…the time to measure the overall height of the flower spikes! It is certainly a huge performance especially after the emerging spike was covered in snow during the March ‘Beast’….

…She must have walked down the river from beside the lake. young heifer Then to Trebah for a Great Gardens of Cornwall photocall. Three spikes of Puya chilensis but only…

…in trusses and sometimes single. The flowering season is two to three months. Lapageria rosea Lapageria rosea Lapageria rosea Lapageria rosea Only one Echium pininana flower spike still has a…

…Crataegus horridus did not have any large prickles or spikes. It does! Crataegus horridus 2023 – CHW I looked at Gingko biloba ‘Autumn Gold’ and wondered why it was turning…

…quite how large the seed heads are on Camellia reticulata. Camellia reticulata Hedychium maximum (BSWJ 8261a) just coming out. A huge flower spike and very late into the Hedychium season….

…flower spike very late in the year and from a four to five year old plant growing on top of a stone faced earth bank. Tetrapanax papyrifer ‘Rex’ Nearby a…

…pods are forming on what was a huge flower spike on such a small plant. Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi Schefflera delavayi 2017 – CHW After finding ‘Cornish Snow’ was out…

…Two new plants for the soon to be published 2018 Burncoose catalogue and website.Schefflera gracilis is a small growing shrub here with an extended flower spike and creamy white flowers….

…to show and only one flower spike is out today on my birthday! Hedychium densiflorum ‘Assam Orange’ Hedychium densiflorum ‘Assam Orange’ 2023 – CHW Hoheria populnea ‘Variegata’ still not quite…

…mollis with one flowering spike and many spikes of seeds. Acanthus mollis Acanthus mollis Acanthus mollis Fuchsia gracilis with new growth showing and the odd surviving flower. Fuchsia gracilis Fuchsia…

…sweet chestnut branch split and fell sweet chestnut branch split and fell The bracts on Cornus kousa ‘Gosia’ are turning from cream to pink on the drive. An attractive tree…

…laurifolia Buddleia loricata is now in flower by the shop. Creamy flowers with a reddish-orange eye. Another thing to propagate for the Burncoose website. Buddleia loricata Buddleia loricata I went…

…conservatory outside Cornwall. The calceolaria-like flowers are attractive and smell mildly of face cream. Bowkeria verticellata Bowkeria verticellata Delphinium ‘Bolero’ is a double lavender blue but not quite out yet….

…4.30pm, it is dropping its anthers and the tepals are going from cream to brownish. It will be over in less than 48 hours! So here is this exceptional (and…

…and a ‘Fairy Cream’ and all three have grown and flowered exponentially in the garden here. Six feet in height now after three or four years from planting at this…

…milk, cream, butter and cheese. Quite an enterprise and one of the only dairy farms to survive on the island with their pedigree Guernsey herd. Briddlesford dairy and farm shop…

…paniculata ‘Vanille Fraise’ by the fernery and in the shade have grown well and flower late in the season. The ‘ice cream’ colours are only just starting to show on…

…indumentum on the bud covers and the hint of yellow/cream in the flowers as they first emerge. I believe this is really Michelia manipurense and not Michelia doltsopa. This is…

…of the 12 prizes won locally. Cherilyn Mackrory 4.30pm and only the bar still has something to sell. Ice cream sold out hours ago as did the food stalls. the…

…proceeds as well) raised £1,400 themselves. Ice cream sales were £1,500 and the scouts raised £421 on their traditional games stall which included the popular china smashing. A striking contrast…