The nursery and gardens are open 10.00 to 16.00 everyday, all are welcome.
Video Garden Tips
We have made lots of short videos of tips for the garden, all of these can be found on our youtube channel.
Packing & Delivery
- Packing Shed - How we pack a single plant for delivery
- Packing Shed - How we pack several plants for delivery
- Packing Shed - How we pack your plants on a pallet
Around the nurseries at Burncoose
- Chelsea Flower Show tunnels May 2021
- Propagation tunnels Spring 2021
- Getting ready for Spring 2021
- Polytunnels in February
- Potting up ready for spring
General Garden Tips
- Bulbs - Protecting Spring Bulbs
- Climbers - Training
- Climbers More - Training
- Ground Cover - Cover steep banks
- Herbaceous perennial plants - Propagation
- Herbaceous perennial plants - Pruning
- Herbaceous perennial plants - Self-sown seedlings
- Herbaceous perennial plants - Splitting and dividing
- Herbaceous perennial plants - Supporting
- General - Fasciation in plants
- Maintenance - Bird Boxes - Spring Clean
- Maintenance - Bird Nest Material/Dog Hair
- Maintenance - Brambles - Removing
- Maintenance - Deadheading
- Maintenance - Feeding container grown plants
- Maintenance - Grass cutting in a woodland garden
- Maintenance - Grass cutting delays for wild flowers & wild life
- Maintenance - Greenhouse improving humidity
- Maintenance - Greenhouse checking cuttings
- Maintenance - Greenhouse winter/spring tidyup
- Maintenance - Gutter clearing
- Maintenance - Hedge Trimming Annual trim
- Maintenance - Hedge Trimming 5 yr trim
- Maintenance - Ivy - Removing
- Maintenance - Ivy - Removing version 2
- Maintenance - Ivy - From Magnolias
- Maintenance - Leaves - Clearing from ditches & paths
- Maintenance - Plants from cold winds
- Maintenance - Repotting Root-bound plants
- Maintenance - Record keeping - plants and replacements
- Maintenance - Shoots on grafted plants
- Maintenance - Supporting Plants
- Maintenance - Training Plants
- Maintenance - Variegation - maintaining in plants and hedges.
- Maintenance - Variegated plants - Pruning
- Maintenance - Water Collection
- Pests & Diseases - Honey Fungus
- Pests & Diseases - Mealy Bugs
- Pests & Diseases - Powdery Mildew
- Pests & Diseases - Rabbit Damage Protection
- Pests & Diseases - Red Spider Mite
- Pests & Diseases - Scale Insect
- Pests & Diseases - Sooty Mould - Thrips
- Pests & Diseases - Wasps
- Perennials - Splitting and dividing summer perennials
- Perennials - Spring flowering tidy up in June
- Perennial grasses - Tidying up
- Shrubs - Fertilising
- Shrubs - Moving and replanting
- Shrubs - Mulching
- Shrubs - Pruning
- Shrubs - Self-sown seedlings
- Shrubs - Semi-ripe cuttings - Plumbago
- Shrubs - Semi-ripe cuttings - Camellia, Lomatia & Rhododendron
- Shrubs - Hardwood cuttings - Fuchsia, Buddleja, Berberis, Deutzia & Salix
- Trees - Checking ties
- Trees - Tie Damage
- Trees - Deer protection
- Trees - Deer protection 2
- Trees - Maintaining variegation
- Trees - Planting a tree
- Trees - Pruning
- Trees - Removing side shoots
- Trees - Fallen young tree - restaking
- Trees - Fallen beech tree
- Trees - Fallen old tree
- Trees - Checking storm damage
- Trees - Removing Wire Protection
- Trees - Weed Spraying - short (2017)
- Trees - Weed Spraying - short (2021)
- Trees - Weed Spraying - long (2021)
- Trees - Undertaking a survey
- Trees - Uplifting crown
Plant Specific Tips
- Abutilon - Pruning
- Abutilon - Propagation - Cuttings
- Acacia - Spotlight of 4 species
- Acanthus - Summer Pruning
- Achillea - Splitting / Dividing
- Acers - Scorching & Dieback
- Aeonium - Propagation of offsets
- Aesculus - Flowering Background info.
- Aesculus wilsonii - Background info.
- Agapanthus - Splitting / Dividing
- Alliums - Planting in autumn
- Alstroemeria - Care
- Astelia - Splitting / Dividing
- Aguilegia - Cutting back
- Aguilegia - Self-seeding
- Astilbe - Splitting / Dividing
- Atherosperma moshatum - Background Info.
- Azalea - ‘Caerhays Lavender’,'Black Hawk’ & ‘Melford Lemon’
- Bamboo - Pruning
- Banksian rose - Pruning
- Berberis - Hardwood cuttings
- Broussonetia papyifera - Background info.
- Brugmansia - Pruning
- Buddleia - Pruning
- Buddleia - Hardwood cuttings
- Callistemon - Deadheading / Pruning
- Callistemon - Deadheading / Pruning No. 2
- Camellias - A guide to sizing & pricing
- Camellias - Care Guide
- Camellias - Maintenance - Pruning
- Camellias - Maintenance - Wind damaged, pruning & staking (grisjii)
- Camellias - Maintenance - Restaking fallen reticulata
- Camellias - Propagation - Seed collecting - 12/2019
- Camellias - Propagation - Seed collecting - 12/2020
- Camellias - Propagation - Self-seeding reticulata
- Camellias - Propagation - Semi-ripe cuttings
- Camellias - Propagation - Reshaping cuttings for better shaped plants
- Camellias - Propagation - Cutting background info
- Camellias - Pests & Diseases - Sooty Mould - Thrips
- Camellias - Autumn flowering camellias - 2019 - Background info.
- Camellias - Ancient sasanqua camellias - Part 1 - Background info.
- Camellias - 5 featured sasanqua hybrids in November - Part 2 - Background info.
Camellias - 5 featured sasanqua camellias - Part 3 - Background info. - Camellias - oleifera - Background info.
- Camellia transnokoensis - Background info.
- Camellias - x williamsii - Background info.
- Camellias - 'Cornish Snow Michael' in early March - Background info.
- Campsis - Autumn Pruning
- Cardiocrinum giganteum - Growing Guide
- Catalpa - Tidying winter damage
- Catalpa duclouxii - Background info.
- Citrus - Feeding
- Citrus - Pruning after flowering
- Clethra - Background info.
- Crataegus laevigata ‘Crimson Cloud’ - Background info.
- Crataegus laevigata ‘Paul’s Scarlet’ - Background info.
- Crataegus schraderiana, ellwangeriana, combyi & aprica - Background info.
- Crocosmia - lifting and splitting
- Cordyline - Pruning dead wood
- Cornus - Pruning
- Cornus capitata - Seed collecting
- Cornus capitata - Background info.
- Cornus kousa ‘Doubloon’ - Background info.
- Cornus kousa 'Satomi' - Background info.
- Cytisus 'Porlock' - Pruning after flowering
- Daffodils - Deadheading / Pruning
- Daffodils - Planting in autumn
- Daffodils/narcissus - Hybridisation
- Daphne bholua & growing in pots - Background info.
- Delphinium - Cutting Back / Pruning V1.
- Delphinium - Cutting Back / Pruning V2.
- Deutzia - Summer Pruning
- Deutzia - Hardwood cuttings
- Dicksonia / Tree Ferns - Tidying
- Dicksonia / Tree Ferns - Winter Protection
- Dicksonia / Tree Ferns - Trunk Watering
- Dodonea viscosa ‘Purpurea’ - reverting colour
- Echinops - Seed collection & Drying Flowers - 2019
- Echinops - Drying Flowers - 2020
- Echium pininana - Leave to seed - Quick video
- Echium pininana - Self-sown seedings
- Echiums - Seedlings to mature plants
- Embothrium - Propagation
- Epimedium - Spring Tidy
- Eremurus - Planting
- Escallonia - Pruning
- Eucryphia - Winter damage
- Euphorbia - Evergreen Pruning
- Euphorbia - Dead Heading
- Fascicularia - Splitting / Dividing
- Fern - Care
- Ferns - Reproduction
- Ferns - Tidying
- Ferns - Spring tidying decidious ferns
- Forsythia - Spring Pruning
- Fuchsia - F. arborescens Propagation
- Fuchsia - Hardwood cuttings
- Fuchsia - Pruning
- Fuchsia - Pruning, six weeks later
- Fuchsia procumbens - Background info.
- Gardenias - Care
- Garrya Elliptica 'James Roof' - Care
- Genista 'Porlock' - Pruning after flowering
- Genista 'Porlock' - Pruning after flowering - 2021
- Geranium - lifting and splitting
- Griselinia - Maintaining variegation
- Gunnera - Propagation by splitting
- Heathers - Pruning Summer Flowering Heathers
- Heathers - Pruning Tree Heathers
- Hedychium - Propagation by splitting
- Helenium - Autumn tidy up
- Helianthus - Propagation by splitting
- Hellebores - Care
- Hellebores - Spring Tidy
- Hemerocallis - Day lillies Deadheading
- Hemerocallis - Day lillies Propagation by splitting
- Hoheria - Checking deadwood
- Hostas - Protecting
- Hostas - Slug protection
- Hoya - 4 methods of propagation
- Hyacinths - Planting for Christmas
- Hydrangeas - Pruning
- Hydrangeas - How & when to prune
- Hydrangeas - Keeping them blue
- Hydrangeas - Drying flower heads
- Jasmine - Pruning
- Ilex - Potting on propagation
- Ilex acquifolium 'Bacciflava' - Yellow Berries
- Ilex verticillata & dimorphophylla - Background info.
- Iris - Deadheading
- Ivy - Removing
- Laburnocytisus 'Adamii' - Flowering
- Lampranthus - Pruning
- Laurel - Annual Pruning Hedges
- Laurel - 4/5 Year Hard Pruning Hedges
- Lavender - Harvesting for drying
- Lavender - Pruning French Lavender
- Lavender - General dead-heading
- Lavender - Propagation by cuttings
- Ligularia - Autumn tidy up
- Lily bulbs - Planting up
- Liriodendron chinense - Autumn colour
- Lomatia - Propagation by semi-ripe cuttings
- Lomatia - Propagation bringing on cuttings
- Lonicera - Summer pruning
- Lupins - Dead heading & powdery mildew
- Magnolia - A guide to sizing & pricing
- Magnolia - Maintenance - Checking deadwood
- Magnolia - Maintenance - Dealing with die back
- Magnolia - Maintenance - Planting a tree
- Magnolia - Maintenance - Potting on seedlings
- Magnolia - Maintenance - Pruning
- Magnolia - Maintenance - Pruning with chainsaw
- Magnolia - Maintenance - Seed collecting
- Magnolia - Maintenance - Shoots on rootstock
- Magnolia - Maintenance - Large shoot on rootstock
- Magnolia - Pests & Diseases - Scale Insect
- Magnolia - Pests & Diseases - Protection from slugs - short version
- Magnolia - Pests & Diseases - Protection from slugs - longer version
- Magnolia 'Albatross' - Background info.
- Magnolia 'Caerhays Surprise' - Background info.
- Magnolia campbellii in late January - Background info
- Magnolia campbellii 'Alba' - Background info.
- Magnolia campbellii 'Valentine's Torch' - Background info.
- Magnolia campbellii alba 'Strybing White' in late January - Background info
- Magnolia campbellii subsp. mollicomata 'Lanarth' - Background info.
- Magnolia campbellii subsp. mollicomata 'Lanarth' - New Zealand - Background info.
- Magnolia campbellii subsp. mollicomata 'Lanarth' in late January - Background info
- Magnolia campbellii subsp. mollicomata 'Lanarth' in early March - Background info
- Magnolia foveolata (Michelia) - Background info.
- Magnolia globosa - Background info.
- Magnolia / Manglietia insignis - Background info.
- Magnolia macclurei (Michelia) - Background info.
- Magnolia 'Atlas', 'Raspberry Fun', 'Sunrise' & x veitchii - Background info.
- Magnolia 'Lois', 'Peachy' & 'Limelight' - Background info.
- Magnolia 'Peachy' & 'Daybreak' - Background info.
- Magnolia 'Shirazz' - Background info.
- Magnolia 'Star Wars', doltsopa & veitchii - Background info.
- Magnolia sieboldii, sieboldii sinensis, x wieseneri, 'Summer Solstice' - Background info.
- Magnolia 'Todd's Forty Niner' - Background info.
- Magnolia 'Todd's Forty Niner' in late January - Background info
- Magnolia 'Tikitere' - Background info.
- Magnolia 'Tropicana' - Background info.
- Magnolia x M. 'Vulcan' & M. 'Atlas' - Background info.
- Magnolia 'Woodsman' x 'Patriot' - Background info.
- Magnolia - Best yellow magnolias video feature.
- Mahonia - Pruning and 1 year regrowth
- Malus - Restaking fallen young tree
- Meconopsis - Deadheading V1
- Meconopsis - Deadheading V2
- Mespilus - Restaking/Pruning
- Musa - Fleecing for Winter
- Musa - Splitting / Dividing
- Myrtus - Self-sown seedlings - 1
- Myrtus communis - Self-sown seedlings - 2
- Olearia scilloniensis - Summer Pruning
- Oemleria cerasiformis - Background info.
- Osmanthus yunnanensis - Background info.
- Papaver / poppies - Spring flowering tidy up in June
- Paulownia - Pruning and upllifting
- Peonies - Spring feeding
- Peonies (Tree) - Seed Collecting
- Philadelphus - Summer Pruning
- Phormium - Splitting Pot Grown Plants
- Plumbago - Pruning
- Plumbago - Semi-ripe cuttings
- Podocarpus - Uplifting tree crown
- Podocarpus elongatus ‘Blue Chip’ - Background info.
- Podocarpus salignus - Background info.
- Prunus - Pruning overlapping branches
- Prunus - Pruning drooping branches
- Prunus 'Okame', 'Kursar' & conradinae - Background info.
- Prunus 'Kursar' & conradinae - Background info - 2021.
- Pseudotsuga menziesii - Uplifting
- Punica - Background info.
- Quercus cerris 'Argenteovariegata' - Maintaining variegation
- Quercus ilex - Uplifting
- Rhododendron - Pruning - Don't!
- Rhododendron - Deadheading
- Rhododendron - Propagation - Seed collecting
- Rhododendron - Propagation - Potting on seedlings
- Rhododendron - Propagation - Potting on seedlings - 2
- Rhododendron - Propagation by Layering - short
- Rhododendron - Propagation by Layering - long
- Rhododendron - Propagation by Layering - lifting and replanting layers
- Rhododendron - Propagation by semi-ripe cuttings
- Rhododendron - Propagation by semi-ripe cuttings - R. 'Cornish Red'
- Rhododendron - Propagation by semi-ripe cuttings - Scented rhodies'
- Rhododendron - Making a hybrid
- Rhododendron - Making a hairy or scaly cross?
- Rhododendron - Pruning
- Rhododendron augustinii,edgworthii x leucaspis, ‘Anne Teese’, x loderi 'King George', nivium - Background info.
- Rhododendron cilpinense - Background info.
- Rhododendron decorum (pink form) - Background info.
- Rhododendron genestrianum - Background info.
- Rhododendron 'Lem's Monach', 'Fabia', decorum, lindleyi & 'Nancy Evans' - Background info.
- Rhododendron ‘Pink Polar Bear’ - Background info.
- Rhododendron 'Red Centurian' - Background info.
- Rhododendron - scented rhodies - Background info.
- Romneya Tree Poppy - Propagating
- Romneya Tree Poppy - Pruning
- Romneya Tree Poppy - Supporting
- Rosa - Dead heading
- Rosa - Disease - Rose Rust
- Rosmarinus / Rosemary - Summer Pruning
- Salix - Hardwood cuttings
- Sarcococca 5 species - Background info.
- Schima khasiana - Background info.
- Skimmia - How to get berries on your plants
- Snowdrops - Lifting and dividing snowdrops with Gerry
- Snowdrops - Lifting and dividing snowdrops with Andrew
- Sophora 'Sun King' - Background info.
- Stachyurus - Background info.
- Staphylea holocarpa 'Rosea' - Removing shoots below graft
- Staphylea holocarpa 'Rosea' - Background info.
- Strelitzia - Splitting / Dividing
- Styrax japonicus ‘Pendulus’ - Background info.
- Styrax japonicus ‘Emerald Pagoda’ - Background info.
- x Sycoparrotia semidecidua - Background info.
- Symplocos paniculata - Background info.
- Syringa - Removing suckers
- Taxus / Yew - Hedge trimming
- Thalictrum - Lifting & splitting
- Tibouchina - Pruning
- Tilia - Removing side shoots
- Tradescantia - Lifting & tidying
- Tulips - Planting in autumn/winter
- Verbena - Spring Pruning
- Vitis coignetaie - Pruning
- Weigela - Trimming & Pruning after flowering
- Wisteria - Effect of winter pruning
- Wisteria - Summer June/July pruning
- Yew - Poisonous seeds in autumn
- Zantedeschia, Arum Lily - Support
