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View 9th October 1897 – 2020

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FJW 1955-2007

CHW 2015-

JCW 1897-1939

CW 1940-1955

2026 – CHW

Acer campbellii var. fansipanense just starting to turn.

Cornus capitata – laden with fruit but not the size they were last year.

Photinia villosa var. coreana laden with berries enjoying the heat.

Sorbus prattii.

Photinia villosa var. zollingeri with a sparse covering of berries as we have normally found year on year.

Photinia villosa var. laevis completely covered.

Deer have eaten the first flower out on Camellia ‘Takanini’.

Only half of the cut down clump of (previous) drought dead Gevuina avellana have survived this last summer.

Mahonia eurybracteata has struggled into flower.

Mahonia fortunei ‘Winter Prince’ is dead. Newly planted Mahonias are major casualties of the drought.

2025 – CHW

Next year’s herbaceous crop in the Burncoose Show Tunnel and looking good.

An excellent camellia crop of two and three year old camellias ready for sale.

Next years scented rhododendrons need weeding but excellent growth through last summer.

Camellia japonica ‘Takanini’ first into flower as usual. What a fine autumn flowering plant this is.

On return to Caerhays I spot the very first flower on Camellia japonica ‘Nobilissima’.

2024 – CHW
The regrowth on the trunk of the storm blown Acer morifolium has of course been eaten by deer.

Carpinus caroliniana may well be starting to perform well.

Liquidambar acalycina has lost its leader in the storms.

Yet again Crataegus ‘Paul’s Scarlet’ has blown over and had to be restaked.

Tilia tomentosa ‘Petiolaris’ does not seem to colour at all with us.

Ripe and dropping fruits now on Sorbus wardii.

The last day of the secondary grass cutting in Kennel Close and the garden as a whole.

Crataegus combyi with ripe dropping fruits and no leaves.

Catalpa speciosa ‘Frederik’ has yet to flower but a suggestion of decent autumn colour to come.

2023 – CHW
A day collecting some seeds from rarer new things, many of which are fruiting for the first time.Sorbus aff. ligustrifolia.

First fruits we have ever seen on x Crataemespilus grandiflora. Arching branches.

A female plant of Cephalotaxus fortunei is covered in seeds.

Sorbus japonica covered in fruits.

Ripe seeds on Tilia maximowicziana.

Carpinus caroliniana ‘Red Fall’ just starting to change leaf colour and with seed tassels.

First black fruits ever on Crataegus chlorosarca.

Crataegus tanacetifolia covered in yellowish fruits.

Crataegus heldreichii looks fairly ordinary by comparison.

Malus x purpurea ‘Crimson Cascade’ with a few fruits.

Secondary flowers on Magnolia ‘Genie’.

Quercus chapensis with secondary autumn new growth. Very different from its mature evergreen leaves.

Cornus drummondii ‘Sunshiny Drops’ with ripening fruits. One day this is going to be spectacular.

Sorbus dunnii with, as yet, unripe fruit.

Ilex dimorphophylla with another great show of berries. What an interesting holly this is.

Malus x micromalus with ripe yellow fruits.

Lithocarpus lepidocarpus with new growth and flower in October?

2022 – CHW
Podocarpus nubigenus ‘Pendula’ was a gift from Wakehurst. Here one with the lower weeping branches removed and one still intact and drooping everywhere.

A tail end flower on Rhododendron ‘Tally Ho’ low down. Drought had held it back no doubt.

A good flowering on Rhus chinensis especially low down this year. White flower plumes.

Tilia tuan var. chenmoui has made good growth this year and interesting bark developing on the trunk. Not like other species of Lime.

Quercus ‘Belle d’Aquitaine’ still growing well on and recovering from the drought. No sign of any colour yet on any of the deciduous oaks in Kennel Close which will be good later.

2021 – CHW
A look around to see if any Camellia sasanqua were out here. A week too early!A huge but still not quite ripe seedpod on Magnolia sargentiana robusta.