12th February

…way as is often the case in natural disasters like this as opposed to tree surgery and felling. turkey oak turkey oak turkey oak turkey oak turkey oak Brock eats…

13th February

…The mess and crown will have to wait a few days to sort out. turkey oak turkey oak turkey oak turkey oak turkey oak Frankie has moved on to widen…

27th July

…grows over a trellis. It is absolutely enormous. This Ficus ‘Brown Turkey’ This Ficus ‘Brown Turkey’ Clerodendron bungei suckering up here and there as a shrub. Clerodendron bungei Clerodendron bungei…

31st July

…ripe fig on a rather small Ficus ‘Brown Turkey’. Ficus ‘Brown Turkey’ Scabiosa are trouble when we send them out in the autumn as they rot off and die. Scabiosa…

2nd May

…left – one plant. Rhododendron ‘Mrs Lionel de Rothschild’ Down at Burncoose the diseased turkey oak by the tree fern has been tidily felled. turkey oak turkey oak turkey oak…

23rd December

…the Auklandii Garden The clump of Rhododendron burmanicum has been given more light by pruning back a Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red.And a 15 year old Turkey oak given space to develop…

8th November

…crispa Sparassis crispa I think this may well be turkey tail – Trametes versicolor. Trametes versicolor Trametes versicolor These may be a form of milkcap but I cannot tie them…

5th August

…seed pods on any of our three plants of Staphylea holocarpa this year. Need to check the Burncoose plant. The seed pods are pink rather than brown or yellow-brown when…

13th August

…nearly over. Campanula rotundifolia Centauria scabiosa, Greater Knapweed, which seems brown in bud unlike ours at Caerhays which has black surrounds to the bud. Perhaps this is Scabiosa jacea, Brown

10th October

brown bark. A large number of pale brown mushrooms growing up in the Castle Wood on soil and pine debris may prove to be an interesting species of Agrocybe. I…