…some of the better known ones I think. Geum ‘Totally Tangerine’ Geum ‘Totally Tangerine’ 2016 – CHW To Hook Norton brewery for the AGM and board meeting at our revamped…

…its apricot and yellow flowers. Rhododendron ‘Fabia Tangerine’ Touching it is a well grown clump of Rhododendron ‘Fabia Tangerine’. Rhododendron nuttallii (sinonuttallii) Going the other way is a nice clump…

…yellow flecks. Better than Geum ‘Totally Tangerine’ by far. Geum The oxalis we all know and once stocked which is rather invasive with white flowers contrasting to the purple-black leaves….

…Nothing even faintly like Tom’s plant which has tiny leaves, nice bark and a few tiny 2cm flowers 20-30ft up. A very dull species with a totally insignificant flower which…

…camera. Unbelievably tedious and totally unnecessary in Cornwall where our COVID rate is now 47 per 100,000 of population. Way below that in the north of England where it is…

…and will need cutting back to reshoot. The lower branches will be dead. Drimys winteri In a sea of devastation Schefflera macrophylla is untouched. Those plants are totally hardy through…

…rhododendrons from the outside frames. These were dug around and lifted before Storm Emma etc.Sparmannia africana by the greenhouse has joined the dodo. Not totally unexpected from -9oC but we…

…polycarpa – 3L. This particular clone was found by Edward Needham formerly of Tregye. It has especially narrow leaflets on its finely cut leaves. Very nice flower too and totally…

…hellebores and, unlike others, was totally undamaged. One to get into our catalogue. Helleborus ‘Pink Frost’ Helleborus ‘Pink Frost’ Helleborus ‘Pink Frost’ Trillium chloropetalum is not one we stock but…

…Could it be Sorbus fansipanensis? This is however a fairly recent UK introduction and, on looking it up, the leaves are totally different to this plant as are the berries.After…

…more than gone! Totally fucked to put it mildly. magnolias outside the back yard magnolias outside the back yard magnolias outside the back yard magnolias outside the back yard However…

…related to Zelkova. Totally hardy, a shrubby tree with spine tipped branchlets and small yellowish-green fruits. Introduced from Korea/China in 1908.Also on the Pavia list were up to 50 species…

…– CHW One learns something totally irrelevant every day! Ucodendron whartonii, which flowered here for the first time last year, is now considered to be Disanthus ovatifolius. We had been…

…of the parents of A. x bushii? Aesculus x bushii Aesculus x bushii As ever a totally new (to us) plant can really surprise when first seen. This is a…

…up and totally overgrown with trees so that there was no open water left at all. This used to be an important stretch of water for wildfowl and will now…

…aplenty already. Ligustrum confusum Magnolia ‘Vulcan’ has been blown open, frosted and hailed upon. A few insipid flowers survive low down but they are totally the wrong colour. Magnolia ‘Vulcan’…

…fruit and vegetable garden to its former status on the grounds that it would still be totally uneconomic. Even with huge capital investment in the full restoration of the greenhouses,…

…at all but The Beast is with us and just as bad now as in March 2018. So strong is the east wind that it is totally unsafe in the…

…2020 – CHW I got the identification of the fungus at Burncoose totally wrong a few days ago. It was of course not a ‘Tuft’ but, in fact, Honey Fungus….

…week! A most peculiar thing which is not in fact a bizarre species of fungi, but something totally unrelated and a form of Protozoa. Dog vomit slime mould Dog vomit…