…up on the Tin Garden shed A young Camellia x williamsii ‘John Pickthorn’ with 3 early flowers in Tin Garden. Camellia x williamsii ‘John Pickthorn’ Camellia saluenensis and Camellia x…

…saluenensis Camellia x williamsii ‘John Pickthorn’ shows the flower shape clearly. Camellia x williamsii ‘John Pickthorn’ Deer have nibbled the leaves on our best Quercus insignis. Quercus insignis First flowering…

…the garden from wartime neglect. His entries in the diary from 1940 record his competitiveness in flower shows and his knowledge of plants. JCW 1897-1939 John Charles Williams (known as…

…and a dingy dank colour. Second time it has flowered here. Older plant on Bond Street. Magnolia ‘Red Lion’ Magnolia ‘Red Lion’ Magnolia x veitchii (graft from Caerhays originals) looks…

…Williams’, Magnolia ‘Burncoose White’ – a form of mollicomata that is almost white growing above the tennis court at Burncoose and now also at Caerhays in Bond Street, Magnolia ‘Bishop…

…missing website pictures with Karol.At the end of Bond Street are two good Betula albosinensis ‘Bowling Green’. This is a graft from the original at Werrington on the bowling green…

…Rhododendron mucronulatum Rhododendron mucronulatum The big clump of snowdrops above Bond Street are still not full out despite the cold snap. Probably our best clump. snowdrops Below 4-in-Hand yet more…

…now full out on Bond Street; certainly it looks better today than Magnolia ‘Star Wars’, its sister seedling. the water meadows the water meadows Magnolia ‘Red Lion’ So is the…

…three Styrax wilsonii as well. The latter died of old age outside the back yard recently although I cannot believe we have not planted out a few seedlings. Bond Street…

…‘Pink Flush’ still flowering away a month after the first flowers. Magnolia obovata ‘Pink Flush’ Azalea ‘Western Lights’ still good above Bond Street. Azalea ‘Western Lights’ 2020 – CHW One…

…A much more vigorous Lancaster introduction and gift to us. Deutzia pulchra Deutzia pulchra Deutzia pulchra Several late azaleas above and below Bond Street Azalea ‘Fireball’ Azalea ‘Fireball’ Azalea ‘Jock…

…hell of a migration. Presumably the tadpoles lived in the stream below Bond Street and, having developed into tiny frogs, have started a long and dangerous migration. All very strange…

…the 2 Magnolia veitchii. It may now be dead but there is a big and seemingly flowerless plant half way along Bond Street. One has to say that the double…

…flower and extremely late in the season. The original old plant is above the 2 Magnolia x veitchii, but there is another on Bond Street. Both in full shade. This…

…to call it triloba. A first flower on this young plant. The one down Bond Street has, I think, died over the winter. Pterostyrax psilophyllus var. leveillei Euptelia polyandra with…

…the first time below the drive and above Bond Street. This was planted perhaps 35 years ago and has grown slowly and seldom flowered at all. The label is long…

…we are closed the Kania 2000 squirrel traps can go out again although we got nine in Bond Street last week. Hopefully these seeds will make it to maturity for…

…first showed colour in late November / early December. Camellia saluenensis We have never known the name of this pure white magnolia on Bond Street. It is one of the…

…Camellia tsai Magnolia ‘Burncoose White’ (or ‘Tennis Court’) – the near white form of mollicomata is flowering profusely in the Rookery. Now that the Bond Street plant has split in…

…Magnolia ‘Sybille’ in Penvergate. Magnolia ‘Sybille’ Magnolia ‘Sybille’ Magnolia ‘Theodora’ also in Penvergate. Magnolia ‘Theodora’ We discover today that a mini tornado has hit the pines below Bond Street. This…