28th February

…flower is the true one. Magnolia ‘Kitti Wake’ Magnolia ‘Kitti Wake’ First flowers out on the late Peter Borlase’s hybrid ‘Albatross’. Peter’s obituary in the Cornwall Garden Society yearbook has…

27th May

…days or so. This is a late flowering Ghent azalea variety of which we have several clumps. There is an attractive orange centre to the somewhat sparse flowers. late flowering…

28th April

…form) (first out November) Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ (first out late November) Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ (first out late November) Camellia ‘Mary Jobson’ (first out January) Camellia ‘Mary Jobson’ (first out January)…

17th June

…the pinks and yellows now long dead. Rhododendron royalii hybrid Rhododendron royalii hybrid A very late evergreen azalea (unnamed) has the merit of lateness but not much else. Evergreen azalea…

26th July

…with orange-red flowers. late flowering rhododendron late flowering rhododendron late flowering rhododendron Our oldest surviving clump of Hydrangea sargentiana which used to be upright but is now collapsing. The slugs…

29th July

late flowering Rhodos beside the Podocarpus salignus clump but superb today and one to add to the layering list. Easy layers here as you can see. late flowering Rhodos late

23rd May

…the Plant of the Year finalists begins at 2pm in the president’s pavilion suite. Here is the setting. We are (of course) running late as the president’s lunch ends with…

3rd June

…on our Syringa species which flower later than the Syringa vulgaris varieties that are well over. Syringa wilsonii (S. tomentella) in its second year of flowering. The flowers spikes are…

5th June

…This replaces the original tree which died/ fell over a year or two ago beyond George’s Hut. As I remember it we used to look for flowers much later in…

15th July

…Burncoose tree was five to six years ago in late October after a late warm summer.By coincidence Michael sent me pictures of E. japonica fruiting in his garden at Caerhays…