…– CW Still very dry and rain wanted. Odd flowers still on Mag veitchii, parviflora, Wilsoni, sinensis coming out. Auklandii at best also Saffron Queen and many Azaleas. A few…

…at least a couple more days. My young plantations of Rhododendrons ‘Saffron Queen’ and ‘Nancor’ are no more. The Abies grandis which was to be the new feature tree here…

…a tiny Caerhays bred Rhododendron ‘Saffron Queen’ but little evidence of any recent plant purchases from Burncoose Two outstanding Cork Oaks (Q suber) by the house (planted 1847) and four…

…from Serena and Neil (plus Saffron) in the fernery. My father proposed to my mother sitting on the trunk of an old half collapsed fern from exactly this circle in…

…around the wood. The whole of the Rockery, Auklandii Garden – 1550, Tetropeplum hybrid, Salutation, Donation, Iteophyllum, Saffron Queen, Diaprepes, Humming Bird, Crassum – 2 Camellias by tree ferns, one…