…yet) Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ x Magnolia ‘Serene’ Magnolia ‘Hot Lips’ (much better than ‘Hot Pants’). [I fear this is actually ‘Hot Pants’!] Magnolia ‘Hot Pants’ Magnolia ‘Spring Rite’ Magnolia ‘Spring…

…in a week’s time for Chelsea and which will remain looking decent for the week of the show itself.It has been a very late spring but the warm weather in…

…Crataegus laevigata ‘Paul’s Scarlet’ Crataegus laevigata ‘Paul’s Scarlet’ Crataegus ashei flowering for the first time here. Crataegus ashei Crataegus ambigua interesting also. Crataegus ambigua Crataegus pontica just starting. Another new…

…weekend. Here are the details of this rare and original plant which still grows above the top wall. 2022 – CHW Steve Dance took this photograph of Camellia ‘Spring Festival’…

…the Spring Show later next week. Very wet overnight (yet again) and now a cold east wind. Cloudy and not encouraging for visitors.Enkianthus chinensis looks good to go. Three ancient…

…our ancient leafless Magnolia nitida is now well on the way to a full recovery after its total defoliation this spring after the drought years. A wet summer has saved…

…– another gift from Raf. Magnolia laevifolia ‘Lennon’ This Laureliopsis philippiana was moved to a spot with more room in the spring but, so far, it is growing away perfectly…

…Time to get the autumn/spring rare plant orders for Caerhays into the pipeline before the European nurseries produce their autumn availability lists. Lunaplant in Germany promise a delivery of a…

…in late spring creates bare earth which allows this? Cornus controversa seedlings 2017 – CHW A garden centre trip with heavy rain threatening. I just get to Arreton in time…

…Camellia ‘Cornish Spring’ with its early flowers hidden inside the bush. Earlier than usual. Camellia ‘Cornish Spring’ Camellia ‘Cornish Spring’ 2022 – CHW The 1897 planted Magnolia stellata has once…

…for the first time here. Eucalyptus delegatensis Eucalyptus delegatensis Eucalyptus delegatensis Eucalyptus gregsoniana with a few surviving flowers, more flowers to come, ripening seed pods, and peeling bark. Eucalyptus gregsoniana…

…be paying 80% of this and will hope that the government can and does pay us on the same date. Will they? Not unless a lot of time is spent…

…plants re-potted, trimmed and re-tied to new canes ready for sale next spring. Viburnum tinus ‘Lisarose’ 2023 – CHW Thuja koraiensis dead in the Isla Rose. Too hot and dry….

…has visited several times since. Dad was on the Duchy Council for 19 years . Tears all round for most of the day and quite a bit of standing to…

…with its red new growth showing already. Magnolia nitida Magnolia nitida Magnolia ‘Angelica’ – second flowering. Magnolia ‘Angelica’ Magnolia ‘Angelica’ Magnolia ‘Spring Rite’ Magnolia ‘Spring Rite’ Magnolia ‘Spring Rite’ Magnolia…

…lot of New Zealand plants to Ventnor in the spring but I could not find where they had been planted. Perhaps still in the frames beside the greenhouse? No sign…

…this was a grafted Magnolia sprengeri ‘Marwood Spring’. We did not! Magnolia sprengeri ‘Marwood Spring’ Magnolia sprengeri ‘Marwood Spring’ Wonderful bark on Meliosma simplicifolia subsp. rigida which had flowered for…

…first time this young Embothrium has flowered on the top of the bank above Roger’s Quarry. A ghastly dry site with very poor stoney soil. Just what they like! Embothrium…

…6 weeks since I photographed this in its pomp. Camellia japonica ‘Optima’ A young Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Woodsman’ planted in memory of Christine Henderson flowers for the first time. Magnolia…

…some of the malus species and varieties which we are now assembling to plant in the autumn/spring in the Kitchen Garden now it is completely cleared. A lot more to…