…of our surviving Rhododendron royalii hybrids on the drive out later than the others with a pinkish hue. A cutting from the old plant on Burns Bank? Rhododendron royalii Rhododendron…

…founding next spring. The new book is all written and soon off to China to be printed (3,000) copies. The first meeting 25 years ago was on Tresco with a…

…has been very fine indeed. 1929 – JCW The Zealanicum hybrids are opening slowly, the other hybrids on the wane. Mag stellata and nearly all the hybrids are good, most…

…looks like Rhododendron crassum is the parentage. FJW rhodo hybrids FJW rhodo hybrids FJW rhodo hybrids FJW rhodo hybrids FJW rhodo hybrids FJW rhodo hybrids 2017 – CHW I discover…

…mid-1970’s or thereabouts. Outside Tresco and the Penzance area one of the very few Metrosideros to have achieved maturity in the UK. Metrosideros robusta Metrosideros robusta Metrosideros robusta Hebe ‘Wiri…

…palms, bananas and agave etc gives Tresco a run for its money in and above an extremely sheltered south facing Cornish valley overlooking St Michaels Mount. Having not been for…

…the best out now. Eriogynums nearly over. Hogweed of 8ft picked. Cinnabarinum hybrids near greenhouse good. 1931 – JCW Harrow hybrids are remarkable, great big tree shrubs and really refined…

…Tresco? I wonder what the record height actually is? Echium pininana Echium pininana Staphylea x elegans is also a late flowerer compared to the rest. A tinge of red apparently…

…we saw lots of grevillea species (the best were Grevillea miqueliana and Grevillea barklyana), Proteas from Tresco and an amazing climbing hydrangea from Tregrehan with pink flowers which were red…

…varieties out in flower here planted in 2005 which have made large plants in a short time. These ‘Paradise Collection’ sasanquas, as they were known, were originally destined for Tresco…