2025 – CHW
A look at some Schefflera with ripe seed for Cressy and Asia to collect next Tuesday.
Schefflera pauciflora (WWJ 11999) with huge seed heads.
Schefflera aff. myriocarpa.
Another Schefflera pauciflora (WWJ 11999) with a rather different seed head.
The fallen branch from one of the original Magnolia salicifolia narrowly missed the Polyspora longicarpa.
Despite the frost Magnolia campbellii ‘Strybing White’ flowers on against a blue sky.
Camellia japonica ‘Mary Costa’ untouched by frost.
Next to it Camellia japonica ‘Nobilissima’ was not quite so lucky.
Hoheria sexstylosa ‘Pendula’ still with a full set of leaves.
A good show of buds on Michelia ‘Touch of Pink’.
Camellia trichocarpa still not out.
Camellia sasanqua ‘Plantation Pink’ just over.
2024 – CHW
A rare visit to Burncoose at this time of year.
Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Harry’ very fine by the tills.
Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Firecracker’ a very good dark red.
Hamamelis mollis ‘Jermyn’s Gold’ a decent yellow but not that different really.
A tree order for a landscape customer in Dorset. We aim to plant in February.
Herbaceous plants in full growth. What will happen if we do get a sudden cold snap?
Out in flower today:-
Tiarella ‘Spring Symphony’
Potentilla nepalensis ‘Miss Willmott’
Omphalodes cappadocica ‘Cherry Ingram’
Geranium sanguineum ‘Striatum’.
Hesperantha coccinea ‘Sunrise’.
The gingers have still not died down.
Newly delivered are a few plants labelled Parakmeria lotungensis. I think this should now be named Magnolia lotungensis which is quite similar to Magnolia nitida when I saw it at Tregrehan.
Jasminum nudiflorum well out as you would expect.
Camellia ‘Drama Girl’ had a flower out last week at Caerhays by White Styles but here in a tunnel.
Camellia ‘Jingle Bells’ with its peculiar flowers and flower arrangement.
The excellent Camellia sasanqua ‘Sugar Dream’ now in propagation and for sale.
Last year’s camellia liners.
Better still is this huge array of young rhododendron plants from last year’s propagation.
Helleborus ‘Anna’s Red’ now coming into flower. A little later than usual I suspect.
2023 – CHW
A long suffering ‘Christmas Rose’ doing its stuff.
More of the wonders of Polyspora speciosa in the sun today.
Camellia japonica ‘Emperor of Russia’ which has irregular viral variegation in most of its flowers. This plant is growing in the former Charlie Michael’s Nursery and has the spreading habit of Camellia ‘Lady Clare’. Worth remembering in the cuttings season for Asia and Cressy.
Horrid squirrel damage on 15-20 year old beech trees in Kennel Close which have recently been trimmed up and thinned.
Lindera angustifolia with fine autumn colour in the sun. Lower down the leaves are still green. Semi-evergreen in Cornwall (as we have seen before) and one of the most vigorous and quick growing trees. Nice bark too.
Ripe and ripening berries on Ilex perado subsp. perado.
Camellia ‘Sugar Dream’ gets better and better!
A few very pale and poor flowers just out (but most others frosted) on Rhododendron ‘Christmas Cheer’.
2022 – CHW
The wettest, foulest day imaginable to be out in. Howling westerly and 2in of rain during the day. Change of clothes at lunchtime.Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Ruby Glow’ just out.
The wettest, foulest day imaginable to be out in. Howling westerly and 2in of rain during the day. Change of clothes at lunchtime.Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Ruby Glow’ just out.
First flower on Camellia x williamsii ‘Celebration’.
And also, very high up as last year, the first flower on an ancient Camellia x williamisi ‘Donation’.
A newly planted out Daphne bholua ‘Garden House Ghost’ above the greenhouse.
A Camellia reticulata above the Auklandii Garden now almost full out.
2021 – CHW
Some rain overnight has turned the place into a skating rink outside. The drive and yard are treacherous.Clear frosting on Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’.
Some rain overnight has turned the place into a skating rink outside. The drive and yard are treacherous.Clear frosting on Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’.
Rhododendron ‘Winter Intruder’ has fared better in the freeze but most flowers are falling.
In John Marston’s latest garden video he shows Leujocum aestivum ‘Summer Snowflake’ in flower in January. Our bulbs are well into their foliage but no flowers yet.
Camellia ‘Desire’ is now properly out.
Camellia ‘Mary Phoebe Taylor’ nearly out.
Camellia lutchuensis hybrid whose name I cannot remember just starting. ‘Fragrant Pink’ I think but no scent yet (Camellia japonica var. rusticana ‘Yoshida’ x Camellia lutchuensis).
A fine show of Camellia x williamsii (unnamed) on the drive despite the cold.
The first lowdown flower on Camellia ‘Drama Girl’ has been pecked by pheasants.
Plenty of ice on the lake. More in fact than I have seen since March 2018.
The fallen sycamore in the cuttings was cleared up yesterday. It came down a month ago.
