6th May

…but still has some vigorous regrowth. Quercus glauca Quercus glauca This is one of the four 1920s Quercus acuta in the same clump. You could be forgiven for thinking the…

3rd May

…list of plants is attached here. Lots of fun in lockdown reading up about these new things and thinking where we might put them. The owners of Crug had planned…

2nd June

…there doesn’t seem to be any consistent key characters that delineate parvipetala and henryi. I’m thinking that these two species may be merged in due course. I’m going to have…

16th March

…and we will all be home working soon as the country shuts down completely. Plenty of time for writing and thinking amid the gloom. The Cornwall Garden Society show at…

15th March

…exactly as depicted in the watercolour in George Johnstone’s 1950s book on magnolias. We purchased from Eisenhut Magnolia sargentiana pure thinking it was from scions we had supplied and planted…

22nd April

…with his swing shovel which is excellent. Good thinking by Jaimie as Frankie moves down the valley to start clearing dykes. bottom track Attractive early new growth on the three…

18th April

…profession not to be thinking about a future class action (funded by one of the firms that take the main risk in these sorts of cases and are the only…

17th April

…integrated and has now been exiled. A long and boring story of RHS muddled thinking and changes of mind during restructuring and cost saving. MAGNOLIA ‘Margaret Helen’ MAGNOLIA ‘Margaret Helen’…

13th April

…the garden properly. They have a new garden in Dorset and are thinking about how to create something serious. They have been staying in St Mawes and have visited Heligan…

24th April

…the Back Yard. I was asked if all the pink stellatas and loebneris had been a very pale colour this year? Not as I had noticed but thinking about the…