21st April

…flowers under the Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ on Hovel Cart Road. This has been in flower for six to eight weeks. Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ Acer shirasawanum ‘Aureum’ now in full leaf…

22nd April

…have turned green by Chelsea time in a month. Toona sinensi ‘Flamingo’ Malus ‘Red Sentinel’ in full flower and as good as I have seen it in flower. Malus ‘Red

30th April

…lutea var. ludlowii – a very fine large flowered form Paeonia lutea var. ludlowii – a very fine large flowered form Paeonia unnamed Paeonia unnamed Paeonia unnamed Paeonia rockii Farfalla…

30th November

…a fair covering of secondary flowers which are mainly misformed and misshapen. Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ Jaimie has cut back a lilac which had half fallen over and…

3rd June

…to this yet. Griselinia scandens Today’s plants delivered back to Caerhays from various sources. plants delivered back to Caerhays 2018 – CHW Planning an additional new greenhouse for Asia and…

4th May

red late flowered camellia full out in May. It has to be Camellia ‘Mathotiana Rubra’. Might it last for Chelsea? Camellia ‘Mathotiana Rubra’ Camellia ‘Mathotiana Rubra’ Rhododendron haematodes – a…

5th May

…florida ‘Red Giant’ Cornus florida ‘Red Giant’ Ilex yunnanensis with new growth and flower showing. I saw this at Rosemoor. Odd that it was not grown here before as far…

25th April

…in full flower. Symplocos aff dumicola Eriobotrya deflexa in flower and with fallen red leaves on the ground as the red new growth emerges. Eriobotrya deflexa Eriobotrya deflexa First flowering…

10th December

…the seat and encroach onto the path. ‘Cornish Red’ rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ rhododendron Nearby Camellia ‘Jovey Carlyon’ has its first flowers. This camellia was previously in rather more shade under…

29th December

…Covid in a hurry after today, finally feeling rather more normal and less tired. A Christmas to forget if ever there was one. Grim and dispiriting. Furthermore today I finally…