…I doubt it would ever look better in the spring! Rhododendron ‘Yellow Hammer’ Rhododendron ‘Yellow Hammer’ A couple of seed pods from the magnolia seedling which the Queen Mother planted…

…cellars. Two inches of rain in an hour. rainstorm The overnight winds have yet again blown branches out of Magnolia ‘Yellow Lantern’. Magnolia ‘Yellow Lantern’ And off the Liriodendron tulipifera…

…Pinus radiata A large branch or two from another Pinus radiata fell into the drive below the tower. another Pinus radiata another Pinus radiata The seedling Araucaria angustifolia x Araucaria…

…ordered) as a naturalising mix to be planted on the public route to Old Park below White Styles. Jaimie may need to sort the mini digger (from Burncoose Nurseries) to…

…mighty machine clear up a fallen tree below Brownberry which was blocking the river. Heavy lifting machinery Heavy lifting machinery Another huge Pinus insignis below Forty Acres was doing the…

…of our existing low input farming policy and its ability to improve the growing diversity of permanent pastures to enable us to be offered a new Higher Land Countryside Stewardship…

…combination with the leaves. Buddleia ‘Silver Anniversary’ Buddleia ‘Silver Anniversary’ Pseudopanax with seeds. Pseudopanax with seeds Rudbeckia triloba ‘Prairie Glow’ in full flower. Rudbeckia triloba ‘Prairie Glow’ Rudbeckia triloba ‘Prairie…

…ripe berries. Asia needs to collect them now before the pheasants find them. Cotoneaster wilsonii Cotoneaster wilsonii Cotoneaster thimphuensis just starting to turn yellow and far from ripe yet. Cotoneaster…

…wind. Branches block the entrance below White Styles. Branches block the entrance A huge Sycamore tree narrowly misses the Trevanion holy. A huge Sycamore tree An ilex oak branch by…

Next Day >< Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2024 – CHW Still warm, wet and windy. Styrax grandifolius has a good show of yellow.…

…williamsii ‘Mimosa Jury’ 2023 – CHW First daffodils out in Kennel Close. First daffodils First daffodils More laurel hedge cut back below the Main Ride. laurel hedge First flowers on…

…out. good big one on the road An even bigger leylandii by the Green Gate. Jaimie is delighted as his most hated windbreak trees blow over as they always do…

…lutchuensis. [It is Camellia ‘Paradise Glow’] Camellia ‘Paradise Glow’ Camellia ‘Paradise Glow’ Camellia ‘Paradise Glow’ Camellia ‘Adolphe Audusson’ also just out with some wind damage. Camellia ‘Adolphe Audusson’ Camellia ‘Adolphe…

…24 species was photographed and a few named clones or hybrids. The collection has 40+ species out of the 47 which exist worldwide. Some of the mountain top low growing…

…who also has a national collection. Podocarpus spinulosus The second flowering (that I have seen) of Michelia maudiae below Slip Rail. The ‘tree’ is now nearly 20ft tall and loads…

…Main Ride. Magnolia ‘David Clulow’ Magnolia ‘David Clulow’ Next to it is another white magnolia, Magnolia ‘Lotus’, with printed flowers that curve in on themselves. Magnolia ‘Lotus’ Magnolia ‘Delia Williams’…

…2823) was planted in 2005. It is delightful and massively different to our Magnolia sprengeri ‘Diva’. Seed was collected from a lowish altitude (2,000ft) in a roadside gutter below a…

…trees below Burns Bank Flowering yew trees below Burns Bank Flowering yew trees below Burns Bank The two new holiday lets at Tregaire Barton are a month away from completion….

…before and pictures needed for the website. A delicate yellow. Grevillea juniperina sulphurea Grevillea juniperina sulphurea Strangely we seem to be missing website pictures for Rosemarinus officinalis ‘Severn Sea’. Odd…

…tall. Quercus laurifolia Quercus laurifolia Deer have eaten a couple of lower buds on Magnolia mollicomata ‘Werrington’. Could be a squirrel I suppose but quite low down and higher buds…