April 2018 Irish trip (Day 4)

…walled garden. Burncoose stocked this once and should do so again. Fritillaria imperialis ‘Aurea’ Fritillaria imperialis ‘Aurea’ Fritillaria imperialis ‘Aurea’ Ambrose restored this greenhouse but it is a wreck again…

20th March 1897 – 2020

…meleagris in the nursery. Quite variable in colour with the buds and open flowers very different. Fritillaria meleagris Fritillaria meleagris Fritillaria meleagris The Beaufort Hunt are visitors at the Four…

Irish trip April 2018

Fritillaria Fritillaria Team photo before we set off for Fota Arboretum – two hours away. Team photo Fota Arboretum was a joy – 35 acres of well maintained trees and…

8th April

…sargentiana Melliodendron xylocarpum now full out in the Rookery. Melliodendron xylocarpum Over the last two years cock pheasants have decimated the flowers on our clump of Fritillaria meleagris by Tin…

13th April

…or ‘Grand Sultan’ – but this is not one in the Trehane camellia book!) Camellia japonica ‘Mathotiana Rubra’ A great clump of white Fritillaria meleagris (Snake’s head fritillary). Fritillaria meleagris…

30th April

…thankfully left the flowers alone. The fritillaria planted here at the same time in quantity have largely failed for the same avian reason. Camassia leichtlinii Caerulea Group Camassia leichtlinii Caerulea…