27th April

Anthony House where there was an orange flash on the outside of the tepals. First flowers are seldom a guide to later reality in magnolias. Just one here for now….

18th May

…good, Anthony’s seedling rhodo’s are just opening. Delavay’s Yunnanense good yet. Occidentalis lot at their best. 1915 – JCW Auklandii’s on the wane. Zealanicum hybrids are very good. Yunnanense x…

23rd May

…at Anthony Woodland garden decades ago.Two more newly planted enkianthus flowering for the first time in Kennel Close: Enkianthus cernuus recurvus Enkianthus cernuus recurvus – not in the reference books,…

8th May

Next Day > < Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2023 – CHW To Anthony House for a Great Gardens meeting. Sir Richard Carew-Pole and…

25th December

…big tree now but originally a gift from Richard Carew Pole and Anthony Gardens. Acacia cultriformis Acacia cultriformis Seed setting on Eucryphia cordifolia. Eucryphia cordifolia Acacia melanoxylon in bud but…

6th February

…out of Anthony House and Tremayne has taken over the estate. Stauntonia hexaphylla 1933 – JCW A bad three weeks for bloom of any kind but it seems to be…

14th February

…to each bell. Can anyone enlighten me please? Well worth a name and propagating as it flowers so early. On the path towards Rookery Gate. [Edit: please see Anthony Synott’s…

12th September

…US Covid guru Anthony Fauci predicted the virus was ‘akin to a severe flu’ and would therefore kill around 0.1 percent of people. Then fatality rate predictions were somehow mixed…