3rd October

…‘Tiger Eyes’ Another new plant for the website – Ceratostigma plumbaginoides ‘Summer Skies’. Ceratostigma plumbaginoides ‘Summer Skies’ The late flowering Kniphofia rooperi. Kniphofia rooperi Eleagnus x ebbingei ‘Gilt Edge’ with…

24th May

…gold medals, while the group got a silver gilt medal for their stand. (Read details of gold award for Burncoose.) Everyone is very happy. In the main marquee it turns…

16th March

…little frost damage to the leaf edges. They will readily grow through this. Gunnera manicata This Quercus acuta was stripped by a falling pine tree and turned into a totem…

21st May

…flower than ours. Scilla verna ‘Sea eagle and fish’ bronze in the garden. bronze Escallonia rubra var. macrantha – a wonderful seaside hedge. Escallonia rubra var. macrantha 2020 – CHW…

22nd May

…The first journalist The Savills sponsored garden with subsequently received a Silver Gilt Medal. Savills invited 994 clients to the show over the 6 days. Ticket price c. £100 per…

11th July

…as they apparently had an agapanthus midge infection. This of course made the plants unsaleable and the stand received only a Silver Gilt. A similar death of nursery exhibitors as…

8th February

…melanoxylon 2019 – CHW A huge elderly Magnolia campbellii seedling coming out in the mist above Crinodendron Hedge. Magnolia campbellii seedling A newly planted (November) Camellia ‘Fiesta Crane’ with its…

9th June

…Deutzia scabra ‘Pride of Rochester’ Cornus kousa var. chinensis ‘Milky Way’ Cornus kousa ‘Milky Way’ A silver gilt medal for a beached whale made from rubbish from the sea. Chelsea…

5th July

…CHW So what is out in flower in the garden still after my absence on the Isle of Wight? Silver gilt medal for Burncoose at Hampton Court. Drama because we…

16th February

…Yellow’. Magnolia campbellii A lower branch of the Magnolia campbellii seedling along Crinodendron Hedge now full out. Magnolia campbellii seedling Magnolia campbellii seedling Magnolia campbellii seedling First flower out on…