Hydrangea quercifolia on the drive.

Secondary flowering on Magnolia ‘Iolanthe’.

Clethra petelotii has totally recovered after watering.

Magnolia ‘Star Wars’.

Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’.

Plenty of flower on Mallotus japonicus.

First flowers on Eucryphia cordifolia.

Scaffolding starts to go up for the window painting.

2025 – CHW

Eriobotrya aff. elliptica var. petelotii (BWJ 16323) – you can see the confusion here with Photinia species.

Photinia (unknown) (KR 10131) – planted 2020. Seems a form of P. serratifolia to me.

Sapium japonicum growing well in the heat after some dieback last winter.

First flowers on Eucryphia ‘Nyman’s Silver’.

The Lithocarpus harlandii which shed so many leaves has stabilised.

Clethra monostachya on Bond Street making a great show.

2024 – CHW
I noticed two Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Alba Superba’ flowering in Truro. The secondary flowers had a purple dash in the centre of the tepals and the flowers were much smaller.Viburnum fansipanense with fruit.

Viburnum hoanglienense with flower and very distinctive seed heads.

Viburnum taiwanianum in full flower. All part of the Viburnum flowering cycle which I have yet to get used to from all our new species which are now starting to perform.

Calliandra surinamensis in full flower despite it being such a wet summer.

Loropetalum chinensis var. rubrum ‘Pearl’ full out in July? Odd.

Indigofera howellii has a very dark pink flower – almost reddish.

2023 – CHW

Quinces well developed already below Slip Rail.

Aesculus parviflora was over at Burncoose but still good here in more shade.

Fruits on Broussonetia papyrifera.

A very late flower on Rhododendron stamineum. The big clumps flowered in late May.

Quercus liebmannii with attractive secondary new growth after the rains. Hopefully time for this to harden off before winter.

The sun catches the undersides of the leaves of Rhododendron ‘Sir Charles Lemon’ below Hovel Cart Road.

2022 – CHW

Ross has got the 3 beech stumps out.

The digger has disturbed a large wasps nest hanging in a nearby Camellia.

The Cordyline australis which flowered so well last year and then tried to die on us was cut back. Only a few shoots still survive so we now need to chop it down to ground level to see if it will survive.

Ross now clearing up.

Quercus robur ‘Fastigiata’ is finally getting going. The Q. buckleyi beside it sadly blew over.

Two elderly and now dead sycamores above Burns Bank.

The very last flower on the last camellia to be in flower in the garden. Camellia ‘Kitty’. So there is a camellia flower for every month of the year! August was always the difficult month.