…that this is not just Camellia ‘Cornish Snow’ but ‘Cornish Snow Michael’ or ‘Michael’ (after Charlie Michael the head gardener here until 1956). ‘Michael’, they say, is a larger /…

…Probably not as the pheasants will eat all the berries before we begin to see them. The new Beatrice plantation of Camellia sasanqua varieties to commemorate her birth is now…

…& Katie turned back on the M5 one weekend as both children were sick in the car and we have not seen them all since. Little Beatrice (aged one year…

…ever. In the Beatrice Fleur planting below White Styles field only 2 of the 20+ new varieties are out as yet. Camellia sasanqua ‘Versicolour’ (‘Sawada’) is full out and really…

…much doubt it. 2019 – CHW The Beatrice Fleur sasanqua camellias are in the ground and wired against rabbits and deer. sasanqua camellias sasanqua camellias The second elderly Camellia sasanqua…

…The public mood may be close to changing. 2019 – CHW The sasanqua camellias have arrived from France for Beatrice’s christening planting at the entrance to the Old Park probably…

…horrid beside Georges Hut. Only two small flowers this year in its second flowering season. Beatrice is examining the Quercus cleistocarpa alongside although we all agree it is now a…

…on an oak collection review with Beatrice Chassé of which I will write more when I get her findings and renaming after her two day visit.Along the way I spot…

…supposed to be inaugurated at Beatrice Fleur Williams’ christening in the spring but COVID stopped that and it still has not happened.Camellia sasanqua ‘Variegata’ outside the front arch. A fairly…

…(in a group of three) very nearly ‘Charles Michael’ which had died out on us but still hangs in there at Burncoose. Rhododendron ‘Elizabeth’ x Rhododendron ‘Charles Michael’ Rhododendron ‘Elizabeth’…