…prize for this though. Camellia ‘Lipstick’ Camellia ‘Sweet Jane’ a new Camellia transnokoensis hybrid so probably very tender. Better just opening than full out as you can see. Camellia ‘Sweet…

…Candy’ is really very good! About three or four years from planting. Camellia ‘Cinnamon Candy’ Camellia ‘Cinnamon Candy’ First colour showing on Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ which was decimated by The…

…Much hassle yesterday from the Forestry Commission. A couple of years ago there was a scare about a new disease in sweet chestnuts. The Forestry Commission overflew Caerhays twice and…

…a sweet chestnut has made a huge mess. sweet chestnut A telegraph pole at Rescassa but the beaters trailer managed to get underneath. telegraph pole A fair mess at Treluckey…

…Camellia japonica ‘White Nun’ A secondary flower on Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’. Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ A remarkable find. Clusters of acorns forming on the old original Lithocarpus cleistocarpus although there are…

…CHW Sweet chestnuts covered in fruits but the seeds themselves are small this year and mainly not worth attempting to roast. Sweet chestnuts Camellia taliensis now full out in flower….

…Guruma Early Pearly Elfin Rose Frosted Star Hiryu Look Away Marshmallow Narumigata Night Rider Pink Goddess Plantation Pink Sekiyo Setsugekka Spring Fling Survivor Sweet Olive Tada Meibi Versicolor Virginia Robinson…

…No sweet peas. 1905 – JCW Came from Scotland. Clematis paniculata good and full of promise. Cyclamen, roses, sweet peas, woodwardias are all good. No sign of iris moving. 1903…

…the hard pruned Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’. Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ Clematis vitalba flowering on and covering a hedge in the village (Old Man’s Beard). Clematis vitalba Clematis vitalba Clematis vitalba Clematis…

…a tree. Attractive flowers. Euphorbia stygiana Euphorbia stygiana A very late flower on Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ after its drought/cold dieback and pruning last year. Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ Enkianthus campanulatus ‘Vesta’…

…have lasted at least five weeks this year. Magnolia ‘Caerhays Surprise’ Still a few flowers on Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ which we saw showing colour in the first week of March…

…‘Sir Harold Hillier’ Magnolia ‘Sir Harold Hillier’ Magnolia ‘Sir Harold Hillier’ Magnolia ‘Sweet Valentine’ with plenty of buds high up. A very columnar habit. Magnolia ‘Sweet Valentine’ Magnolia ‘Hot Lips’…

…Park. Impressively quick growth into a sizeable small tree. Michelia ‘Fairy Cream’ Michelia ‘Fairy Cream’ Tree surgeons felling some elderly sweet chestnuts in Old Park. sweet chestnuts Camellia sasanqua ‘Yume’…

…colour on the pruned back Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’. Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ Stachyurus lancifolia has sprung open earlier than usual. Now renamed Stachyurus praecox var. matsuzakii according to Hilliers who say…

…and a Magnolia campbellii Alba Group seedling growing side by side. Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ Flowers showing on Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ which got dieback in 2018 and a pruning by…

…Sequoiadendron giganteum ‘Pygmaeum’ A gnarled old sweet chestnut that may or may not have passed the annual health and safety tree inspection report. sweet chestnut 2016 – CHW Amid the…

…removal elsewhere along the top path in Old Park. elsewhere along the top path in Old Park A sweet chestnut trunk moved on into Lawn Field. sweet chestnut Horrendous deer…

…unusual situation with imported magnolias from New Zealand. Magnolia ‘Plum Pudding’ Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ – a new young plant doing better than our much older one which had to be…

…us to cut off the younger shoots from the base of sweet chestnuts to avoid them getting infected with Phytophthora ramorum and eventually infecting the elderly trees. We are compliant!…

…‘Sweet Sixteen’. Note ripe yet by any means. Magnolia ‘Sweet Sixteen’ Aesculus californica also has a few smallish seed pods as it did last year. For Asia to observe and…