18th November

…– CHW Overnight the champion Osmanthus yunnanensis has blown over in the garden. I think that if we pollard it and carefully upright the stem while digging in the roots…

11th February

…Pseudopanax laetus A quite well grown Ilex yunnanensis behind the pond. Totally un-holly-like leaves. Ilex yunnanensis A fallen flower of Camellia ‘Little Bit’ on a snowy bench. Camellia ‘Little Bit’…

5th September

…which will not propagate from cuttings. Magnolia nitida Magnolia nitida Michelia yunnanensis ‘Summer Snowflake’ has produced its first seed pods on a plant which is only four or five years…

12th January

…Osmanthus yunnanensis. Only a few bits of the old pollarded tree survive. Osmanthus yunnanensis Laurus azorica covered in bud. Laurus azorica Clematis cirrhosa var. balerica full out on the lawn….

23rd September

…the record tree at Tregullow gardens. I should ask James Williams. Saxegothaea conspicua Saxegothaea conspicua Malus yunnanensis var. veitchii with one crab-apple only left to see. The pheasants have eaten…

1st August

…original and once record Osmanthus yunnanensis (Forrest 1923). One fell over and we pollarded and uprighted it and it has now reshot a bit. The other was pollarded and started…

27th January

…transnokoensis Turpinia formosana with frost damage on its new growth. Turpinia formosana Camellia yunnanensis (17099 – seedling grown by us from RMCG seed list) flowering for perhaps the second time….

12th August

…from the main stem after drought damage. Quercus rysophylla ‘Maya’ A newly planted Magnolia yunnanensis x M. insignis has survived. Magnolia yunnanensis x M. insignis Eucryphia x nymansensis ‘George Graham’…

29th January

…of Osmanthus yunnanensis leaving a child’s seat for visitors. Osmanthus yunnanensis 2023 – CHW A series of pictures of big leafed rhododendrons suffering from drought, frost and lack of new…

31st January

…‘Winter Beauty’ Osmanthus yunnanensis full out as well. Osmanthus yunnanensis So rather more to see today in flower than many might expect. 2017 – CHW A check on which camellias…