…than last year when it did look like a x veitchii hybrid. Now it does not! Jaimie’s hybrid This week’s vlog is a short introduction to Narcissus cyclamineus at Caerhays….

…Some frost and very dry as last year. Daffodils short but more than half out. Magnolia campbellii and some mollicomata almost good. Sargentiana robusta one at its best, Kobus in…

…we have this as a small plant here. Lithocarpus kawakamii Lithocarpus kawakamii 2017 – CHW A visit to Burncoose to make short topical tips videos for the website with a…

…seedling Rhododendron ‘Yaku Princess’ in the Rockery is just going over. Short lifespans these dwarf rhodos have in our climate. Rhododendron ‘Yaku Princess’ Rhododendron ‘Yaku Princess’ A young Camellia ‘Quintessence’…

…Burrow Hunt meet on the beach. Seventy to eighty riders and 400+ followers/spectators. Hunt meet on the beach Hunt meet on the beach Hunt video, click here for short video…

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…today (which required gloves and was short because it is bloody cold) was to photograph the first few flowers on Magnolia ‘Bishop Peter’. BBC Spotlight showed these as part of…

…plant. They are not yet ripe and certainly worth Asia collecting shortly. Weak hybrids such as this have short lives because they grossly overflower (in this case in July) and…

…shelved a year ago but they now look un-watered and unloved. Vastly overstocked for a short summer season. A few new plants to consider for our 2017 catalogue seen here:Leucanthemum…

…fungus spot but these are short lived plants anyway. two plants next door The flowers on the Fuchsia exorticaticas have now turned or opened into the correct darker colour despite…

…Magnolia ‘Todds Forty-Niner’ A southerly gale rages overnight. 2001 – FJW Rain and gales returned after short cool snap.1972 – FJW First snowdrops seen after boys return. Geo Blandford out…

…was a Bolitho cross from Trengwainton and certainly Colonel Edward Bolitho always claimed it was. A very early flowerer but short lived. The clump at Burncoose is better and the…

…by the side door. This is a replacement plant for one which died here after 12 to 15 years. A short lived plant. No scent on it yet. Daphne bholua…

…short lived ‘smellies’ in clumps to get something back. The mortality rate is always high. scented rhododendrons scented rhododendrons Saw five squirrels in the garden today. One couple hard at…

…back at the same time. Unfrosted new growth Unfrosted new growth Rhododendron campylocarpum has finally died after 20 years. Short lived. Rhododendron campylocarpum Excellent regeneration on another Azalea ‘Tebotan’. Azalea…

…a short life of only 30 or 50 years. Lizzie not impressed with the bitter sweet smell! Chimonanthus praecox Daphne bholua ‘Jacqueline Postill’ now nearly full out by the side…

…the time for chucking out whole planting areas to start again is really very short. Thuggish plants dominate after a bit and smother everything around them. A lot of Melaleuca…

…back from Scotland. They are short of rain and most of the Azaleas are over, some nice white Arboreum hybrids make their first show. Evergreen Oaks have done well, Harrow…

…CHW Hydrangea quercifolia, the US oak leaved hydrangea, has spectacular autumn colour but there are several ‘buts’! They are very short lived in our climate; perhaps only 20 to 30…

…is a short video made by Karol with Emma, Duchess of Rutland. 2022 – CHW To Forty Acres and Penvergate. Magnolia campbellii ‘Sidbury’ now completely over. A young Magnolia ‘Theodora’…