19th March

…and Isla Rose Plantation at Radio Cornwall.On my return from Truro the snow had nearly all gone. snow had nearly all gone snow had nearly all gone snow had nearly…

1st March

…the “spring” season has been cancelled. So too the High Sheriffs dinner at Pentille and next weekends Rosemoor show. snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow snow The…

28th February

…season when they had seeded naturally and were dormant. a carpet of primroses The snowdrops are now over again for this year. So pretty yet so fleeting. snowdrops 2016 –…

21st February

…grandiflora. Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ First few flowers on a Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ seedling which I had thought was Magnolia ‘Copeland Court’. I may still be correct! Magnolia ‘Lanarth’…

9th December

…‘Cornish Snow’ Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ Carpinus kawakamii proving yet again that it is an evergreen species with us. Reddish new growth…

29th May

…form A carpet of fallen flowers under one of the Rhododendron ‘Mrs Bulters’. A carpet of fallen flowers Rhododendron ‘Tally Ho’ is tucked away unseen at the top of the…

21st July

…always used to add the Korean raspberries as children (Rubus tricolor). Rubus phoenicolasius Rubus phoenicolasius Underneath the main clump of Podocarpus salignus a veritable carpet of seedlings have popped up…

3rd March

…not be as dead as I thought. Daphne bholua The Cryptomeria japonicas bend dangerously in the wind. How they stay upright I do not know. Cryptomeria japonicas Snow still lies…

11th April

…early yellow stuff just starting, snow this morning, impossible to stop snow? Outside nearly all the stuff is or has been frosted. Rho fargesii stands up to it, and the…

10th December

…but the frost may well get them. Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ 2021 – CHW The electrics are finally attached to the new incinerator at the farm which has…