9th June

…Deutzia scabra ‘Pride of Rochester’ Cornus kousa var. chinensis ‘Milky Way’ Cornus kousa ‘Milky Way’ A silver gilt medal for a beached whale made from rubbish from the sea. Chelsea…

24th April

…forecast.The pure white sport on Azalea ‘Greenway’ which Asia has propagated well in the greenhouse. Azalea ‘Greenway’ My father’s Rhododendron ‘Red Centurion’ just about out. Rhododendron ‘Red Centurion’ Rhododendron veitchianum…

11th May

way that we could collect the money in a socially distanced and safe way for our staff. Shops to reopen (perhaps) on 1st June but not restaurants. Can we sort…

12th April

…our local hospitals are only 50% full as they await the onslaught. If they have 20% of their staff at home in isolation (or absent anyway) what are the rest…

12th June

…throwing. Archery and axe throwing Picnics everywhere and the craft tent with good sales. Picnics A flyover by the Cornwall Air Ambulance on the way back from taking a patient…

23rd July

…is the way ahead with ‘public money for public good’ under the new 2024 ELMS. Herbal leys will last for 10 years without reseeding unlike ryegrass. This is the way

30th March

…to be dying. One two years ago and two on the way out now. One left. All a long way from each other. The last two seemed to have major…

23rd May

…journalistic technique of barging other bastards out of the way rather than being barged out of the way himself and the shots we now get are really rather good. Even…

19th April

…has tilted too far one way only. Tim has recently passed his chainsaw course and, earlier last week, he felled a huge leylandii above the Auklandii Garden to make way

23rd October

…along the way are not bad either. An intricate mix. Quercus liaotungensis Quercus liaotungensis Asterotrichon discolor was full out today (as it was last November). Another odd autumn flowerer. Asterotrichon…