…40 cars and 100 people turned up. Not bad for a parish of only 75! Jubilee (bonfire) beacon Jubilee (bonfire) beacon Jubilee (bonfire) beacon Jubilee (bonfire) beacon Jubilee (bonfire) beacon…

…The stand The stand The stand Vanda ‘Platinum Jubilee’ Vanda ‘Platinum Jubilee’ The day is marked by three severe thunderstorms and a clap of thunder directly overhead causes some visitors…

…and trailing not green as here. Dacryarpus dacrydiodes Dacryarpus dacrydiodes Dacryarpus dacrydiodes Chamaecyparis nookatensis ‘Jubilee’ was a fine feature plant with a pencil shape. Chamaecyparis nookatensis ‘Jubilee’ Chamaecyparis nookatensis ‘Jubilee’…

…plants seen there. Agastache ‘Golden Jubilee’ Agastache ‘Golden Jubilee’ Potentilla ‘Arc-en-Ciel’ looked an especially good new herbaceous form with big colour changes in the flower colour as the flowers mature….

…a bicolor. Camellia reticulata ‘Mystique’ 2023 – CHW Our 2022 Jubilee planting of Malus in the Old Kitchen Garden has been formally recorded as part of The Queen’s Canopy map…

…‘Golden Jubilee’ Achillea ‘Summer Fruits Carmine’ and Agastache ‘Golden Jubilee’ Anemone ‘Pretty Lady Susan’ Anemone ‘Pretty Lady Susan’ Anemone ‘Pretty Lady Susan’ Monarda ‘Knight Violet’ and Eryngium planum ‘Magical Purple…

…Primrose’ Rhododendron loderi ‘Georgette’ Rhododendron loderi ‘Georgette’ Rhododendron loderi ‘Georgette’ A hundred and twenty foot tall Sequoiadendron giganteum Sequoiadendron giganteum Sequoiadendron giganteum Ilex dipyrena Ilex dipyrena Ilex dipyrena Rhododendron ‘Jubilee…

…a nest of honey bees in it but they appear to have moved on. nest of honey bees nest of honey bees nest of honey bees nest of honey bees…

…Roscoea x beesiana Roscoea x beesiana Orders still coming in at the rate of 100 a day in lockdown. Everyone in the packing sheds is getting tired!Then back here for…

…2023 catalogue going well with about one more full day to complete the first proof this long bank holiday weekend. The Jubilee service at St Pauls served as a backdrop….

…welcome heavy rain overnight and more to come to dampen the Jubilee festivities. rain Another decent plant of Pterostyrax psilophyllus var. leveillei in full flower. Pterostyrax psilophyllus var. leveillei Bladders…

…winter pansies. The very elderly owner will not have far to travel!Then to the absurdly named Jubilee Nurseries which was even more funerial. Most plants were windblown and unsaleable like…

…the Caerhays Michelia stand.Michael has decided to call his new Michelia hybrid ‘White Phantom’ and an application for registration will go off shortly to Magnolia Society International.Honey bees out and…

…flower on show than last year but its semi trailing habit has led to one branch being snapped off in Monday’s storm. Good scent and loads of bees. Unusual bark…

…Rhododendron decorum at its best. Rhododendron decorum Styrax wilsonii now properly out with bees in attendance. Styrax wilsonii Styrax americanus is not quite out yet beside it. Styrax americanus Fagus…

…in Tregony. There is a nice scuff on the last one and the bridge! wind turbine wind turbine 2015 – CHWTo Buzy Bees Garden Centre on a photography mission and…

…CHW Off to Busy Bees fairly awful garden centre in the rain. Crammed with coach loads. Verbena rigida may be one for Clare to look for when buying new herbaceous…

…of wild black bees who are decidedly displeased at events. Ross will ring an apiarist tonight to see if he can box them up and then rehouse them early tomorrow….

…these turn into clusters of 5/7 black berries so I am probably wrong. Bees and flies all over the flowers. Planted 2011. Eleutherococcus (Acanthopanax) aff. sessilenis Eleutherococcus (Acanthopanax) aff. sessilenis…

…cones drop off with nothing in them but this year looks more promising. Magnolia rostrata Magnolia rostrata The wild black bees whose home got felled are still very much in…