13th April

…leaf at all yet. Magnolia ‘Yellow Bird’ Magnolia ‘Yellow Lantern’ from a distance from below the Rockery. Magnolia ‘Yellow Lantern’ 2019 – CHW Malus ‘Evelyn’ (Malus ioensis ‘Evelyn’) just coming…

20th March

…Garden Society dinner. Very few flowering plants on show for obvious reasons and no magnolias at all. Evelyn Boscawen had a nice display of Camellia reticulata varieties. I showed Abies…

29th March

…severe westerly gale. A large piece of scaffolding on the house falls down over lunch (in the excellent pub at Ruan Lanihorne). Evelyn Boscawen has a row with the scaffolders…

12th April

…dawsoniana 2017 – CHW A trip to Tregothnan in the evening to quietly look at their Camellia reticulata collection on my own with Evelyn. For a long time I have…

26th March

…2018 – CHW A garden tour in the evening with Evelyn Boscawen and Jonathon Jones. Jonathon literally just back from Canada and off the plane with no coat. Raining and…

17th November

…saw ‘Bonanza’ ‘Bonanza’ Evelyn with “Winter’s Joy” – I am not convinced this is the right name but an excellent plant – perhaps the most floriferous we saw today “Winter’s…