…‘Don Quixote’ which is a Knap-Hill bred variety and the synonym ‘Soho’.Galle’s gigantic reference book on Azaleas lists pages of named Knap-Hill azaleas but not one named ‘Don Quixote’. Galle…

…sprengeri var. Diva ‘Marwood Hill’ near the old dog kennels with its first flowers. Magnolia sprengeri var. Diva ‘Marwood Hill’ Another unnamed hybrid of Jaimie’s looking good above the kennels….

…Guy Hands Gemma Arterton & John Hill Gemma Arterton & protea ‘Little Prince’ John Hill from Burncoose Nurseries, Gemma Arterton, Gabby Evans from the Prince’s Trust Enterprise Programme, Charles Williams…

…early! These plants will be planted in the cleared scrubland on Treveor Hill when it becomes dry enough underfoot to even think of planting anything! A record? Certainly a record…

…an area of new woodland planting after the 1990 hurricane. One day the top of the hill may have a purple blotch from afar!Time for a bit of thinning around…

…a decent root system. We cannot face taking it too far – just down the hill in fact. Whether it will reshoot without a hard pruning is doubtful but will…

…Photinia prionophylla in the Rhododendron ririei opening more covered in fruits than I have ever seen. The fruits are described in Hillier’s as ‘crimson’ and, I suppose, they may yet…

…plant was one of Jimmy Smart’s hybrids from Marwood Hill which the late Laurence Banks thought might have been lost at Marwood. First flower not properly formed I fear. No…

…so much at the very top of the hill in the garden, completely unfrosted. Camellia x williamsii ‘Celebration’ Camellia x williamsii ‘Celebration’ Attractive bark and swelling buds in the sun…

…Never seen Griselinia ruscifolia before. It seems multi-stemmed. Hillier’s refers to confusion between Griselinia racemosa and G. ruscifolia but do not list G. ruscifolia. Here are the flowers too but…

…Crossbill too far out. 1947 – CW Heavy snow, Church Hill blocked. All Western Hunt meetings stopped. I stayed in London as transport impossible and Mary at Penzance 1ft in…

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…not that special. About 30 years old and windswept. Magnolia mollicomata seedlings However Burncoose garden, on top of a hill as it is, is nowhere near as far on magnolia…

…above Laundry Hill. Pterocarya fraxinifolia You need a huge area to grow Pterocarya fraxinifolia well. Just look at the suckering from the base of this multiple trunked spreading tree. At…

…– CW Returned in second snow storm, came out in farm trailer behind lorry. About 8” on lawn. Church Hill blocked. Michelias bad, very little broken by snow except big…

…it opens. Not bad but a long way from the original. It could be the seedling ‘Ethel Hillier’ really or almost ‘Sir Harold Hillier’ which is yet another named ‘Alba’…

…– FJW Very little rain for 8 weeks – garden very early – most of the Magnolias are over. Visited Marwood Hill. 1980 – FJW Flower still out on Lanarth…

…normally so early and often battered were superb. ‘Lanhydrock’, ‘Marwood Hill’, ‘Lamellyn’ and ‘Westonbirt’ were fantastic but still not as good as ‘Diva’. However the new dark coloured sprengeri which…

…in Leedstown to photograph this extraordinarily large Datura sanguinea growing outside in someone’s garden. Leedstown is on top of a hill at the edge of the Lizard Peninsula but still…

…Zealand cork tree, was a gift (I think) from Marwood Hill. Leaves a bit like a catalpa? Entelia arborescens The Brassaiopsis dumicola flower still not fully out. Brassaiopsis dumicola Parastyrax…