Brachychiton hispida on the Tregrehan stand.

Iochroma cyaneum – (Deep Purple).

Brugmansia ‘Purple Rain’ which I had not seen before.

Sarcococca brevifolia – a purchase from Crug Farm.

2024 – CHW
A trip around the garden with Thomas Methuen-Campbell.

Styrax shiraianus just emerging into flower.

Styrax japonicus ‘Sohuksan’ as floriferous as ever which many of the other species are not this year.

New growth on Tristaniopsis.

Styrax japonicus ‘Wespelaar’ with a hint of pink. We have not seen this before and it is certainly a bit different.

Fagus longipetiolata with its bronzy new leaves.

Styrax hookeri var. yunnanensis. It clearly isn’t at all like our Styrax hookeri in its flower form. S. hookeri generally has flowers in pairs or singles. I thought the name was a bit of a muddle when I bought it and now I am none the wiser.

Styrax japonicus ‘Columnar’ also has very dark coloured leaves.

Picrasma quassioides has just finished flowering.

Styrax ‘Purple Dress’ just coming out.

Thomas gives me the name of this oak but I have sadly forgotten it.

Sorbus dunnii looking good.

Viburnum dentatum ‘Blue Muffin’.

Brassaiopsis dumicola (KWJ 12217) growing on rather better than the last one.

Brassaiopsis mitis (ex-Raf Lenaerts) looks fine as well. Extraordinary leaf structure. We saw many of these for sale yesterday at Tregrehan.

Caesalpinia gilliesii just coming out.

Styrax formosanus var. hayatiainus.

First flowering of a young Magnolia macrophylla subsp. ashei near Tin Garden. Some slug damage.

Viburnum wrightii just coming.

A young Illicium merrillianum (KWJ 12113) with a few flowers.

2023 – CHW
The hot weather persists and we start to talk about watering the nursery beds.Illicium philippinense (CWJ 1246), planted in 2017, is covered in some new growth.

Viburnum wrightii with slug damage around the flower.

A newly planted Picconia excelsa has just finished flowering but not looking too happy in a dry spot. Water this week.

Illicium merrillianum (KWJ 12113) in full flower above HQN.

Equally impressive new growth on Schefflera delavayi to that seen yesterday on rhododendrifolia.

Syringa reticulata flowering better than I have even seen it in a dry location.

Deutzia x elegantissima ‘Rosalind’ above the Drive near the current laurel cutting.

Syringa komarowii subsp. reflexa or is it Syringa x josiflexa ‘Bellicent’? The two are very similar and the planting plans a bit vague. There may be clumps of both quite close to each other.

Syringa josikaea (one of two clumps).

An azalea gall or two on Azalea indica by the front door. Not the first time I have seen this here.

2022 – CHW

Four hours of welcome heavy rain overnight and more to come to dampen the Jubilee festivities.

Another decent plant of Pterostyrax psilophyllus var. leveillei in full flower.

Bladders already formed and turning pink on Staphylea holocarpa ‘Rosea’. This species has not produced ‘bladders’ as a young plant before while the other species do but rather later in the year.

Stunning foliage on Styrax japonicus ‘Evening Light’. A few buds but nowhere near out. This young plant was tiny when planted out only five to six years ago.

Rhododendron griersonianum now full out.

Rhododendron nuttallii nearly over. Not much different to Rh. excellens which we saw the other day.

Rhododendron polyandrum still has decent flowers, as here, but the very similar Rh. crassum is just over.

First flowering here of a recently planted Syringa wilsonii (now S. tomentella). A return to Caerhays for a species which most probably was here decades ago. A name change along the way too. Fragrant.

New growth on the ancient pink flowered Camellia sasanqua is dark bronzy-red. The white flowered forms have quite different new growth.

2021 – CHW
A hurried early morning visit to Burncoose for meetings.Our Burncoose stock plant of Abutilon vitafolium var. album ‘Veronica Tennant’ by the mist houses.

Podocarpus x ‘County Park Fire’ in full new growth in the nursery car park.

I have been trying to photograph Escallonia ‘Apple Blossom’ in flower for years and suddenly here it is.

Landscaping work for my cousin on the north Cornish coast. Still more areas to complete as here.

Convolvulus cneorum growing well out of a stone wall topped by Eleagnus ebbingei in my cousin’s garden.