April 2018 Irish trip (Day 3)

…suckering tree growing in a swamp. Clethra arborea everywhere self sown and suckering too. Acacia melanoxylon Acacia melanoxylon Acacia melanoxylon Acacia melanoxylon Acacia melanoxylon Acacia melanoxylon A huge Eucalyptus globulus…

9th March

…Acacia melanoxylon Rhododendron scabrifolium var. scabrifolium still just alive above the top wall under the Acacia melanoxylon. Rhododendron scabrifolium var. scabrifolium Fuchsia excorticata just showing. Fuchsia excorticata Fuchsia excorticata The…

30th March

…Acacia melanoxylon Acacia melanoxylon Perhaps my favourite Acacia cultriformis which is in full flower today and possibly the most tender of the lot. I look in the RHS A-Z Encyclopaedia…

31st March

…Acacia melanoxylon Acacia melanoxylon Buddleia farreri in flower – as it should be. Buddleia farreri Magnolia ‘A.E. Bold’ ready to go out to a customer in the packing shed. Magnolia…

11th January

…flowering. The trunk is maturing on this large tree which has attractive splitting stripes lower down. Acacia melanoxylon Acacia melanoxylon The Escallonia ‘Iveyi’ have now had their haircut to reshoot…

8th February 1897 – 2020

…Ours are still in tight bud. Acacia melanoxylon Acacia melanoxylon 2019 – CHW A huge elderly Magnolia campbellii seedling coming out in the mist above Crinodendron Hedge. Magnolia campbellii seedling…

21st February 1897 – 2020

…above the front wall a week later than at Trewithen. Acacia melanoxylon Acacia melanoxylon Above the Top Wall are three good magnolias today. A Magnolia sargentiana var. robusta seedling which…

1st February

…in only a fortnight. Camellia ‘Bokuhan’ Acacia melanoxylon nearly out in flower – two huge trees on from the Old Playhouse. Acacia melanoxylon The oldest Daphne bholua ‘Alba’ on the…

8th April

…stand (30 varieties). The Caerhays conifer and Acacia stand Acacia cultriformis. Acacia cultriformis Acacia verticillata. Acacia verticillata Acacia melanoxylon. Acacia melanoxylon Picea glauca var. albertiana ‘Piccolo’. Picea glauca var. albertiana…

25th December

…Richard Carew Pole and Anthony Gardens. Acacia cultriformis Acacia cultriformis Seed setting on Eucryphia cordifolia. Eucryphia cordifolia Acacia melanoxylon in bud but not as far on as Acacia cultriformis. Acacia…

10th June

…Aeoniums Aeoniums Mixed Aeoniums in the circular bed beside the house. Mixed Aeoniums Mixed Aeoniums Fagus sylvatica ‘Atropurpurea’ and Acacia melanoxylon as one looks down the valley. Fagus sylvatica ‘Atropurpurea’…