I was back up at Mount Edgcumbe on Tuesday of this week, the 5th of November. There were quite a lot of camellias flowering, mostly sasanquas but some other things as well. Here's a montage of some of them. I also posted a video to YouTube: https://youtu.be/jb8a0Ix6wkg The varieties in the montage above are:Row 1 … Continue reading Notes from the park – 9/11/2024
Mt Edgcumbe
Progress report
I’ve just spent several weeks working my way through the Mount Edgcumbe collection records to bring them up to date. I have done much the same with the galleries of pictures under the Mt Edgcumbe tab on this website. For most sections of the collection I have added another column of images, so that each … Continue reading Progress report
Mount Edgcumbe Video Diary – December 2023
In my own garden, I can see that the sun has just come out and is highlighting a particular plant, grab the camera and go. Mount Edgcumbe is a half hour drive away, it is a planned trip and I pretty much have to make the best of whatever the weather comes up with on … Continue reading Mount Edgcumbe Video Diary – December 2023
Another day at the office
The weather forecast for yesterday was terrible but it was the only day this week that I was going to be able to get up to Mt. Edgcumbe so I sketched it in as a day for engraving labels. On the day, the weather had a change of heart but I spent the morning doing … Continue reading Another day at the office
Mt. Edgcumbe update – Identification issues – 12/3/2023
When I was at the park on Friday, I cut a couple of shoots from 2C-003 Camellia japonica 'Blackburniana' and a couple from 5C-002 Camellia japonica 'Adolphe Audusson', put them in a bag and brought them home. There are two plants in section 2C labelled 'Blackburniana' and they are completely different. The other one, 2C-004, … Continue reading Mt. Edgcumbe update – Identification issues – 12/3/2023
Azurea or Pilida, or something else?
There are still close to a hundred plants in the Mt Edgcumbe collection which do not match their labels and which I have been unable to positively identify. I will give a full description of one of them, which for reasons I will explain, I think may be 'Azurea' or 'Pilida'. I am hoping that … Continue reading Azurea or Pilida, or something else?
Masayoshi
Most visitors to Mt Edgcumbe will start at the top of the collection and work their way down. This will take them along the level path known as the Earl's Drive, along both sides of which are planted camellias. One of the most prominent of these, in section 5A, not quite at the path edge … Continue reading Masayoshi
Persephone
Plant Heritage is the organisation that oversees the business of National Collections and as part of that they provide an online database system onto which collection holders can put the records of their collection. It's called Persephone. Their earlier database system was called Demeter. Cultured lot, Plant Heritage. As far as the Mt Edgcumbe collection … Continue reading Persephone
A problem solved, maybe.
It being sasanqua season, which always seems particularly fleeting, I have been looking again at plants that appear to be wrongly labelled in an attempt to identify them correctly. In Area 10 at Mount Edgcumbe there is a plant labelled C. oleifera and another labelled C. sasanqua 'Fukuzutsumi'. Both have been flowering for a couple … Continue reading A problem solved, maybe.
October reflection
Planting I have managed to resume my volunteer days at Mt Edgcumbe on a weekly basis for the past few weeks and have been focussing on planting. The park has a small nursery area where they have been growing on small plants that they obtained a few years ago and last autumn I brought some … Continue reading October reflection
Jim's Camellias 