4th June

…best thing in the garden today. Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’ Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’ Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’ Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’ Rhododendron ‘Tortoiseshell Orange’ just going over. Rather paler than our form so…

24th May

…‘King George’ Staphylea holocarpa ‘Innocence’ with numerous clusters of bladder nuts. This small tree or shrub has never produced bladders before. Staphylea holocarpa ‘Innocence’ Cornus kousa ‘Doubloon’ suddenly out. Cornus

28th November

…tree on a bank. The pheasants have already eaten the few black berries there were this year. Cornus walteri Cornus walteri Cornus walteri Cornus walteri Cotoneaster franchetii still covered in…

20th May

…thing in the garden at Tregullow today. Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’ Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’ Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’ Cornus controversa ‘Variegata’ Rhododendron ‘Rubicon’ Rhododendron ‘Rubicon’ Lizzie’s first day outside Caerhays for eight…

13th March

…the wind. Cornus ‘Norman Haddon’ However, alongside it, Cornus capitata is hardly touched at all? Then one thinks about it and Cornus ‘Normna Haddon’ is a cross between C. capitata…

12th May

…managed by Molly and Cressy. The Show Tunnel The Show Tunnel Cercis ‘Eternal Flame’ just coming into leaf. Cercis ‘Eternal Flame’ Cornus ‘Venus’ looks a show stopper yet again. Cornus

12th November

…have been burnt. leylandii But plenty more still to go. still to go Cornus iberica with good reddish-black autumn colour. Cornus iberica Cornus hemsleyi with very similar colouration. Cornus hemsleyi…

8th June

…‘Fern Leaf’ Cornus kousa var. chinensis ‘Xanthocarpa’ has yellow (not red) fruits which we can now look forward to as it flowers for the first time. Cornus kousa var. chinensis…

23rd November

…its huge ripe and over ripe strawberry-like fruits which the pheasants are now starting to eat. The branches are bowed down with the weight of the fruits. Cornus capitata Cornus

25th November

…picture of Cornus controversa with the last of its full yellow autumn display. This is a self-sown seedling of the nearby elderly Cornus which we had believed was Cornus bretschneideri…