Visit to Tregrehan – 5th October
Back to 5th October. On Monday a visit to Tregrehan to exchange Schima, Torreya and rhododendron cuttings for cuttings of 15 new camellia species for Caerhays. Most were either wild…
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December at Caerhays
…pictures here, same last year – typical! Rhododendron mucronulatum flowering on 14th December. First flowers on Camellia ‘Jurys Yellow’ 19th December. 25th December – Happy Christmas and Happy Flower Hunting….
10th August
…over, we sadly do not find any C. nigra ss. I fear the difference leaves a non-botanist rather puzzled but then so do many similar rhododendron species. Centaurea nigra Centaurea…
1st November
…‘Noblissima’ Camellia ‘Noblissima’ Vinca major with a flower growing through the lower branches of Picea omorika. Vinca major Vitis coignetiae colouring nicely as it grows (yet again) through the Rhododendron…
22nd July
…rhodos are looking terrible in the nursery beds in the drought but Jaimie has now started watering to keep them alive. Rhododendron sinogrande was the great casualty of the 1975…
Lovely colourful start to autumn
…on botanical name changes, who knows why they change their minds? All answers on a postcard please. Rhododendron ‘Yaku Fairy’ More second flowering on some dwarf rhododendrons this month, and…
10th September
…rostrata which will not be ripe for ages yet. Magnolia rostrata Deer damage from a roebuck to the stem of a small rhododendron. Do we really have to cage every…
August in the garden
…second flowering on our Lithocarpus? Diseased Rhododendron Countess of Haddington Death and disease hits on the 21st of this month, but there are also signs of new life with the…
14th September
…2020 – CHW A delivery of rhododendrons from Millais Nurseries for planting out soon. rhododendrons rhododendrons Alniphyllum aff. eberhardii has developed enormous leaves and is making headway. Alniphyllum aff. eberhardii…
June – Summer fetes & lots of colour
…of course more questions that need answering… Is this magnolia from the breeder Gothenburg? An azalea with no name. Is this Rhododendron royalii hybrid ‘Royal Flush’? Baby frogs The gardens…