…their best.The four quarters of the blue garden. blue garden Acer x conspicuum ‘Silver Cardinal’ covered in seed which I have never yet seen on the Burncoose plant and an…

…blue and white picotee edging Hydrangea ‘St Clare’ Hydrangea ‘St Clare’ Hydrangea ‘Taube’ – easily the best blue lacecap HYDRANGEA ‘Taube’ HYDRANGEA ‘Taube’ Hydrangea ‘Fireworks blue’ – very floriferous and…

…from the bank opposite the front door. Volunteers Peter Bickford-Smith collecting the entries for the annual GWCT clay shoot here as he has done for 30 to 40 years (barring…

…CHW Some wonderful flowers on Magnolia campbellii ‘Peter Borlase’ which is genuinely bicoloured in the same way as Magnolia ‘Betty Jessel’. I see that there is a picture of Peter…

…show the colour range on the opened flowers. Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’ Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’ Branches laden with flowers blown off the original Magnolia campbellii. Not too much to worry about…

…best. Magnolia x veitchii ‘Peter Veitchii’ Magnolia x veitchii ‘Peter Veitchii’ Magnolia ‘Atlas’ x M. ‘Black Tulip’ – not as large a flower as expected but showing promise with its…

…alpina ‘Blue Dancer’ looking good. Clematis alpina ‘Blue Dancer’ Clematis alpina ‘Blue Dancer’ Clematis alpina ‘Francis Rivis’ just coming out which is much darker in colour. Clematis alpina ‘Francis Rivis’…

…Hemerocallis Hemerocallis Hemerocallis Salvia ‘Black and Blue’ nicely out by the drawing room window. It shows up well against the Pentewan granite. Salvia ‘Black and Blue’ Salvia ‘Black and Blue’…

…‘Navy Blue’. Agapanthus ‘Navy Blue’ Ampelopsis brevipedunculata and Trachelospermum jasminoides growing together. Ampelopsis brevipedunculata and Trachelospermum jasminoides Sunset over Hill Farm. Sunset over Hill Farm 2024 – CHW Then to…

…Tulip’ Bluebottle flies hatched and sunning themselves on the trunk of this magnolia. Bluebottle flies 2023 – CHW Annoyingly I have broken my camera lens when it ‘fell off’ my…

…good regrowth after only 12 months. You can see the pile of prunings. Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’ Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’ Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’ I wonder if we cut down the new…

…after what he once wrote about David Knuckey and Burncoose some 30 years ago. Magnolia ‘Peter Smithers’ Magnolia ‘Peter Smithers’ 2004 – FJW Dry January. Seaweed left pond – 2…

…‘Bishop Peter’ is full out but starting to shed petals (tepals). A lighter colour than usual as I have said before. Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’ Magnolia ‘Ians Red’, one of Ian…

…today (which required gloves and was short because it is bloody cold) was to photograph the first few flowers on Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’. BBC Spotlight showed these as part of…

…I think it is well worth its place today even if it is not nearly as pink as the reference books say it should be. Magnolia ‘Peter Smithers’ Magnolia ‘Peter…

…well. Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’ Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’ The Magnolia mollicomata x sargentiana robusta seedling above the Crinodendron Hedge is perhaps the best full out magnolia in the garden today although…

…the requisite 2m away so ‘social distancing’ was maintained during filming. Magnolia x veitchii ‘Peter Veitch’ Magnolia x veitchii ‘Peter Veitch’ Magnolia x veitchii ‘Peter Veitch’ The pure white single…

…a pure campbellii shape? When I look it up it is a Gresham hybrid and should be a dark red – so wrongly named. Magnolia ‘Peter Smithers’ Magnolia ‘Peter Smithers’…

…was new to the catalogue last year. Eucalyptus gunnii ‘Azura’ Eucalyptus pulverulenta ‘Baby Blue’. Eucalyptus pulverulenta ‘Baby Blue’ Still berries on Ilex aquifolium ‘Argentea Marginata’ which is unusual for mid-March….

…late flowering evergreen azaleas now in the catalogue – Azalea ‘Blue Moon’ and Azalea ‘White Moon’. Azalea ‘Blue Moon’ and Azalea ‘White Moon’ Azalea ‘Blue Moon’ and Azalea ‘White Moon’…