…covered in berries. Ilex kingiana Magnolia ‘Wada’s Memory’ is a serious ‘flopper’ once its flowers are out. Magnolia ‘Wada’s Memory’ Magnolia ‘Wada’s Memory’ Magnolia ‘Wada’s Memory’ Magnolia ‘Wada’s Memory’ Narcissus…

…Magnolia ‘Tropicana’ Magnolia ‘Tropicana’ Magnolia ‘Wadas Memory’ full out and unblemished. One of several today in the garden of this variety. Magnolia ‘Wadas Memory’ Magnolia ‘Wadas Memory’ Rhododendron fargesii full…

…scent. The flowers do not flop when fully open like M. salicifolia ‘Wadas Memory’. An introduction from Eisenhut’s nursery. Magnolia salicifolia ‘Van Veen’ Magnolia salicifolia ‘Van Veen’ Telopea speciosissima in…

…Snow’ 2016 – CHW Two flowers blown out on Magnolia ‘Dr Merrill’ but they are high up and well formed or is this in fact Magnolia ‘Wadas Memory’ ? Too…

…Probably Rhododendron ciliicalyx or a named form was stunning. Rhododendron ciliicalyx Rhododendron ciliicalyx Rhododendron ciliicalyx Rhododendron ciliicalyx Rhododendron pocophorum Rhododendron pocophorum Rhododendron pocophorum Magnolia ‘Felicity’ (Magnolia sprengeri diva x ‘Wadas…

…in the heat of the last week. Rhododendron decorum Last flowers on Magnolia ‘Wada’s Memory’. Magnolia ‘Wada’s Memory’ A young Embothrium coccineum ‘Ñorquinco’ doing well as it was on our…

…the area above the greenhouse this (from memory) was planted as Phyllostachys edulis. The quickly emerging and massive new shoots have been photographed for this diary a few times. It…

…out last year on 24th September and still had flowers on 29th November! However ‘Flesh Pink’ was out on 21st August so my memory is not yet quite as defective…

…on it. A few are pictured here. Rhus typhina ‘Tiger Eyes’ Rhus typhina ‘Tiger Eyes’ Itoa orientalis Itoa orientalis Lomatia tinctoria Lomatia tinctoria The stand is in memory of David…

…mid-1960s. I am puzzled by the hay rick, or stooks of corn, on the left as I do not think that particular field has been ploughed in living memory. Today…

…for the first time in recent memory. It must have grown here once and died. Eucryphia x hillieri ‘Penwith’ Eucryphia x hillieri ‘Penwith’ 2021 – CHW A tour with Martyn…

…forms and hybrids have bigger and showier flowers. These are rather sparse but a nice ‘lightbulb’ shape. My memory of the original Magnolia virgiana smashed in the 1990 hurricane was…

…on the drive rather earlier than last year from memory. Some years not showing until Christmas. Rhododendron nobleanum Rhododendron nobleanum Rhododendron nobleanum The unnamed Camellia x williamsii on the drive…

…bricks Spaniel field trial awards by the beach – the Cornwall Field Society Trial. Spaniel field trial Simon Trudgeon and the winner of the guns choice trophy in memory of…

…also now secondary flowers. The old plant has never done this in my living memory (the younger one has) but will these clusters grow on to maturity? The result of…

…my memory from childhood and well worth propagating properly. The main batch of Nakahari or indicum azaleas here – and there are loads including a few of my father’s hybrids…

…shooting in December and the initial proofing on holiday in the Isle of Wight in July is now a distant memory. Publication and posting to 20,000 current mail order customers…

…memory that sheep have grazed the castle front. Certainly never at Christmas! sheep 2023 – CHW Camellia x williamsii ‘Beatrice Michael’ is now full out and superb by Tin Garden….

…magnolias. However we move on to plant up the Tin Garden in the memory of my father mainly with plants bred and raised here by him and Philip Tregunna between…

…may just have recurved under the now open flowers. From memory I have seen them pink here before. It is difficult to see how this tree is much different from…