Next Day > < Previous Day View 23rd January 1897 – 2020 CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2025 – CHW Hamamelis × intermedia ‘Ruby Glow’ just…

…harsh cold, Erica darlyense and Hamamelis mollis are an easy best. 1914 – JCW Mild again after the frost, a flower or two on C. Lady Clare, C coums good,…

…Hamamelis mollis is very nice. Cotoneaster salicifolia, Berberis fasicularis comes on well. Coums coming. Charles saw first snowdrop. Only odd flowers of rhodo other than Caucasicum sorts. 1900 – JCW…

…5 of original Saluenensis out, but little else bar Nobleanum Pink. Hardly any Rhodos and Hamamelis also late. One snowdrop at Vean where [Camellia] J.C.W. out for over a week….

…Another hard spell – pond partly frozen over. 10° of frost. 1932 – JCW A lot of Camellia speciosa in flower, Hamamelis is very good, R mucronulatum wanes, some R…

…are all past. One or two sutchuenense hybrids show colour, the majority have no bud. 1921 – JCW Hamamelis is over, E darleyense is at its best, R mucronulatum is…

…an already late year. 1933 – JCW As in 1931.1931 – JCW Camellia speciosa is good, the Hamamelis are over, Sutchuenense x are all good here and in the Beech…

…we have had it on and off for over a month, the Hamamelis mollis alone gives us anything. We lately had a terrific easterly gale, it cut the boughs off…

…buds cut except single Camellias. Hamamelis still good – first Sutchuenense hybrid and Moupinense just out. First yellow incomp out. Lapagerias hanging brown on plants. All Rho mucronulatum cut but…

…flowers.1972 – FJW George Stoddart came to stay at the Barton.1964 – FJW Mild and dry to date – not so advanced in flower as 1948. All the Hamamelis species…

…House), and a few speciosa hybrids. Cam sasanqua nearly over. Rho mucronulatum very good. Also a Sutchuenense hybrid above Rookery. Some lapagerias and fuschias. Odd bits of forsythia and hamamelis….

…– also Rho moupinense and hybrids – some daffodils out – began to sell a week ago from K.G. Blood red good but few flowering. Hamamelis well over. Very many…

…pendant racemes but none are visible yet. I have never seen catkins on this smallish spreading tree before. This is a very rare Wilson introduction and is related to Hamamelis….

…I at Werrington for the third time and 41 children being very cold indeed. Here Mucronulatum and Hamamelis mollis are good. 1916 – JCW Mary, May, PM and I at…

…by a man in the house. 1928 – JCW A bud of Eriogynum opening in the Hall. C speciosa opening and a few Cam sasanqua left. Hamamelis mollis ½ open….

…House. 1929 – JCW Hamamelis is nice. Mucronulatum also. Cam sasanquas keep on but are smashed by the wind. A good few daffs above ground. There have been several hot…

…Erica hybrida and codenodes. White australis, Hamamelis mollis very good. Rhodo mucronulatum nice. 4 kinds of Caucasicum. 1901 – JCW A very few roses left. Coums coming on fast. A…

…for those who could stick it out. 1932 – JCW Fuchsias are nearly over from the wind. Hydrangeas are fair. Hamamelis mollis is very good indeed. 40-50 lapagerias under the…

…of Speciosa and its hybrids. Also Engine House double white. Hamamelis beginning to be good. Rho mucronulatum coming out and lutescens. Several lapagerias. All wall fuchsias cut some weeks ago,…

…JCW ‘Polling Day’. Some lapagerias have come through the frost but not many. Cotoneaster salicifolia is by far the best thing we have, the Hamamelis mollis just show colour. The…