…and started to pretend to be growing (all) their own tea. The true tea camellia is Camellia sinensis in all its many forms. Whether Tregothnan tea as sold at Fortnum…

…new heuchera and heucherella for the website. x Heucherella ‘Sweet Tea’ with a nice colour mix. x Heucherella ‘Sweet Tea’ x Heucherella ‘Sweet Tea’ Heuchera ‘Obsidian’ is proving a strong…

…emerge as we go through the photographs of what we inspected. Tom Hudon’s analysis of polyspora This is Camellia sinensis var sinensis. Basically the true autumn flowering tea camellia. A…

…with the same name on Burns Bank. Camellia sinensis (the tea tree) Camellia sinensis (the tea tree) Camellia brevistyla from Taiwan is also already in flower. We may have lost…

…Traditional stained glass. Traditional stained glass Sticker Woman’s Institute – Destination Wedding. Sticker Woman’s Institute Beside the seaside. Beside the seaside Tregothnan Tea and more Cornus ‘Satomi’. Tregothnan Tea and…

…Buddleia veitchii wanes. Myrtles good. R decorum nice. R auriculatum opening. 1906 – JCW Sweet peas and tea roses good, leaving for Scotland. 1900 – JCW Some lapageria flowers open….

…x williamsii ‘Sweet Olive’ has quite variable flowers. Camellia x williamsii ‘Sweet Olive’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Sweet Olive’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Sweet Olive’ Lots of secondary wind damage in the…

…eaten ones. Sweet chestnut fruits Sweet chestnut fruits Sweet chestnut fruits Large numbers of blue seedpods nearly ripe on Decaisnea fargesii. Decaisnea fargesii Decaisnea fargesii Vitex agnus-castus finally out in…

…‘sweet’ but Magnolia ‘Pegasus’ is coming out nicely nearby with a bit more shelter. Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ Magnolia ‘Pegasus’ Three early flowers on the newish New Zealand Magnolia ‘Plum Pudding’…

…is nice by the Green Gate. Flowers are getting larger with maturity. Magnolia ‘Sweet Valentine’ Magnolia ‘Sweet Valentine’ Prunus ichiyo (syn ‘Pink Champagne’) is very good also by the cash…

…not at all sure this one is true to name. Carpinus laxiflora Carpinus laxiflora Itea virginica ‘Henry’s Garnet’ going ahead well. tea virginica ‘Henry’s Garnet’ tea virginica ‘Henry’s Garnet’ 2024…

…Pseudopanax ‘Moa’s Toes’ 2023 – CHW Unusual coloured gladioli in The Cottage in Yorkshire. gladioli This is rather more like it for August. rather more like August Even the tea…

…1946 – CW Camellia oleifera out by Engine House. Also are pink hybrid in quarry and a Tea by the Tin Garden. 1913 – JCW Cassia good and so solanum,…

…Magnolia sprengeri var. elongata. Magnolia sprengeri var. elongata Jaimie thinks this (lower) sweet chestnut needs to come down. Jaimie thinks this (lower) sweet chestnut needs to come down The fir…

…x freemanii ‘Autumn Blaze’ Secondary flowers on Magnolia ‘Sweet Merlot’ below the lawn. Magnolia ‘Sweet Merlot’ A badger has dug out a huge wasps nest below a fallen beech tree…

…new sweet chestnut disease but a few older sweet chestnuts may have minor Phytophthora ramorum infection in basal water shoots which could easily be removed. So much for expensive aerial…

…surgeons felling some elderly sweet chestnuts in Old Park. sweet chestnuts Camellia sasanqua ‘Yume’ is very late into flower for a sasanqua. Camellia sasanqua ‘Yume’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Yume’ The Magnolia…

…and exhibition at the beach end of the chine. Tearooms Tearooms Tearooms A little of the exhibition with a collection of clay pipes and roman coins dug up nearby exhibition…

…neglecta ‘Erythroblastos’ Rhododendron kesangiae – another form. Rhododendron kesangiae Camellia x williamsii ‘Les Jury’ – a must to add to our collection. Camellia x williamsii ‘Les Jury’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Sweet…

…felling a few supposedly dead or diseased sweet chestnuts in Old Park and trying (fairly successfully) not to hit any of our new planting. The tree featured here was around…