…look better when the new growth emerges. Podocarpus ‘Red Embers’ Podocarpus ‘Red Embers’ Podocarpus ‘Red Embers’ Podocarpus ‘Red Embers’ Pseudotaxus chienii looks a bit insipid. Pseudotaxus chienii Pseudotaxus chienii Pseudotaxus…
…‘Rohanii’. Part of the fun of writing this diary is sorting out little puzzles like this for oneself.Very good at Burncoose today were: Escallonia ‘Glowing Embers’ Escallonia ‘Glowing Embers’ Beschorneria…
…of the year and is well worth propagating. Podocarpus ‘Chameleon’ Podocarpus ‘Chocolate Box’ is a rockery plant really. Two casualties out of five planted. Podocarpus ‘Chocolate Box’ Podocarpus ‘Red Embers’…
…Forest’ Rudbeckia ‘Enchanted Forest’ Rudbeckia ‘Enchanted Romance’ Rudbeckia ‘Enchanted Romance’ Rudbeckia ‘Enchanted Embers’ Rudbeckia ‘Enchanted Embers’ Rudbeckia ‘Enchanted Flame’ Rudbeckia ‘Enchanted Flame’ Clematis ‘Fascination’ Clematis ‘Fascination’ Clematis ‘Aromatica’ Clematis ‘Aromatica’…
…Cover’ Podocarpus ‘Red Embers’ just starting to live up to its name. Podocarpus ‘Red Embers’ Podocarpus ‘County Park Fire’ not quite into new growth yet. Podocarpus ‘County Park Fire’ Podocarpus…
…to stay on if they wish under the rules rather than being sent home immediately.About 20 staff on furlough again here – marketing department, house staff, Vean staff etc but…
…is supposed to turn green! I suppose it may yet. Hydrangea paniculata ‘White Lady’ Hydrangea paniculata ‘White Lady’ Hydrangea paniculata ‘Kyushu’ looks rather droopy and wish now. Hydrangea paniculata ‘Kyushu’…
…certainly have added a whole bunch of magnolias to my wish list. I don’t think we asked you what your favourite tree was. Not necessarily my favourite but a huge…
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…could wish for as well. Looks to be a large upright tree eventually which other species growing here are not. Zanthoxylum armatum Zanthoxylum armatum Zanthoxylum armatum Zanthoxylum armatum 2021 –…
…for a decade or so. A load of new magnolias (50 or so) and other varieties from my ‘wish list’ have arrived from and via Burncoose. Few are large enough…
…NOT flicking the pages of Country Life in bed with Mrs W for a ‘longish’ morning! ‘Fight to win’ perhaps but I just wish for a week with no staff…
…I wish I knew more about fungi! fungi fungi fungi Clerodendron trichotomum is producing a wonderful crop of blue seeds inside red calyxes. An attractive tree at this time of…
…‘Rothschildianus’ 20 of the rarest Cotoneaster species you could ever wish to find! Lots of fun checking their identities and propagating them over the next decades I hope. 2018 –…
…stalks in panicles. The flowers have purple stems in April and these suddenly stand out again in the autumn. They are not quite ripe but Asia may wish to gather…
…seed tassels. Carpinus caroliniana ‘Red Fall’ Carpinus caroliniana ‘Red Fall’ First black fruits ever on Crataegus chlorosarca. Crataegus chlorosarca Crataegus tanacetifolia covered in yellowish fruits. Crataegus tanacetifolia Crataegus tanacetifolia Crataegus…
…kousa ‘Miss Petty’ Another group of three of the very late flowering Azalea ‘June Fire’. As dark a red as you could wish for. Below the rubbish dump. Azalea ‘June…
…Again I wish I knew more about fungi! fungus 2018 – CHW Head Gardener Jaimie has been keeping up with the daily diary while I have been away in the…
…with links to RBG Edinburgh and held in high regard by early Rhododendron Society members (formed 1916). Perhaps the subject for another research paper one day. However I think that…
…wish I had brought the Cornish wildflower book for Will. 2020 – CHW A day to look at thistles and try to match up the Latin names. I am astonished…