14th March

…Margaret Helen Magnolia Charles Raffill Magnolia Caerhays Surprise Magnolia Apollo Magnolia Apollo Magnolia Display of x_williamsii camellias 2021 – CHW Two of the four boxes of plants from Pan-Global have…

18th June

…swing In full swing In full swing Mevagissey ladies choir – something backfired on the acoustics Mevagissey ladies choir 2016 – CHW Tree measuring with Owen Johnson, The Tree Register…

4th April

…Rail. Plagianthus betulinus Embothrium lanceolatum ‘Ñorquinco’ showing colour on a young plant below Donkey Shoe. Embothrium lanceolatum ‘Ñorquinco’ Magnolia ‘Helena’ flowering well in the Isla Rose. Magnolia ‘Helena’ Magnolia ‘Yellow…

1st November

…Queen’) still in full flower today. Hebe franciscana ‘Variegata’ Hebe franciscana ‘Variegata’ Yesterday evening the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, announced another national lockdown from next Thursday, 5th November, for a…

16th February

…self-seed quite readily around the garden. There is a champion tree among them measured in 1985 and 2004 where in Owen Johnson’s “Champion trees of Britain and Ireland” book he…

10th June

…Carrie Johnson as host. They went to St Michaels Mount.Fuchsia exorticata still full out on the top wall. Fuchsia exorticata From Crûg an Ilex perado subsp. azorica (BSWJ 12526). In…

2nd October

…walls.AM Rhododendron ‘Maisie’ (Jamie’s cross) AM Magnolia ‘Mr Julian’ (Dad & Philip Tregunna’s cross of many years ago) FCC Magnolia ‘Caerhays Splendour’ (Jaimie’s cross) FCC Magnolia ‘Margaret Helen’ (New Zealand…

27th February

…me a little of Magnolia ‘Margaret Helen’. Magnolia ‘Eleanor May’ Magnolia ‘Eleanor May’ Magnolia ‘Eleanor May’ Magnolia ‘Fireglow’ (Pickard’s hybrid) has never impressed and well battered here this year. Magnolia…

17th September

…Veryan Bay – Rhododendron Loderi Helen – Rhododendron Loderi Pink Coral – Rhododendron Loderi Sir Edmund – Rhododendron campylocarpum – Rhododendron davidii EN4213 – Rhododendron degronianum hept. ‘Oki Koki’ –…

26th January

…was planted in the mid-1950s and has only flowered three or four times. Magnolia campbellii subsp. mollicomata ‘Lanarth’ After Helen Chen’s statement that Phyllostachys nigra ‘Megurochiku’ was very rare in…