2021 – CHW
Lizzie’s Mother, Alice Churton, died in Cheshire last Friday aged 97 so more chaos in the run up to 2022 with all the arrangements.Jamie has put up the signs at Top and Bottom Lodges heralding the opening of the gardens on 14th February 2022.
signs at Top and Bottom Lodgessigns at Top and Bottom Lodges
A dead birch tree which the woodpeckers are enjoying.
dead birch tree
Jasminium nudiflorum coming out into flower for Christmas.
Jasminium nudiflorumJasminium nudiflorum
Viburnum bodnantense flowering away on a drab winters day.
Viburnum bodnantenseViburnum bodnantense
Self sown Daphne bholua seedlings appearing in a border near an old plant. I have not seen this before.
Daphne bholuaDaphne bholua
Abelia grandiflora with its sepals still making a good show well after flowering.
Abelia grandifloraAbelia grandiflora
Carpinus betulus ‘Pendula’ still with wonderful autumn colour in late December. A small growing ‘mushroom’ shaped tree which Burncoose ought to stock.
2020 – CHW
Camellia ‘Debutante’ with its first rather pale flowers near the Top Lodge.
Camellia ‘Debutante’
Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’ has shed its outer bud coatings early although it may well be out in early February. The plant had some branch dieback after dry summers and a gentle light pruning has encouraged good regrowth after only 12 months. You can see the pile of prunings.
I wonder if we cut down the new apparently dead (blown out of ground and most roots severed) Schefflera macrophylla it would restart near the base?
Schefflera macrophylla
A big branch has snapped one of the Magnolia delerayi by George’s Hut in the recent gales.
Magnolia delerayi
The flower heads on Fatsia polycarpa have developed a lot in a week.
Fatsia polycarpa
Nice colouring at this late stage on Acer sikkimense. Another semi evergreen here.
Acer sikkimenseAcer sikkimense
2019 – CHW
A camellia wreath for Dad & Mum’s grave for Christmas.
camellia wreath
2018 – CHW
Echium seedlings in the gravel. We have already lifted and potted a large number in case of frost.
Echium seedlings
Zantedeschia aethiopia still in full growth and untouched by frost. A big contrast to how things looked after The Beast. This clump clearly needs dividing soon. Perhaps when and if they do get frosted as there is still too much growth for now.
Zantedeschia aethiopia
The gardens open signs have gone up today. The 18th February is not now that far away.
gardens open signsgardens open signsgardens open signs
2017 – CHW
The first (Spanish) bluebells break cover.
bluebells
A single flower on a young Rhododendron neriiflorum. The old clump long dead.
Rhododendron neriiflorum
The heather at the Four in Hand is full out. Is this a Lanarth bred cultivar?
heatherheather
Still a few pheasants left on the feed below Hovel Cart Road.
pheasantspheasants
Full leaf still on Catalpa duclouxii.
Catalpa duclouxii
Another windblown casualty 10 years or so after planting. The roots appear rotten. A malus species.
malus species
A single rogue flower on Rhododendron edgeworthii.
Rhododendron edgeworthii
Astonishingly a letter from the RHS president arrives in the afternoon post advising me that the RHS council have decided to award me the Victoria Medal of Honour. Good party with Jaimie and all the gardeners. Cannot imagine how I qualify or who nominated me!
2016 – CHW
No rain at all today despite the threat of Hurricane Barbara hitting Scotland. Forecast hopelessly wrong all week and the fourth nearly dry day.So I attempt to photograph the first camellias out along the drive.The unnamed Camellia x williamsii above the Hovel is now shedding its first flush of flowers onto the newly swept drive.
unnamed Camellia x williamsiiunnamed Camellia x williamsii
First buds to show on Camellia ‘Tiffany’.
Camellia ‘Tiffany’Camellia ‘Tiffany’
A single red japonica of no great merit.
single red japonica
An early and unformed flower on Camellia ‘Adolphe Audusson’. Windblown I guess.
Camellia ‘Adolphe Audusson’
Rhododendron ‘Bo Peep’ – yellow form also now has two single flowers above the Hovel and opposite the pink form.
Rhododendron ‘Bo Peep’ – yellow form
Not as many out from perhaps 100 varieties along the side of the drive planted 10 to 12 years ago as we have sometimes come to expect.
2015 – CHW
The Daphne bholua ‘Jacqueline Postill’ by the side door is now nearly full out but no scent as yet in heavy rain (again).
Daphne bholua ‘Jacqueline Postill’
Foul day. Shooting cancelled to attend John Laity’s funeral at Germoe church. Feeling ill!
1985 – FJW
Serena [Williams] arrived and walked three steps.
1921 – JCW
Several Camellia sasanqua, Theifera A. Theifera B, Japonica various speciosa of Forrest’s. Gordonea anomala, some roses, Erica hybrida and codenodes. White australis, Hamamelis mollis very good. Rhodo mucronulatum nice. 4 kinds of Caucasicum.
1901 – JCW
A very few roses left. Coums coming on fast. A few Iris alata.
1900 – JCW
Didden [A M Williams] picked the first primrose.
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