…believe is identical to the record tree clump of schima at Trewithen. Huge clusters of flower buds. I have to say that the high up flowers and flower clusters on…

…colour. Cornus amomum ‘Blue Cloud’ Cornus amomum ‘Blue Cloud’ Cornus amomum ‘Blue Cloud’ Rudbeckia ‘Prairie Sun’ looking very fine. Rudbeckia ‘Prairie Sun’ Rudbeckia ‘Prairie Sun’ Caryopteris x clandonensis ‘Stephi’ now…

…dead there now from the 2012 cold winter I believe. Podocarpus ‘Blue Gem’ Podocarpus ‘Blue Gem’ The last few flowers on Michelia foveolata. Michelia foveolata Michelia foveolata Azalea ‘Moidart’ from…

…elongatus ‘Blue Chip’ Podocarpus elongatus ‘Blue Chip’ Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Hattie Carthan’ is just coming out. Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Hattie Carthan’ Magnolia x brooklynensis ‘Hattie Carthan’ Our old favourite Rhododendron…

…this extraordinary year? Spanish bluebells The last flower on Rhododendron mucronulatum is a very dark purple beside the bluebells. This showed colour first in November and is testament to a…

…‘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…

…in colour than our plant in the Rockery. The one I saw at Trewithen was different again in colour – reddish but different shaped flowers to these. Rhododendron spinuliferum Rhododendron…

…show in 1963 by Trewithen where it won an award. It was named by Trewithen but it was later deemed that the two were the same and that the correct…

…(a darker from of Camellia ‘Donation’) is just out at Georges Hut. Nothing on ‘Donation’ yet. This was a chance sport originating from Trewithen. Camellia x williamsii ‘Celebration’ Rhododendron ‘Peace’…

…2017. Rhododendron viscosum x ‘Midsummer Mermaid Blue’ Rhododendron viscosum x ‘Midsummer Mermaid Blue’ The bed of Hemerocallis given to my parents by Lady Cynthia Carew-Pole in the late 1960s or…