23rd March

…A garden tour for some. Others went around the propagation area. garden tour garden tour garden tour garden tour garden tour Alison sits on one end of a bench which…

6th March

…pink flowers and an exceptional cherry which I first saw at the Savill Gardens years ago. Three plants in a clump in Tin Garden. Wonderful bark as well. Prunus ‘Felix…

The Garden at Caerhays

…and paid for on their various Chinese expeditions up to 1932.   Garden Diary JC had no interest atall in publicising his garden or his considerable work hybridising the new…

1st May

…named after gardener Martin at Caerhays. 2000 – FJW Garden at its peak, new planting beginning to show. 1960 – FJW Garden at its peak. Has been dry and hot…

5th May

…by 9am to be met by Ed Ikin. 500+ acres of garden so, in three hours, we only really managed some of the Himalayan and Chilean garden plants and a…

9th February

…the other Great Gardens of Cornwall who normally open early a mad panic to get everything ready. The garden paths are nearly all swept but there are all the signs…

12th February

…the garden apart from ‘Strybing White’. However the best thing in the Burncoose garden today was Rhododendron mucronulatum. A larger flowered form than ours here with paler pinkish flowers. Rhododendron…

18th February

…nitida. Kitchen Garden Kitchen Garden Kitchen Garden Kitchen Garden Kitchen Garden Kitchen Garden 2021 – CHW Planting the yellow magnolia collection (Phase 1) and a few specimen trees in Tunnel…

13th July

garden. blue garden Acer x conspicuum ‘Silver Cardinal’ covered in seed which I have never yet seen on the Burncoose plant and an exceptional ‘snake-bark’ stem. Acer x conspicuum ‘Silver…

29th July

…a fair idea about local pricing and the local competition.Chacewater Garden Centre is not really plant orientated and is mainly a shopping centre for garden related (and unrelated) accessories, clothes…