…1921 – JCW Poet’s open and daffs on the wane. No yellow trumpets left but nice Leiden and a little colour. Rho amoena at their best. Cherries in Drive very…

…double Azalea and bits of one yellow below Hovel road. Bits of Davidsonianum and Sutchuenense hybrids. No reds. Bits of Azalea Amoena and several Kurume.1940 – CW Cold spell began…

…an Azalea ‘Amoena’. Magnolia ‘Charles Coates’ full out on the Burncoose drive nearby (Magnolia sieboldii x Magnolia tripetala). My sister in law and niece line up for a bit of…

…very full of flower this year on the drive. Azalea ‘Amoena’ beside it nearly over. Azalea ‘Fedora’ Azalea ‘Fedora’ Rhododendron ‘Linda’ full out on Cart Road. One of several nice…

…the drive while the Azalea ‘Amoena’ opposite, which has been out for weeks is now over. Normally the two would overlap. Azalea ‘Fedora’ Azalea ‘Fedora’ The first hydrangea flower heads…

…but Recurvas.   1940 – CW Mag sargentiana over for more than two weeks – Staphylea nearly gone. Many Azaleas out and Amoena in drive at its best – Rho…

…about out. R yunnanense is good in the big beds. Standish hybrids are good and so Sappho x auklandii, Roylei just opening, but a very few Azaleas open. Azalea amoena…

…cut for the stand.Looking today there is plenty of deciduous azalea just showing colour but all the evergreens are over; some long over: AZALEA ‘Fedora’ – well over AZALEA amoena…

…on the Drive are at least yellow! 1916 – JCW Auklandii nearly over, Cherries are gone. White A indica and A amoena very good. Molli and Ghent Azaleas nice. Loderi…

…Arboreum “ “ Burmanicum x Moupiense “ “ Lutescens x Moupiense “ “ Also several bits of Azalea Amoena and Kurume Grande full out at Trewidden (handwritten note) Signed C.W….