1st June

…specimens but just as hairy. Quite whether we have a true original M s sinensis to match the one at Windsor is therefore not conclusive although the habit and flower…

27th March

…Cornwall Garden Society show (Jim Gardiner judging).Caerhays thinks it owns the magnolia cups after 10 years and outside competition, especially from Windsor, unwelcome! Harvey is Cornish (although Nadia his wife…

8th February

…Tin Garden is now full out but as it is rather a pale colour it shows up badly against a grey sky. Magnolia campbellii Magnolia campbellii The New Zealand made…

9th April

…FJW Charles caught 10 trout. 1965 – FJW David fell into the pond backwards [from the old grey boat once rowed across the channel to Porthluney beach during the war…

14th February

…‘Lucombeana’) has shed many of its leaves but by no means all. Its pale grey bark and fissured trunk is developing nicely. A gift from the staff and Cornwall County…

20th August

…by grey squirrels. Hazelnuts Conkers well-formed already too (Aesculus hippocastanum) although a small crop after the drought. Conkers Conkers A well-formed trunk on Nothofagus antarctica and beech seeds already formed….

9th March

…addressed by Lord Gardiner, a Defra Minister with strong support for culling grey squirrels to facilitate a reintroduction in Cornwall . We have red squirrels on the ground at Trelowarren…

20th May

…Quarry Nursery A few new things to see in the newly planted euonymus and viburnum species glade: Euonymus oxyphyllus (BSWJ 10815) has tiny grey cream flowers with mauve buds. Euonymus…

30th April

…kennels in recent years. A good show of grey wagtails on the lawn but I have yet to see a flycatcher there.Here is a good bit of refutation of one…

1st October

…nicer than many grey leaved eucalyptus species. Eucalyptus simmondsii (nitida) Eucalyptus simmondsii (nitida) Eucalyptus simmondsii (nitida) Eucalyptus mannifera var praecox has exceptional peeling bark at a young age and nice…