…English Channel, Irish Sea and North Atlantic, and the crews were sold into slavery. In 1625 a raiding party landed at Mount’s Bay in Cornwall and 60 people who had…

…my interest. It is on unusual species of Aucuba and mentions Caerhays twice. Roy’s introduction of Aucuba omiensis (from Mount Omei) with its huge leaves is now deemed to be…

…originally a scion from Mount Congreve is in full leaf and looking very well two years from planting. Magnolia campbellii yellow form Jaimie told me that Camellia x williamsii ‘November…

…on Magnolia campbellii ‘Valentine’s Torch’. Yellow as it opens fading to white. Again too high up to photograph properly. Originally from a graft gifted to us by Mount Congreve. Magnolia…

…CHW A horrid funeral in Mount Hawke of a 20 year old. A hundred boy racers wearing woolly hats may just have got to grips with the reality of their…

…catkins but nothing like as good as ‘Mount Aso’. Salix hookeriana Salix hookeriana 2022 – CHW A welcome bit of rain overnight.Magnolia Pickard’s Hybrid ‘PP7’ flowering here. The plant is…

…in the Mount Edgecumbe collection. He showed Camellia japonica ‘Rogetsu’ which is an early flowerer (white) and in my mind I had mistakenly muddled it with ‘Reigyoku’. Hence the need…

…and problems which mount up but still have to be dealt with somehow.Meanwhile Edwina and I have knocked up a few articles for the Caerhays website which will go live…

…not just from Caerhays, but also from Mount Edgcumbe and by Pat and Peter Bucknell, we were able to clearly identify the marked differences between the many petalled ‘Citation’ and…

…suggest this may be another name for Ilex mitis from sub-Saharan Africa where it is a large tree growing on Table Mountain and Mount Kilimanjaro above 2,500 meters. I remain…