24th May

…the autumn and paid the price with much dieback. Magnolia ‘Caerhays Belle’ The original Aesculus wilsonii is leafing and flowering better than I dared hope. I had thought it was…

4th June

…monodelpha about to flower. I am reasonably confident that this young plant is correctly named if only from its foliage colour last autumn. Stewartia monodelpha 2018 – CHW To Tregullow…

24th April

…last autumn but only now is it starting to die off. Rainfall has sustained it through the winter. Prunus pilosiuscula In 1991 I planted Sequoia sempervirens and Sequoiadendron giganteum side…

6th October

…not think I have seen this before. Callicarpa psilocalyx Callicarpa dichotoma also nearly out. Callicarpa dichotoma Nice autumn colour developing on Cercis chinensis ‘Avondale’ in the Isla Rose Plantation. Cercis…

28th June

…Tilia insularis Tilia insularis Sorbus rosea (SEP 492) with berries already. Sorbus rosea (SEP 492) Eriobotrya aff. elliptica var. petelotii (BWJ16323) ready for planting in the autumn. You would not…

18th December

…mild weather. A few years ago this plant flowered a bit in the autumn and, although the flowers did not open properly, the sap was up and dieback ensued after…

8th October

autumn colour and stands out in Kennel Close although only planted this year. Wrong place again I fear as too exposed for it to show off its autumn colour well…

22nd December

…fine cluster of berries on a young Pittosporum adaphniphylloides. Yellower than the ones in the Burncoose show tunnel which I photographed earlier in the autumn. These had an orange tinge….

30th March

…Rawes’ First colour on Magnolia ‘Yellow Lantern’. The plant has had several branches snapped off in the late autumn winds over the years and has always reshot vigorously but the…

26th June

…Beast and keeps trying to flower in the autumn which inevitably causes more frost damage. Magnolia ‘Caerhays Belle’ Eucryphia lucida ‘Pink Cloud’ with plenty of flower high up. Eucryphia lucida…