24th December

…Still some blue or bluish-green flowers on the hydrangeas on the drive. hydrangeas on the drive hydrangeas on the drive 2017 – CHW A trip to Forty Acre Wood to…

13th October

…panniculata is very good indeed. Hydrangeas are nice, are not very blue. Fuchsias for the first time are most excellent, they give us more colour and variety of colour than…

Visit to Tregrehan – 3rd November 2018

…Nyssa leptophylla Nyssa leptophylla Decaisnea insignis with its compact yellow fruit clusters which I had never seen before. Very different to the blue seed pods nearby of Decaisnea fargesii. D….

11th October

…Verbena rigida Verbena rigida Ampelopsis brevipedunculata ‘Elegans’ with its striking mottled blue berries. Ampelopsis brevipedunculata ‘Elegans’ Ampelopsis brevipedunculata ‘Elegans’ Back here one of our largest Magnolia delavayi has split in…

5th October

…on what may or may not be Photinia macrophylla. Looks more microphylla to me! Photinia macrophylla Photinia macrophylla Blue seedpods on Decaisnea fargesii at the very top of the plant….

21st June

…colour to our blue and pink Echium pininana. On looking it up it is Echium wildpretii which Burncoose stocks. Must grab a few seed from Roy later. From the Canary…

21st December

…nobleanum, keysii, thomsonii show bits of flowers. 1908 – JCW Some coums, some polyanthus and blue primulas. 1903 – JCW Coums begin to look well, three or four polyanthus daffs…

20th June

…luck! On the tour the following were looking good:- Papaver nudicaule ‘Moondance’. Papaver nudicaule ‘Moondance’ Dichroa guizhou – should the flowers be blue? Dichroa guizhou Dichroa guizhou Limonium latifolium –…

30th May

…set of blue cones this year. Abies koreana Abies koreana Magnolia obovata has a flower at the top of the tree. Magnolia obovata Rhododendron ‘Loch Levan’ – a new one…

1st June

…subsp Byzantinus Plenty of wild campion now replaces the primroses, daffodils and bluebells here too. Only three weeks since the bluebells faded and the grass took over. wild campion Erigeron…