…of a similar size to sell. Chitalpa tashkentensis Another huge water butt collecting water off the packing shed roof. huge water butt First flowering of Duranta erecta in the nursery….

…accountant’s office in a torrential downpour last Thursday. Drips continue in the Billiard Room. water meadows and lake water meadows and lake water meadows and lake water meadows and lake…

…quickly subside when the tide is out. moors (water meadows) are heavily flooded moors (water meadows) are heavily flooded moors (water meadows) are heavily flooded moors (water meadows) are heavily…

…‘only’ 800 times since 1999. I have seen this more often growing in and around the water meadows. Lythrum salicaria Lythrum salicaria This is the view of the fairly newly…

…has lilac-pink flowers so that seems the best bet as far as I know. Robinia hispida var kelseyi Robinia hispida var kelseyi Deutzia pulchra with its ‘lily of the valley’…

…to water for newly planted things in the next drought. When finished we will have 5 new water tanks in place in the garden. One of these existed in past…

…Why don’t more farmers save on the mains water? water tanks water tanks water tanks The old stables in the farmyard are to be rebuilt as a new laundry and…

…held up so well (only £30k down on the previous March) – garden centre trading disastrous all over the country. water meadows are flooded water meadows are flooded water meadows…

…drive. I missed it last year. This is a new plant in the Burncoose catalogue this year. Quite a tall growing species with huge racemes of lily-of-the-valley buds and (perhaps)…

…should sell well! Fuschia ‘Blacky’ A pied wagtail fledgling in the Back Yard. pied wagtail pied wagtail pied wagtail 2022 – CHW Cyrtanthus elatus, the Scarborough Lily, in full flower…

…its last legs. Hydrangea ‘Vanilla Fraise’ 2024 – CHW The South African Cyrtanthus elatus (Scarborough lily) flowering well again in a pot at The Cottage in Yorkshire. It lives in…

…spicata ‘Robusta’ – the hardy ‘ginger lily’ which is new to us although clearly our oversight. Cautleya spicata ‘Robusta’ Cautleya spicata ‘Robusta’ Echinacea ‘White Meditation’ – yet another ‘new’ one….

…green leaves. Long lily like, scented white flowers with a yellow blotch. June. CWT6486. Rhododendron nuttalii. Maddenia subsection. Forms an upright shrub. Large dark green purple tinted leaves. Scented white…

…6 in by 3 feet 6 in. 1901 – JCW Another Camellia, several roses about, frost for two nights. 1900 – JCW I saw the first Lent Lily breaking ground…

…useful, heaths starting. 1906 – JCW Some Caerhays and Lent Lily just open, P pissardi well open. Made my first cross mon x min. 1902 – JCW Heavy snow three…

…soilenhense Tin Garden partly planted up and watered in. Rabbit wires in place. Tin Garden Tin Garden Prunus ‘Horinji’ just out. These few cherries in Kennel Close have grown and…

…good in Beech Walk. 1934 – JCW No magnolias yet, next to no daffs in the Tin Garden, Lent Lily moves, Rho lutescens very good in spite of sharp frost….

…SW Water say we have a water leak at the Castle. After extensive testing of every stopcock back to the farm they appear to be wrong. Days of radios and…

…pumped water up the hill to serve Caerhays and Portholland villages and neighbouring farms until the mid-1960s when mains water arrived. There were a series of lagoons in the river…

…well. Calocedrus macrolepis var. formosana 2022 – CHW At Burncoose the other day there was an estate wide water crisis as the estate well had dried up. No water for…