…flower colours. Camellia x williamsii ‘Mary Pickthorn’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Mary Pickthorn’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Mary Pickthorn’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Mary Pickthorn’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Mary Pickthorn’ The thing which,…

…attractive compact habit and very floriferous. Camellia x williamsii ‘Mary Larcom’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Mary Larcom’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Mary Larcom’ 2019 – CHW The Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ seedling above the…

…CHW First flowers showing on Camellia x williamsii ‘Mary Jobson’. Camellia x williamsii ‘Mary Jobson’ First flowers just out on Daphne ‘Jacqueline Postill’. A bit later than usual. Daphne ‘Jacqueline…

…by far the best of the bholuas. Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ Forty squirrels in the last two weeks. Finally the problem is…

…editor of the Western Morning News have a wry chuckle. 2015 – CHW CAMELLIA ‘Lulu Belle’ CAMELLIA ‘Pink Icicle’ CAMELLIA ‘Mary Costa’ Browned ‘Mary Costa’ Too overcast really for photography…

…and Tom Hudson. When they come out I will do a review. Lindera obtusiloba Magnolia mollicomata ‘Mary Williams’ named after my Great Aunt Mary and registered in 1946 is full…

…Cotoneasters and Crataegus are well photographed in this diary. I thought I would try to obtain a few more very obscure genera: Campytoptris macrocarpaDichotomanthes tristaniicarpa Mediago strasseri Ostryopsis davidiana Phoebe…

…4595) Nothaphoebe cavaleriei looks quite different to the Phoebe cavaleriei photographed only a couple of days ago. Nothaphoebe cavaleriei Nothaphoebe cavaleriei Decaisnea insignis (also from Tom) is now growing away…

…just missed Persea japonica in the foreground (three ‘japonicas’ in two days!). silver fir silver fir silver fir Camellia ‘Mary Costa’ just starting to show at the top of the…

…Peter’, Magnolia ‘Bishop Michael’. There is also Magnolia mollicomata ‘Mary Williams’ named by my great uncle, after his wife. All these plants need also to be propagated and included in…

…today by the castle. Magnolia campbellii subsp. mollicomata ‘Lanarth’ Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ in a similar condition. Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ The Magnolia ‘Delia Williams’ on…

…‘Donation’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Donation’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Donation’ Could not resist Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ yet again! Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ New growth coming already…

…drab and wet Boxing Day.The first flower now open (was not yesterday) on Camellia x williamsii ‘Rosemary Williams’. About on a par with recent years. Camellia x williamsii ‘Rosemary Williams’…

…the front door. Unlike other named forms which are now nearly over ‘Mary Rose’ has been in bud but showing colour for weeks. Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ Daphne bholua ‘Mary…

…flowers prove it even more! Mary Ashworth’s Rhododendron ‘Cornish loderi’ Mary Ashworth’s Rhododendron ‘Cornish loderi’ Mary Ashworth’s Rhododendron ‘Cornish loderi’ I mentioned how squirrels have recently killed a mature nothofagus…

…japonica ‘Mary Costa’ Camellia japonica ‘Mary Costa’ Camellia japonica ‘Mary Costa’ Ripe berries on Ilex kingiana. Normally we see those a bit later in the year. Ilex kingiana 2022 –…

…scent! Daphne bhuloa ‘Mary Rose’ Daphne bhuloa ‘Mary Rose’ This is a large rhododendron beside the road at the bottom of the hill in Grampound Village which I have been…

…last night hit the Thomsoni hybrids hard, Mrs Butler hybrids just coming on. Princep Mary not open, not much colour yet. 1911 – JCW We are far from Princep Mary…

…bholua ‘Mary Rose’ Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ 2018 – CHW Off to Heligan for TV interviews about ‘spring has sprung’. Quite ridiculous really as the east wind makes it the…

…‘Sir Peter Smithers’ Daphne bholua ‘Sir Peter Smithers’ Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ – OUTSTANDING and a huge flower Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ Daphne bholua ‘Mary Rose’ Daphne bholua ‘Garden House…