1st June

…Self seeds in profusion but easily pulled up! Erigeron karvinskianus Erigeron karvinskianus The arum lilies are at their best very early too by the gents’ loo. arum lilies Cornus kousa…

12th December

…‘Tomuri’ with good autumn colour and full leaf still. Actinidia deliciosa ‘Tomuri’ 2015 – CHW Only in Cornwall could one see an Arum lily (zantedeshia aethiopica) in full growth with…

2nd February 1897 – 2020

…could probably have done a better job of it. Click here to read my eulogy to my Dad. 2018 – CHW A flower on the arum lily by the front…

27th January 1897 – 2020

…recent east winds though. Still cold, wet and windy most of today. echiums echiums 2016 – CHW Arum italicum (lords and ladies) a good eight inches into growth already. Rivalling…

28th November

…flower left on the arum (Zantedeshia aethiopica) by the gents’ loos. Looking at the growth on the clump this may be the first of next year’s flowers rather than the…

20th April

…the legs. iron bench Arum lilies full out in flower already. Arum lilies Prunus serrulata full of flower near the Green Gate. Up to now it has only had a…

12th May

…open, one or two Arum, moved a seedling from Emperor into the Drive, not quite ripe. P recurvus at its best. 1897 – JCW Iris pavonia open, one waterlily flower…

6th May

…are pretty similar and both Rhododendron edgeworthii x Rhododendron formosum. The backdrop here is Fuchsia excorticata which has been in flower since mid-January. The Arum lilies are untouched by the…

3rd April

…– JCW Truro show. De Graaf in plenty, some but not the best poets, 10 days dry east wind before, no good Auklandii’s. 1899 – JCW The first Poet arum

6th April

…arrangements flower arrangements Outside the front door the arum lily (Zantedeschia aethiopica), which has not turned a hair all winter, now has five flowers out. Zantedeschia aethiopica Beside it is…