…Revolution Blue’ a strange and erratic bicolour thing. Hydrangea ‘Magical Revolution Blue’ The best thing in the Burncoose garden today was Hydrangea aspera ‘Villosa Group’ by the lawn. Hydrangea aspera…

…hupehensis An attractive compilation of Hydrangea aspera ‘Villosa Group’ and Buddleja lindleyana. Hydrangea aspera ‘Villosa Group’ Buddleja lindleyana flowering exceptionally well this year after a haircut 2 or 3 years…

…One of three planted but the other two failed. An old Hydrangea villosa used to grow exactly here. Hydrangea aspera subsp. sargentiana Hydrangea aspera subsp. sargentiana 2019 – CHW Penvergate…

…var palibini. Enkianthus hirtinervus Enkianthus hirtinervus Enkianthus hirtinervus 1919 – JCW Madame Lemoine has been splendid. Ponticums go back, Auklandii are gone. Syringa villosa very good. C chrysocoma rather burnt….

…Dove’ with brief but different autumn colours. Magnolia ‘Porcelain Dove’ Prunus laurocerasus in full flower in late October! Prunus laurocerasus Two cock pheasants devouring the fruits on Photinia villosa. Photinia…

…rosea beside it. Lapageria rosea A very drought ridden and now dead Hydrangea villosa. Hydrangea villosa This is the same robinia as I photographed six to eight weeks ago. I…

…Magnolia ‘Summer Solstice’ First decent flowering on a young Philadelphus satsumi. Philadelphus Philadelphus Half this Hydrangea aspera villosa died in last summer’s drought. Root suckers are emerging now which I…

…far left alone by the birds. Acanthopanax sessilensis Acanthopanax sessilensis Acanthopanax sessilensis Photinia villosa var. coreana again covered in berries. Photinia villosa var. coreana Ilex corallina is new to the…

…villosa, 25 years old and already partly dead, is putting on one (probably) last display. Hydrangea aspera villosa While we have been away the Eucryphia lucida x cordifolias have come…

…xanthocodon ‘Purpurellum Group’ Rhododendron cinnarbarinum subsp xanthocodon ‘Purpurellum Group’ Rhododendron cinnarbarinum subsp xanthocodon ‘Purpurellum Group’ Rhododendron cinnarbarinum – long since gone from Caerhays due to the powdery mildew and rust…