Ranulf in full flow about climate change and his solutions – mini-nuclear power plants from Rolls Royce and a total ban on migration. Typically bombastic and crazily argumentative interspersed with common sense.

The St. Enodoc Hotel.

The Magnolia ‘Caerhays Splendour’ on the drive untouched by the gales.

An elderly Magnolia campbellii var. mollicomata on the drive just coming out.

A leafless Rhododendron kiyosumense (related to Rh. reticulatum) just out on the drive. Some years this is semi-deciduous.

Ranulf Rayner’s book – ‘Climax – Saving Mother Earth’.

The usual Great Gardens of Cornwall party at The Nare Hotel to launch ‘Spring has Sprung’.

Magnolias predominate as you would expect.

The Spring Story and launch started in 2013.

The usual speeches.