24th May

…gold medals, while the group got a silver gilt medal for their stand. (Read details of gold award for Burncoose.) Everyone is very happy. In the main marquee it turns…

3rd October

…‘Tiger Eyes’ Another new plant for the website – Ceratostigma plumbaginoides ‘Summer Skies’. Ceratostigma plumbaginoides ‘Summer Skies’ The late flowering Kniphofia rooperi. Kniphofia rooperi Eleagnus x ebbingei ‘Gilt Edge’ with…

5th July

…CHW So what is out in flower in the garden still after my absence on the Isle of Wight? Silver gilt medal for Burncoose at Hampton Court. Drama because we…

21st May

…clump of Rhododendron decorum at the top of Burns Bank. Rhododendron decorum Rhododendron decorum 2019 – CHW Silver gilt medal. Here are more pictures which Karol took of our stand…

22nd May

…The first journalist The Savills sponsored garden with subsequently received a Silver Gilt Medal. Savills invited 994 clients to the show over the 6 days. Ticket price c. £100 per…

11th July

…as they apparently had an agapanthus midge infection. This of course made the plants unsaleable and the stand received only a Silver Gilt. A similar death of nursery exhibitors as…

8th February

…last 8 weeks seem to have abated. 1927 – JCW The gilt pink Arboreum is good and so is Lutescens but not much else. No daffs excepting cyclamineus. 1921 –…

9th June

…Deutzia scabra ‘Pride of Rochester’ Cornus kousa var. chinensis ‘Milky Way’ Cornus kousa ‘Milky Way’ A silver gilt medal for a beached whale made from rubbish from the sea. Chelsea…