23rd December

…‘Alba Simplex’ Rhododendron lutescens with its first flowers. These are the start of its flowering season and not a secondary effort. Rhododendron lutescens Rhododendron lutescens 2021 – CHW The garden…

4th February 1897 – 2020

…of snow for winter – heavy thaw – 3 Nov pink for hedge ‘well’ – heather only other flower. 1934 – JCW Plenty of Rhodo’n buds. R lutescens and R…

18th March 1897 – 2020

…fine plants. 1935 – JCW Lutescens is fairly good. Reticulata fairly good flowers. 1929 – JCW Lutescens is far the best thing we have. Neriiflorum, Thomsonii, Barbatum, Irroratum are all…

20th November

…year on the original and paler Camellia saluenensis by the ladies loos. Camellia saluenensis Likewise on Rhododendron lutescens by the quarry. Not secondary flowers but the real thing! Rhododendron lutescens

20th February 1897 – 2020

…JCW Heaths fairly good, Rhodo lutescens and moupinense very good. Blood Red hybrids well out, some Barbatum and Scabrifolium. Prunus pissardi and conradinae just coming out. [?] Dediconia is the…

5th March 1897 – 2020

…show bloom. Rho sutchuenense is in flower, Rho lutescens is quite fine, cold and all.1932 – JCW Five weeks of rain left cold. Rhodo’s kept going but absence of buds…

19th March 1897 – 2020

…‘Peter Borlase’ Magnolia campbellii ‘Peter Borlase’ In the rain: Rhododendron fargesii full out. Rhododendron fargesii Rhododendron fargesii Rhododendron lutescens just emerging. Rhododendron lutescens 2018 – CHW More heavy snow overnight….

3rd March 1897 – 2020

…all forms, some may touch April. 1929 – JCW None of the above except R lutescens. Frost has abated and rooks have started to build. I saw one carrying a…

14th February 1897 – 2020

…of Rhodo of which the best are Sutchuenense and hybrids of the same. Strigillosum – Hookeri – Racemosum – Ririei – Barbatum – Irroratum – Lutescens – Scabrifolium – Argenteum…

8th February 1897 – 2020

…in week.1958 – FJW N. cyclamineus has been out for some days. 1934 – JCW Lutescens is very good, Conradinae is just opening, Mucronulatum is very nice, not one daff…

29th January 1897 – 2020

…some nice R sutchuenense open in the Old Park. Barbatum and the early Blood reds are good, also moupinense – lutescens – irroratum – mucronulatum. Prunus cerasus conradinae show colour….

27th January 1897 – 2020

…moupinense, scabrifolium, parvifolium, lutescens and dahuricum and a few red arb’ms x Thompsonii now in flower. Bobs heath is very nice. Leucojum vernum, C coum, wild snowdrops and Aconites open…

24th January 1897 – 2020

…on Jan 24th 1943 Species Moupiense in good flower Rerii “ “ Irroratum “ “ Pink Arboreum “ “ Barbatum “ “ Lutescens “ “ Mucronulatum nearly over Decorum odd…

23rd January 1897 – 2020

…Caerhays daff open in the Orchard, many crimson scarlet hybrids show colour, R irroratum is opening. R scabrifolium, lutescens, baileyi, two forms of dahuricum – moupinense, several Caucasicums, a bit…

2nd March 1897 – 2020

…in some cases, also lutescens and so Thomsonii x Arboreum. The Argenteums are bulging their buds well.1917 – JCW The first Nar cyclamineus opens. Moupinense at its best. Lutescens starting….

10th March 1897 – 2020

…moving a little, the best thing has been R lutescens. 1928 – JCW Much as in 1918. I picked a half open sinogrande. 1919 – JCW Daffodils well ahead of…

12th March 1897 – 2020

…40 Acres good and below Engine House. Denudata nearly at its best. Rho lutescens covered as it used to at Greenway. Reds, pink hybrids, Arboreum and single Camellias all at…

14th March 1897 – 2020

…best on the main ride (the yellow form) and on the drive (the pink form). This was a JCW hybrid between Rhododendron lutescens and Rhododendron moupinense which received an AM…

21st March 1897 – 2020

…recovering and Lutescens leads a long way and the Camellia speciosa has been good owing to the buds opening almost at once when the frost left. 1929 – JCW The…

24th February 1897 – 2020

…several Sutchuenense hybrid blooms are open and more to come. Rho lutescens is nice in particular one of the cut back plants. There have been flowers on the Gordonia all…