25th March 1897 – 2020

…bit like ‘Mathotiana Rubra’ but rather larger. ‘C M Hovey’ looks close but that is a much more recently bred hybrid. Well worth Asia propagating anyway. Paeony form double red

20th October

Red’ on the Burncoose website. Hilliers states ‘striking shades of bright red and orange’. What I am seeing is hardly this but this is fairly typical of Cornwall’s mild climate…

22nd March 1897 – 2020

…their ‘sport’! First flowers showing on Magnolia dawsoniana and no frost damage. Magnolia dawsoniana Part of yesterday’s planting all staked and wired. yesterday’s planting A huge Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ now…

21st March 1897 – 2020

…macabeanum just about out. Rhododendron macabeanum Rhododendron macabeanum Our own Magnolia ‘Tropicana’ raised, named and registered but not bred by us. Magnolia ‘Tropicana’ Magnolia ‘Tropicana’ Flowers further out on Rehderodendron…

17th March 1897 – 2020

…and April diary reduces to nothing. The garden staff, farm staff and keepers can, and have to, carry on. Lambing ewes cannot wait and the first pheasant egg was gathered

13th March 1897 – 2020

…Zealand bred magnolias which normally come into their own later in the magnolia season are now earlier than the mollicomatas and sargentiana robustas. Notably ‘Ians Red’, ‘Shirraz’, ‘Red Lion’ and…

7th March 1897 – 2020

…a red centre catches the eye. A horror compared to the wild ones yesterday. Tasteless or what? Odd daffodil with red centre Narcissus Mr Julian (a Narcissus cyclamineus hybrid grown…

5th March 1897 – 2020

…survived from what was originally a clump. red hybrid red hybrid Another pink hybrid amid a clump of FJW seedlings. pink hybrid pink hybrid Amid the rain the magnolias stand…

23rd November

…of Camellia sasanqua ‘Hugh Evans’. He wondered if it was Camellia sasanqua ‘Plantation Pink’ but its too dark a pink in colour. The leaf and habit is also all wrong…

12th September

…x conspicuum ‘Red Flamingo’ Acer x conspicuum ‘Red Flamingo’ 2015 – CHW Ilex perado ‘Perado’ from the Canary Isles has been spread around the garden by birds feeding on its…

8th May

…garden No idea what this is? No idea what this is Red currants. Red currants Clematis montana with just a hint of pink. Clematis montana Clematis montana var. rubens growing…

1st June

…double flowered Rhododendron fastuosum ‘Flore Pleno’. Rhododendron fastuosum ‘Flore Pleno’ Our own bred Rhododendron ‘Penvose’ named after an estate farm (as are several others). Rhododendron ‘Penvose’ Rhododendron ‘Penvose’ Attractive new…

14th April

…today. Azaleas and Rhodos Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ x M. liliiflora ‘Holland Red’ still have good flowers weeks after first opening. Magnolia ‘Black Tulip’ x M. liliiflora ‘Holland Red’ Maddenia wilsonii…

17th April

…‘Maya’ Red new growth on the tender Quercus insignis. Quercus insignis Symplocos dryophylla full out. Another plant has died but this one is very well sheltered by other things. Symplocos…

11th May

…from the Rhododendron Barclayi Group. Since this is Rh. ‘Glory of Penjerrick’ x Rh. thomsonii. I have my doubts. Where the red has vanished to? Rhododendron ‘Manglesii’ An unnamed vase…

14th May

…fernery is always covered in flower. Did Asia remember to propagate it last year? unnamed red evergreen azalea unnamed red evergreen azalea In Old Park an excellent white deciduous azalea…

6th September

…a good month after it first started flowering. Buddleia lindleyana Buddleia lindleyana Seed heads on Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’. Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red Star’ An unusual combination – Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Red

25th May

…‘Cornish Red’ in the mist houses. The new growth is now clean and ready for propagation. Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ Another mist house of rooted camellia cuttings ready to pot on….

8th June

…rather interrupting lunch! HRH visits the Cornwall Red Squirrel Project stand HRH visits the Cornwall Red Squirrel Project HRH visits the Cornwall Red Squirrel Project 2017 – CHW A wet…

19th June

…youngish Styrax japonicus near George’s Hut is the only japonicus to be covered in flower this year. Plastered in fact. Styrax japonicus Styrax japonicus A few flowers this year on…