The huge oak limb which has hit Magnolia ‘Star Wars’. Not too much damage to the Magnolia.

A large oak branch has smashed into our new planting of the top of Old Park.

More mess on the Main Ride.

More of the Nerine gifted last year from Exbury are flowering.

First flowers on Camellia x williamsii ‘St Ewe’.

Plenty of fruits on Viburnum fansipanense (BSWJ-8302).

2025 – CHW

Good tints on Prunus ‘Matsumae-beni-yutaka’.

Still plenty of buds on Magnolia grandiflora.

Even better tints on Prunus ‘Matsumae-shizuka’.

The fifth ancient Camellia sasanqua by the stable flat is now full out in the drizzle.

First flowers this year on Erica arborea.

Good yellow colours on Wisteria ‘Violacea Plena’ (‘Black Dragon’).

As in previous years the odd secondary flower on the Forsythia by the gents loo.

2024 – CHW
Completed the autumn planting today well ahead of time.Camellia sasanqua ‘Pink Goddess’. One of 8 new Camellia sasanqua varieties planted out below White Styles in the Beatrice Fleur Plantation.

Camellia sasanqua ‘Minato-no-akebono’.

Camellia ‘Fimbriata Alba’ seems quite similar to C. ‘Nobilissima’ not least in the timing of its flowers.

Fifteen new Camellia japonica varieties below the path to Kitchen Garden.

Nine new Camellia sasanqua above the path. Several of the C. sasanquas planted in 2019 are big enough not to need wire netting surrounds and some of these can now be reused on today’s planting.

The very last flowers on Hedychium densiflorum ‘Assam Orange’. All the other flower spikes now have well swollen seed pods.

Attached is the Camellia planting plan.

2023 – CHW
A trip to Burncoose where the camellias are even earlier than in the last few years.Fascicularia bicolour has grown away on top of a wall in the car park but only in maturity has it started producing a show. Not yet as good as the one which used to grow in the old conservatory at Burncoose House.

Beschorneria calcicola is a new catalogue entry for 2024.

Camellias galore in the tunnels but poor pictures on a very overcast day:-

Camellia japonica ‘Alba Simplex’.

Camellia × williamsii ‘Beatrice Michael’.

Camellia x williamsii ‘Brushfield’s Yelllow’.

Camellia x williamsii ‘Charles Michael’.

Camellia ‘Cornish Spring’ (in October!)

Camellia vernalis ‘Yuletide’ full out and likely to be well over by Christmas.

Camellia x williamsii ‘John Pickthorn’.

Camellia sasanqua ‘Narumigata’ nearly over already.

Good early colours on Metasequoia glyptostroboides.

Three new Sorbus varieties now in stock but no berries to be seen.

Sorbus hemsleyanus ‘John Bond’. Very white undersides to the leaves.

Sorbus ‘Wisley Gold’.

Sorbus ‘Leonard Messel’.

Mahonia x media ‘Winter Sun’ just finishing flowering.

2022 – CHW
A press release from the RCM Group attached. Several of the Pickard Hybrids were sourced from Burncoose over the years.The Amos Pickard Hybrids Collection
Held at Canterbury Cathedral

2021 – CHW

Viburnum rhytidophyllum flowering out of season or secondary flowers? It should be out in May.

Schefflera rhododendrifolia now well established and growing well. Intricate patterns on the new growth.

Illicium philippinense with late red new growth.

A few berries ripening on Viburnum hoangliense for the first time.

Flowers appearing on Berberis xanthoclada but only on the sun facing side of the bush.