…up recently. This is very near Champernowne Nursery so that is how deliveries to Burncoose could be made.Clare needs to get in touch to consider an order this spring. He…

…is growing in the former Charlie Michael’s Nursery and has the spreading habit of Camellia ‘Lady Clare’. Worth remembering in the cuttings season for Asia and Cressy. Camellia japonica ‘Emperor…

…2018 – CHW A day out with Clare (the nursery buyer) and Asia (the Caerhays propagator) to visit a couple of wholesale nurseries from whom we buy a lot and…

…where Clare, the nursery buyer, found this? Campylotropis macrocarpa Amazingly a Kniphofia ‘Ice Queen’ is just coming into flower in a pot. I do not fancy its chances in the…

…pot for planting out at Caerhays. Clare has grown or obtained this somehow but I still owe Tom Hudson a plant of the picotee form which grows on the wall…

…are starting. C. Lady Clare is very nice, a big move all round in the last three days. 1913 – JCW A very early year. A C. reticulata open a…

…a few new things which would be welcome additions to next year’s catalogue. I need to convey them to Clare.Carex morrowii ‘Ice Dance’ Carex morrowii ‘Ice Dance’ Osmanthus heterophyllus ‘Party…

…Rhododendron suoilenhense Rhododendron suoilenhense Cornus capitata with the flies and wasps enjoying the sweet juicy yellowish pith in the ‘strawberries’ surrounding the individual seeds. It all made a good little…

…Buddleia veitchii wanes. Myrtles good. R decorum nice. R auriculatum opening. 1906 – JCW Sweet peas and tea roses good, leaving for Scotland. 1900 – JCW Some lapageria flowers open….

…dasystyla Viburnum prunifolium, the ‘black haw’ is its common name and you can readily see why! The fruits are sweet and edible. One to take to the Garden Society dinner…