A trip to Tregrehan to study Hydrangeas

…us which looks like a viburnum. Introduced by Crûg Farm. Callicarpa formosana Callicarpa formosana Callicarpa formosana Callicarpa formosana Hydrangea angustipetala with gorgeous bark. Fifteen feet in height and grown as…

14th March

…leaves. SW China – laurel family. Nothaphoebe cavaleriei Calocedrus formosana – rather more tender than Calocedrus decurrens. Calocedrus formosana Calocedrus formosana Pittosporum glabratum with flower buds to add to our…

9th August

…Fruits forming on Liquidambar formosana. Liquidambar formosana Liquidambar formosana Fresh evidence of rabbits returning to the garden after a couple of years of very few. evidence of rabbits Ross has…

9th January

…Turpinia formosana Turpinia formosana New things which are coming on for sale on the Burncoose website. A nice batch of (I assume) seed grown Michelia maccleurei. Perhaps Asia has won…

23rd April

…pheasants appear to have left the flowers alone. The leaves do however look pecked. Camassia leichtlinii Caerulea Group Calocedrus macrolepis var. formosana is getting away. Calocedrus macrolepis var. formosana Picea…

2nd December

…Turpina formosana (from Taiwan Forestry Institute) with unusual autumn colour. Turpina formosana A single secondary flower on Rhododendron veitchianum Cubittii Group. Not seen this species do this before here. Rhododendron…

2nd October

…of poor secondary flowers. Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x M. ‘J.C. Willaims’ Calocedrus macrolepis var. formosana planted very recently but doing well. Calocedrus macrolepis var. formosana 2022 – CHW At Burncoose…

30th October

…vase of x williamsii camellias 2022 – CHW Liquidambar formosana with leaf turning and fruits setting. Liquidambar formosana Oddly distorted new leaves on just one branch of Lithocarpus cleistocarpus. Drought…

27th July

…Fogg’ And on Magnolia x foggii ‘Allspice’. Magnolia x foggii ‘Allspice’ Annoyingly I find our plant of Callicarpa formosana (NMWJ 14553) in the Isla Rose area. I supposedly saw this…

27th January

…transnokoensis Turpinia formosana with frost damage on its new growth. Turpinia formosana Camellia yunnanensis (17099 – seedling grown by us from RMCG seed list) flowering for perhaps the second time….