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 November

…very first 3 flowers on Ternstroemia aff. luteoflora (FMWJ 13360). Seems to have red flowers to me rather than the white or yellow ones referred to in Hilliers. Hence the…

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…

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…

10th December

…path. ‘Cornish Red’ rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ rhododendron Nearby Camellia ‘Jovey Carlyon’ has its first flowers. This camellia was previously in rather more shade under a huge Abies grandis which fell…

27th December

…australis Hoya australis Erica x darleyensis ‘Kramers Red’ Erica x darleyensis ‘Kramers Red’ Erica x darleyensis ‘Phoebe’ Erica x darleyensis ‘Phoebe’ Erica erigena ‘Irish Dusk’ Erica erigena ‘Irish Dusk’ Erica…

12th December

…the two nights of minor frost earlier this week have caught the flowers on Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’. Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ Three lots of fungi (two the same) on a small…

19th October

…stock plant of Pseudowintera ‘Red Leopard’ is the best thing in the nursery today as regards autumn colour. Outstanding! Pseudowintera ‘Red Leopard’ Pseudowintera ‘Red Leopard’ Aconitum ‘Newry Blue’ in the…