We were visiting our friends at Wabi Sab i near Chichester the other day, and swung by our old house out of curiosity. They’d removed the holm oak ( Qurcus ilex ) and the loquat ( Eriobotrya japonica ), but the maki ( Podocarpus macrophyllus ) and the (no common name that I know of, it’s so unusual) Osmanthus yunnanensis were doing rather well. I tend to over-plant my gardens, leaving them as potential forests if intended pruning isn’t stuck to...
Here it is now:
And here it was then: