…most were, of course, over.Rosa ‘The New Dawn’ Rosa ‘The New Dawn’ Rosa ‘Special Grandad’ Rosa ‘Special Grandad’ Rosa ‘Special Grandad’ Rosa ‘Your Wedding Day’ Rosa ‘Your Wedding Day’ Rosa…

…bodnantense ‘Dawn’ and very pretty too. Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’ One of the great finds of the way was Drimys andina which grew as a small shrub at Burncoose below…

…Salvia confertiflora Cornus sanguinea ‘Winter Beauty’ looking spectacular. As good as ‘Winter Fire’? Cornus sanguinea ‘Winter Beauty’ Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’ Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’ Camellia ‘Jingle Bells’ Camellia ‘Jingle…

…planting records. There is also a Camellia vernalis ‘Dawn’ (‘Ginryu’) with irregular yellow variegations in its leaves which probably dates from 1897. Two plants are still doing well below the…

…with the first camellias Views across the ‘Japanese’ garden with the first camellias Views across the ‘Japanese’ garden with the first camellias A Viburnum x bodnantense ‘Dawn’ late into flower…

…argentatus Acer calcaratum with unusual shaped leaves. Acer calcaratum A cutting grown Camellia vernalis ‘Dawn’ in full flower in the greenhouse. The 1897 plant on the lawn will not be…

…‘Jelly King’ Viburnum x burkwoodii ‘Dawn’ – leafless and further on than ‘Charles Lamont’. Viburnum x burkwoodii ‘Dawn’ An international mining prize won by Cornish Lithium which we were shown…

…A similarly young 1L plant of Camellia vernalis ‘Dawn’ already in flower although nothing showing on its parents as yet. Camellia vernalis ‘Dawn’ Photinia davidiana with masses of now ripe…

…features of this whole crisis. The priorities are all wrong as history will show.The cuckoo joins the dawn chorus this morning near the house.The row of camellias below the fernery…

…azaleas are also indeed very early into flower. We read of doves nesting on the south coast but I have yet to hear a spring dawn chorus as the weather…