28th April

…Michelias Michelia ‘Fairy Cream’ Michelia ‘Fairy Cream’ Michelia laevifolia Michelia laevifolia Michelia laevifolia Michelia laevifolia ‘Summer Snowflake’ Michelia laevifolia ‘Summer Snowflake’ Magnolia x loebneri ‘Wildcat’ Magnolia x loebneri ‘Wildcat’ Magnolia…

6th February

…far too deeply and part of the clump is only now showing above ground with many of the flowers still in bud. snowdrops 2018 – CHW Snow today at the…

4th October

…Camellia ‘Snow Flurry’ Camellia ‘Snow Flurry’ Camellia ‘Shinonome’ is the first japonica out. Camellia ‘Shinonome’ Camellia sasanqua (cuttings from the 100 year old plants here) are surprisingly still in bud.Camellia…

9th August

…triphyllum Plenty of berries on a female form of Ilex cornuta. Ilex cornuta Magnolia ‘Cleopatra’ covered in secondary flowers as it was last year. Magnolia ‘Cleopatra’ Hoheria stylosa ‘Snow White’…

2nd February

…out. Interestingly they have naturalised with ordinary ones nearby to produce seedling offsets which are halfway between the two in size. snowdrops on the lawn snowdrops on the lawn Rhododendron…

19th April

…odd autumn flower in November but is now just starting to come out properly. Once its famous hybrid ‘Caerhays Philip’ grew just here. Rhododendron cinnabarinum Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ still has…

19th May

…mother’s gardening era is a small bed of Iris siberica ‘Snow Queen’. Iris siberica ‘Snow Queen’ And one of her favourite roses. roses There was an Echium pininana height competition…

21st May

…x bushii just into flower in Kennel Close. Aesculus x bushii The very last flower on Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ which first came out five and a half months ago. Camellia…

28th November

…or leaf drop. Rehderodendron kwangtungense Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ still flowerless but loads of bud. Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ A few secondary flowers on Eucryphia lucida ‘Pink Cloud’ as is normal at…

4th December

snow so far, not much frost. Geraniums holding on. Lapagerias several. Camellia sasanqua a few. Some roses. We have lately had real rain in a dry autumn. 1904 – JCW…