27th July

…me to remember to get them sprayed on the pond at home before they form a major clump. bulrushes Sanquisorba officinale has smaller flowers and is more dwarf than our…

11th September

…holiday lets over time. A new hamlet in the countryside rather than this shambolic dereliction of a farmyard. Major investment though of £750k or so to do the work properly….

11th June

…on Magnolia ‘Yuchelia’ remain intact – or the paper bags do anyway. Magnolia ‘Yuchelia’ This clump of rhododendrons was grown from seed supplied by Major Howell (perhaps via an RHS…

17th September

…the early 1970’s but this has long since been corrected and updated. Major repairs are needed (i.e. a new roof) although we have undertaken measures to stabilise the problem short…

28th June

…shrubs and things which will tolerate wind in a hot and potentially very dry location for the nursery to assemble. Another major improvement to the garden but we will be…

26th January

…coming. Major remedial (!) works being done at the top of the wood – i.e most of old show stopped dead and now cut down.1981 – FJW Very mild winter…

2nd April

…a pause in rent payments have to be dealt with in a new policy. More people are cancelling their shoot bookings than I expected. Our major building projects are proceeding…

2nd December

…Magnolia x veitchii 2019 – CHW The storms have caused major damage at Burncoose as well as here. One of the elderly beech trees by the tree fern shed a…

30th March

…to be dying. One two years ago and two on the way out now. One left. All a long way from each other. The last two seemed to have major