2026 – CHW
Lamorna’s birthday party at St Ewe Village Hall with a bouncy castle.
Bee, Lamorna and Isla with the Union Jack.
Bee, Isla, Zara and Lamorna on the rope.
Menziesia ciliicalyx ‘Honshu Blue’ just opening in the Rockery.
Azalea ‘Tebotan’.
The Easter egg hunt in the Rockery.
Rhododendron oldhamii.
Pink bluebells.
The grandchildren and the white and pink bluebells.
The grandchildren on the bonfire at Donkey Shoe with their Hook Norton headgear.
Betula utilis subsp. albosinensis ‘China Ruby’ with male and female flowers.
Magnolia ‘Lemon Star’.
2025 – CHW
The Cornwall Garden Society Show at Wadebridge.
The Caerhays conifer and Acacia stand (30 varieties).
Acacia cultriformis.
Acacia verticillata.
Acacia melanoxylon.
Picea glauca var. albertiana ‘Piccolo’.
Abies pinsapo.
Abies homolepis.
Picea orientalis.
Picea smithiana.
Picea mariana.
Picea morrisonicola.
Calocedrus macrolepis.
Agathis australis.
Cupressus torulosa.
Cupressus cashmeriana.
Juniperus recurva var. coxii.
The Burncoose stand.
The Great Gardens of Cornwall stand.
These Anigozanthos from the Eden Project won the trade show prize for the best new plant introduction.
The main display classes for 12 vases.
The Caerhays magnolia exhibits which were ‘Best in Show’.
Magnolia ‘Lemon Star’.
Magnolia ‘Margaret Helen’.
Magnolia ‘Tikitere’.
Magnolia ‘Apollo’.
Magnolia ‘Caerhays Surprise’.
Magnolia ‘Tropicana’.
Michael receives 2 cups.
Michael receive the Abiss Memorial Trophy.
All 42 cup winners at the Cornwall Garden Society Show 2025 – it took only 27 minutes to dish them out!
2024 – CHW
Yesterday saw the end of the CGS flower show but the cherries on the Caerhays stand had held up well.
Yesterday saw the end of the CGS flower show but the cherries on the Caerhays stand had held up well.
Despite what I said on Friday our Rhododendron ‘Countess of Haddington’ did win its class.
The Magnolia ‘Lemon Star’ has lasted well too but the petals had become recurved which I have never seen on the tree itself.
Jaimie and Michael with our major magnolia class competitors.
The sell off begins at 4pm at the end of the show.
R&A Scamp’s daffodil exhibit this year.
Burncoose wins The Bickford-Smith Trophy for the best trade Exhibit.
Jaimie collects 2 magnolia cups.
In all there were 40 cups to present which took (only) 30 minutes plus a speech. Here are most of the cup winners on the stage.
2023 – CHW
More pictures of Magnolia ‘Atlas’ x Magnolia sargentiana (pure). Jaimie made this cross in 2009. It was planted by the Old Dog Kennels in 2014 and first flowered in 2022.
More pictures of Magnolia ‘Atlas’ x Magnolia sargentiana (pure). Jaimie made this cross in 2009. It was planted by the Old Dog Kennels in 2014 and first flowered in 2022.
Melliodendron xylocarpum now full out in the Rookery.
Over the last two years cock pheasants have decimated the flowers on our clump of Fritillaria meleagris by Tin Garden. Few have survived but, this year, we have fenced the pheasants out.
Eurya japonica in flower in the Rookery with its highly unpleasant smell.
A visit to Cornish Lithium and a celebratory lunch after the signing of the Exploration Agreement.
A good Monkey Puzzle at the entrance of the Innovation Centre on the campus of Falmouth University.
The Cornish Lithium site at United Downs.
White violets at Burncoose.
In the conservatory Pittosporum tenuifolium ‘Tom Thumb’ and Rosmarinus officinalis ‘Prostratus’.
The first rose nearly in flower on the lawn.
2022 – CHW
I read this nonsense in the newspapers and then Jim Gardiner sent me the attached cutting. One wonders if we are really living in Putin’s Russia when such an act of philistine destruction can be mapped out by the health and safety fascists to a daffodil patch in a public park. Prick of the Year award and one to send to Private Eye for wider dissemination.
The memorial granite and plaque has been erected by the recently planted magnolia on the top path in Old Park. A commanding view.
More pictures of Jaimie’s Magnolia ‘Atlas’ crossed with Magnolia sargentiana (pure). It has faded a bit after opening.
Rapanea salicina ‘Toro’ (syn. Myrsine salicina) by Charlie Michaels Nursery Bed with its unusual and attractive new growth.
The rare Maddenia hypoleuca flowering away for the second time.
Ilex ficiodea covered in bud.
Tetradium fraxinifolium (KWJ 12091) appears to be evergreen although its old leaves now seem to be turning colour prior to dropping.
2021 – CHW
Jaimie and Michael visited Tregrehan over Easter weekend and photographed the following:Rhododendron davidii
Jaimie and Michael visited Tregrehan over Easter weekend and photographed the following:Rhododendron davidii
A Magnolia sprengeri from Lei Shan
Acer negundo subsp. mexicanum
Debregeasia longifolia
The champion tree of Magnolia (Michelia) maudiae var. platypetala
Skimmia laureola
Rhododendron veitchianum from Thailand
Rhododendron magregoriae (a greenhouse Vireya species)
Myosotidium hortensia
The champion tree of Melliodendron xylocarpum
Camellia ‘Quintessence’
Polygonatum vietnamense
