31st May

…with Acer palmatum. Acer shirasawanum ‘Jordan’ Aconitum ‘Stainless Steel’ which I expected to see much of at Chelsea as it is new but did not. Aconitum ‘Stainless Steel’ Eucryphia x…

29th June

…with renovations to the kitchen to comply with ‘The Health’! Out comes the old sink and units and back will go stainless steel. Fease and Kev are hard at it….

23rd July

…large new lean-to glasshouses we propose to erect soon need steel fabrication, groundworks and then glazing by the Falmouth firm which we met who do the last bit. More complexity!…

25th July

…rent. It has no natural light. tiny ground floor room The middle floor is to be an art gallery. A new (ugly) steel staircase runs around the wall to allow…

26th August

steel rods and turn the structure into a polytunnel. Cheap, durable and better for the plants. tiny old greenhouse tiny old greenhouse Hydrangea aspera ‘Kawakamii’ (from Formosa BSWJ 7025) flowering…

12th September

…nearest and dearest. Or any community care staff who visited them. We threw – to use health secretary Matt Hancock’s ridiculous phrase – a ring of steel around care homes….

14th February 1897 – 2020

…(Drew and Tee) come to film at Caerhays and buy ‘junk’. We sell them eight 1960s toy cars for £920, a couple of outdoor steel chairs for £300, a gypsy…

19th February 1897 – 2020

…April or May. Bonkers again! Leujocum aestivum The new steel extension to the beach café is just up with its new cover but no sides as yet. It will be…