7th February

…is now coming out properly. Michelia doltsopa ‘Fairy White’ Michelia doltsopa ‘Fairy White’ The first plants from Burncoose for the shop are tucked away in the greenhouse. We open the…

10th September

…away with huge leaves. Juglans major Juglans major Melicytus crassifolius is covered in berries. Unlike the plants in the nursery these have still to turn white. Melicytus crassifolius Quercus liebmannii…

6th June

…have seldom seen this species in flower and, in my mind, I expected a single white which it very clearly isn’t. The original plant was on the bank above the…

16th February

…Magnolia ‘Strybing White’ nearly out properly now – a fortnight on from the first colour and held back by the cold nights. Magnolia ‘Strybing White’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Alpen Glo’ looking…

14th June

…lilac) in flower. I do not think I have ever spotted this out before although seed has been collected and grown. White flowers contrast with the foliage. Few flowers for…

28th July

…dappled shade. a whiter sheen a whiter sheen 4. I have tried to compare the bark. Clearly the bark on an older tree will not look much like a 26…

20th June

…to white. Camellia ‘Kitty’ Camellia ‘Kitty’ Styrax americanus has struggled with dieback in the exposed Isla Rose Plantation. Wrong place for it. Styrax americanus The odd new bit of reversion…

5th September

…Camellia ‘White Swan’. Camellia ‘White Swan’ Camellia ‘Sundae’. Camellia ‘Sundae’ Camellia ‘Snow Flurry’. Camellia ‘Snow Flurry’ An excellent crop of seedling Michelia doltsopa. Michelia doltsopa Solanum jasminoides ‘Album’ covered in…

29th August

…for a Sorbus. Sorbus hedlundii (KR 1810A – best clone) Betula luminifera ‘White House Farm’ is taking off exponentially in this fine growing year. Betula luminifera ‘White House Farm’ Yet…

8th August

…even there, the flowers are hidden in with the leaves. Hoheria sextylosa ‘Snow White’ Hoheria sextylosa ‘Snow White’ 2020 – CHW Rubus phoenicolasius is ripe in parts and the young…

3rd August

…in 1955. It seems to be thriving at Tregrehan. Cathaya argyrophylla Cathaya argyrophylla Dichroa guizhou has white buds and blue flowers. Here growing to around 3 feet x 5 feet….

31st July

…rigida Verbena rigida Verbena rigida Another gaura which is white. Pretty flowers but Gaura ‘Sparkle White’ is hardly a sensible name! Gaura ‘Sparkle White’ Gaura ‘Sparkle White’ Gypsophila paniculata ‘Snowflake’…

30th July

…Phlox and early flowering dahlias. Phlox and early flowering dahlias Phlox and early flowering dahlias White Wisteria still in flower. I think Wisteria brachybotrys ‘Shiro-Kapitan’ but may be wrong? A…

21st August

…magnolia ‘Caerhays Splendour’ The sad remains of the flowers of Hydrangea ‘Ayesha’. Shrivelled and rejected. Hydrangea ‘Ayesha’ Strangely the 20 autumn planted Matsumae cherries below White Styles are all fine…

23rd July

…good they look in situ as here. 2017 – CHW In Seaview the late July garden is going over.Phlox ‘White Admiral’ is still looking good. Phlox ‘White Admiral’ Trachelospermum jasminoides…

23rd June

…temperature. Denis White, aged at least 84, still at work in the nursery now that he has been extracted from the old folks home where his wife has dementia. Watering…

20th July

…Crataegus aprica Hoheria sextylosa ‘Snow White’ just coming out as a clump of three newish plants. Hoheria sextylosa ‘Snow White’ Hoheria sextylosa ‘Snow White’ Malus x rockii with fruits forming….

10th July

…now as follows:Meliosma dilleniifolia (upright panicles of flowers) Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp. cuneifolia (plumes of creamy white flowers with hawthorn-like fragrance) Meliosma dilleniifolia subsp. flexuosa (pendant terminal panicles of fragrant white

5th July

…Sweet William Sweet William The first white agapanthus has come out since the weekend. white agapanthus Fuchsia exorticatica still has flowers on it about five months since I first photographed…

2nd July

…Magnolia virginiana ‘Pink Halo’. Magnolia virginiana ‘Pink Halo’ The contrasting colours of flowers on Rhododendron nuttallii. Yellow on opening but fading to white. The two plants here are slightly different,…