2025 – CHW
Camellia x williamsii ‘Mary Jobson’ now full out by the side door.
First flowers out on Magnolia campbellii ‘Lamellyn’ on the drive.
Camellia ‘Bokuhan’ beside the estate office at Trewithen. Rather yellow leaves on this elderly plant.
Rhododendron ‘Bo Peep’ (Yellow) is always open a few days earlier than the pink form.
2024 – CHW
Finally colour on Prunus x incam ‘Okame’.
Finally colour on Prunus x incam ‘Okame’.
Mature cones ready to shed on Abies homolepis.
Persea indica by George’s Hut untouched by frost.
Buds swelling on Lindera communis.
Magnolia campbellii ‘Valentine’s Torch’ showing very little yellow this year in its blown open flowers.
Very first pendulous flowers out on Camellia x williamsii ‘Lady’s Maid’.
The ancient Hamamelis mollis in Lower Quarry Nursery is slowly recovering after it was cleared around to give it more light.
Rhododendron lutescens full out now as you would expect.
Primroses and cyclamen on the bank.
Prunus mume ‘Dawn’ in flower. This was a gift from Raf.
The pile of new magnolia species also a gift from Raf.
2023 – CHW
First flower out on Camellia japonica ‘Dr Burnside’.
First flower out on Camellia japonica ‘Dr Burnside’.
Two young rhododendrons side by side. One suddenly dying and one (so far) surviving.
Another much older drought casualty – sudden and terminal leaf droop.
Suddenly Rhododendron nobleanum has decided to flower. The late October flowers must have been a post drought secondary flower aberration.
Rhododendron ‘Winter Intruder’ finally comes out much later than usual.
Rhododendron ‘Winter Intruder’ and Camellia ‘Winton’
A close up of Rhododendron ‘Winter Intruder’.
Camellia japonica ‘Carter’s Sunburst’ has 2 flowers.
First flower on Camellia x williamsii ‘Mary Phoebe Taylor’.
Camellia japonica ‘Debutante’ looking good.
2022 – CHW
The Magnolia campbellii seedling through the arch suddenly has a few flowers today after a breezy night.
Rhododendron ‘Christmas Cheer’ and Rhododendron ‘Winter Intruder’ nicely out together below the drive.
Camellia ‘Winton’ and Rhododendron ‘Winter Intruder’.
Fallen flowers under Daphne bholua ‘Jacqueline Postill’.
But the plant still looks fabulous.
Polyspora speciosa in flower in the nursery.
Agapanthus very early into flower in a nursery tunnel.
2021 – CHW
Surprise, surprise – still rain. About a fortnight of rain.Camellia ‘Lady Clare’ and Camellia ‘Noblissima’ somewhat unusually both out together by the front door.
Surprise, surprise – still rain. About a fortnight of rain.Camellia ‘Lady Clare’ and Camellia ‘Noblissima’ somewhat unusually both out together by the front door.
A young Camellia ‘Nagasaki’ with its very variable flowers.
A young Podocarpus lambertii. A rare and new species to us.
Rhododendron ‘Bo Peep’ (yellow form) bursting out.
Camellia ‘Hatsu-Zakura’ (‘Dewatairin) – one of the Higo camellias – now properly out.
Serious and fresh roe deer damage to the main stem of an Enkianthus chinensis. It will die!
More flowers out now on the pale Magnolia campbellii.
Camellia x williamsii ‘Galaxie’ just starting to show by Tin Garden.
Wind and frost have destroyed the first flower heads and all the leaves on Aralia vietnamensis without us ever seeing what the flower looks like.
Magnolia campbellii alba ‘Strybing White’ with more undamaged flowers coming out high up.
The odd white fungi we saw earlier on the trunk of a dead scots pine have now matured and turned grey-brown.
First flowers this year on Rhododendron ‘Red Admiral’.
Lower branch pruning on Lomatia ferruginea to prevent overshadowing of nearby young rhododendrons. Nice bark on its trunk.
First flowers on the pinker form of Rhododendron irroratum. Nowhere near as good a form as the Burncoose plants which have spots on the inside of each bell.
A nearly dead 30 year old Rhododendron keysii. A very short lived species. We will prune it back but, from experience, this species will probably not reshoot at all.
Acer laevigata still evergreen even if battered.
Camellia ‘Moonlight Bay’ I think. I had guessed ‘Kitty’ but was wrong.
A couple more undersized and blown open flowers on the Magnolia ‘Lanarth’. The first flowers blown away in the recent gales. Serena was interested to see this and will report back to Lanarth.
I spotted this rhododendron above the Orchid House Nursery. A mature 40 to 50 year old plant unfortunately covered in brambles but I have never seen it in flower before. At a distance it seemed an arboreum but I can see from the leaf underside that it is, at best, an arboreum hybrid. Possibly a self-sown seedling? Very early which is why I suspect none of us have really clocked it before.
2021, 02, 04 The pictures of Podocarpus lambertii differ clearly in its leafs and buds from real P. lambertii, it must be another, more similar to P. macrophyllus.
You but have already a nonidentified P. lambertii in your garden, as i remarked earlier.