #muscari #bulbs

Well this doesn’t look promising. Echium pininana still covered in frost at lunch time. Feels like a repeat of last year.

Quite a crop of ripe olives at 53.4 degrees North.

You see quite a lot of cedars about like this with stiff but downward pointing branches. Could they be C.deodara hybrids? This one’s in Birkenhead Park.

Two rather different seedlings of Acer ‘White Tigress’ which suggest hybridisation somewhere along the line. Does anyone have a firm idea of what the attribution or parentage of ‘White Tigress’ is? Anyway, hoping for something pretty from this pair in due course.

A variegated sport found on a hedge at the local park. It’s not very stable as yet, however!

Now that’s what I call a lawn daisy! These is just a bedding cultivar grown from seed a couple of years ago and planted. It gets mown like any other Bellis perennis and responds in the same way - by gently spreading and flowering like mad!