29th December

…This is clearly a huge subject and there are scores if not hundreds more varieties to source over time. However, since most of the flowering Malus breeding has taken place…

10th August

…go. We will leave the Magnolia grandiflora beyond the delavayi uncut because there is a demand for their bark from a peculiar source! (And I am not telling you what…

27th October

…‘Winter Sun’ 2022 – CHW A press release from the RCM Group attached. Several of the Pickard Hybrids were sourced from Burncoose over the years.The Amos Pickard Hybrids Collection Held…

9th November

…blackish-purple hue if it is indeed true to name? We have a few other plants from different sources which do not have this distinct autumn colour. No seeds as yet….

Email from Maurice 1/6/2016

…Wilson1422. The suborbicular and broadly obovate leaves are distinctive and the only specimen I have seen so far that is convincingly the same is at the Savill. It was sourced…

10th July

…above. 5. This one is (unbelievably) also labelled subsp. cuneifolia but is actually correctly named. The flowering plumes are upright and creamy white and they have a sourish hawthorn smell….

12th April

…wanted to assess all the varieties against the much older Kunming camellias here. The main source of ‘new’ reticulata varieties in the collection was Nuccio Nurseries in the US although…

12th November

…see most of the records came from the 12 to 14/5/1982. Most of these are the same record entered from different sources and given different dates. I have attached a…

15th July

…main quarry is just out a month later than the other Glendoick sourced clump above the greenhouse. This is much more like the one which grew for 20 years in…

30th June

…has just invested £2.5m in new grain drying and milling equipment. The two biodigesters on the island which need feed (grass / whole crop) sourced locally have greatly reduced the…