14th December

…jasminum ‘Album’ still with flower in a tunnel. Solarium jasminum ‘Album’ Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Jelena’ just out. Other varieties still to show colour. Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Jelena’ Schizostylis coccinea ‘Major’…

5th January

…of a bucket but hollow. Only Hamamelis and a few Cyclamen out. 1931 – JCW Hamamelis about ½ a crop owing to a wet August a small frost on one…

7th January

…JCW Hamamelis and mucronulatum v g, some Camellias are nice, C speciosa particularly so, C Coum is showing, C sasanqua is over, a few snowdrops. 1921 – JCW Hamamelis and…

7th December

…Oleifera quite good considering the hard winter last year. Just beginning to get flower on Nobleanums on Drive. Turning colder. 1931 – JCW Hamamelis just showing colour just as in…

4th January

…of Saluensis and Hamamelis. A few Sutchuenense hybrids. A good pink one in beech walk best. Frost has cut an odd early Rho Thompsonii but not scarlets which are beginning….

3rd January

…mid morning. 2001 – FJW Still raining! 1933 – JCW Very little in flower, exception 8 Hamamelis mollis. Camellia speciosa, the early form, is very good. 1929 – JCW Much…

29th December

…of the Sutchuenense hybrids, bits of Yellow Hammer and Golden Oriole and Moupinense. Hamamelis only beginning. Camellia Double white been out 2 weeks and the first J.C.W bud (opening) picked…

26th January

…but plants not so soft. Hamamelis quite perfect and not touched. 1930 – JCW Much as on January 27th 1924 but more C speciosa in, H mollis over but H…

18th September

…immediately in the immediate post lockdown rush to plant. 29 pallets of trees The amazing and unusually early autumn colours on the leaves of Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Arnold Promise’. You…

9th January

…thing, snowdrops showing since Christmas. 1920 – JCW Just as the above but less of excepting for the Hamamelis which is better. Cotoneaster salicifolia is nice and Bob’s heath is…