The Garden at Caerhays

…my father continued to fill the pages until Alzheimer’s took hold in around 2007. ‘The Garden’ book is now full so I have decided to carry it all on in…

12th March

…‘Don Quixote’ which is a Knap-Hill bred variety and the synonym ‘Soho’.Galle’s gigantic reference book on Azaleas lists pages of named Knap-Hill azaleas but not one named ‘Don Quixote’. Galle…

27th March

…while they still have flowers as plenty of future cuttings here. Mystery nearly solved. I attach three pages of the Veitch catalogue. Veitch catalogue View 27th March 1897 – 2020…

18th April

the day spent filling in 80 pages of Defra’s new format Basic Payment Scheme(BPS). Around 700 field parcels/split field crops to comply with the latest Brussels diktats. We have now…

11th May

…reopen this year. Holiday lets open from 1st June? Better wait and see what the 50 pages of government guidelines say today. Magnolia ‘Summer Solstice’ in bud. Magnolia ‘Summer Solstice’…

18th May

…Stand Burncoose Nurseries Chelsea stand 2015 Burncoose Nurseries Chelsea stand 2015 Wonderful lupinus’The Pages’ Podophyllum ‘Spotty Dick’ Enkianthus ‘Vesta’ Acer ‘Red Flamingo’ Chelsea stand with our Ashcombe Aquasculptures’ feature Guy…

29th May

the ten ‘thank you’ letters to our sponsors, suppliers and staff for the gold medal all thankfully done for another year. Many pages of handwriting involved. Old kennels 2015 –…

5th July

…to say he has published a (pictorial and locational) ‘Flora of Cornwall’. It is 550 pages long with 1,700 photographs of Cornish wildflowers. The index is not 100% accurate as…

26th July

the three part rule book of 100 pages and the woodland parcel forms require you to fill in 31 separate columns for each woodland parcel. I guess no one will…

14th September

the Chelsea pages are all sorted already and the first proof of the new website plant list is nearing completion so the catalogue designers can then get to work. A…

9th October

…similar to our younger Sorbus wilsoniana. I wonder if it is actually Sorbus splendens? (IDS yearbook 2019 Pages 62-67). I will need to try out the leaf alongside the article…

13th October

…to name nevertheless. The second two pictures are of a leaf from the supposed Sorbus sargentiana which does key out more or less correctly (IDS yearbook 2019 again Pages 62…

10th August

…away well and enjoying the heat. Diospyros cathayensis 2021 – CHW Colin French, author of the amazing pictorial book ‘A Flora of Cornwall’ (547 pages) has been here for the

11th December

…NOT flicking the pages of Country Life in bed with Mrs W for a ‘longish’ morning! ‘Fight to win’ perhaps but I just wish for a week with no staff…

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