…magnolia bank at Old Park Views across the magnolia bank at Old Park A decent young Magnolia ‘Caerhays Belle’ below White Styles. Magnolia ‘Caerhays Belle’ Obvious close up hail damage…

…pink and white hybrid bluebells, which nurseries used to sell before the invasive scaremongering, are long established in cultivation.Both forms grow here and have featured in this diary.Copyright rules prevent…

…Amy Whitehouse (look alike) pop concert. The castle The David Austin rose garden has been completely replanted. The David Austin rose garden The David Austin rose garden The new roses…

…yellow flowers and its neighbour’s flowers have faded to white. Rhododendron excellens Rhododendron excellens Merrilopanax alpinus doing well. Merrilopanax alpinus New growth on Schefflera delavayi. Schefflera delavayi Rhododendron nuttallii just…

…as a naturalising mix to be planted on the public route to Old Park below White Styles. Jaimie may need to sort the mini digger (from Burncoose Nurseries) to get…

…funeral in 1965 I remember Dad standing to attention in front of a black and white TV in the Red Room for hours. I also remember running and catching a…

…see its well underway. Castle Wood grass cutting finished 2023 – CHW Hydrangea video day at Burncoose. Melicytus crassifolius covered in white berries already in a nursery tunnel. Melicytus crassifolius…

…Scabiosa caucasica ‘Fama Deep Blue’ Scabiosa caucasica ‘Fama Deep Blue’ Scabiosa caucasica ‘Fama White’ Scabiosa caucasica ‘Fama White’ 2020 – CHW Jaimie spots Sorbus chamaemespilus with its first fruits in…

…hemsleyanus ‘John Bond’. Very white undersides to the leaves. Sorbus hemsleyanus ‘John Bond’ Sorbus ‘Wisley Gold’. Sorbus ‘Wisley Gold’ Sorbus ‘Leonard Messel’. Sorbus ‘Leonard Messel’ Mahonia x media ‘Winter Sun’…

…white stonecrop growing profusely around the house and onto the gravelled car parking areas. Is this exactly the same as what I photographed at The Lookout a few days ago?…