30th April

…FJW A very wet April – cold. 1993 – FJW A wet April. 1944 – CW All daffs over in Tin Garden. Auklandii still very good. Magnolia rostrata and fraseri

24th May

…flower out on Magnolia fraseri var. pyramidalis and still one bud to go. Four flowers on a four to five year old plant in a pot is unusual. Grevillea ‘Robyn…

9th June

…whole. Watsoni, fraseri, prostrata, denudata all good. Still a few conspicua and double camellias. Rho Cornish Loderi fully out, Ponticum and Fortunei in Beech Walk really a fine mass –…

31st July

…through the adjacent camellias where they now flower away nicely standing proud to the camellias. Berberidopsis corallina Lomatia fraseri with its first flowering in the garden here. We now have…

4th February 1897 – 2020

…as in 25, but the small number of Rhodo’n buds makes the wood a bit dull. The American Azaleas came seven of them and Magnolia fraseri. Lutescens 1/6th open. 1925…