…nice. The Fortunei’s are nearly over, the Auriculatum hybrids about to open. 1918 – JCW R brunonis is good. Rhodo’s lack rain very badly. 1916 – JCW Mitraria fair. R…

…R ingersii open. R fortunei Wilson wanes, P poissonii good. Mitraria good. L giganteums nice. Papa Gontier good. 1901 – JCW Romneya just starting five or six flowers. I have…

…lyalii did half the D and L’s. Yesterday, not really open. Buddleias have hardly opened. R r remains poor, too damp. Mitraria fair. Very little in the hard wood way…

…ago. Harrow hybrids would be fine but the heat ruins them. 1923 – JCW R coulteri has had a few flowers only. Brunonis and Mitraria are nice. The Plagianthus are…

…shrub now. 1912 – JCW Both buddleias are open and quite nice. 1909 – JCW Returned from Scotland, R brunonis very fine. Mitraria nice. No cyclamen. No buddleia’s. R decorum…

…only starting. Wilson’s Fortunei wane and so A ‘Mikado’. Escallonia pteroclada coming on. Escallonia langleyense good. Mitraria fair. R moyesii goes back. 1901 – JCW Returned after a months absence…

…just over, it is very late for some things. 1910 – JCW L giganteum nearly over. Brunonis over, R coulteri fair. Mitraria good. R cinnabarinum going back. Buddleias show colour….

…about their best. Very very dry, several things dead. 1909 – JCW Buddleia variabilis shows colour. Mitraria fair. Cyclamen none. Half the daff seed sown. Most of the transplanting finished….

…yet. 1911 – JCW A good few cyclamen are up. Buddleias are going back. Mitraria suffered badly in the long spell of dry weather, some lapagerias show, roses coming again….

…flowers good yet. 1910 – JCW The buddleias are just starting. Mitraria are good. Ferns by the mitrarias good. Honeysuckles good, not much else, an odd lapageria and so cyclamen….