15th October

…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…

28th August

…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…

27th September

…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…

17th September

…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…

13th September

…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…

9th September

…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…

8th September

…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…

3rd September

…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…

9th December

…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…

7th December

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.

22nd January

…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…

11th December

…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…

5th February 1897 – 2020

…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…

6th March 1897 – 2020

…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…

12th March 1897 – 2020

…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…

17th March 1897 – 2020

…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’…

20th March 1897 – 2020

…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…

28th February 1897 – 2020

…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….

24th February 1897 – 2020

…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…

1st January 1897 – 2020

…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…