21st January

…which led to an equally massive explosion in the rat population eating the bamboo seeds and then spreading plague to Europe. Bamboo flowerings kill pandas and always have been viewed…

4th March

…its best. Outside the back yard Setting out the 12 newly purchased species of bamboo below the Old Kennels. bamboo bamboo bamboo Eight groups of deciduous azaleas go in on…

5th October

…is about double what I was originally told. 2015 – CHW The newish bamboo plantings in Kennel Close have grown so well and look so superb I thought it might…

8th October

…the drive and split a magnolia in full leaf. We will send cutting material to Burncoose tomorrow. I promised a review of the newer bamboo species and how they have…

10th April

…have. Anyone know the answer please? bamboo bamboo This is Jaimie’s hybrid between Rhododendron ‘Titness Park’ (a calophytum cross or form I was given by Windsor) and Rhododendron ‘Rebecca’ (a…

24th February

…of the fallen tree on Lower Rookery Path. clearance The new bamboo species from Whitelea Nursery have arrived and here is the list: bamboo species Fargesia nitida’Jiuzahaigou 1’(‘Red Panda’ atc)…

18th January

…likiangensis Picea likiangensis There are seven other species/varieties of bamboo in Kennel Close in addition to the five photographed a few days ago. Boring though it probably is to readers…

27th May

…know that cinnarbarinum and concatenans are both again flourishing at Caerhays. Rhododendron cinnarbarinum Concatenans Group Rhododendron cinnarbarinum Concatenans Group A young bamboo called Chusquea gigantea has decided to flower and…

1st July

…London after 3 weeks absence. Many Henonis [bamboo] only half grown, Nigra the same, waterlilies well on, no Nitida moving yet. Some of the tree ferns have only lately started,…