28th February 1897 – 2020

…only now at its best. Erica arborea Erica arborea Erica arborea Erica arborea 2019 – CHW The glorious weather continues. We are a month earlier magnolia wise than I can…

13th March

…tricolor looking good with Erica arborea. Rubus tricolor looking good with Erica arborea Unfrosted Echium pininana and Forsythia x intermedia ‘Lynwood’ make an unusual combination in early March! Echium pininana…

12th February 1897 – 2020

…half of them. That is our experience with many old clumps here. Prefers full sun on a hot dry bank with poorish soil. Erica arborea Erica arborea Erica arborea The…

19th March 1897 – 2020

…capensis Phylica arborea – island cape myrtle. Phylica arborea Phylica arborea Phylica arborea Tristanopsis lauriana – water gum, kanooka. Tristanopsis lauriana Tristanopsis lauriana These plants are mainly new and unknown…

17th November

…noteworthy in January and February. Has our climate really changed that much in 100 years? Erica arborea Erica arborea 2004 – FJW Drive camellias well out. 1940 – CW Still…

19th November

…flower at the top of the rubus bank is intertwined with yellowing foliage on the long tendrils of new growth from the nearby wisteria. Erica arborea Erica arborea The new…

1st December

…the Four in Hand have been out for a few weeks already. Erica arborea Erica arborea Nearby the men have downed another row of leylandii and bay trees below the…

4th December

…Garden. About the same timing as last year. Sarcocca wallichii Sarcocca wallichii 2017 – CHW Erica arborea coming out above the castle. No scent today late afternoon. Erica arborea Erica…

27th December

…for any scent today. Erica arborea Erica arborea Ripe fruit at last on Rubus ichangensis below the greenhouse. Tasty although tiny with red calyxes. Rubus ichangensis Sarcococca ruscifolia with berry…

3rd January

…today. Erica arborea Erica arborea Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Harry’ in the nursery is a new variety to me and rather good. Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Harry’ Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Harry’ 2024…

19th February 1897 – 2020

…untouched by the frost / cold wind earlier this week. Erica arborea Erica arborea The Magnolia mollicomata seedling through the arch has moved on a bit with the odd flower…

28th August

arborea above the 5 magnolias but the regrowth is coming from emerging seedlings and not the old wood. Care with grass cutting here. Erica arborea The two large Eucryphia cordifolia…

27th October

…flowers this year on Erica arborea. Erica arborea Good yellow colours on Wisteria ‘Violacea Plena’ (‘Black Dragon’). Wisteria ‘Violacea Plena’ (‘Black Dragon’) As in previous years the odd secondary flower…

26th November

…2020 – CHW Erica arborea out in flower already but not every clump as yet. Erica arborea Prunus ‘Ichiyo’ (‘Pink Champagne’) with its autumn colours. Prunus ‘Ichiyo’ Taiwania cryptomeroides with…

21st December

…Erica arborea now full out having shown colour for a month. Here on the bank outside the Stable Flat. Erica arborea My father’s Rhododendron ‘Winter Intruder’ now full out about…

25th December

…them very hard. Not many roses. Some I stylosa alba and alata. Hardly any moved bulbs show but several perhaps nearly all the unmoved. Erica arborea in flower.1900 – JCW…

7th March

…Erica arborea which self-seeds itself here around and about? Erica lusitanica Erica lusitanica Magnolia ‘Caerhays Belle’ and Camellia x williamsii ‘Donation’ outside the back yard. I am a day or…

11th November

…White scented flowers. August/September. CWT6282. Rhododendron sp Maddenia subsection. Medium sized shrub. Dark green leaves. Flowers believed to be pale yellow. Flowering period not known. CWT6406. Rhododendron fansipanense. Arborea subsection….

7th December

…exceptional autumn colour. Cotoneaster horizontalis Cotoneaster horizontalis Magnolia ‘Caerhays Belle’ is still holding most of its leaves above the Erica arborea in full flower. Not unusual in December. Other nearby…

22nd December

…in Falmouth. Steve thinks they show Brugmansia arborea but I am not so sure as this one normally has white flowers? Brugmansia in Falmouth Brugmansia in Falmouth Collecting Magnolia delavayi…