13th May

…sinensis 2019 – CHW Arum lilies (Zantedeschia aetheopica) full out already and perhaps cuttable for Chelsea? Arum lilies Arum lilies Quite a few days recently of first ever flowerings here….

17th January 1897- 2020

…and heavy rain. Where else in the UK would an arum look like this in January? arum lily The original Camellia saluenensis (pale and dark) are starting to shed after…

12th December

…‘Tomuri’ with good autumn colour and full leaf still. Actinidia deliciosa ‘Tomuri’ 2015 – CHW Only in Cornwall could one see an Arum lily (zantedeshia aethiopica) in full growth with…

11th February 1897 – 2020

…flower. It seems to have been putting on a new growth all winter. Tropaeolum ciliatum Tropaeolum ciliatum First flower for 2017 on the arum lily clump by the gents’ loo….

2nd February 1897 – 2020

…could probably have done a better job of it. Click here to read my eulogy to my Dad. 2018 – CHW A flower on the arum lily by the front…

27th January 1897 – 2020

…recent east winds though. Still cold, wet and windy most of today. echiums echiums 2016 – CHW Arum italicum (lords and ladies) a good eight inches into growth already. Rivalling…

25th January

Arum lilies. Arum lilies And on the agapanthus but we know that both will fully recover very quickly. agapanthus 2023 – CHW Frosted new growth on Rhododendron maddenii. Rhododendron maddenii…

30th December

arum lilies which were in full growth as we saw a few days ago. arum lilies But the Camellia saluenensis was untouched and only a few feet away on the…

17th December

…Camellia japonica ‘Nobilissima’ now well frosted Camellia japonica ‘Nobilissima’ Camellia japonica ‘Nobilissima’ The one flower on the Arum Lily now deceased. Arum Lily First colour showing on Daphne bholua ‘Limpsfield’….

28th November

…flower left on the arum (Zantedeshia aethiopica) by the gents’ loos. Looking at the growth on the clump this may be the first of next year’s flowers rather than the…

14th August

…wet summer in the north.Lords and ladies in full fruit (Arum maculatum). Arum maculatum Some sloes forming but still green and swelling. Last year they were ripe. sloes sloes Even…

30th July

…‘Evergold’ An early seed head on Arum italicum in a bed of ivy. Arum italicum 2021 – CHW The siege of the film crew making part of yet another film…

28th June

…might enjoy the Arum lilies outside the front door which the rain has battered today. This clump has now been pictured in flower several times since January. In flower for…

1st June

…in profusion but easily pulled up! Erigeron karvinskianus Erigeron karvinskianus The arum lilies are at their best very early too by the gents’ loo. arum lilies Cornus kousa ‘Wisley Queen’…

20th April

…the legs. iron bench Arum lilies full out in flower already. Arum lilies Prunus serrulata full of flower near the Green Gate. Up to now it has only had a…

4th April

Arum lillies have at least half a dozen flower stems appearing with one showing colour. Not quite as early as last year but another product of a mild winter. Arum

3rd April

…– JCW Truro show. De Graaf in plenty, some but not the best poets, 10 days dry east wind before, no good Auklandii’s. 1899 – JCW The first Poet arum

6th April

…flower arrangements Outside the front door the arum lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica), which has not turned a hair all winter, now has five flowers out. Zantedeschia aethiopica Beside it is a…

6th May

…pretty similar and both Rhododendron edgeworthii x Rhododendron formosum. The backdrop here is Fuchsia excorticata which has been in flower since mid-January. The Arum lilies are untouched by the winter…

12th May

…open, one or two Arum, moved a seedling from Emperor into the Drive, not quite ripe. P recurvus at its best. 1897 – JCW Iris pavonia open, one waterlily flower…