22nd May

…Tim Hubbard (the author), Charles Williams (Caerhays) and Jonathon Jones (Tregothnan) Great Gardens Book Chelsea Alan Titchmarsh – Great Gardens Book Chelsea 2016 – CHW We do a stand group…

5th April

…the credit.We thank you again, HHA members, for selecting Caerhays for this great national award. My great grandfather, who hated publicity and visitors, would have been horrified and almost certainly…

16th February

…date was declared by The Nare, together with The Great Gardens of Cornwall, as part of Cornwall’s Spring Story – which marks the moment the Cornish magnolias flower, spring has…

13th September

…Meadow and attended by around 100 people. A very convivial evening! Great Gardens of Cornwall Great Gardens of Cornwall Great Gardens of Cornwall Great Gardens of Cornwall Great Gardens of…

13th April

Next Day > < Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2024 – CHW An article written by my great grandfather in 1923 about new rhododendron…

10th February

Great Gardens announce that six record Magnolia campbellii trees in six Great Gardens (Caerhays, Tregothnan, Heligan, Trengwainton, Trebah and Trewithen) all have 50 or more blooms out already. A month…

16th April

…Merrilliopanax alpinus Pomaderris elliptica making a great show in the sun. Pomaderris elliptica Pomaderris elliptica Pomaderris elliptica First flowers on some of the newly planted Viburnums:- Viburnum phlebotrichum. Viburnum phlebotrichum…

23rd May

…about yapping to the great and good while judging goes on around us. No celebrity for the media on the Burncoose stand this year.The 90 second presentation of each of…

29th March

…Close. This smaller growing magnolia will have great public appeal and is a great improvement on ‘Leonard Messel’. This is Symplocus dryophylla full out. The flower is perhaps not much…

10th April

…in 1960 but rather passé today in terms of colour and impact but not hardiness. My great grandmother died well before my great grandfather so I must look up the…