…in 1960 but rather passé today in terms of colour and impact but not hardiness. My great grandmother died well before my great grandfather so I must look up the…

…Close. This smaller growing magnolia will have great public appeal and is a great improvement on ‘Leonard Messel’. This is Symplocus dryophylla full out. The flower is perhaps not much…

…about yapping to the great and good while judging goes on around us. No celebrity for the media on the Burncoose stand this year.The 90 second presentation of each of…

…Merrilliopanax alpinus Pomaderris elliptica making a great show in the sun. Pomaderris elliptica Pomaderris elliptica Pomaderris elliptica First flowers on some of the newly planted Viburnums:- Viburnum phlebotrichum. Viburnum phlebotrichum…

…great and longstanding friends – rather ‘old school’ if I am being honest which is such a rarity in the new woke today! Prunus spinosa ‘Plena’ Then a review of…

…dahlia, asters and fruit will be “great for a change” they say but it is a bit early for autumn colour. The RHS used to have a Great Autumn Show…

…week Edwina found, in the archives, an account of my great uncle’s death in the Great War and I include it here for (further) posterity. How my great grandfather ‘gardened’…

…be £120m. Some bet! sycamores A decimated leylandii hedge with Trachelospermum and Hydrangea seemanii being encouraged to climb up the remains. A great idea for dealing with leylandii! leylandii hedge…

…batch of some 200 house martins circling above the pond but at a great height. As big a group of arrivals as I have ever seen together before they moved…

…The Burncoose Nurseries stand. Burncoose Nurseries stand The Great Gardens of Cornwall stand. Great Gardens of Cornwall stand 2022 – CHW Nearly a frost last night and some hailstones which…