…father and uncle were less successful! clay shoot clay shoot clay shoot clay shoot 2015 – CHW The row of hydrangeas which Jaimie planted for Alison along the roadside above…

…paraguayensis Volunteers from the Eden Project gather knapweed and other wildflower seed from the bank opposite the front door. Volunteers Peter Bickford-Smith collecting the entries for the annual GWCT clay…

…flowers but typical hairy Tibouchina stems and leaves. Certainly one to propagate. Tibouchina paratropica Tibouchina paratropica 2019 – CHW Quillaja saponaria (soap bark tree) is now 8-10ft tall but rather…

…Cornish Cream. Cornish Cream Cornish Apple Growing. Cornish Apple Growing China Clay. China Clay Rhodda’s Cornish Cream. Rhodda’s Cornish Cream The pulpit crammed with roses. pulpit crammed with roses Cornish…

…attacking and eating young birch leaves. Here is a Betula ‘China Ruby’ two years on from planting with all its leaves eaten on two branches. Betula ‘China Ruby’ Betula ‘China…

…historians will find all this to have been bonkers! Only the British public would have obeyed so readily. Just look at German and US protestors. China knows how to deal…

…its leader but is recovering well and making a decent tree in a prime position in Kennel Close. Betula ‘China Rose’ Betula ‘China Rose’ Carpinus caroliniana (from Mexico) also still…

…now. A week or 10 days later than usual? primroses Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ just showing colour in the Rockery. This plant spent a few years in a large clay…

…grass snake in the Rockery. Possibly killed by pheasant poults? Many sightings of adders this summer and several dogs bitten walking on the cliffs in Cornwall. At the GWCT clay…

…flowers out at the very end of the racemes although it is nearly November. No other buddleia could match that. Buddleia lindleyana Buddleia lindleyana Buddleia lindleyana The two large clay…