Full record of the Royal Cornwall Show – April 2022
A. Rhododendrons
Rhododendron ‘President Roosevelt’ with its yellow leaf variegation.
Rhododendron ‘Boddartianum’
Rhododendron ‘Cheer’
Rhododendron ‘Rubicon’
Rhododendron anthosphaerum
Rhododendron arizelum
Rhododendron fulvum
Rhododendron floribundum
Rhododendron phaeochrysum
The very rare Rhododendron lukiangense.
Rhododendron arboreum ssp. delavayi – very late for this to be out.
Rhododendron fictolacteum
Rhododendron floribundum
Rhododendron sutchuenense geraldii – never seen before.
Rhododendron asterochnoum
Rhododendron rigidum – a particularly good truss.
Rhododendron fictolacteum
Rhododendron irroratum – very different to our irroratum ‘Polka Dot’.
B. Camellias
Camellia japonica ‘Happy Higo’ – a wonderful Higo camellia.
Camellia japonica ‘Margaret Davis’
Camellia reticulata ‘Arch de Triomphe’
Camellia reticulata ‘Dr Clifford Parks’
Camellia reticulata ‘Emma Gaet’
Camellia reticulata ‘Royalty’
Camellia reticulata ‘Miss Tulare’
Camellia japonica ‘Augusto Leal de Gouveia Pinto’
Camellia x williamsii ‘Joan Trehane’
Camellia reticulata ‘Lasca Beauty’
Camellia reticulata ‘Lila Naff’
Camellia x williamsii ‘Dreamboat’
Camellia reticulata ‘Ming Temple’ – not one I had heard of before.
Camellia japonica ‘Elegans Splendor’
Camellia japonica ‘Aanafuki’
Camellia japonica ‘Okan Higo’ – another Higo
Camellia japonica ‘Pink Chiffon’
Camellia japonica ‘Nuccio’s Cameo’
Camellia x williamsii ‘Taylor’s Perfection’ – a bit like ‘Mary Phoebe Taylor’ as the name implies.
Camellia x williamsii ‘Duchess of Cornwall’ – not very exciting!
Camellia japonica ‘Dewatairin’ (a Higo camellia which we grow here – one of only two).
Camellia japonica ‘Holly Bright’ – we imported this from Stervinou.
Camellia japonica ‘Spring Festival’
Camellia japonica ‘Anemoneflora’
Camellia x williamsii ‘Jenefer Carlyon’
Camellia japonica ‘Love Light’
Camellia japonica ‘Cornish Excellence’ – new one to me and not that excellent.
Camellia japonica ‘Maroon & Gold’ – as you can see!
Camellia japonica ‘Grace Abviton’
Camellia japonica ‘Nuccio’s Pearl’
Camellia x williamsii ‘Tregrehan’
Camellia x williamsii ‘Mimosa Jury’
Camellia japonica ‘Matterhorn’ – we have recently planted this.
Camellia japonica ‘Cheryl Lynn’
Camellia japonica ‘Tammia’ (on Strete Gate Camellias stand).
Camellia japonica ‘Park Hill Tomorrow’ which we have on Burns Bank I think (on Strete Gate stand).
C. Other plants at the show
Gladiolus meliusculus
Lachenalia contaminata – ‘cape cowslip’.
Dietes grandiflora
Aeonium ‘Kiwi’
Buddleia ‘Orange Sceptre’ – on Nick Lock’s stand.
Vaccinum retusum – on Nick Lock’s stand.
Coniogramme emeiensis (hardy fern) – another variegated fern.
Telopea speciosissima on the Burncoose stand.
Helleborus ‘Double Ellen’
Trillium sessile
Ypsilandia tubetica – I have often wondered if we should stock this.
Symphytum ibericum
Primula vulgaris ‘Bradleyi’
Helleborus x hybridus ‘Harrington Pink Speckled’
Coleonema pulcherimum
Drimys lanceolata ‘Red Spice’ – from Tregothnan I assume – a named clone.
Viburnum cylindricum (?)
Anemonella thalictroides
Viburnum carlcephalum – an especially fine flower.
Anemone x iipsiensis
