by julie | Jan 12, 2022 | News
So this year it’s Magnolia ‘Todd’s Forty Niner’ which is the first Magnolia to show proper colour and flower in the garden. Gardens are open again to the public on Monday 14th February and every day until Sunday 12th June, 10am – 5pm...
by julie | May 7, 2021 | News
The publication of Beat Heerdegen and Reto Eisenhut’s splendid new book on Magnoliaceae in late 2019 demonstrates all too clearly how magnolia hybridisation and breeding has moved on apace in the last 20 years. The text may be in German but the photographs and...
by julie | Feb 1, 2021 | vlog
Charles in the garden with the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Magnolias out in the garden and a quick relook the 1st one, adding to the total needed of 50 for spring to be announced. 0:00 – Magnolia campbellii alba ‘Strybing White’ 2:01 – Magnolia...
by julie | Jan 15, 2021 | vlog
Charles in the garden in the 2nd week of January 2021, looking at the early colour showing on the buds of this lovely Magnolia ‘Todd’s Forty Niner’, usually one of the earliest in flower at the castle.
by julie | Jul 9, 2020 | News
At the third attempt we have finally managed to grow this subtropical evergreen Mexican magnolia from the Tamaulipas to flowering size outdoors at Caerhays. It is the closest relative to M. grandiflora but nothing like as good. (See gallery below) It actually produced...
