…cash point. This variety is a sport of ‘Betty Sheffield’ which is pure white! ‘Betty Sheffield Supreme’ has red frills so we appear to have propagated a branch that has…

…pointed acuminate acumen ( i.e., at the end of the leaves). Nevertheless the flowers are entirely in line with the IDS description so I think the identification is fairly safe.I…

…and other missives one is tempted to agree with Starmer and Sturgeon that this all lacks clarity. They of course miss the point.Boris is trying, gently, to encourage the country…

…but I suppose that the club have a financial point with ‘freedom’ (of sorts) only a week away.Conversely several people have arrived here off ferries and hovercraft who have been…

…week’s missives are even more to the point. In a drive for the truth rather than BBC hysteria, pleading, demanding and bullying I attach a quote or two. As I…

…2024 – CHW Saw the first house martins yesterday when the 3 days of severe gales finally abated to give us a rare glimpse of the sun.The electric charging points…

…longer when covering larger plant groups like acers, magnolias or camellias.The point is to make the Burncoose website a genuine destination not just for people who want to buy plants…

…sales point. Camellia japonica ‘Kramer’s Beauty’ The Caerhays bred Rhododendron ‘Royal Flush’ – yellow. Rhododendron ‘Royal Flush’ Rhododendron ‘Royal Flush’ Rhododendron vaseyi and Rhododendron arizelum. Rhododendron vaseyi and Rhododendron Rhododendron…

…500 labels The sales point is in place and the celebrity booze under wraps. sales point The centre of the stand is nearing completion and looks fantastic with the iron…

…full splendour by Georges Hut looking exactly as behind the sales point at the show. Rhododendron “Lem’s Monarch” Rhododendron “Lem’s Monarch” Rhododendron “Lem’s Monarch” Calycanthus floridus ‘Athens’ with far more…

…its first leaf form to the Pterocarya fraxinifolia growing by the sales point which came from Tregothnan 35 or so years ago. Pterocarya macroptera var insignis Pterocarya macroptera var insignis…

…opening this year. Around 100 visitors in the sun.Well budded camellias at the sales point. camellias at the sales point The newly installed polytunnel to keep any frost off things….

…village too and was situated at the highest point to give the necessary gravity flows. We had laid a new pipe from the mains supply in the road to the…

…Malus ‘Royal beauty’ Malus ‘Royal beauty’ Malus ‘Royalty Malus ‘Royalty’ Euonymus hamiltonianus ‘Rising sun’ with a great show on the sales point. Euonymus hamiltonianus ‘Rising sun’ Escallonia ‘Peach Blossom’ still…

…laevifolia ‘Velvet and Cream’ The climber tunnel looking pretty good too. The climber tunnel 2022 – CHW It’s getting to the point in the this drought that it is almost…

…‘Dawn’ and Camellia x vernalis ‘Yuletide’ Viburnum bodnantense ‘Dawn’ outside the nursery cash point. A harbinger of winter. Viburnum bodnantense ‘Dawn’ The groundworks for the new loading bay and larger…

…now know the ‘blessed’ NHS is not quite so wonderful. Local decisions on lockdown with local political comeback from voters would have been a much better starting point in March…

…Chocolate’ Celastrus orbiculatus with a good show in the sales point. Celastrus orbiculatus Malus ‘Golden Hornet’ with larger yellow crab apples than seen elsewhere in this diary recently. Malus ‘Golden…

…by the sales point. This plant was a seedling from the original in the Chinese garden at Werrington. There are two at Burncoose. Malus hupehensis Malus hupehensis Malus hupehensis First…

…until the spring as it will make a good pheasant flushing point. beech tree More deer nibbling in Kennel Close. deer nibbling Squirrel damage (all fresh) on a young beech…