2025 – CHW
A visit to the Zara Ferne Williams Amelanchier collection. In the main they are not flowering that well this year and the recent rains has bashed the flowers.
A newly planted Magnolia ‘Rominas Pink’.
Amelanchier laevis ‘R.J. Hilton’.
Amelanchier pumila.
Amelanchier ‘La Paloma’ F.C.C.
Amelanchier obovalis ‘Jenny Belle’ – the best of the bunch today.
Amelanchier bartramiana.
Appalling squirrel damage to a semi-mature beech tree – at the base and right up the whole trunk.
Magnolia ‘Gold Cup’.
Amelanchier alnifolia ‘Smokey’.
Amelanchier laevis ‘Snowflakes’.
Magnolia ‘Lois’ in Old Park.
Rhododendron minus var. minus planted in Old Park 2 years ago.
2024 – CHW
Off to Northern Ireland later today.
Viburnum erosum now in flower.
Euonymus wilsonii hasn’t done much yet. No flowers or new growth.
Viburnum phlebotrichum also now in flower.
Rhododendron ‘Tinner’s Blush’ at its best.
Interesting new growth on Huodendron tibeticum.
Also interesting new growth on Sassafras tzumu.
The double flowered Rhododendron ‘Johnny Johnstone’ has lasted in flowers for weeks and weeks this year.
Eriobotrya deflexa and Embothrium lanceolatum in flower behind it.
Rhododendron zaleucum has very few flowers after its haircut last year.
Probably the last time we will ever see the original clump of Rhododendron ‘Veryan Bay’ in flower. Jaimie cut down half of it last autumn and what is left is leggy and sick.
New leaves appearing on Carpinus turczaninowii var. turczaninowii. Unusual habit.
Still loads of flowers on Paulownia fargesii weeks after we saw the first.
2023 – CHW
A nursery visit.Trillium grandiflorum in flower. Other species not quite out as yet.
A nursery visit.Trillium grandiflorum in flower. Other species not quite out as yet.
Boronia crenulate in full flower. We have not stocked this tender species for a while.
Photinia x fraseri ‘Atropurpurea Nana’ particularly striking today.
A novelty Aquilegia now in the Burncoose catalogue this year! A. viridiflora ‘Chocolate Soldier’. Yellowish ‘granny’s bonnets’ then turn brown-black.
Rhododendron ‘Bow Jingles’.
Cressy has done an amazing job with propagating scented Rhododendron and we now have hundreds to sell. Here Rhododendron formosum.
Rhododendron ‘Michael’s Pride’.
2022 – CHW
We have rightly been given some stick for selling Magnolia (Michelia) compressa which turned out not to be a Michelia at all but eventually one of our plants produced clusters of small rounded white flowers. The plants were bought in good faith from Holland at least 10 years ago and looked very nice plants. John Marston referred to our cockup in one of his recent regular videos about his garden at Gorwell but was naturally far too polite to lay the blame at Burncoose’s door.
Here are pictures of the true Magnolia (Michelia) compressa which has yet to flower with us but, where I have seen it in flower (Gorwell video and Tregrehan), it is a pretty dull thing with tiny flowers and not really a species to grow except in a magnolia collection.
John Marston now thinks that the errant plant is in fact Cleyera japonica and I entirely agree. Here are pictures of our two Cleyera fortunei (labelled M. compressa). One has been frosted.
Then to Burncoose for a very rare private day talking to my brother about the future and the Copper House development project. Dog walking and a television engineer failed to interrupt us.
Toona sinensi ‘Flamingo’ in the show tunnel was superb but its leaves will have turned green by Chelsea time in a month.
Malus ‘Red Sentinel’ in full flower and as good as I have seen it in flower.
I have never seen as much flower on Phillyrea angustifolia as on the 75 or so large plants which are due to go to a zoo shortly. Why eat something like this? What animal eats this?
Geum ‘Scarlet Tempest’ looking great.
Euphorbia epithymoides ‘Bonfire’ is new to our catalogue.
Epimedium x peralchium ‘Frohnleiten’ is another new addition but not that special?
The new growth on Tilia henryana is exquisite for a few days as we have seen over the years.
Centaurea montana ‘Purple Heart’ out well before expected in this early year.
Teucrium lucidrys ‘Lucky Gold’ just coming into proper golden growth. Another new plant on the website with prospects but it will not flower for quite some time.
In the Burncoose conservatory a perfectly in flower Geranium maderense. I assume that the sun has bleached the pink-purple flowers white or is this G. palmatum? Either way pure white flowers do not fit the bill!
Then on into the Burncoose garden for some spectacular sights.
Rhododendron ‘Countess of Haddington’ and Magnolia x loebneri ‘Wildcat’ opposite the conservatory.
The white form of Staphylea holocarpa was just coming out. Caerhays does not have this.
Rhododendron ‘Countess of Haddington’ and Rhododendron ‘High Sheriff’ – stunning!
Rhododendron ‘Tinner’s Blush’ and Azalea ‘Amoena’.
Camellia ‘Anticipation’ and Rhododendron davidsonianum by the lodge.
2021 – CHW
A visit to Tregrehan yesterday. Alice Boyd, Richard & Mary Carew-Pole and Andrew & Vanessa Leslie. We all enjoyed a garden together for the first time in a year. A three-hour ramble amongst the usual array of new plants.Photinia serrata ‘Pink Crispy’ is not to everyone’s taste (this in St Austell Garden Centre).
A visit to Tregrehan yesterday. Alice Boyd, Richard & Mary Carew-Pole and Andrew & Vanessa Leslie. We all enjoyed a garden together for the first time in a year. A three-hour ramble amongst the usual array of new plants.Photinia serrata ‘Pink Crispy’ is not to everyone’s taste (this in St Austell Garden Centre).
Rehderodendron kwangtungense full out against a blue sky.
A new and unnamed species of Cephalotaxus. [Perhaps Torreya jackii – thanks Wolfgang Keidel for pointing this out]
Rhododendron hanceanum; a very different and far less compact growing form than ours.
Camellia x williamsii ‘Fair Jury’ – the near white form of ‘Elsie Jury’.
Rhododendron genestrianum
Camellia ‘Hooker’ was bred by Gillian Carlyon. It is almost a Higo camellia in the shape of its stamens.
Lonicera korokowii
This looks like a holly, but it is in fact Griselinia jodonifolia.
Cryptocarya alba
Another unknown Podocarpus species. Podocarpus milanjianus.
Podocarpus spinulosus
Primnopitys ferrugineus. One of the only two species of Primnopitys from New Zealand. Formerly called Podocarpus. Tom’s Primnopitys andinus is just like ours – virtually leafless with trailing stems.
Pseudopanax ‘Chainsaw’
Nestegis cunninghamii
Pittosporum colensoi
Clethra faberi
Viburnum erubescens (perhaps now called Viburnum chingii).
Rhododendron seingkhuense (in the Rhododendron edgeworthia group).
An old plant with a label saying, ‘Hodges Pink Argenteum’. Mr Hodge visited JCW in 1924. Perhaps a niveum x argenteum cross?
Jasminum duclouxii in the greenhouse.
Grevillea ‘Fireworks’
Rhododendron nuttallii x Rhododendron edgeworthii quite superb in the greenhouse.
Bartlettiana sordida
Tom’s tamarillo with tomato like fruit.
Magnolia ‘Hot Flash’ in the walled garden.
The very dark red Camellia ‘Night Rider’ which also grows at Burncoose. Here a huge bush near the house.
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Naming of Podocarpus and Quercus, pictures 22nd April,
the Podocarpus should read milanjianus, a species widespread in tropical Africa from South Sudan to Zambia and further ( may without fruits be mixed up with Afrocarpus falcatus).
The valid name of Quercus fleuryi is Q. macrocalyx from Laos, Vietnam and SW China.
Georg Ruf
Sorry – our typing error re the Podocarpus.
Re the Quercus… but not when we acquired it.
Hello,
I think your unknown Cephalotaxus on this side must be Torreya jackii, the Torreya with the longest needles.
Regards
Wolfgang, Arboretum Fraulund,Germany
collector of Taxodiaceae and other conifers