2nd April

…plants. stumps removed stumps removed 2019 – CHW Cyclamen coum, coloured primroses and wild primulas on the top bank. Elsewhere bluebells. A veritable carpet of flowers. Cyclamen coum, coloured primroses…

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…

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…

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…

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…

6th December

…‘Cornish Red’ in the same place as last year and more or less the same time. Slightly insipid and malformed flowers. Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ 2017 – CHW…

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…