19th October

…of flower this year but the other three varieties alongside are not showing yet. Camellia sasanqua ‘Winters Snowman’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Winters Snowman’ 2016 – CHW Jaimie took this picture of…

25th October

…Early! Camellia sasanqua ‘Narumigata’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Narumigata’ Camellia x oleifera ‘Winters Snowman’ just out. Camellia x oleifera ‘Winters Snowman’ Camellia x oleifera ‘Winters Snowman’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Sparkling Burgundy’ just out…

9th November

…be wrong as ‘Snow Flurry’ and ‘Winter’s Snowman’ are very similar and both could be out. Camellia ‘Winters Joy’ (Camellia sasanqua x Camellia oleifera) just coming out. Camellia ‘Winters Joy’…

21st November

…williamsii ‘November Pink’ is now full out in the main quarry. Camellia x williamsii ‘November Pink’ Camellia x williamsii ‘November Pink’ Camellia ‘Winter’s Charm’ Camellia ‘Winter’s Charm’ Camellia ‘Winter’s Snowman’….

19th November

…Here we have:‘Winters Toughie’ – a delicate light pink double which opens out flat. Camellia ‘Winters Toughie’ Camellia ‘Winters Toughie’ ‘Snow Flurry’ – a delicate initially anemone shaped double white…

30th November

…Costa’ Camellia ‘Winter’s Snowman’ alongside Camellia ‘Winter’s Charm’. Camellia ‘Winter’s Snowman’ alongside Camellia ‘Winter’s Charm’ Camellia ‘Bokuhan’ with its anemone shaped flowers. They seem rather small to me this year…

11th November

…a collection of these but this is the first to show in this batch of eight different plants. Camellia sasanqua ‘Winters Toughie’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Winters Toughie’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Winters Toughie’…

Magnolias and Climate Change at Caerhays

…usual here, going over.   The newspapers are full of stories of ‘early’ wild flowers and especially primroses and wild daffodils. However the diary proves that, cold winters with snow…

7th December

…in wind! Camellia sasanqua ‘Winters Toughie’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Winters Toughie’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Polar Ice’ has just one flower alongside it and is really rather nice. Camellia sasanqua ‘Polar Ice’ Were…

28th October

…to nine feet tall bush. Camellia sasanqua ‘Winter’s Interlude’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Winter’s Interlude’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Winter’s Charm’ is another delicate pink but only one flower again as yet. Unlike all…

13th February

…out on the Drive. Magnolia campbellii ‘Lamellyn’ Magnolia campbellii ‘Lamellyn’ Rhododendron ‘Winters Interlude’ (which is late out) just going over. Rhododendron ‘Winters Interlude’ The view across to Giddle Orchard. view…

2nd November

…Belle’ ought to be dug out rather than just having the dead removed. Two winters ago it decided to flower in the autumn and paid the price with dieback. In…

29th January

…fronds frosted more than for several winters by the Playhouse. Tree fern fronds frosted Yuccas frozen out too in the pre-Christmas cold week. They survived March 2018 and the Beast…

25th December

…bank amid an array of leaves. A new self-sown clump here. Cyclamen coum Several flowers on several of the Magnolia grandifloras. Not unusual in recent mild winters but unbelievable to…

22nd December

…nudiflorum coming out into flower for Christmas. Jasminium nudiflorum Jasminium nudiflorum Viburnum bodnantense flowering away on a drab winters day. Viburnum bodnantense Viburnum bodnantense Self sown Daphne bholua seedlings appearing…

12th December

…autumns and exceptionally mild winters with early flowering. Camellia x williamsii ‘Anticipation’ Odd to find green leaves still on a Dipelta? Dipelta ‘St Ewe’ with ‘JCW’ behind it making a…

29th July

…2019 – CHW I almost missed Rostrincula dependens in flower below the Tower. Buddleia like flowers. In our mild winters this is becoming a 4ftx4ft shrub with a woody trunk….

2nd December

…aff. henryi A nice young plant of Camellia sasanqua ‘Winter’s Interlude’ with a nearly intact flower. Several of these ‘Winter’s Whatevers’ are very similar! Camellia sasanqua ‘Winter’s Interlude’ A Polyspora…

20th November

…of mild winters? Rhododendron nobleanum Rhododendron nobleanum Rhododendron nobleanum 2002 – FJW Flowers on Rho nobleanum – many still on wall Delavayi – still very wet. 1991 – FJW First…

21st October

…had a dieback in earlier winters. Tom Hudson says his plants ‘fizzled out’ before they developed a more mature trunk. This is a very new tree in New Trees which…