2024 – CHW (images to follow)
Magnolia ‘Betty Jessel’ has turned a bold yellow.
Nyssa sinensis has nearly all dropped now and it never got its autumn colours going.
Acer griseum only just starting to turn.
Rosa roxburghii a pleasant yellow.
First flowers out on Peumus boldus from Chile.
Not a bad show on Magnolia ‘Ricki’.
Camellia ‘Cinamon Cindy’ snapped off at the base in a recent gale.
A large pile of new garden benches have been made in the workshop to replace the rotten ones as here.
First flowers on the semi-evergreen Rhododendron ‘Chink’.
Styrax japonicus ‘Pendulus’ very nearly at its best.
Camellia japonica ‘Silver Anniversary’ just out.
2023 – CHW
The pheasants are eating the ripe fruits on Mespilus germanica but plenty still on the tree. Brock decided to try one but did not finish it.
The new and late post drought new growth on Rhododendron griersonianum has got scorched by wind or frost in the last week. This is the problem with late new growth.
The yellowish-red fruits have now all fallen under Photinia beauvardiana var. notabilis. Asia needs to collect quickly before the mice get the lot.
A few surprises in the nursery:Clematis cirrhosa ‘Jingle Bells’ is good value at this time of the year.
The usual exciting new things in the greenhouses on a sunny day.The fallen ash on the drive all now cleared up and much of the firewood seems to have gone to a (hopefully) good home over the weekend.
The storms have caused major damage at Burncoose as well as here. One of the elderly beech trees by the tree fern shed a huge limb which brought down another decent 40 year old beech. Then a second beech tree fell last Thursday into the other walled garden. Fortunately after we had just dug the Christmas trees growing here. I had put it in the annual tree report as one to fell next year. What is left of the other one needs to go now too.
Rhododendron cinnabarinum appears to be full out again. This is not the first time it has been out in autumn but previously these were secondary flowers rather than the main display. Looking at the buds on the plant this would appear to be next spring’s showing.
2017 – CHW
These are the plants delivered yesterday from Crug Farm as additions to the collection here:
Acer sikkimense WWJ11613
Acer sikkimense WJC13674
Illicium philippinense CWJ12466
Sorbus ullungdonensis BSWJ 12640
Meliosma myriantha v. discolour MF 97132
Turpinia ternata CWJ12360
Aristolochia semepervirens BSWJ13600
Dactylicapnos ventii WJC13786
Holboellia latiflora ssp. Chartacea HWJK2213d Dark Flowered
Acer eryranthrum FMWJ13157
Acer laevigatum FMWJ13439
Betula insignis ssp. fansipanensis FMWJ 13149
Clethra fabri FMWJ13037
Dendropanax cf. kwangtungensis FMWJ13274
Ilex chapaensis HWJ946
Ternstromia kwangtungensis FMWJ13402
Euonymus porphyreus BSWJ9377
Lindera neesiana BSWJ13984
Merrilliopanax alpinus BSWJ13939
Tetracentron sinense v. himalense WJC13818
Neolitsia sericea Yellow Fruit CWJ12830
Schefflera macrophylla
Schefflera rhododendifolia
Schefflera aff. chapana
The three sorts of schefflera are for the show tunnel at Burncoose to grow on for Chelsea 2018 together with other species growing there. Schefflera will be one key theme of our stand. Wonderful architectural plants! I spent the afternoon today picking out 100 to 130 plants from the frames and greenhouse here to plant out in the new Isla Rose Plantation on Monday 11th December.
Jasminum mesneyi is full out above the tower on the lawn. It is growing out of the wall hidden within a clump of Jasminum beesianum. Very pretty indeed and odd to find a yellow flower on anything in December.
2015 – CHW
Still none of the forecast heavy rain.
Hydrangea ‘Fireworks’ at The Hovel turning still has the odd decent flower and has now been out since late June.
Hidden beside it is a Rhododendron moupinense full out in the shade. The odd flower photographed a week or two ago was therefore not an aberration or a secondary flowering.
Prunus Shirotae nearby has lost many of its leaves but what remain are a rather lovely yellow. So is the younger one at the cash point.
1944 – CW
Camellia oleifera very good but not at its best. Still an odd flower on Magnolia delavayi and Auriculatum hybrids. Camellia sasanqua past its best. First Hamamelis out and some heath. Very wet autumn and moors flooded right across for some weeks.
1922 – JCW
Very few bulbs above the ground. C sasanqua in flower but very few buds. A few lapagerias. Erica hybrida opening. Cotoneaster salicifolia very nice at the reservoir. Some Maddeni x nice.
1905 – JCW
A useful lot of daffs are on the move, of all sizes and ages, but the King Alfred blood is most prominent. C sasanqua is good. A few coums show flower. Some roses going yet. Primroses are very late.
1900 – JCW
A good few five year olds through the ground. Picked this years crop of rhodo seed.