10th April

‘Peachy’ – I still wonder at the difference and current naming of ‘Peachy’ and M. ‘Daybreak’. Magnolia ‘Peachy’ Rhododendron ‘Johnny Johnstone’ – there are so few genuinely double rhododendrons. Rhododendron…

8th April

…sterculiaceum ssp franchettii Acer sterculiaceum ssp franchettii Rubus spectabilis ‘Olympic Double’ – even better this year than last. Rubus spectabilis ‘Olympic Double’ Magnolia soulangeana ‘Rubriflora’ (denudata x lilliflora) – nothing…

3rd April

…cryptomerioides. Taiwania cryptomerioides Picea glauca var. albertiana ‘Piccolo’. Picea glauca var. albertiana ‘Piccolo’ First flower out on Magnolia ‘Peachy’. Magnolia ‘Peachy’ 2024 – CHW Prunus jamasakura might just make it…

6th May

…Oosthoek’ is nothing startling when compared to other older clumps on the drive. Azalea mollis ‘Dr M Oosthoek’ Azalea mollis ‘Dr M Oosthoek’ A rather fine double daffodil. daffodil Azalea…

28th December

…a good semi-double flower and totally new to us (ex. Stervinou). Camellia ‘Mini Mint’ Camellia ‘Mini Mint’ Cornus florida ‘Pluribracteata’ still with leaves in late December – astonishing even in…

13th July

…trip to Thompson’s Garden Centre which also appeared to have had an excellent spring. Not much stock left at all. Alcea ‘Celebrities Carmine Rose’ and two other double flowered holyhocks….

13th August

Double’ and Podocarpus totara. Thalictrum delavayi ‘Hewitt’s Double’ and Podocarpus totara Geranium ‘Rozanne’ and Geranium ‘Wargrave Pink’. Geranium ‘Rozanne’ and Geranium ‘Wargrave Pink’ Papaver rupifragum ‘Flore Pleno’ and Sedum ‘Purple…

16th November

…– CHW Cyclamen still in flower on the bank and around the summerhouse. Cyclamen Camellia sasanqua ‘Winter’s Dream’ I think. A pale colour and variable mainly semi double flowers. Camellia…

4th December

…Semi-double, delicate and blushing! Camellia sasanqua ‘Paradise Blush’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Paradise Blush’ Next March’s flower buds on Michelia doltsopa are well advanced and swathed in orange indumentum. They may well…

16th December

…Gardiner’. I guess the flowers have about double the number of tepals that you would expect to see in a conventional mollicomata. It is almost a double flower in reality;…

17th December

…College, Oxford. First year for sometime when camellias coming out well. 1944 – CW Camellia sasanqua still has pink and white flowers. Double form out – also a few flowers…

19th December

…and Camellia japonica ‘Lady Clare’. Camellia sasanqua ‘Sugar Dream’ and Camellia japonica ‘Lady Clare’ Camellia japonica ‘Little Bit’ has both double pink and double red flowers. Camellia japonica ‘Little Bit’…

30th January 1897 – 2020

…small white double flower and lots of them! Camellia (hybrid) ‘Spring Mist’ 2017 – CHW The first magnolia has just come out and it is Magnolia campbellii ‘Strybing White’. Magnolia…

29th December

…1947 – CW Mucronulatum and Nobleanum out also 3 or 4 of the Sutchuenense hybrids, bits of Yellow Hammer and Golden Oriole and Moupinense. Hamamelis only beginning. Camellia Double white…

Royal Cornwall Show – 2022

…speciosissima Helleborus ‘Double Ellen’ Helleborus ‘Double Ellen’ Trillium sessile Trillium sessile Ypsilandia tubetica – I have often wondered if we should stock this. Ypsilandia tubetica Ypsilandia tubetica Symphytum ibericum Symphytum…

22nd January 1897- 2020

…– CW First Magnolia campbellii full out – many double Camellias as Mathotiana. Double Prunus by Kennel, several Reticulata seedlings. Red Admiral at Ririei out a week. Some Red Arboreum…

22nd February 1897 – 2020

…only in terms of being early. similar unnamed seedling in Bond Street Camellia ‘Dr Burnside’ just coming out by the Four in Hand. One of the very best early double

27th March 1897 – 2020

…full out. Camellia cuspidata Rhododendron impeditum ‘J C Williams’ just starting to flower. Rhododendron impeditum ‘J C Williams’ Camellia ‘Miss Charleston’ rivals ‘Dr Burnside’ as the best double red Camellia…

21st March 1897 – 2020

…has given us great beauty of flower, masses of bloom and hardly a sopt on them. 1922 – JCW Double [?] is very good. Prunus conradinae too, one or two…

11th March 1897 – 2020

…years. Magnolia ‘Caerhays Surprise’ Magnolia ‘Caerhays Surprise’ Magnolia denudata ‘Double Diamond’ battered by hailstorms earlier this week in Kennel Close. There is a large tree at Burncoose but this is…