7th May

…4-in-Hand First flowers on Rehderodendron macrocarpum beyond the Fernery. Rehderodendron macrocarpum A decent white flowered Rhododendron yunnanense to remember for cuttings below Hovel Cart Road. Rhododendron yunnanense Rhododendron’Mi Amor’ just…

28th December

…many flowers, lots of new growth and variegation mainly on the older untrimmed foliage. An impressive semi-double white flower and certainly one to add to the Tregothnan national collection of…

25th December

…we can all begin again.A fully grown and full out campion below White Styles. Cor! campion campion The unnamed Camellia x williamsii clump outside the front gate is full out…

20th December

…a white one! Still a few buds to open on Magnolia delavayi. Magnolia delavayi Sarcococca wallichii in flower in the Aucklandii Garden. Nearly over in fact. Sarcococca wallichii Ripening berries…

11th October

…2019 gift of an Ilex spinigera planted out last year and growing quickly. Ilex spinigera Ilex spinigera Genuinely out of season white flowers on Staphylea holocarpa – white rather than…

8th October

…now dead but I gave Mike Williams a few replacements from Burncoose a while ago which I think are planted by the White Bridge. Betula utilis subsp. albosinensis ‘Werrington’ grew…

17th December

…around Christmas.Polyspora longicarpa (WWT 11601) has large spreading white flowers and a similar spreading habit as a shrub. Polyspora longicarpa (WWT 11601) Polyspora longicarpa (WWT 11601) Polyspora axialis f. tonkinense…

5th October

…eaten by the pheasant poults. colchicum The fence has been moved at the bottom of White Stiles field to give us room for the planting of a cherry avenue. White

2nd October

…was pure white and not pink as Hilliers state it should be (Malus baccata x Malus spectabilis as it was labelled when it came to us in 2005). Well worth…

28th May

…Salers have white ends to their tails. These are very high class cattle. Saler cows and calves Saler cows and calves This lot of 30 bought in calves (sterks) are…