2026 – CHW
Clearing up a huge limb of fir below The Engine House.
And another huge oak limb below it which fell after the hurricane.
All that is left of the fire by Tin Garden with the Cupressus macrocarpa.
Magnolia ‘Pink Butterfly’ (M. ‘Big Dude’ x M. ‘Vulcan’).
Magnolia ‘Anne Leitner’ absolutely excellent (M. ‘Black Tulip’ x M. ‘J. C. Williams’).
Magnolia ‘Rose Summer’ also very good (parentage not listed in MSI or Lunaplant website).
Clearing four trees from the top path in Old Park.
2025 – CHW
Planted 10 graft birch trees from Stone Lane Gardens which has the national collection of birch trees. All have gone into the Aucklandii Garden where the Turkey oak was felled.- Betula utilis ssp jacquemontii ‘Sacred Scroll’
– Betula utilis ssp jacquemontii ‘Himalayan Spirit’
– Betula utilis ssp albosinensis ‘Pink Champagne’
– Betula utilis ssp albosinensis ‘Red Panda’
– Betula ‘Fascination’
– Betula ermanii ‘Mt Zao Purple’
– Betula ermanii ‘Hakkoda Orange’
– Betula ‘Polar Bear’
– Betula utilis ssp utilis ‘Bhutan Sienna’
– Betula utilis ssp utilis ‘Nepalese Orange’
Planted 10 graft birch trees from Stone Lane Gardens which has the national collection of birch trees. All have gone into the Aucklandii Garden where the Turkey oak was felled.- Betula utilis ssp jacquemontii ‘Sacred Scroll’
– Betula utilis ssp jacquemontii ‘Himalayan Spirit’
– Betula utilis ssp albosinensis ‘Pink Champagne’
– Betula utilis ssp albosinensis ‘Red Panda’
– Betula ‘Fascination’
– Betula ermanii ‘Mt Zao Purple’
– Betula ermanii ‘Hakkoda Orange’
– Betula ‘Polar Bear’
– Betula utilis ssp utilis ‘Bhutan Sienna’
– Betula utilis ssp utilis ‘Nepalese Orange’
Now that the conker has gone you can see Magnolia ‘Lanarth Surprise’ from the back yard. What a good colour it is.
Magnolia ‘Caerhays Belle’ also from the back yard. Nearly at its best.
So little time to appreciate this amazing magnolia year. Dear Monica Trudgeon’s funeral was well attended at the church and then at The Vean. Despite it being Lent the church was full of magnolias and camellias.
The primroses are lovely – the thing I detest hearing most from garden visitors!
Magnolia ‘Caerhays Splendour’ and Camellia japonica ‘Magnoliaeflora’.
Many of the smaller growing and miniature daffodils are either ‘blind’ or flowering very sparsely. The wet summer we are told. Here only one flower on Narcissus ‘Mr Julian’.
Magnolia dawsoniana just out outside the front gates.
Magnolia dawsoniana and Rhododendron ‘Ostara’.
Magnolia × loebneri ‘Wildcat’ and Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’.
A few late but very dark flowers on Magnolia ‘Delia Williams’.
The sister seedling to Magnolia ‘Queen Elizabeth’ on the drive. Is it different enough to register in its own right? Perhaps but lets see a few more years of flowering first.
2024 – CHW
Another attempt to catch up with magnolias in flower. Today on the Drive.Magnolia Cylindrica ‘Hohman’ (an August Kerr selection) was new to the Burncoose catalogue last year. A young plant flowering well just above the garden entrance.
Another attempt to catch up with magnolias in flower. Today on the Drive.Magnolia Cylindrica ‘Hohman’ (an August Kerr selection) was new to the Burncoose catalogue last year. A young plant flowering well just above the garden entrance.
Magnolia denudata ‘Forrest’s Pink’ is rather wind battered.
Magnolia ‘Felix Jury’ and Magnolia ‘Atlas’ above it at the Red Linney.
Magnolia ‘Purple Platter’ was planted in 2008 and now making a good show. New Zealand bred by Oswald Blumhardt it is M. ‘Iolanthe’ x M. soulangeana ‘Rustica Rubra’.
Magnolia x soulangeana ‘Dr Callies’ towards the Top Lodge.
Magnolia ‘Iolanthe’ was planted in 1999. A bit wind damaged this year.
Magnolia x loebneri ‘Wildcat’ and Magnolia ‘Red as Red’.
Magnolia stellata ‘Water Lily’ and Magnolia x loebneri ‘Wildcat’.
Magnolia ‘Mighty Mouse’ is actually a tiny flower on a dwarf growing shrub.
Magnolia ‘Apollo’ is normally out much later than this but not in this early year.
Magnolia ‘Cleopatra’.
Magnolia ‘Cleopatra’ and Magnolia ‘Apollo’.
2023 – CHW
A Burncoose planting day.Clematis armandii coming out in the nursery.
A Burncoose planting day.Clematis armandii coming out in the nursery.
Daphne ‘Perfume Princess White’ is a recent new entry to the website.
Catkins on Salix caprea ‘Kilmarnock’ in the sunshine.
Magnolia sprengeri ‘Diva’ var. Burncoose full out and a little early by Burncoose House.
Beside Burncoose House are Magnolia x loebneri ‘Merrill’ and Magnolia sprengeri. ‘Diva’.
Burncoose Nurseries entrance with Magnolia mollicomata seedlings above a hedge of Camellia x williamsii ‘Donation’.
2022 – CHW
Magnolia ‘Burgundy Star’ just out on a warm sunny day (at last). What a colour and what a shape to the flower.
The huge Michelia doltsopa by the Acer griseum full out today with only a little damage from the storms last Saturday.
First colour showing on Magnolia ‘Caerhays Surprise’ in the Ririei Opening. Other plants are further out and the original ‘Caerhays Surprise’ has a few full out flowers high up at 20-25ft.
Another Magnolia ‘Felix Jury’ on the drive.
Magnolia ‘Iolanthe’
Rhododendron kiyosumense comes in a variety of colours. Here a darker one on the drive.
Magnolia ‘Tina Durio’ slightly damaged in the wind.
Magnolia ‘Tina Durio’ and Trachycarpus fortunei which offset each other nicely.
First flowers out early on Magnolia ‘Genie’.
Magnolia ‘Sunrise’ is yellow in bud but fades to cream with a pronounced red stripe.
Magnolia ‘Avocet’ just out in the Isla Rose Plantation.
Flowers nearly over on Buddleia tibetica.
A young plant in the nursery bed with its first flower. The impressive dark pink form of Rhododendron moupinense. Never seen this before.
2021 – CHW
Sunny and still again.The Queen Mother’s 1981 planted Magnolia sargentiana var. robusta seedling.
Sunny and still again.The Queen Mother’s 1981 planted Magnolia sargentiana var. robusta seedling.
Camellia ‘Italiana Vera’ – a ‘new’ one bought from Stervinou nurseries in France.
Slightly battered Magnolia ‘Charles Raffill’.
Last shots of a perfect Magnolia ‘Philip Tregunna’.
Rhododendron arboreum ssp. zaylanicum (?) tucked away in the former nursery bed by Donkey Shoe.
Magnolia ‘Rebecca’s Perfume’ in the Isla Rose Plantation – scent overpowering!
Magnolia ‘Big Dude’ now a single flower from above.
The best magnolia in the garden today is the Magnolia campbellii alba seedling in the Auklandii Garden.
A windblown branch of Cryptomeria japonica by the front door with last year and the year before’s seed cones.
In the distance a good magnolia in Old Park – Magnolia sargentiana var. robusta.
Magnolia sprengeri ‘Diva Westonbirt’ just coming out. First time proper flowering.
The original Magnolia ‘Kew Surprise’ in the Rookery is splendid today.
