30th July

…‘Black Knight’ looking good together. Escallonia ‘Iveyi’ and Buddleia ‘Black Knight’ 2020 – CHW An old clump of Hydrangea ‘Blue Wave’ on the drive. Hydrangea ‘Blue Wave’ Hydrangea ‘Blue Wave’…

22nd May

…to white. A very good plant although grafted onto a Crataegus. Malus transitoria ‘Roundabarrow Ruby’ Malus transitoria ‘Roundabarrow Ruby’ Malus transitoria ‘Roundabarrow Ruby’ Magnolia acuminata ‘Blue Opal’. Magnolia acuminata ‘Blue

7th June

…Rosa ‘Blue for You’ Rosa ‘Blue for You’ A nice memorial for Albert Riddle outside the members’ pavilion. Albert would have approved of the developing piss up in the CLA…

2nd July

…champion tree originating in the Levant as I have seen before with flower and fruit. Pyrus x michauxii Pyrus x michauxii Pyrus x michauxii Brahea armata – Mexican blue palm…

23rd July

…with blue cones and stripy undersides of the leaves. Abies nukiangense Abies nukiangense Abies nukiangense This is Tom’s own collection from Yunnan of Meliosma cuneifolia. It too is a multi-stemmed…

21st October

…on Illicium griffithii (WW7 11911). Also the blue pods on Decaisnea fargesii. 2021 – CHW From the Werrington archives appears a May 1885 plan of the Caerhays cellar and an…

30th October

…or yellowish-green in panicles at the end of its branches and dark blue nut-like fruits. Research suggests that little is known about this plant in Europe or the USA and…

21st June

…Key’s garden at the Pound grows a tall biennial echium with reddish flowers. Is this a species or a hybrid? Very different in colour to our blue and pink Echium…

15th November

…pensilis ‘Woolly Mammoth’ certainly lives up to its name at this time of the year. A rare swamp cypress from China related to Taxodium. Glyptostrobus pensilis ‘Woolly Mammoth’ Glyptostrobus pensilis…

28th November

…This is not a species known in the wild in China but it came first to the UK as a form of sasanqua in 1818. Camellia maliflora Camellia sasanqua ‘Blush’…

10th June

…‘Strawberry Fields’ Cornus kousa ‘Weaver’s Weeping’ is now in full shade and flowering below its potential. Cornus kousa ‘Weaver’s Weeping’ Hydrangea serrata ‘Tiara’ full out. Purple foliage and the blue

1st June

…last year. Gladiolus communis subsp Byzantinus Plenty of wild campion now replaces the primroses, daffodils and bluebells here too. Only three weeks since the bluebells faded and the grass took…

11th May

…A recently planted Magnolia tamaulipana with similar roe deer damage nearby. It should have had a wire netting surround. Magnolia tamaulipana Bluebells amazing at Burncoose as ever on a Friends…

24th April

…of false science? China? Big Pharma? Certainly not democracy and the British way of life as the BBC gleefully engage in its dismemberment. Reading The Spectator and Private Eye this…

11th April

…result of late grass cutting. bluebells bluebells 2016 – CHW Jolly trip around the garden with Sir Richard Needham and party on a fine day. Sir Richard in good form…

5th April

…‘Innocence’ just coming out above Bond Street. Staphylea holocarpa ‘Innocence’ The first full out bluebell I have seen with true blue colours. Bluebells In the old Hardy & Bert’s nursery…

6th February

China is unknown but it is a superb plant. Too windy today to see if any scent. The pictures on the Lunaplant website of M. ‘Fire’ do not do it…

10th May

…it has few flowers this year after the cold winter. Despite there being few flowers out the ground is carpeted with buds pecked in half by blue tits seeking the…

8th May

blue as the other in bud. Magnolia ‘Woodsman’ x ‘Patriot’ Magnolia ‘Woodsman’ x ‘Patriot’ Araucaria angustifolia was planted out in early March but the recent frost has done for it…

18th May

…Nurseries) with a strange blue hue to its large leaves. Eucalyptus delegatensis Eucalyptus delegatensis Eucalyptus gregsoniana (also Roundabarrow) with a fine set of new growth. Eucalyptus gregsoniana Quercus trojana just…