29th March

…gift from my father in 1962 to Evelyn’s father, Viscount Falmouth. 1970 – FJW 1207 round the garden. 1960 – FJW Mrs Stirling and her falcon came around the garden….

1st October

…crown More giant mushrooms on the lawn. giant mushrooms A fine late show on Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen’. Helianthus ‘Lemon Queen’ Flower tassels well on on Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’. Garrya…

20th May

…of the better outdoor gardens. sales tables at Chelsea The Stroke Association Garden for Recovery. The Stroke Association Garden St James Piccadilly – Imagine the world to be Different. St…

1st December

…Pruning out suckering growth from a sycamore root exposed to the daylight. sycamore root 2021 – CHW Garrya eliptica ‘James Roof’ with flower tassels well formed. Garrya eliptica ‘James Roof’…

4th January

…long tassel. A splendid plant for a dark and cold castle corner. Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ View 4th January 1897 – 2020…

28th January

…to be liking. Aristolochia sempervirens Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ has had its leaves scorched even more in the recent frost. Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ Garrya elliptica…

8th February

…Galanthus elwesii Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ may be storm scarred but the flowers are as good as ever. Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ Narcissus ‘Tête-à-tête’ full out…

28th April

…new growth on Tristianopsis laurina. Tristianopsis laurina I attach email correspondence with James Garnett from the Service des Espaces Verts et de l’Environnement (SEVE) in Nantes about Michelias with his…

25th September

…the youthful but hugely keen and knowledgeable James Garnett from the Botanic Gardens in Nantes. James is ‘one of us’ when it comes to rare trees and it will be…

25th December

…leaves as yet in such an exposed position on the castle wall. Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ 2021 – CHW So what do we find to admire…

19th January 1897- 2020

…is a male form and we have, as yet, no female in the garden. Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ 2016 – CHW Hawthorn breaking into leaf this…

3rd February 1897 – 2020

…frost free winter. Fuchsia gracilis Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ with its gigantic tassels of flowers is superb today. What a plant! Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ The…

30th September

…is Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ in fine fettle with flower tassels developing. Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ Euphorbia mellifera looked dead but with a chop back it has now regrown and…

25th January

…this year on Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’. I wonder why? Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ Very frosted and dead young Echiums outside the Library window. Elsewhere the larger one year old…

13th January

…which we grow or know here. Meliosma rigida Still unfrosted Echium pininana and Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ in full flower. Echium pininana and Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ Garrya elliptica flowers…

26th October

…elliptica ‘James Roof’ with tassel flowers which will be out before long. Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ Ripe seed heads for Asia on the Hedychium. Hedychium Medlar ‘Westerveldt’ is now four…

9th September

…on Tresco with a youthful Tim Smit, Philip Macmillan-Browse and John Nelson (Heligan), Tony Hibbert (Trebah), Mike Nelhams (Tresco) and James Humphreys (Trewithen) present. Of these only James will be…

12th June

…the bar 2021 – CHW The promised heatwave finally arrives.Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ is finally recovering from the February cold. Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ Jasminum beesianum full out on the…

28th May

…venue site. Wachendorfia thyrsiflora The ‘Twilight in Cornwall’ sculpture with the Great Gardens representatives designed by James Turrell in 2015. Basically you look through a hole in the roof in…

7th March

…in bud opening white. Planted three or four years ago. Rhododendron oreodoxa var. fargesii Rhododendron oreodoxa var. fargesii Rhododendron oreodoxa var. fargesii Garrya elliptica ‘James Roof’ was scorched to brown…