18th May

…Garden. (unnamed) Mahonia species Rhododendron ‘Nancy Evans’ Rhododendron ‘Nancy Evans’ Rhododendron ‘Nancy Evans’ Boring though it is I wanted to record the now fully formed leaves on our larger lime…

9th November

…taliensis and Hoheria populnea ‘Variegata’ Pittosporum tenuifolium ‘Variegatum’ works well in a vase with Camellia sasanqua ‘Hugh Evans’. Pittosporum tenuifolium ‘Variegatum’ The view out over Porthluney Beach from the Isla…

17th January

…Camellia ‘Imbricata’ A small self-sown Camellia saluenensis seedling near a huge clump of Camellia sasanqua ‘Hugh Evans’ (above Rogers Quarry) is clearly an interesting little cross. It has grown up…

26th December

…monthly December video from his garden at Gorwell near Barnstaple I was struck by how far ahead of him we are here. He showed sasanqua ‘Hugh Evans’ (long over) and…

4th October

…‘Oregon Sunset’ Hesperantha ‘Oregon Sunset’ Camellia ‘Dazzler’ now full out. Other Camellia sasanquas out today included ‘Hugh Evans’. Camellia ‘Dazzler’ Camellia ‘Dazzler’ Cercis canadensis ‘Ruby Falls’ with its attractively mottled…

16th May

…CHW I rather rate the economic journalist, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard. He writes bluntly. Here are a few paragraphs from his recent article in The Telegraph which sit pretty comfortably with those…

25th June

…gardener (Hugh). Alice was 92 on the Saturday. The plane is four hours late arriving at Newquay on the Friday night so the party do not arrive here until 10.15….

1st February

…early colour and which are in the collection of an amateur photographer called Hugh Charles Knowles which is housed at the V&A Museum. The collection contains pictures of gardens and…

22nd May

…John Hill from Burncoose Nurseries, Gemma Arterton, Gabby Evans from the Prince’s Trust Enterprise Programme, Charles Williams from Burncoose Nurseries, Hannah Arterton and Guy Hands from Terra Firma Details Above…