…taller growing the colour mix is very similar to Hydrangea serrata ‘Kiyosume’ as I have argued before. Hydrangea ‘Love you Kiss’ Hydrangea ‘Love you Kiss’ Hydrangea ‘Love you Kiss’ A…

…this one is quite nice although the early picotee edge has faded here. Hydrangea ‘Love you Kiss’ Hydrangea ‘Love you Kiss’ Hydrangea ‘Love you Kiss’ A good clump of Hydrangea…

…and fashionable (lacecap) Hydrangea ‘Love you Kiss’. Very like the Hydrangea serrata ‘Kiyosumi’ in my old hydrangea reference book in fact! Hydrangea ‘Love you Kiss’ Hydrangea ‘Love you Kiss’ 2016…

…franciscana ‘Blue Gem’ Hydrangea ‘Love You Kiss’ just emerging. Hydrangea ‘Love You Kiss’ Hydrangea ‘Lanarth’ in full shade. Hydrangea ‘Lanarth’ Hydrangea ‘R.F. Felton’ – huge flowers. Hydrangea ‘R.F. Felton’ Hydrangea…

…‘Ayesha’ Hydrangea ‘Love You Kiss’ – silly name but good variety. Hydrangea ‘Love You Kiss’ Hydrangea ‘Selina’ – not much in the trade now but good. Hydrangea ‘Selina’ Hydrangea ‘Geoffrey…

…M. ‘Black Beauty’ in colour but not in habit. Magnolia ‘First Love’ Magnolia ‘First Love’ Magnolia ‘Illini Moonlight’. Magnolia ‘Illini Moonlight’ Magnolia ‘Illini Moonlight’ Magnolia ‘Illini Gold’. Magnolia ‘Illini Gold’…

…us dearly in revenue terms. 2015 – CHW Garden tour with Anna Lisa De’Ath, editor of Land Love magazine, and some shooting clients/friends who appear with their new two year…

…commonest hydrangea seen in Cornish woodland garden drives but none the worse for that. Hydrangea ‘Joseph Banks’ Hydrangea ‘Joseph Banks’ Hydrangea ‘Sheila’Not unlike ‘Love you Kiss’ once full out but…

…like this. Magnolia ‘Silk Road’ Magnolia ‘First Love’ is new to us and certainly an unusual mix of colours (Area 27). Magnolia ‘First Love’ Magnolia ‘Illini Gold’ has been recommended…

…gardens shut for the year on Sunday with £1,956 raised from gardens entry and car parking for Cornwall Hospice Care.A pot full of Salvia ‘Love and Wishes’ outside the front…

…japonica ‘Spring Festival’ Camellia japonica ‘Anemoneflora’ Camellia japonica ‘Anemoneflora’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Jenefer Carlyon’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Jenefer Carlyon’ Camellia japonica ‘Love Light’ Camellia japonica ‘Love Light’ Camellia japonica ‘Cornish…

…in the ladies competition and we risk a kiss. (After the recent ladies football world cup in Australia public kissing by male football officials is rather frowned upon). Speeches in…

…call Lizzie and Justin look on with other VIPs! Lizzie and Justin Susan and yet another Chelsea pensioner. This one gets a kiss! Susan The press get more excited. press…

…list of the plants delivered via Burncoose earlier this week. Boring perhaps but this diary is a useful record. Magnoliastore Coates Darkest Purple x Betty Jessel First Love cylindrica Hohman…

…mixture of colours. Love it or loath it? It certainly is ‘different’! Magnolia ‘Tropicana’ Magnolia ‘Tropicana’ The 1920s original Michelia floribunda with more flowers than we have seen for years….

…subsp tarrentina – just the odd single flower out now. Not much sign of myrtles yesterday at Osborne house despite their love of hot dry banks and self seeding. Perhaps…

…locate this in any reference books. Mandevilla ‘Sundavill’ Mandevilla ‘Sundavill’ Mandevilla ‘Sundavill’ Salvia ‘Amistad’ was a good tall growing form with dark flowers. As good as ‘Love and Wishes’ perhaps?…

…stick insect this size in the nursery! Huge! I wonder what stick insects eat? Updated by Julie at Forgecom – stick insects love privet, also rose and hazel leaves.2015 –…

…weathermen love this virtue signalling of safety and wellbeing as though, by naming a storm, it is somehow benign and they have saved lives. Storms do have victims whatever tripe…

…are singing away in the stillness as if it were already spring. A pleasant and hopeful Christmas day. I would love to compare this all with what other readers of…