9th March

…week and the gardening weekend. A morning tour with all the staff members of Edward Buckland Chartered Surveyors, who were going on to attend their much delayed Christmas party! Edward

19th October

…Camellia sasanqua ‘Hugh Evans’ – a month early above Rogers Quarry. Camellia sasanqua ‘Hugh Evans’ Plenty of flowers for next spring on Lindera megaphylla. Lindera megaphylla Last week Edward Bolitho…

10th April

…he was unable to remember people’s names but could remember mine! Elizabeth had worked at Caerhays from 1952 and had met and married Major Simon Bolitho shortly afterwards. Edward Bolitho…

11th April

…this patch. violets Elizabeth Bolitho on the occasion of her 95th birthday with her sons Edward and Alverne and a presentation Magnolia ‘F J Williams’. Elizabeth Bolitho worked and lived…

31st October

…which I had forgotten. A large plant of Rhododendron mucronulatum which came as a bare root plant from Edward Needham at Tregye many years ago. An odd and irascible man…

18th February

…This particular clone was found by Edward Needham formerly of Tregye. It has especially narrow leaflets on its finely cut leaves. Very nice flower too and totally unlike Fatsia japonica….

20th January

…apparently a Bodnant hybrid. I had always thought it was a Bolitho cross from Trengwainton and certainly Colonel Edward Bolitho always claimed it was. A very early flowerer but short…

22nd January

…Rhododendron irrorata anthosphaerum just coming out below the Main Ride. Rhododendron irrorata anthosphaerum Rhododendron irrorata anthosphaerum Rhododendron barbatum now fully out with Edward Farmer and Thomas Methuen-Campbell looking on admiringly….