…It appeared to have become a bakery and tearooms with a huge yurt. A few tired bedding plants and not much else at all. Took not a single photograph! 2020…

…Eucalyptus mannifera var. praecox 2023 – CHW A welcome and unexpected day off as two shooting parties appeared yesterday at 9am on the same day. Consternation but the second shooting…

…red japonica of no great merit. single red japonica An early and unformed flower on Camellia ‘Adolphe Audusson’. Windblown I guess. Camellia ‘Adolphe Audusson’ Rhododendron ‘Bo Peep’ – yellow form…

…A rather unnoticed clump of snowdrops above Bond Street are the first clump to be fully out this year. snowdrops The near white flowered Camellia x williamsii bred by my…

…to look at how a few rare evergreens have fared in the cold and gales. Clethra mexicana still looking good (surprisingly). Clethra mexicana Turpinia formosana from the Taiwan Forestry Institute…

…‘Debutante’ Camellia japonica ‘Margherita Coleoni’ also a bit storm battered but nicely out. Camellia japonica ‘Margherita Coleoni’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Monica Dance’ is full out here but, yesterday, on the…

…red flower on a pure Camellia japonica. Camellia japonica Jaimie’s new magnolia hybrid which showed great promise last year with six buds has many more for this spring which you…

…Tin Garden A few more arrivals for the Malus collection. Here is Malus ‘Red Obelisk’. Malus ‘Red Obelisk’ Ilex colchica has arrived from Mallet Court Nursery. A new species for…

…so good at Tregothnan. 1950’s or early 1960 planting. I took cuttings at Tregothnan but need not have bothered! Camellia sasanqua ‘Rosea Plena’ 2022 – CHW Red sky over Porthluney…

…Acer palmatum ‘Red Pygmy’. Acer palmatum ‘Red Pygmy’ Sally Denis. Sally Denis’ leaving party Camellia x williamsii ‘Monica Dance’ just out on the drive here. Camellia x williamsii ‘Monica Dance’…

…workshops at Burncoose Fruits on Sorbus needhamii planted out in October. Sorbus needhamii Jaimie and Michael inspect their aerial layers on the newly registered Michelia ‘White Phantom’. Nothing showing yet…

…below White Styles All now planted and wired up with deer and rabbit protection. wired up This should one day make a fine show for visitors walking on to Old…

…hupehensis Sorbus hupehensis Malus ‘Jelly King’ with ripe fruits. Malus ‘Jelly King’ Malus ‘Jelly King’ 2022 – CHW A huge Pinus insignis tree twists, turns, and falls at the Red…

…longicarpa with its first flowers out. This plant suffered from cold winds when first planted out but has now prospered and also has its first seed pods. Polyspora longicarpa Polyspora…

…Storm Ciaran has helped. Magnolia ‘Caerhays Belle’ Major rot in the fallen beech. Major rot The dismembered trunk is removed. dismembered trunk Several years’ worth of jackdaws nests in a…

…stamens. We have seedlings with the red stamens that we have tentatively, not registered, called C.’Rafe’ (we need to find an “Eddie” next for a full family!). Yours looks different…

Next Day > < Previous Day View 13th January 1897 – 2020 CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2025 – CHW One Pittosporum adaphniphylloides covered in seed…

…their Magnolia martinii: […] here is a glimpse of what is happening in Nantes, our Magnolia martinii flowered for the first time after 3 years. Nice fragrant yellow flowers!And this…

…2022 – CHW An exciting development. Jaimie has discovered a self-sown Camellia x williamsii seedling near Crinodendron Hedge which has bicoloured flowers and is markedly different from any other x…

…or three flowers on the original Magnolia campbellii. Not as ‘bad’ as I had feared. Magnolia campbellii One flower out on the yellow form of Magnolia campbellii. A little misshapen…