4th February

…williamsii ‘Lady’s Maid’ The ancient Hamamelis mollis in Lower Quarry Nursery is slowly recovering after it was cleared around to give it more light. Hamamelis mollis Rhododendron lutescens full out…

23rd December

…japonica ‘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…

27th September

…Pinus radiata The seedling Araucaria angustifolia x Araucaria araucana is growing on well. Just the one which Jaimie is tending. Araucaria angustifolia x Araucaria araucana Seed heads on Illicium griffithii…

18th March

…shrub Araucaria angustifolia – 1st and the Alun Edwards memorial cup for best exhibit Araucaria angustifolia – 1st Early Rhododendron competition Any three species one truss of each R. grande,…

20th November

…Not secondary flowers but the real thing! Rhododendron lutescens Rhododendron lutescens Camellia x williamsii ‘November Pink’ looking splendid. See the size of the trunk of this tree now. The best…

20th February

…at the base of a Pinus radiata. i look it up and think it’s Ramaria stricta (Upright Coral) Ramaria stricta ? Magnolia ‘F.J. Williams’ now full out and splendid at…

3rd March

…JCW None of the above except R lutescens. Frost has abated and rooks have started to build. I saw one carrying a big stick. 1928 – JCW Argenteums well open,…

29th January

…Blood reds are good, also moupinense – lutescens – irroratum – mucronulatum. Prunus cerasus conradinae show colour. 1927 – JCW Cyclamineus daff has been open for some three days, nothing…

27th January

…Arboreum x Thomsonii open. Camellia speciosa has been good for 3 weeks. 1924 – JCW R barbatum, strigillosum, mucronulatum, moupinense, scabrifolium, parvifolium, lutescens and dahuricum and a few red arb’ms…

24th January

Lutescens “ “ Mucronulatum nearly over Decorum odd late flower Argenteum * I could fill a show vase, rest odd flowers. Aemulorum* Davidsonianum* Praecox Leucaspis Parvifolium* Rubiginosum* Stewartianum* Racemosum* (Oleifolium)…