…behind last year in terms of visitor numbers.Magnolia ‘Star Wars’ is performing better than I dared imagine. Only six weeks ago half the buds were black / dead / on…

…classes. All now taking place in the Royal Cornwall cattle shed with about half the trade stands (including Burncoose) thankfully inside. A much better use of space than our first…

…This is becoming a larger shrub here than I have seen elsewhere. Rhaphithamnus spinosus 2024 – CHW Easter Sunday and the search again for anything half decent to cut for…

…medal! More importantly, we select half a dozen new and unusual plants which are looking good in the show tunnel (today at least) to feature prominently on the website the…

…Three flowers on the Magnolia ‘Pegasus’ which fell over and was chopped back hard two to two and a half years ago. Magnolia ‘Pegasus’ 2021 – CHW Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’…

…Rookery path. rhododendron blown over Far worse is the splitting in half of the very rare Styrax tonkinensis which is an evergreen. Very quick growth rates and equally quick to…

…and pruning all in vain as you can see here. Magnolia splits in half Magnolia splits in half 2021 – CHW Camellia sasanqua ‘Paradise Blush’ looking good on the drive….

…April this year. The pinkish flowers are still half sized and without their full greenish-black-purple colouration when mature. They are also only half the size they will be in due…

…it leafed up and flowered last year. Hopefully it will now reshoot in a more upright manner so we can get it back to something like a half decent tree…

…manicata Gunnera manicata A magnolia has split in half on the top path preventing me proceeding to inspect the squirrel traps. Some rather dodgy reversing then needed. A magnolia has…

…it is out. New on the website but, so far, a sparse flowerer. Daphne ‘Guardsman’ I now discover that a huge beech tree above the sales area split in half…

…and Tom Hudson. Four and a half hours in the garden! The National Trust has now decided to shut all its gardens having left them open for free so far…

…beech with lots of old squirrel damage but I find a young ash badly infected with ash dieback and half dead. All the ash will have to go in the…

…half decent tree magnolia in flower. Here a Magnolia sprengeri ‘Diva’ seedling. Magnolia sprengeri ‘Diva’ Magnolia sprengeri ‘Diva’ 2017 – CHW A visit to the greenhouse but no opportunity to…

…Tom Hudson, Maurice Foster and Jaimie Compton. So a plethora of horticultural experts to contend with and five and a half hours of garden tour. Someone had a pedometer and…

…Another fine day in a fine week. The cherries are starting and, at last, some half decent or even good new and younger magnolias rather than the crap from three…

…a calf! The telescope reveals that it is in fact a stray sheep which has escaped and taken up residence with its new friends. As the young cattle have only…

…and broken a few leading stems and side branches on younger magnolias. Cladrastis kentukea is half blown away. Cladrastis kentukea First flowers out on Camellia oleifera. Camellia oleifera Meliosma species…

…(‘Sawada’) Camellia x hiemalis ‘Setsugekka’ we have also seen elsewhere. Here the 3 half-eaten flowers all boast wasps and two of these are queens. What has eaten the flowers to…

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