…easily identifiable by the shape and droopiness of its early flowers and buds. Camellia x williamsii ‘John Pickthorn’ Camellia x williamsii ‘John Pickthorn’ Camellia x williamsii ‘John Pickthorn’ 2023 –…

…Rhododendron edgeworthii is a stunner. Rather better than our own ‘BertsOwn’ a similar but less striking edgeworthii hybrid. RHODODENDRON johnstoneanum ‘Double Diamond’ RHODODENDRON johnstoneanum ‘Double Diamond’ Rhododendron johnstoneanum ‘Double Diamond’…

…x williamsii ‘John Pickthorn’ just coming out. The buds are long and tubular. Camellia x williamsii ‘John Pickthorn’ Camellia x williamsii ‘John Pickthorn’ Camellia x williamsii ‘John Pickthorn’ The fruits…

…‘Seattle Trident’ Quercus palustris ‘Flaming Suzy’ (gift from John Vernon). Quercus palustris ‘Flaming Suzy’ Crataegus wattiana with berries. Crataegus wattiana Severe deer damage to the trunk of Quercus ‘Belle d’Aquitaine’….

…cryptomeriodes First two or three flowers high up on Camellia x williamsii ‘John Pickthorn’. Camellia x williamsii ‘John Pickthorn’ A young Acer heptophlebium has also blown over. Acer heptophlebium A…

…Camellia x williamsii ‘St Ewe’ Mahonia species Nova from Roy Lancaster still looking wonderful on Bond Street. Mahonia species Nova Laurel planting below Bond Street looks good. Laurel 2021 –…

…of his Michelia champaca flowering in his greenhouse after 15 years. Michelia champaca 2022 – CHW This mahonia on Bond Street is flowering for the first time. A gift from…

…over or not out yet. It is still quite a collection of American bred magnolias. This is Jaimie’s hybrid on Bond Street in its second year of flowering. Much darker…

…garlic full out beside the main road in Truro two days ago. common garlic The magnolias along Bond Street are so often frosted that I have seldom seen them this…

…the worst of the winter. Camellia ‘Kerguelen’ Camellia ‘Kerguelen’ Camellia ‘Kerguelen’ Camellia ‘Kerguelen’ Camellia ‘Kerguelen’ Camellia ‘Kerguelen’ Camellia ‘Kerguelen’ 2020 – CHW The large Eupatorium ligustrinum on Bond Street looks…

…first flowers appeared here and at least seven different forms in this ancient clump. Azalea indica Azalea indica Cornus kousa ‘Samantha’ on Bond Street plastered in bracts. Cornus kousa ‘Samantha’…

…‘Butterflies’ on Bond Street. Magnolia ‘Butterflies’ 2020 – CHW I discovered a couple of semi evergreen / near evergreen azaleas on Bond Street which I must have planted once 30…

…cutting and staging at the show with a few photographs of good and bad things on the way. Prunus ‘Pink Perfection’ cut on Bond Street. A rather forgotten tree but…

…today. Rhododendron ‘Wee Bee’ just out in Rookery. Rhododendron ‘Wee Bee’ John Bond’s Magnolia ‘Columbus’ (M. denudata x M. veitchii) is just coming out on Bond Street. Most years much…

…black Bond girl sensation, arrives half an hour late for the press photo call. She has been having £700 of make up and hair done at home. The media have…

…front gate and the third behind the JCW camellia clump on Bond Street. Was it not fortunate that the best plant ended up in the best place or was it…

…Johnson from the Tree Register recorded it as a record sized tree for the UK and Cornwall in 2016 but called it Michelia maudiae. Michelia macclurei Michelia macclurei Michelia macclurei…

…this, clearly and self-evidently, best garden in England, with his new boss (ex Exbury) John Anderson. They will be in the Eric Savill, John Bond, Mark Flannigan mould and maintain…

…the first time. This is Magnolia ‘Pickard’s Ruby’ x M. ‘Caerhays Surprise’ bred in Wales by John Carlson and selected by Tim Thornton. Until I looked up the parentage I…

…of the flowers. Rhododendron thompsonii Rhododendron thompsonii Camellia reticulata ‘John Hunt’ with the largest flower of any camellia I have ever seen. Here with Michael. Camellia reticulata ‘John Hunt’ Camellia…