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Hydrangeas at Burncoose RHS Lecture

Hydrangeas at Burncoose RHS Lecture

Hydrangeas at Burncoose Friday 31st July 2020 – UNFORTUNATELY CANCELLED Lecture by Charles Williams at Burncoose House Charles Williams (owner) will give the lecture and conduct the garden tour. The lecture will concentrate on the growing of hydrangeas and their...
Horse Chestnuts in flower late May

Horse Chestnuts in flower late May

Now is the perfect time to visit Caerhays before the Gardens close on Sunday 16th June, which is also our charity fete day. We have a large collection of horse chestnuts which are coming into flower now and will look great until mid-June. Charles shows us 4 of these...
Odd bi-species Laburnocytisus ‘Adamii’ in flower

Odd bi-species Laburnocytisus ‘Adamii’ in flower

This plant a bi-generic tree of two species, it was originally a grafted plant and it appears the graft and the stock plant have merged to become a chimera so you can see both laburnum and cytisus flowers on the same plant. Last year it was on Burncoose’s...
Interesting Ucodendron whartonii flowering for the first time

Interesting Ucodendron whartonii flowering for the first time

We first planted this Ucodendron in May 2017, and it really is a bit of a surprise. It is a new genus which is currently unclassified. It is flowering for the time with us and the flowers are very similar to an Hammamellis or Parrotia, the ‘experts’ have...
Best Yellow Magnolias

Best Yellow Magnolias

Charles picks his 4 best yellow Magnolias. In the video he says 4 or 5, and there are four in this clip. Magnolia ‘Lemon Star’ or ‘Swedish Star’ as it is sometimes known, flowers yellow with a bit of green. Magnolia ‘Lois’, bred by...