1st August

…the wind. We stock this one but this looks a bit different? Penstemon ‘Blackbird’ Spiraea japonica ‘Anthony Waterer’ before the older flowers fade in colour. Spiraea japonica ‘Anthony Waterer’ Spiraea…

11th October

…nocturnum Spiraea japonica ‘Anthony Waterer’ covered in flower. Spiraea japonica ‘Anthony Waterer’ Viburnum plicatum ‘Mariesii’ with autumn colour and still a few late flowers. Viburnum plicatum ‘Mariesii’ Anemone hupehensis ‘Whirlwind’….

23rd November

Anthony Fortescue and his family for over a fortnight. Anthony was my successor as High Sheriff of Cornwall last spring but sadly and inexplicably committed suicide a fortnight ago. His…

20th May

…are over. 1908 – JCW R roylei nice, Montana rubra over. 1906 – JCW A little pink May, a few Waterers, Azaleas in mid season I korolkowi on the wane….

21st May

…Butler and Falconeri over, Viburnum plicatum and Sappho the two best things. Thomsoni pink coming, white going, Waterer’s good. 1910 – JCW A fair lot of May. Bluebells at their…

3rd June

…Group. This lot look like ‘Fabia Waterer’ (dichroanthum x griersonianum). Rhododendron ‘Fabia’ Enkianthus campanulatus var palibini Even more younger Enkianthus have produced late flowers: Enkianthus campanulatus var palibini – this…

4th June

…Drive. Madame Lemoine lilac good for a week, all but the Waterer rhodo’s are over now. Loder’s White good yet. Viburnum plicatum and mariesii good. 1913 – JCW We are…

13th June

…are in flower – R brachycarpum, R brachyanthum, R zealanicum, R lepidotum, bits of Auklandii, various Azalea hybrids and Waterer hybrids including R picotee with one or two Maddeni hybrids….

12th July

…August largest and killed much. 1916 – JCW G Waterer came for the day. R brunonis at its best. Azaleas over except viscosum. Fortunei open, just at their best but…

15th April

…may try and pay us a visit on your way south after deer-stalking. Yours sincerely, F. Gomer Waterer. 1926 – JCW Daffs are over. The May poet is in the…

27th April

…from planting Magnolia ‘Honey Liz’ is not yet as good as I saw at Anthony House where there was an orange flash on the outside of the tepals. First flowers…

8th May

…completely wrong about Ethy needing more wind protection! 2023 – CHW To Anthony House for a Great Gardens meeting. Sir Richard Carew-Pole and Tremayne CP both present. A freestanding but…

18th May

…young lot) were very good, Anthony’s seedling rhodo’s are just opening. Delavay’s Yunnanense good yet. Occidentalis lot at their best. 1915 – JCW Auklandii’s on the wane. Zealanicum hybrids are…

23rd May

…I first saw this at Anthony Woodland garden decades ago.Two more newly planted enkianthus flowering for the first time in Kennel Close: Enkianthus cernuus recurvus Enkianthus cernuus recurvus – not…

12th September

…available here. In February, US Covid guru Anthony Fauci predicted the virus was ‘akin to a severe flu’ and would therefore kill around 0.1 percent of people. Then fatality rate…

14th December

…yet and nothing in the local news which is odd. We later hear this was the body of scuba diver who vanished off St Anthony Head on 22nd September. Storm…

25th December

…Richard Carew Pole and Anthony Gardens. Acacia cultriformis Acacia cultriformis Seed setting on Eucryphia cordifolia. Eucryphia cordifolia Acacia melanoxylon in bud but not as far on as Acacia cultriformis. Acacia…

6th February 1897 – 2020

…Caerhays with plants of Acacia [Michael?] and Stauntonia [?]. He has now moved out of Anthony House and Tremayne has taken over the estate. Stauntonia hexaphylla 1933 – JCW A…

14th February 1897 – 2020

…the path towards Rookery Gate. [Edit: please see Anthony Synott’s comment below – it is irrorata anthosphaerum!] rhododendron hybrid rhododendron hybrid rhododendron hybrid A good plant of Rhododendron rireii in…