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View 24th September 1897 – 2020

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FJW 1955-2007

CHW 2015-

JCW 1897-1939

CW 1940-1955

2026 – CHW

Young plants of Rhododendron ‘Yellow Hammer’ behind Tin Garden Shed in secondary flower.

Rhododendron davidsonianum ‘Caerhays Pink’ also, and more unusually, with secondary flowers.

Magnolia sharpii x M. tamaulipana x M. grandiflora growing well and the leaves suggest something special (from Raf Lenaerts).

Magnolia yunnanensis in Tin Garden with good new growth.

Schefflera bodinieri from Tregrehan has died in the drought.

Magnolia delavayi (pink form) x M. grandiflora does not seem to exhibit much M. delavayi in its leaf form? (from Raf Lenaerts).

Ripe seed already on Styrax shiraianus.

Hoheria sexstylosa ‘Crataegifolia’ has blown over and needs re-staking.

2025 – CHW

Karol took these pictures earlier this week of pouring the concrete for the base of the swimming pool. Quite a performance but all went well in a fine, dry week. Apart, that is, from the concrete lorry leaving the Green Gate open and the cattle invading the garden.

Clematoclethra aff. scandens subsp. actinidioides ready to plant out and developing good autumn colours.

Crataegus laevigata ‘Gireoudii’ at its absolute best.

Placing out the 26 plants in the big new clearing on the drive at the end of a fine, dry week. Mainly magnolias with a few rarities.

An unknown genus to me. Euscaphis japonica – BSWJ 14600. Collected on Mt. Sefuri, Fukuoka, on Kyūshū Island, Japan. Not in Hilliers. Staphyleaceae family. Grows to 3-4m in height – a small ornamental tree with panicles of white flowers. Now planted in the drive clearing.

2024 – CHW
Rather more to see in the greenhouses than I expected.

Amazing colour on Lagerstroemia ‘Tuskegee’.

Not bad on Lagerstroemia indica ‘Rosea’ either.

Lagerstroemia indica ‘Berlingot Menthe’ – different again but equally impressive.

Liquidambar styraciflua ‘Combi’s Upright’ with marvellous red leaves.

Crataegus mexicana f. stipulacea with enormous fruits.

Young home raised seedlings of our Record Prunus pilosiuscula have decent autumn colour but we never see this on the mature tree.

Euonymus macropterus – the best of the leaves have already dropped.

Camellia yuhsienensis (Tregrehan cutting 2018) with plenty of flower but very slow growing!

Camellia parvilimba (RMCG seed distribution),

Podocarpus drouynianus with delicate new growth. A Tregrehan Rare Plant Fair acquisition.

2023 – CHW
Hydrangea ‘Merveille Sanguine’ has been missing pictures on the Burncoose website for 18 months. A reddish-purple mophead but we have had no stock at flowering times. Just a dark leaf photograph for now!

Early flowers in the nursery on Bergenia ‘Fire and Ice’.

Wonderful brown autumn colours on Viburnum plicatum ‘Mariesii’.

Secondary flowers on Rhaphiolepis indica ‘Springtime’ in the nursery.

Vitex agnus-castus in the rare plant tunnel.

Rostrinucula dependens a good show as ever.

Late flowers on Isoplexis canariensis ‘Bella’

Still late flowers on Myrtus communis subsp. tarentina.

Camellia sasanqua ‘Dazzler’ just out in a tunnel.

2022 – CHW
More work in the greenhouse frames sorting out piles of plants to plant out in different places.Malus coronaria ‘Elk River’ with crab apples of the conventional sort.

Malus ‘Professor Sprenger’ – this one is going to make a good show in the Kitchen Garden too.

Malus ‘Sun Rival’

Malus ‘Golden Gem’ – not so different to ‘Golden Hornet’

Malus toringo ‘Scarlett’ – dark leaves and dark fruits.

Another species of Lysionotus – L. pauciflorus (BSWJ 335) with flowers much the same as the one the other day. Leaf formation and buds are however very different and long thin ‘runner bean’ seed pods.

Although still a small plant in a pot Corylus fargesii has one huge cluster of long cobnuts.

2021 – CHW
Hydrangea paniculata ‘White Lace’ has now turned a delicate pink in most of its flowers.

Hydrangea ‘Madame E Mouilliere’ with a second crop of new white flowers alongside the faded flush of its first performance.

Hydrangea ‘Hobella’ too has a secondary flush of flowers as a result of the wet July.

Hydrangea ‘Ayesha’ has just the odd secondary flower amid the faded remnants of its main display.

This is a hybrid climbing hydrangea which has grown several feet up a dead oak tree. I think it is Hydrangea serratifolia x Hydrangea peruviana but need to check.

This elderly Camellia x williamsii ‘Jury’s Yellow’ outside the back yard has recently had a vigorous haircut to rejuvenate it.

Azalea ‘Babeuff’ was similarly given a hard prune back with ivy and old dead bits removed. Already you can see the new growth emerging.

View 24th September 1897 – 2020