8th April

…sasanqua ‘Sweet Jane’ – likewise. Camellia sasanqua ‘Sweet Jane’ Camellia ‘Spring Festival’ – ditto. Camellia ‘Spring Festival’ Camellia ‘Spring Mist’ Camellia ‘Spring Mist’ Prunus maakii ‘Amber Beauty’ – glorious in…

20th September

…dasystyla Viburnum prunifolium, the ‘black haw’ is its common name and you can readily see why! The fruits are sweet and edible. One to take to the Garden Society dinner…

23rd September

…below the tower and below the Rabbit Warren. Hedychiums 2019 – CHW A sudden strong easterly wind has downed all the beech mast and sweet chestnuts all over the drive….

17th October

…flower, and primulinum. 1906 – JCW No frost and begonia etc etc V.G. Sweet peas just over. 1905 – JCW First hard and white frost knocked out the gunnera. No…

15th November

…Cornus capitata with the flies and wasps enjoying the sweet juicy yellowish pith in the ‘strawberries’ surrounding the individual seeds. It all made a good little video in the sun…

A trip to Tregrehan to study Fagacaea

…Sassafras randiensis Sassafras randiensis Sassafras randiensis Castanea mollissima in full flower. Very different from our ordinary sweet chestnuts. The first time I have ever seen this flowering although the nursery…

26th December

…the pillar plant. Clematis cirrhosa very good. Camellia sasanqua, some heaths nice. Sweet leaved geranium fairly good. C coum up. No daffs in flower. Solanum jasminoides very good. R nobleanum…

30th December

…Ghost’ now full out above the greenhouses. Is it really any different from our old friend Daphne bholua ‘Alba’? Daphne bholua ‘Garden House Ghost’ First few sweetly scented flowers on…

Visit to Tregrehan – 5th October

…fragrans var. aurantiacus – the yellow/orange form rather than the white flowering one. Growing here in the greenhouse and tenderish but a large shrub or small tree with sweet scent….

26th February 1897 – 2020

…“Betty Jessel” Either way I await the result as we are interrupted by a Forestry Commission inspection looking for diseased sweet chestnuts. I do not actually think Jaimie will care…

6th August

…Buddleia veitchii wanes. Myrtles good. R decorum nice. R auriculatum opening. 1906 – JCW Sweet peas and tea roses good, leaving for Scotland. 1900 – JCW Some lapageria flowers open….

9th September

…plant which covers an outside wall of the main nursery walled garden. The result of the drought. The taste was quite sweet. Ficus pumila Ficus pumila Ficus pumila 2017 –…

3rd April

…its top completely down to 10 feet or so. So we lost three mature oaks and three sweet chestnuts here. However half of the original Sorbus torminalis has survived. Original…

28th July

…auriculatums have started well. 1903 – JCW Several cyclamen, a lapageria or two. Roses and sweet peas nice. Bulbs and seeds all finished. 1901 – JCW Just two cyclamen and…

22nd July

…All seed picked. 1906 – JCW Buddleia variabilis is in flower. Have put out our two year old daffs. Sweet peas only fair. One or two late Lapagerias are open….

15th June

…the entrance. ‘Bodmin Market’ ‘Bodmin Market’ The entrance decorated. entrance Dad and Mum’s graves awaiting the return of the headstone and granite surround but with sweet william and a wreath….

23rd May

…is and what she is doing. We plonk her on the steps of our stand where she smiles sweetly. Charles, Rupert, Naomie and David Then we grab a rhodo from…

7th May

…fruits like those of a sweet chestnut.This 2008 planted tree is labelled Castanopsis chinensis. It is not evergreen as you would expect a Castanopsis to be. However, there is winter…

14th April

…creation in New Zealand. (M. x soulangeana ‘Sweet Simplicity’ x M. ‘Cameo’). Magnolia ‘Tinkerbelle’ Magnolia ‘Daybreak’ x M. ‘Gold Cup’ – only a little yellow. Magnolia ‘Daybreak’ x M. ‘Gold…

12th April

…drive when the sweet chestnut fell in. collapsed bank Frankie has now dug up the sacrifice camellias in the Styrax collection area. After we had cut them back they have…