…around to give it more light. Hamamelis mollis Rhododendron lutescens full out now as you would expect. Rhododendron lutescens Primroses and cyclamen on the bank. Primroses and cyclamen Prunus mume…

…‘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…

…just starting. 1926 – JCW Staphylea holocarpa shows bud, 6-8 kinds of cherry. Reticulata fair. Lutescens opening. Calophytums wane. Sutchuenense gone or nearly so. Lutescens and Argenteum wane. Auklandii showing…

…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…

…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 showing yellow. 1933 –…

…early Kobus ½ open.1927 – 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…

…Racemosum – Ririei – Barbatum – Irroratum – Lutescens – Scabrifolium – Argenteum – Thomsonii – Nobleanum hybrids. E darleyensis fine and so R praecox. Camellia speciosa is very nice….

…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 big stick….

…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….

…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…