Coronzilla
The Coronilla seems to like being planted against my house wall.
Coronilla grown big and with takeover ambitions
The reason I have a Coronilla is that Burncoose Nurseries accidentally sent me three when I ordered something else, and didn’t want them back. I gave away two of them, and planted the third against my house wall because it is very sunny there and that is what it is supposed to like. I got it in January this year, after the freezing cold December last year, and so I don’t know how it will do if we have a very harsh winter again. But for now, here is a close-up of some of its flowers.
Coronilla flowers close up
I have dug a hole in the marjoram patch and put Alice Hoffman in it, as I am worried about her getting cold. Although she is a hardy fuchsia, there’s a difference between being hardy in the ground and hardy in the pot. All my other plants have survived two severe winters so I am reasonably confident that they will get through whatever this winter throws at them.
The apple trees have lost only a very few leaves. Some of them are going yellow, more on Charles Ross than on Discovery. I reckon three weeks should do it.
While waiting for the apple trees, I went to Wisley last Friday. Here is a picture of a Euonymus alatus, otherwise known as a Winged Spindle or a Burning Bush. I wonder if I can find the space to squeeze one of these in.
Euonymus alatus or Burning Bush