21st November

…the best bathroom window! 2016 – CHW Two great seed discoveries today in Forty Acres by Jaimie:Schefflera macrophylla has produced flowers and a huge now ripe set of seeds unseen…

11th February

…and scenting the till area. Daphen bholua ‘Peter Smithers’ Daphen bholua ‘Peter Smithers’ Pictorial labelling of the whole sales area virtually now complete. A great advance in presenting our plants…

9th February

…‘Spring has Sprung’ here. From yesterday’s Great Gardens of Cornwall meeting only Trewithen and Heligan’s Magnolia campbellii have yet to produced 50 flowers. Trewithen had a lot of snow damage…

14th November

Next Day >< Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2023 – CHW A great deal of wind damage in the week since Storm Ciaran and…

27th June

…the sun. Stewartia rostrata Stewartia rostrata Flower buds forming on Heptacodium miconoides. Heptacodium miconoides Cornus kousa ‘Gloria Birkett’ putting on a great show of flower as usual. Its strawberry fruits…

31st May

…micromalus full out and a great spectacle today. Malus x micromalus Camellia japonica ‘Mathotiana Rubra’ still full out on 1st June. Camellia japonica ‘Mathotiana Rubra’ Deciduous azaleas at the Green…

Contributors to the Garden Diary

…1940-1955 Charles Williams (great uncle of Charles H Williams) Charles took over Caerhays in 1939 at the start of the war and much of his time was spent at the…

29th September

…Malus ‘Royalty Malus ‘Royalty’ Euonymus hamiltonianus ‘Rising sun’ with a great show on the sales point. Euonymus hamiltonianus ‘Rising sun’ Escallonia ‘Peach Blossom’ still nicely in flower. Escallonia ‘Peach Blossom’…

4th March

…on from the Symplocos paniculate. Rhododendron oreodoxa var fargesii Rhododendron oreodoxa var fargesii 2022 – CHW Another one of those truly great magnolia days with sun, at last no wind,…

6th May

…Rhododendron ‘Yaku Fairy’ Rhododendron ‘Yaku Fairy’ The evergreen Berberis insignis var insignis suffered badly in the cold but is putting on a great show despite being virtually leafless at present….