31st July

…Growing in shade. Gingko biloba ‘Saratoga’ Gingko biloba ‘Saratoga’ Gingko biloba ‘Saratoga’ Gingko biloba ‘Autumn Gold’ growing in dappled sun and shade. Gingko biloba ‘Autumn Gold’ Gingko biloba ‘Autumn Gold’…

12th October

…salvia in appearance and a pleasant autumn surprise. 2015 – CHW Some fruit and nice autumn colour on Cornus kousa var chinensis ‘Wisley Queen’. The fruiting is irregular and confined…

30th November

…japonicus ‘Pendulus’ Sorbus eleonorae with unripe green fruits and quite decent autumn colour which I had not appreciated before. Sorbus eleonorae Sorbus eleonorae Sorbus eleonorae We may not have many…

26th April

…the tunnel. The magnolias which arrived at the same time are growing on well beside the acers. The acers came from the NZ autumn straight into our summer when, in…

18th February

…cherries and other taller shrubs. Rhododendrons will have to wait. Specimen camellias in the autumn. At least we have made a start on a dry day. space space This camellia…

16th April

…away out to sea in the autumn but this last crop stayed all winter. Will the mother return? Is the newly arrived swan her former mate? It will be interesting…

3rd June

…have ever seen beside the car park. Meliosma pungens Lathyrus grandiflorus flowers in a vase. Lathyrus grandiflorus Tom Hudson’s Deutzia longifolia in all its splendour as it always has been…

2nd October

…walls.AM Rhododendron ‘Maisie’ (Jamie’s cross) AM Magnolia ‘Mr Julian’ (Dad & Philip Tregunna’s cross of many years ago) FCC Magnolia ‘Caerhays Splendour’ (Jaimie’s cross) FCC Magnolia ‘Margaret Helen’ (New Zealand…

7th December

…japonius ‘Pendulus’ with its usual exceptional autumn show. I have missed the very best of it by a few days. Styrax japonius ‘Pendulus’ Camellia japonica ‘Reigyoku’ with its first flower…

Visit to Tregrehan – 3rd November 2018

…pipiterum – purple leaved. A more mature plant than anything we have at home. The foliage has paled a little in autumn. Zanthoxylum pipiterum Autumn colour on Enkianthus serrulatus. Tom…