17th August

…much a nursery and not a garden centre. Among the novelties seen were:Achillea ‘Summer Fruits Lemon’ and Achillea ‘Lilac Beauty’ Achillea ‘Summer Fruits Lemon’ and Achillea ‘Lilac Beauty’ Achillea ‘Summer

10th April

…at ‘unusual evergreen trees’ with eight in the audience. Picea bicolor var. acicularis (Picea alcoquiana var. acicularis) with vibrant reddish cones on a young tree. Picea bicolor var. acicularis Picea…

12th April

…and Bea. Malus ‘Royal Beauty’ – another one out in the Kitchen Garden. Malus ‘Royal Beauty’ The Gunnera beds in Old Park are taking off. Some of these leaves have…

27th April

…like as good as this. Magnolia laevifolia ‘Summer Snowflake’ Magnolia laevifolia ‘Summer Snowflake’ Magnolia laevifolia ‘Summer Snowflake’ Magnolia laevifolia ‘Summer Snowflake’ Another (just out) Rhododendron niveum which is a rather…

4th May

…of Littleworth’ at its best and now layered for posterity. Rhododendron ‘Beauty of Littleworth’ Rhododendron ‘Beauty of Littleworth’ Rhododendron cinnarbarinum subsp. xantocodon Purpurellum Group with a few flowers. This is…

7th June

Beauty Favourite’ Eremurus ‘White Beauty Favourite’ Wisteria floribunda ‘Alba’. Flowering with the leaves. Wisteria floribunda ‘Alba’ Gillenia trifoliata in full flower. New to the Burncoose catalogue this year. Gillenia trifoliata…

24th May

…dark and late into flower. elliotii hybrids elliotii hybrids Pittosporum adaphniphylloides has made exceptional new growth. Pittosporum adaphniphylloides Pittosporum adaphniphylloides Still plenty of flowers on Magnolia ‘Summer Solstice’. Magnolia ‘Summer

29th July

…coming. Looks like there is some natural hybridisation in the clump. Eucomis bicolor Eucomis bicolor Eucomis bicolor The largest Agave americana I have ever seen. 10ft x 10ft easily! Agave…

20th September

…pitardii Secondary flowers on Viburnum rhytidophyllum which I had not expected after such a heavy crop of flowers in the summer. Viburnum rhytidophyllum Rhododendron ‘Bowjingles’ flowering in a nursery bed….