…been out 2 weeks and the first J.C.W bud (opening) picked today. Oleifera very good still. Bits is Cam sasanqua left. Pink Saluenensis by Tin Garden good and other bits…

…possibly ‘Sodegasuki’) is the correct name and not Camellia Gauntlettii). nerine bed 1990 – FJW Snow. 1967 – FJW Fairly heavy snow. Oleifera and November Pink began at end of…

…that Wilson and Forrest collections do not die out unnoticed.Fallen flowers underneath Camellia oleifera. Camellia oleifera Acer palmatum dissectum ‘Atropurpureum’ Acer palmatum dissectum ‘Atropurpureum’ Acer palmatum dissectum ‘Atropurpureum’ A carpet…

…and broken a few leading stems and side branches on younger magnolias. Cladrastis kentukea is half blown away. Cladrastis kentukea First flowers out on Camellia oleifera. Camellia oleifera Meliosma species…

…Aconitum ‘Newry Blue’ in the sun. Aconitum ‘Newry Blue’ A few camellias with early flowers in our tunnel of saleable three litre plants: Camellia x oleifera ‘Winter’s Joy’ Camellia x…

…Oleifera is very good. Rho decorum still has flowers – Mucronulatum out and some Sutchuenense hybrids. Colour still good on some cherries and others. The small Narcissus species is out….

…not scarlets which are beginning. Camellias taliensis and oleifera almost over. No Thompsonii x Arboreum out. 1931 – JCW Much as in 1930 C speciosa is better and we have…

…spell and easterly gales. 1941 – CW Camellias out – oleifera, double white (Engine House), and a few speciosa hybrids. Cam sasanqua nearly over. Rho mucronulatum very good. Also a…

…open. Veitch’s Camellia oleifera in flower. A few Thomsonii arboreum show blooms. Should get most of the faggots from the storm out of the New Planting in a week of…

…out – 10 days of gales and much rain. 1961 – FJW SS Allegrelti wrecked below Coastguards Hut (rebound from Portscatho). 1929 – JCW Camellia sasanqua nice, Camellia oleifera opens….

…grow so quickly! Magnolia ‘Delia Williams’ 1991 – FJW George Williams strode into the house. 1981 – FJW Picked flowers Oleifera, November Pink and Sulfureum. 1976 – FJW Night stormy…

…bad so far. A few Saluenensis hybrids out and Taliensis. Hardly any rhodo’s. Some fuchsias and lapageria. 1949 – CW Camellia sasanqua still very good also Oleifera. Big quarry early…

…is the younger one at the cash point. Prunus Shirotae 1944 – CW Camellia oleifera very good but not at its best. Still an odd flower on Magnolia delavayi and…

…hybrids, also Oleifera very good. Some fuchsias still nice. Erica hybrida out and the yellow Maddeni we have had several vases here for a week. 1926 – JCW Lapagerias remain…

…Saluenensis about to open. C sasanqua almost all over. Oleifera good. Hardly any rhododendrons show colour just Burmanicum and a very few bits. Erica medit a lot out, some darleyense….

…month – the moors badly flooded. 1959 – FJW Flower on Camellia George Blandford. 1942 – CW Camellia sasanqua on wall very very good. Oleifera just beginning. 3 pods of…

…never better. Flowers on Oleifera very large. Early plant of the Rho ruboginosum by Georges Hut covered with flower. Arboreums above Orchid House trying to come out. Enkianthus colour excellent….

…These are both hardy hybrids from crosses with Camellia oleifera. Camellia ‘Winter’s Snowman’ Camellia ‘Winter’s Snowman’ Autumn leaf fall towards the Four-in-Hand. The Magnolia x loebneri lasted for only 48…

…and warm alternates with cold. 1947 – CW Almost frost last night. Cam sasanqua very good seldom more flower at one time. Oleifera out on wall and just one in…

…1961 – FJW Poppet died [Pekinese]. 1950 – CW Camellia oleifera picking for house otherwise as 10 days ago. 1924 – JCW (Election Day). A long continued shower began in…