20th May

controversa ‘Variegata’ Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’ Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’ Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’ Rhododendron ‘Rubicon’ Rhododendron ‘Rubicon’ Lizzie’s first day outside Caerhays for eight and a half weeks. She may be showing…

4th June

controversa ‘Variegata’ Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’ Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’ Rhododendron ‘Tortoiseshell Orange’ just going over. Rather paler than our form so I am not quite convinced this is the right name….

16th June

…self sown itself copiously which we thought was Cornus bretschneideri. When we gave a seedling to Hillier’s they soon put us right and said it is Cornus controversa. Cornus controversa

4th July

…with the cornus. Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’ and Clematis ‘General Sikorski’ Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’ and Clematis ‘General Sikorski’ First flower buds on Japanese anemones contrast nicely too with nearly over nepeta….

25th November

…this picture of Cornus controversa with the last of its full yellow autumn display. This is a self-sown seedling of the nearby elderly Cornus which we had believed was Cornus…

1st August

…perhaps cover it with mypex? All to decide but a big leap forward in our space for growing on rare plants propagated here. new greenhouse new greenhouse Cornus controversa seedlings…

4th September

…growth. Daphnephyllum teysmannii Late secondary flowers on Magnolia ‘Cleopatra’. Magnolia ‘Cleopatra’ Cornus controversa covered in fruits. Cornus controversa Still catkins on Salix fargesii on secondary or tertiary new growth. Salix…

15th September

…blue-black berries on Cornus controversa. Cornus controversa A rather better flower now on Hedychium spicatum ‘Liberty’ (BWJ 8116). Last week’s picture did not do it justice. A very intricate flower….

30th September

…one of the few plants which normally flowers and fruits at the same time. Arbutus unedo Arbutus unedo The elderly Cornus controversa by Donkey Shoe has produced loads of seedlings…

20th October

…in the Isle of Wight only three years ago. Acacia boormanii 2020 – CHW Cornus controversa donning its autumn colours with an Enkianthus in the foreground. Cornus controversa Rhodoleia parvipetala…

13th November

…‘Beni-Yutaka’ Prunus ‘Beni-Yutaka’ Cornus controversa with layers of different autumn colour now that the berries have dropped. Cornus controversa The new growth on Rhododendron bureavii in the sun. Stunning! Orange…

18th June

…If the old cornus on the drive is controversa then the one by Donkey Shoe must be Cornus alternifolia but I am still not sure without seeing the berries. The…

20th June

…Daphne Scott Harden’s garden in Durham. From the left Cornus ‘Norman Hadden’, C. controversa ‘Variegata’ and C. kousa with Viburnum plicatum ‘Kilimanjaro Sunrise’ and Abutilon vitifolium ‘Album’ on the right….