June – Summer fetes & lots of colour
June 2015 June proved to be very dry in Cornwall, unlike July and August. We saw our best ever summer fete with over 3500 people visiting the Castle and gardens…
June 2015 June proved to be very dry in Cornwall, unlike July and August. We saw our best ever summer fete with over 3500 people visiting the Castle and gardens…
…Magnolia ‘Kousious’ Magnolia ‘Kousious’ So is Magnolia ‘Hot Pants’ and the name now does it credit when it is full out. Magnolia ‘Hot Pants’ Magnolia ‘Hot Pants’ Magnolia ‘Hot Pants’…
…Flash’ in the walled garden. Magnolia ‘Hot Flash’ Magnolia ‘Hot Flash’ The very dark red Camellia ‘Night Rider’ which also grows at Burncoose. Here a huge bush near the house….
…saw then. Salvia x jamensis ‘Hot Lips’ Salvia x jamensis ‘Hot Lips’ 2019 – CHW Styrax japonicus ‘Jippei-Kawamure’ has huge flowers with large petals and is quite unlike Styrax ‘Emerald…
…in October and, frost permitting, it will carry on to December. Salvia x jamensis ‘Hot Lips’ Salvia x jamensis ‘Hot Lips’ Fuchsia and Echium seedlings outside the drawing room. The…
…a last year planted Magnolia ‘Snowblood’. Magnolia ‘Snowblood’ Magnolia ‘Elizabeth Holman’ just starting. Magnolia ‘Elizabeth Holman’ Magnolia ‘Pink Sensation’ with a flower or two out. Magnolia ‘Pink Sensation’ Magnolia ‘Hot…
…aberconwayi Magnolia ‘Hot Flash’ is improving with age (now 17) too. Magnolia ‘Hot Flash’ Magnolia ‘Hot Flash’ A wild self sown clump of Primula pulverulenta in a damp spot where…
…perhaps not after such a hot summer. Passiflora caerulea Camellia sinensis (cuttings from Tregrehan two years ago) already well into flower in our own greenhouse. Slow growing but covered in…
…Salvia x jamensis ‘Hot Lips’ flowers on and on into winter. An amazingly showy perennial plant with an enormous flowering season. Salvia x jamensis ‘Hot Lips’ 2019 – CHW Cotoneaster…
…has a 2’’ hole in its belly, a jumpsuit to wear and daily changing of the bandages. grass snake grass snake The hot summer has produced another crop of unusual…