…No Aconite. Coums good (¾), odd bits of Erica, Erica hybrida good, some roses, some Lapagerias and Primroses. 1910 – JCW No Aconite, Coums fair, Ericas slowly coming. Rhodos –…

…weeks ago. Rhododendron ‘Cornish Red’ Four young Camellia sasanqua ‘Narumigata’ still full out and very fine in the sun. Camellia sasanqua ‘Narumigata’ The first spring Cyclamen coum flower on the…

…Cyclamen coum Cyclamen coum Despite the cold this is a clump of campion which has, so far, escaped the previously mild winter. campion I gather that Magnolia campbellii subsp. mollicomata…

…Elsewhere bluebells. A veritable carpet of flowers. Cyclamen coum, coloured primroses and wild primulas Cyclamen coum, coloured primroses and wild primulas A pleasant surprise. At last an unnoticed Melliodendron xylocarpum…

…coum, I thought, growing in a great swathe on the top bank. Closer investigation suggests these are perhaps Cyclamen repandum? Cyclamen Cyclamen Rhododendron tanastyllum CNT 6350 Rhododendron tanastyllum CNT 6350…

…1925 – JCW Clematis cirrhosa has a few flowers, a very few Coum, bits of Rho’do as in 1917. R mucronulatum is the best and then R venustum. H mollis…

…out of Auklandii and Aucklandii hybrids. Ice on the pond on a small part of it. 1908 JCW C coum very good, snowdrops also. No Camellia, one trumpet shows colour….

…never as now. Mixed with the snowdrops here too which were transplanted from The Vean 10 years ago before building work started Cyclamen coum Cyclamen coum 2016 – CHW Barbara…

…at the best. Cyclamen coum is coming on. Hamamelis mollis has been out for a fortnight. 1912 – JCW A seedling trumpet (poor) is in flower and 35 blooms of…

…– FJW A very mild wet January – saluenensis and williamsii well out. 1934 – JCW No Daffs a late year, Coums open. R praecox by the brown gate is…

…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…

…in the blog six days ago. true Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ true Magnolia ‘Lanarth’ A smashing display of wild Cyclamen coum above the gents’ loo. wild Cyclamen coum And the first coloured…

…‘Pallida’ – large sized plants Hamamelis mollis ‘Pallida’ – large sized plants Cyclamen coum nicely out. A darker form than the one see in the garden on Christmas Day. Cyclamen…

…good at Christmas. Some C sasanqua, some coums. Cynoglosum nice. Rho lutescens opening. Picked the first Thomsonii x 3 days ago. 1910 – JCW Not much frost yet. Cam sasanqua…

…open. Just a coum or two. 1908 – JCW Iris stylosa good, C sasanqua fair. P megasoefolia late hardly a flower. Cassia good. Heaths have just begun. No coum yet….

…More information awaited. fungus Gaultheria mucronata ‘Bell’s Seedling’ looking plump and attractive in the nursery. Gaultheria mucronata ‘Bell’s Seedling’ Cyclamen coum with very varied leaf forms. Cyclamen coum Cyclamen hederifolium…

…Werrington for the first time. 1914 – JCW All four boys away at the war. A few lapagerias and coums, a rose or two, and some flowers on one of…

…C coum very nice, just an Aconite or two, Snowdrops hardly showing. Clematis chrysocoma good even after the cold, a few roses? Heaths good including a new lot of hybrida,…

…tea for the first time, some Arboreums opening and hybrids.1907 – JCW Later than all of the above, C coum are yet very good, snowdrops and aconites at their best.1903…

…– JCW Only one seedling trumpet open. Some N cyc and hybrids found, no crossed daffs, R praecox shows colour, C coum very good, a few roses yet, Clematis balearica…