14th November

…full bud. Needs a good cut back from the path before the spring visitors. Mahonia japonica Mahonia japonica White cyclamen on the lawn under the yew trees. Is there a…

21st October

…is just coming into flower below the old play house. The inflorescences develop quickly. I don’t remember if flowering this early. Mahonia japonica Mahonia japonica Golden Scalycap (Pholiota aurivella) perhaps…

26th December

…yellow. Mahonia japonica Mahonia japonica First few flowers on the forsythia which I pruned back hard for a video a year or so ago. forsythia 2020 – CHW Gales on…

11th December

…Quite a show on a drab day. Mahonia oiwakensis Mahonia oiwakensis 2017 – CHW Planting the Isla Rose Plantation After a weekend of torrential rain and snow up country it…

18th March

…not stocked before. Prunus nipponica var. kurilensis ‘Brilliant’ looking excellent in the nursery. Prunus nipponica var. kurilensis ‘Brilliant’ Mahonia x wagneri ‘Fireflame’ is new to the catalogue this year. Mahonia

16th March

…Camellia x williamsii ‘Jovey Carlyon’ sporting pink flowers at Donkey Shoe. Camellia x williamsii ‘Jovey Carlyon’ 2023 – CHW Mahonia leschenaultii flowering here for the first time. Mahonia leschenaultii Mahonia

9th March

…show Jaimie spotted Mahonia aquifolium just coming out. Mahonia aquifolium Mahonia aquifolium The Cornwall Red Squirrel Project fundraising dinner at Newquay in the evening. We raised £18k from 100 attendees…

25th January

…dropped on Schefflera delavayi. Schefflera delavayi Acacia cultriformis nearly out. Acacia cultriformis Mahonia japonica nearly over. Mahonia japonica 2022 – CHW A new laurel shelterbelt on Bond Street. laurel Camellia…

19th September

…but with plenty of blue podocarps. Podocarpus matudae Podocarpus matudae The first flowering that we have seen of a newly planted Mahonia fortunei ‘Winter Prince’. Orange buds opening yellow which…

17th September

…pavia ‘Atrosanguinea’. Aesculus pavia ‘Atrosanguinea’ Nyssa sylvatica ‘Wisley Bonfire’ starting to turn properly autumnal. Nyssa sylvatica ‘Wisley Bonfire’ Mahonia eurybracteata ‘Soft Caress’ just out in flower. Mahonia eurybracteata ‘Soft Caress’…