2025 – CHW
A little drizzle but nothing really.
Styrax formosanus var. hayainus has plenty of flowers but not quite as good as I have seen it.
Pterostyrax psilophyllus var. leveillei with its 3 lobed leaves is flowering its heart out.
A columnar oak newly planted as a memorial tree is the first casualty I have seen to the current dry weather.
A columnar oak newly planted as a memorial tree is the first casualty I have seen to the current dry weather.
The laurel hedge on the Main Ride was cut in February but already growing away furiously.
Another drought casualty Rhododendron.
Flowers out on Magnolia globosa.
Cornus kousa ‘Wolf Eyes’ full out.
2024 – CHW
Sorbus hupehensis is growing into a decent small tree. Covered in flower.
Sorbus hupehensis is growing into a decent small tree. Covered in flower.
Styrax obassia just about full out.
Styrax japonicus ‘Sohuksan’ (‘Emerald Pagoda’) nearly full out.
Trewithen hosted the RMC Group AGM and had a small show to accompany it.
The Rhododendrons which I did not know well are shown here.
Rhododendron temenium var. temenium.
Rhododendron tricanthum.
Rhododendron diaprepes – I always wonder how this differs from Rh. decorum. The exhibit of decorum did not have the correct long rounded leaves.
Rhododendron ambiguum.
Rhododendron haematodes – a species which we have lost and should replace.
Rhododendron dichroanthum ssp. scyphocalyx (F6761) – a quite extraordinary colour.
Rhododendron ‘Award’.
Rhododendron ‘Black Magic’.
Rhododendron ‘Glebe’s Surprise’ – there are very few double flowered rhodos and I have never seen this one.
Rhododendron ‘Bridget’.
Rhododendron ‘Gloria’.
Azalea ‘Wee White’.
Rhododendron insigne.
Rhododendron maddenii subsp. maddenii – Pink Form.
Azalea ‘Denny Pratt Hybrid’.
Rhododendron ‘Grierpont’.
Rhododendron ‘Lady Clementine Mitford’.
The Camellias exhibited included:-
Camellia ‘Elizabeth Cooper’.
Camellia ’Scented Sun’.
Camellia ‘Carolyn Tuttle’.
Camellia ‘Volunteer’.
Camellia ‘Paulette Goddard’.
Camellia Red Red Rose’.
Camellia ‘Les Jury’.
Camellia ‘Mathotiana’.
Camellia ‘Matterhorn’.
Then the other classes.
Carmichaelia williamsii.
Leptospermum liversidgei.
Our own Acacia mearnsii which we planted as A. dealbata. We were advised that A. mearnsii was the correct name but I am far from sure.
Deutzia multiradiata.
Our own Magnolia rostrata.
Hydrangea heteromalla ‘Bretschneideri’.
The display outside the tent with our Rhododendron ‘Tally hoo’ and Rhododendron excellens.
2023 – CHW
Well in to the first proof of the 2024 Burncoose catalogue celebrating 40 years since the business started.Rhododendron ‘Tally Ho’ splendid on the Drive today.
Well in to the first proof of the 2024 Burncoose catalogue celebrating 40 years since the business started.Rhododendron ‘Tally Ho’ splendid on the Drive today.
Deutzia x hybrida ‘Strawberry Fields’ just coming out. In a day or two this will be quite outstanding as well. D. pulchra is good and D.calycosa ‘Dali’ good as well but this one is, for me, the best Deutzia of all.
Only 2 of the 5 different colours in the Azalea indica clump towards the Top Lodge are actually out yet.
Jaimie has started a hard prune on the laurel hedge between Red Linney and Top Lodge on the lower side of the Drive.
An enormous gall has formed on a Camellia flower which will be the food source for whatever insect has laid its eggs inside it. Strange but not that uncommon.
Azalea ‘Narcissiflorum’ full out on the Drive above Red Linney. A tree hit half of the clump 2 or 3 years ago and was cut back hard but it has responded well and the regrowth flowering already.
Still a few flowers on Magnolia ‘lolanthe’ below the Drive.
Liriodendron tulipifera with some branches covered in flower high up although they are hard to see. The branches on the windward side have loads of flower but those in the lee do not.
‘Flowering’ for the first time that I have noticed on a 25 year old Monkey Puzzle outside the Front Gate. These are male (flower) cones. The females are more rounded on the end of the twigs/branches. So the older mature Araucaria aracuna and the younger plant (as here) are both males!
2022 – CHW
The first day of the Jubilee bank holiday weekend and the weather is set fine. The Trooping the Colour and the flypast over the Queen and the palace was as good as it can be!
Tom Hudson has responded to my short article on Rhodoleia aff. parvipetala written for the Cornwall Garden Society yearbook in 2023 which I had asked him to peer review. This plant flowered here spectacularly for the first time last spring and came from a wild collection in Vietnam by Sue and Bleddyn Wynn-Jones of Crûg Farm.
Here are Tom’s comments and a picture of leaves from his four plants together with pictures of his (supposed) Rhodoleia henryi. It looks identical to our plant of aff. parvipetala as he readily admits!
From: Tom Hudson
Sent: 25 May 2022 18:54
To: Charles Williams
Subject: Rhodoleia spp.
Dear Charlie,
Thanks for your note regarding the Rhodoleia flowering.
As usual this genus is a completely mixed up mess taxonomically and the Flora of China key isn’t particularly useful.
No images to speak of online and I’m a little wary of the Crug aff parvipetala moniker.
I have attached an image of the 4 different leaf types that are growing here, a mixture from Southern China and Nth Vietnam.
Unfortunately the only species to regularly flower here is Rhodoleia henryi which is the right hand leaf.
The left hand leaf is Rhodoleia championii from China which even though is about 20 or more years old hasn’t flowered yet.
The other 2 leaves in the centre are from separate collections and haven’t flowered either but are noticeably different.
Having looked at some of the Crug collections there doesn’t seem to be any consistent key characters that delineate parvipetala and henryi.
I’m thinking that these two species may be merged in due course.
I’m going to have to play the waiting game here to get more flowers on these other 2 species at least before putting head above parapet…..
Anyway your images look great and you have a lovely addition in the woodland.
Its hard for me to construct much comment on your article when the situation is still so much up in the air.
Let another game commence…….
All the best,
Tom
Sent: 25 May 2022 18:54
To: Charles Williams
Subject: Rhodoleia spp.
Dear Charlie,
Thanks for your note regarding the Rhodoleia flowering.
As usual this genus is a completely mixed up mess taxonomically and the Flora of China key isn’t particularly useful.
No images to speak of online and I’m a little wary of the Crug aff parvipetala moniker.
I have attached an image of the 4 different leaf types that are growing here, a mixture from Southern China and Nth Vietnam.
Unfortunately the only species to regularly flower here is Rhodoleia henryi which is the right hand leaf.
The left hand leaf is Rhodoleia championii from China which even though is about 20 or more years old hasn’t flowered yet.
The other 2 leaves in the centre are from separate collections and haven’t flowered either but are noticeably different.
Having looked at some of the Crug collections there doesn’t seem to be any consistent key characters that delineate parvipetala and henryi.
I’m thinking that these two species may be merged in due course.
I’m going to have to play the waiting game here to get more flowers on these other 2 species at least before putting head above parapet…..
Anyway your images look great and you have a lovely addition in the woodland.
Its hard for me to construct much comment on your article when the situation is still so much up in the air.
Let another game commence…….
All the best,
Tom
A few pictures of the Jubilee (bonfire) beacon in Church Town Field at 9.15-9.45. Lighting time was 9.45. ‘Bring your own booze’ as they say at No. 10 lockdown parties but pasties provided. Around 40 cars and 100 people turned up. Not bad for a parish of only 75!
2021 – CHW
Preparing for Rick Stein’s filming this afternoon and identifying what is best in the garden to film.
Enkianthus campanulatus ‘Wallaby’
Azalea kaempferi at its best at Donkey Shoe.
Philadelphus sericanthus just out. This is going to be a sizeable shrub.
Philadelphus caucasicus just out too. Two of the three plants are growing well.
Another plant of Rhododendron excellens in full flower two years from planting out.
This is the shot for filming – Rhododendron ‘Lem’s Monarch’ at its best.
Syringa wilsonii now full out.
These wild growing Papaver cambricum beside the drive are a joy. Welsh poppy – previously Meconopsis cambrica. Fairly rare in Cornwall as a native wildflower.
The end of filming with Rick Stein, his wife, and the film crew outside the front door. Filming of what may be 10 minutes of a BBC programme about Cornish life next spring took five hours. In the garden we filmed:
Styrax veitchiorum (Styrax odoratissimum)
Rhododendron ‘Lem’s Monarch’Rhododendron excellens and Rhododendron williamsianumMagnolia sieboldiiIf we had not all been well prepared it would have taken much longer. Rick has been commissioned to host the making of 15 separate programmes over 45 days filming. As he said, little time for his other businesses.
Rhododendron ‘Lem’s Monarch’Rhododendron excellens and Rhododendron williamsianumMagnolia sieboldiiIf we had not all been well prepared it would have taken much longer. Rick has been commissioned to host the making of 15 separate programmes over 45 days filming. As he said, little time for his other businesses.
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