…as collected by George Forrest on Mount Tengyueh in 1917. Originally called C. speciosa, then C. pitardii and, as today, C. saluenensis. One of the parents of the new C….

…palms, bananas and agave etc gives Tresco a run for its money in and above an extremely sheltered south facing Cornish valley overlooking St Michaels Mount. Having not been for…

…has more new shoots than we expected. It will get the Mount Congreve treatment to the stems. The drimys look much better than I feared and need a tidy up…

…the leaves did not match so we may still be guessing! Staphylea bumalda Staphylea bumalda Staphylea bumalda Phyllocladus trichomanoides (var. alpinus), which came from Mount Congreve 12 years ago, is…

…cylindrica x M. campbellii‘Darjeeling’ We have a Record Tree of Roy Lancaster’s collection of Aucuba omeiensis from Mount Omei. Roy saw it a week ago in full flower as here…

…for the first time. Magnolia ‘Gold Cup’ was admired at Mount Congreve. Ours has faded a bit now full out but still not bad. We have another somewhere I think…

…at Mount Congreve two days ago. Rhododendron suoilenhense At last a good show on our young clump of Rhododendron williamsianum. Rhododendron williamsianum My father’s Rhododendron moorii x Rhododendron euchates by…

…mountain top low growing species do not survive our climate. If you do not find this all too dull click here to see the true beauty of so many of…

…our while financially or that we could mount a decent stand of any sort of size in late September. That is production time on the nursery and not show selling…