22nd July

…team are based in a brand new building beside the ferry terminal which was visited today by The Duke of Edinburgh. The five challenger yachts (if you can call them…

23rd February

…paper would be interesting, as a follow up to the podo article. I am sending some putative hybrid salignus material to Edinburgh next week for more DNA analysis. That small…

13th September

…eaten by deer or I have forgotten where they are in the garden? 2022 – CHW The Queen lies in state in Edinburgh having been driven yesterday from Balmoral where…

5th August

Edinburgh, we found some flowers on Adenogynum, Idoneum[?], 10311, Rupicolum, Flavidum, Hippophaeoides, Keysii, Decorum, Fortunei, Auriculatum, Fasitigiatum, Intricatum. 1913 – JCW Roses in the beds are very nice. White everlasting…

3rd July

…interesting that 32 Camellia sasanqua cultivars, many names that were new to me, arrived during 1959/60 from ‘Edinburgh’, presumably the RBGE, and ‘America’. It is such a pity that the…

5th May

…at RBG Edinburgh and Caerhays. The flowers on the ageing Caerhays plant are greener with longer tassels. It has never produced the spectacle of the Borde Hill tree which apparently…

9th November

…Very early year. Mucronulatum full out as is Yellow Hammer. Received Sasanquas from Edinburgh. 1945 – CW Camellias sasanqua and oleifera out, also a couple of flowers of hybrid in…

24th March

…form above the wall which once got Dr Davidian, the great rhodo expert and author from The Royal Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh, into a huge state of excitement. We have…

8th April

…CHW A tour with another Duke and Duchess and their friends. Non gardeners on their first visit to Cornish gardens and staying in Portholland. A fine and sunny day for…

27th February

…Emma, Duchess of Rutland. 2022 – CHW To Forty Acres and Penvergate. Magnolia campbellii ‘Sidbury’ now completely over. A young Magnolia ‘Theodora’ in Penvergate with its first flowers. Magnolia ‘Theodora’…