2nd February

…Pickthorn’ Camellia x williamsii ‘John Pickthorn’ Camellia x williamsii ‘John Pickthorn’ The Pickthorn’s were lifelong friends of my father’s/ the family and Henry was a trustee of the Caerhays Estate…

26th February

…‘Cornish Red’ Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ The Bond Street sister seedling to ‘Caerhays Belle’ is also full out and virtually identical in flower size and shape to the other one. Bond

22nd February

…was not today. seedling from the same seed pan as ‘Caerhays Belle’ seedling from the same seed pan as ‘Caerhays Belle’ A similar unnamed seedling in Bond Street is also…

17th February

…10 Rhododendron viscosum below 4-in-Hands has also seen 6 of the plants in the fullest sun succumb to the summer heat. A good clump of early daffodils on Bond Street….

22nd July

…strawberries 2017 – CHW Off to the Isle of Wight.Clethra delavayi is full out on Bond Street. A similar sized plant died of old age this spring by Lower Quarry…

4th April

Next Day > < Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2024 – CHW A visit by Paul Johnson and Andy Ansell from the National Memorial…

8th October

…aquifolium ‘Bacciflava’ Now on down onto Bond Street – sadly nothing that I photographed appears on the planting plans. This is a self or bird sown Ilex kingiana which has…

28th November

…caught by frosts. 2020 – CHW So we come again to the three malus trees on Bond Street which are now fully ripe.1. Perhaps Malus ‘Golden Hornet’? Malus ‘Golden Hornet’…

9th March

…Buckland Chartered Surveyors Edward Buckland Chartered Surveyors Magnolia ‘Red Lion’ on Bond Street in the wind. We saw it yesterday from above the on the drive. Magnolia ‘Red Lion’ Magnolia…

28th March

…and Bond Street with the garden party. Robert Vernon of BlueBell Nursery impressed by the Trochodendron araliodes of which there are two big specimens in Old Park. Joined at lunch…