15th April

Mouse’ Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’ Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’ Lizzie’s ‘Honesty’ (Lunaria annua) from her mother’s garden. It can be an annual or a biennial. Lizzie’s ‘Honesty’ (Lunaria annua) 2024 – CHW…

16th April

Mouse’ Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’ Rhododendron haemaleum var. atrorubens is another real rarity although Dr Davidian, the former great rhodo professor, was uncertain of its status and identity according to the…

12th April

‘Mighty Mouse’. A good joke plant! Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’ Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’ Magnolia ‘Daybreak’ (which is always muddled with Magnolia ‘Peachy’) just coming out. I am far from sure we…

15th March

…tiny flower on a dwarf growing shrub. Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’ Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’ Magnolia ‘Apollo’ is normally out much later than this but not in this early year. Magnolia ‘Apollo’…

31st March

…‘Wadas Memory’ First flowering here of Magnolia ‘Joe McDaniel’. Large plant on the drive at Burncoose. Magnolia ‘Joe McDaniel’ Magnolia ‘Joe McDaniel’ Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’ with its first two tiny…

5th April

…is good and in a prime spot by Georges Hut. Magnolia ‘Rose Marie’ x Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ The tiny Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’. Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’ 2020 – CHW So I…

14th April

…Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’. Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’ The leylandii stumps have gone! stumps have gone 2021 – CHW Magnolia ‘Black Bird’ (parentage unknown) has come out properly in the Isla Rose…

12th June

…Bear’ Seed pods forming on the tiny Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’ which Asia ought to watch. Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’ Plenty of flowers still on Magnolia virginiana ‘Satellite’. It has been out…

30th March

mighty machine demolishes the overgrown laurel opposite Tin Garden. The mighty machine The mighty machine This is labelled as Magnolia ‘Paul Cook’. The reference books differ on the parentage but,…

17th February

…Deutzia to give summer colour. Magnolia ‘Caerhays Splendour’ is the centrepiece with Magnolia ‘Raspberry Fun’, Magnolia ‘Antje Zandee’, Magnolia ‘Blue Opal’ and Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’ included as well. A new…

8th June

…Frankie and his mighty machine have started the clear up around Patrick’s Pond and Tadpole Bridge. Frankie and his mighty machine The Burncoose Nurseries stand at The Royal Cornwall Show,…

18th August

…our form of Centaurea nigra or Centaurea debeauxii. The leaf formation tallies to the reference book as well. Centaurea nigra Centaurea nigra Centaurea nigra A cottage mouse caught in the…

15th January 1897- 2020

…yew berry fell here or was deposited into the fibrous trunk, perhaps by a mouse, and has been growing away quite happily for five or six years by the look…

26th December

…with its first flowers in the Rockery. Azalea stenopetalum ‘Linearifolium’ The first snowdrop flower partly eaten by a pheasant or a mouse? Ten days early perhaps. snowdrop flower A primrose…

14th October

…a yew tree nearby and presumably a mouse or a squirrel hid the seed here. Tree ferns in the quarry Tree ferns in the quarry A Parrotia subaequalis above Quarry…

1st September

…by a mouse, jay or squirrel. The rhododendron looks interesting. The bud shape suggests Rh. fortunei as do the leaves. What to do now? Leave the rhododendron hybrid to grow…

4th August

…month after the first. The third bud was eaten by something – probably a mouse or a tree rat! Magnolia tamaulipana 2019 – CHW This huge Osmanthus yunnanensis fell over…

29th June

…beech tree trunk over the river below Brownberry, removed stump and all, by Frankie’s mighty machine. A large beech tree trunk A large beech tree trunk Another recently fallen beech…

9th June

…Sycopsis tutcheri Sycopsis tutcheri Photinia nitakayensis has just finished flowering. Photinia nitakayensis Photinia nitakayensis Aristolochia sempervirens with peculiar ‘mouse-like’ flowers (like arisarum?). A vigorous climber but how tender? Aristolochia sempervirens…

19th March 1897 – 2020

Mighty odd that only one michelia species has survived 80 to 90 years here but there we are. Were they collected and named in China from different areas incorrectly to…