20th August

…monogyna (hawthorn) laden with seeds for the thrushes and other winter migrant birds. Crataegus monogyna (hawthorn) laden with seeds Sorbus aucuparia (mountain ash) with perhaps the finest crop of all….

26th August

…Werrens. 1966 – FJW All corn in and only one field to bale – marvellous yield. 1916 – JCW Just as in 1914 for flower, several mountain rhodo’s show flowers….

26th February 1897 – 2020

…nice Camellias open. Snow on the mountain out. Garden after tea with D. 1908 – JCW Caerhays daffodil very few open or indeed any of the above. C coum is…

Magnolias and Climate Change at Caerhays

…Szechuan at 6-10,000 feet on high mountain forests they are probably very likely to bloom much earlier in our mild Cornish woodland climate. In the wild magnolias are pollenated by…

16th August

…pans from lack of labour and energy. The buddleias are good also odd flowers are open on Auriculatum, Brachycarpum, Caucasicum, Primulicum with other mountain forms including Hippophaeoides which is very…

10th August

…– JCW Michael went round with me, he has not been here since January 15, he was very keen about the things, nothing much open now but the mountain forms….

9th August

…Tom Michael in church. 1949 – CW Eucryphia pinnatifolia over. Nymansii v good. Several bits of mountain Rhododendrons – a good deal of rain. Magnolia delavayi still many flowers, also…

10th October

…may be another name for Ilex mitis from sub-Saharan Africa where it is a large tree growing on Table Mountain and Mount Kilimanjaro above 2,500 meters. I remain doubtful. Ilex…

23rd September

…10278, Flavidum, Intricatum, Rupicolum, Hippophaeoides, Trichocladum, Fastigiatum and Barum (=10423). 1916 – JCW Hydrangeas, cyclamen and cassia are all good. Lapagerias nice, several (6-7) species of mountain rhodo’s in flower….

1st September

…roses in the three beds are good, hydrangeas are good. 1916 – JCW Bits of flower on the following rhodo’s – about 5 mountain species, decorum, chrysanthum, venustum, flavidum and…

8th August

…and introduced the Spanish Erica canaliculata to Cornwall. Fuchsia magellanica ‘Alba’ Fuchsia magellanica ‘Alba’ Fuchsia magellanica ‘Alba’ 1917 – JCW Some R decorum, Auriculatum going over, several kinds of mountain

3rd April

…saw the martins and swallows. 1918 – JCW Daffs on the wane, though the best late whites are not all open yet. The cherries (double) are starting. Mountain forms of…

4th August

…diary. Viburnum rhytidophyllum Viburnum rhytidophyllum Viburnum parvifolium – (BSWJ 76768). This is a mountain shrub from Taiwan and there is argument over the name which should perhaps be Viburnum yamadae?…

21st July

…our new plantings of rare things now that the grass has been cut.Buddleia loricata with orange centres to its flowers by the shop. Buddleia loricata Buddleia loricata Buddleia loricata Mountain

25th June

…crassifolia come from Ecuador. Magnolia fansipanensis comes from North Vietnam’s tallest mountain. If you are still confused so am I!] Magnolia crassifolia Magnolia crassifolia Magnolia crassifolia Magnolia ‘Summer Solstice’ was…

13th June

…in March by Georges Hut. I need now to hunt out Rhododendron megacalyx. Rhododendron nuttallii Rhododendron nuttallii Rhododendron nuttallii Rhododendron nuttallii Buddleia loricata, mountain sage, just coming out by the…

24th May

…can escape from the mountain of paperwork which has appeared here since my return. Halesia macgregorii 2017 – CHW A boiling hot day where working on the stand was a…

22nd May

…fine garden mountain with very rare trees supplied by Crug Farm. This got a Gold Medal. South Korean minstrels 2022 – CHW Many more dead flowers to pick off on…

24th April

…chinensis ‘Avondale’ Cercis chinensis ‘Avondale’ Then on to the Sugar Loaf Mountain where the Chenevix-Trenches have started a garden sunk deep in a gorge. The trees were planted 30 years…

19th April

…Isla Rose Plantation. Multi stemmed large bushes. The Mountain Juneberry from N. America and a good species. We await the black berries. Amelanchier bartramiana Amelanchier bartramiana Magnolia ‘Helena’ with lots…