…large and these have hybridised with cultivated violas. These used to grow at The Vean before reconstruction and the Top Lodge before tarmac covered them. They were proper Irish ‘gypsy’…

…off on a tour of Irish gardens for four days so there will be a pause in the diary.Much work last week in laying the main electric cable much deeper…

…in Irish gardens than Cornish ones. We have never had it on the Burncoose website before so let us get cracking. Maytenus boaria Maytenus boaria Maytenus boaria Maytenus boaria The…

…attaching here an article from the Irish Garden Plant Society about the Marchioness of Londonderry, Lady Edith, who created the garden at Mount Stewart and her granddaughter Lady Rose with…

…Staphylea trifolia 2018 – CHW Day four of the Irish trip – click for full details. Overnight at Ballyvolane House and onwards to Mount Congreve. Mount Congreve House Ballyvolane House…

…our Irish trip – A long drive to visit two island gardens near Sneem on the coast. Rossdohan House 2017 – CHW A trip to the greenhouses to select some…

…Not that exciting! Lindera umbellata 2018 – CHW Day two of the Irish trip with a visit to Bantry House and Illnacullen Island. We arrive Full details. 2017 – CHW…

…Irish trip. Team photo 2017 – CHW A newish clump of Rhododendron ‘Blue Diamond’ below Donkey Shoe. This seems a rather paler form than I remember but these were bought…

…the top of the old deer park only just established. The pink and white Rhododendron arboreums featured are still (exactly) there now in extreme old age. The Irish yew is…

…is Wolesley Lodge, a spanking new product of the Irish golfing boom and bust, just outside Tullow which, as a town, would rank below Redruth in terms of affluence. Its…