…Hydrangea paniculata ‘Kyushu’ – top end of clearing to top lodge. Smaller growing and a distinct upright habit. Attractive pointed flowers but short lived at Burncoose (20 years). Hydrangea paniculata…

…gale rages overnight. 2001 – FJW Rain and gales returned after short cool snap.1972 – FJW First snowdrops seen after boys return. Geo Blandford out well – as is J.C.W….

…going to be short of straw this winter and will need to buy some more in after the dry weather reduced the normal crop of straw on the spring barley….

…apparently a Bodnant hybrid. I had always thought it was a Bolitho cross from Trengwainton and certainly Colonel Edward Bolitho always claimed it was. A very early flowerer but short…

…Sorbus (ex Trevor Green) Very few conkers in a drought year. This is the best that I have seen. conkers Seed tassels on Pterocarya fraxinifolia noticeably shortened this year. Pterocarya…

…The Spring Story and launch started in 2013. The usual speeches. 2020 – CHW The short sharp hailstorms are not improving the magnolias. However we move on to plant up…

…‘Candy Stripe’ 2021 – CHW Heptacodium micinoides nearly out but it is only really ever partially out. A large shrub or small tree now but very short lived. Heptacodium micinoides…

…years. A short lived plant. No scent on it yet. Daphne bholua ‘Jacqueline Postill’ Daphne bholua ‘Jacqueline Postill’ The arum lily clump beside it is, as last year, quite untouched…

…Crinum powellii full out by the playhouse. Crinum powellii Tertiary small flowers on the adjacent Wisteria. Wisteria Wisteria Hydrangea aspera ‘Hot Chocolate’ (one dead, one will be dead shortly and…

…and Arboreums but frost on those low down.. Erica hybrida very good since hols.1924 – JCW A late year, Scarlet hybrids are mostly cut out by frost or very short…