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

…now. They all have silly names but this one is quite nice although the early picotee edge has faded here. Hydrangea ‘Love you Kiss’ Hydrangea ‘Love you Kiss’ Hydrangea ‘Love…

…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…

…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…

…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…

…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 door which replaced the now planted…

…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…

…this heatwave. Hydrangea ‘Ayesha’ can be blue or pink. Reliable flowerer. Hydrangea ‘Ayesha’ Hydrangea ‘Love You Kiss’ – silly name but good variety. Hydrangea ‘Love You Kiss’ Hydrangea ‘Selina’ –…

…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…

…Drought last summer I fear as the COD. As we know there is still much confusion in the naming of Polyspora species. Polyspora axialis Polyspora speciosa (WWJ 11934) next door…

…x Betty Jessel First Love cylindrica Hohman J.C. Williams x Apollo John Bond Katja Landner Lilac Chalice virginiana Ludoviciana Melon Sky Peter Dummer Purple Breeze Purple Eye Purple Star Rose…

…spectacularly wet week as we try to cut perfect flowers for the CGS Show tomorrow. A catch up from last summer’s drought and a dry January/ February but not good…

…deer fencing. Here Euonymus spraguei killed back but shooting from the base. Euonymus spraguei And a leafless Euonymus verrucosus. Euonymus verrucosus This young Meliosma beaniana (alba) struggled last summer but…

…rather than being under it. The weight of the growing chestnuts perhaps caused the split out. This now seems a much more frequent summer occurrence than it was years ago….

…‘Summer Solstice’ Magnolia ‘Summer Solstice’ Magnolia ‘Summer Solstice’ A huge elderly clump of Rhododendron loderi which I usually miss during Chelsea week is out early. Quite a sight today. Rhododendron…

…‘Black Swan’ leaves a week on. Fagus sylvatica ‘Black Swan’ Fagus sylvatica ‘Black Swan’ Magnolia ‘Summer Solstice’ just out. Magnolia ‘Summer Solstice’ Magnolia ‘Summer Solstice’ A young Magnolia nitida getting…

…is larger and more vigorous than I had expected. The other named hybrid is ‘Summer Skies’. Didrangea ‘Cambridge Blue’ 2023 – CHW Orange new growth still showing on Podocarpus wangii….

…of the recently prevailing east wind. droppings Quercus insignis with, as yet, none of the dieback to the late summer/autumn new growth which the cold winds and frosts usually inflict…

…a ‘normal’ year are listed as being corona related. The BBC and the new labour front bench absolutely love this.However:1. Hospitals are refusing to admit patients from care homes2. Doctors…

…(where a camellia seedling has just been dug out). Forty years ago a mature Metrodsideros tree grew here and was spectacular in the summer. Asia will need to fleece it…