Hydrangea ‘Taube’ just starting.

Only a very few flowers on Rhododendron auriculatum this year.

Rhododendron ‘Pink Polar Bear’ the best thing in the garden today.

Carpinus pubescens (2022 planted).

Carpinus shensiensis (2022 planted).

Cryptocarya alba getting established.

Aesculus californica nearly out.

Acer morifolium reshooting vigorously.

Carpinus caroliniana with fruits.

The white Tamarix just out.

Carpinus rankanensis with fruits.

Cornus pumila getting going – reddish new growth.

Rhododendron keysii with a sudden flush of flowers. I suspect it will now die.

Rhododendron weyrichii in the Rockery – very fine today.

2024 – CHW
I have been watching the new enormous Styrax japonicus ‘Pink Chimes’ on the drive to see how it was flowering and whether it too was having a year off. Nothing to see from beside it but when you disembark and look up there are thousands of flowers hidden within the tree. All the flowers are full out so there are only a few faintly pink buds left to see. Nevertheless quite a show even if few will realise that it is there.

Styrax japonicus ‘Pink Chimes’ and Fagus sylvatica ‘Asplenifolia Purpurea’.

Ross has completed the new clearing at the very top of the Giddle Orchard ready for replanting in the autumn. I will enjoy thinking about what would grow well there over the summer. Perhaps some rare oaks or something with copper leaves that will show up from the drive as you look across. Ross is now moving on to do the same more clearing of elderly trees and camellias at the other end of the kitchen garden.

Liriodendron tulipifera has put on enormous amounts of new growth as a result of all the rain up to now but there are very few flowers to be seen this year and that goes for the other 2 large trees in the garden as well.

2023 – CHW

A 4 hour Burncoose Management meeting but still time to photograph a few new things.
Rose ‘Hampshire’.

Rhododendron viridescens hiding its yellow flowers in its bluish new growth.

I had not seen Erodium macradenum in flower before.

Oenothera ‘Summer Sun’ particularly good.

A group of Agapanthus ‘Streamline’ flowering their hearts out.

2022 – CHW
Styrax japonicus ‘Fargesii’ on full show in Kennel Close while our original plant has hardly a flower this year.

Stewartia pseudocamellia with its first flower showing. Stewartia seem to be late into flower this year and well behind the styrax.

The simply gigantic leaves on Tilia caroliniana subsp. heterophylla (syn. monticola).

Compare to Tilia chenmoui (a Keith Rushford collection). Planted 2016.

Abies homolepis (planted 2009) with even more of its spectacular cones this year than ever before.

Tilia chingiana with rather smaller leaves.

Quercus mongolica developing huge leaves and getting going.

No casualties so far in the 30 or so newly planted species of Crataegus.

A touch of pink at the tips of the tepals on this flower of Magnolia globosa as you can see. Maurice Foster I believe has a much pinker flowered form.

2021 – CHW
A good show of bronzy new growth on the ancient Camellia sasanquas.

Stewartia rostrata just coming out on the drive.

In Roy & Ann Key’s garden at the Pound grows a tall biennial echium with reddish flowers. Is this a species or a hybrid? Very different in colour to our blue and pink Echium pininana. On looking it up it is Echium wildpretii which Burncoose stocks. Must grab a few seed from Roy later. From the Canary Isles. Its other name is Echium bourgaeanum.

Deutzia paniculata (BSWJ 8592) above the drive on from the Four in Hand. The (different) species next to it is over so I hope I have deduced this correctly. Very fine today anyway. When you google D. paniculata most of the pictures are so laughably muddled and wrong that one wonders quite why they bother. Disinformation rather than knowledge!