…is a brilliant yellow as it first comes out. Magnolia ‘Lemon Star’ Magnolia ‘Lemon Star’ Magnolia ‘Lemon Star’ Magnolia ‘Purple Globe’ with its first flower somewhat battered. A new one…

…nicely. Only planted in the Autumn. If only the names were a bit easier on the tongue. Prunus ‘Horinji’ Prunus ‘Horinji’ Magnolia ‘Lemon Star’ (syn ‘Swedish Star’) is just out…

…‘Star Wars’ x M. ‘Vulcan’ Magnolia ‘Star Wars’ x M. ‘Vulcan’ Magnolia ‘Cleopatra’ x M. ‘J. C. Williams’. Magnolia ‘Cleopatra’ x M. ‘J. C. Williams’ Magnolia campbellii ‘Wakehurst’. Magnolia campbellii…

Next Day >< Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2024 – CHW Magnolia ‘Star Wars’ performing again in August. Magnolia ‘Star Wars’ A sad story…

…plant. We have just got this started here although it is listed in JCW’s notes and in the 1964 tree measuring records. Pittosporum adaphniphilloides Pittosporum adaphniphilloides Azara microphylla was plastered…

…Remarkable for the creator of a garden to live to see it growing into its best. He started in 1959 and the rhododendrons now thrive beneath the (largely pine) tree…

…lot came from northern Italy so there is an added risk of coronavirus if anyone had shaken hands with the driver. It turns out he was Romanian and only picked…

…Saturday in a row. Storm Ashley seems to have been worst in Northern Ireland. A batch of new (to us) varieties of camellias has just arrived from Stervinou in France….

…online or in Hilliers. I see that Crug Farm collected it in Northern India. Perhaps it isn’t a shrub? Nonsense! No sign of any flowers or fruit. Nasty black prickles….

…Sycoparrotia semidecidua ‘Purple Haze’ has startling blackish-purple new growth and is a new plant for the website. Sycoparrotia semidecidua Sycoparrotia semidecidua Telopea speciosissima with a flower just coming. These need…

…reticulata Droplets of water cover Stachyurus chinensis ‘Joy Forever’. Stachyurus chinensis ‘Joy Forever’ Camellia gigantocarpa starting another set of new growth but still no flowers. Planted in 2012. Camellia gigantocarpa…

…our plant.Then to Burncoose where I could not resist a few more close up pictures of Hamamelis as most start to go over in a tunnel. Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Aurora’…

Magnolias and Climate Change at Caerhays? In this absurdly early spring where the magnolias first started coming out on 2nd January, at least a month before all known records, and…

…start of the work until February 2022. It was undertaken by two local contractors based and living on the Caerhays Estate who completed the work in May after a wet…

…Burncoose Garden Karol’s recent overfly of Burncoose Garden Karol’s recent overfly of Burncoose Garden Lamorna admires a magnolia beside a lake in Northern Italy. Perhaps ‘Dr Merrill’ or ‘Wada’s Memory’?…

…fallen tepals under the two Magnolia x veitchii ‘Peter Veitch’. carpet of fallen tepals 2024 – CHW Away next week in Northern Ireland looking at gardens there so I thought…

…Scots. 1984 – FJW Open Day 2500 people. Very fine not a gum boot in sight. 1922 – JCW Far behind 1918-19-20-21. Auklandii not started, Augustinii hardly started, Orbiculare not…

…week in Northern Ireland gardens I am no longer sure which is which between the two and I suspect I have seen both called the wrong thing. Rhododendron eximium Rhododendron…

…growth is thankfully starting. Lindera megaphylla, although leafless, is shooting all over the crown. Rhododendron stenaulum will be lightly pruned to start with but has more new shoots than we…

…2018 – CHW A start to the new plant sales area beside the new shop. Still a month to go until the gardens open so plenty still to do. new…