4th February

…williamsii ‘Lady’s Maid’ The ancient Hamamelis mollis in Lower Quarry Nursery is slowly recovering after it was cleared around to give it more light. Hamamelis mollis Rhododendron lutescens full out…

23rd December

…japonica ‘Alba Simplex’ Rhododendron lutescens with its first flowers. These are the start of its flowering season and not a secondary effort. Rhododendron lutescens Rhododendron lutescens 2021 – CHW The…

18th March

…holocarpa shows bud, 6-8 kinds of cherry. Reticulata fair. Lutescens opening. Calophytums wane. Sutchuenense gone or nearly so. Lutescens and Argenteum wane. Auklandii showing colour for some days. Erica hybrida…

20th November

…Not secondary flowers but the real thing! Rhododendron lutescens Rhododendron lutescens Camellia x williamsii ‘November Pink’ looking splendid. See the size of the trunk of this tree now. The best…

20th February

…No Magnolia as in 1913 but Gordonias, some flowers of the early Kobus ½ open.1927 – JCW Heaths fairly good, Rhodo lutescens and moupinense very good. Blood Red hybrids well…

3rd March

…JCW None of the above except R lutescens. Frost has abated and rooks have started to build. I saw one carrying a big stick. 1928 – JCW Argenteums well open,…

29th January

…Blood reds are good, also moupinense – lutescens – irroratum – mucronulatum. Prunus cerasus conradinae show colour. 1927 – JCW Cyclamineus daff has been open for some three days, nothing…

24th January

Lutescens “ “ Mucronulatum nearly over Decorum odd late flower Argenteum * I could fill a show vase, rest odd flowers. Aemulorum* Davidsonianum* Praecox Leucaspis Parvifolium* Rubiginosum* Stewartianum* Racemosum* (Oleifolium)…

27th January

…Arboreum x Thomsonii open. Camellia speciosa has been good for 3 weeks. 1924 – JCW R barbatum, strigillosum, mucronulatum, moupinense, scabrifolium, parvifolium, lutescens and dahuricum and a few red arb’ms…

9th January

…open out flatter. Camellia ‘New Venture’ Camellia ‘New Venture’ Rhododendron lutescens now has plenty of flowers but they are quite sparse on the old bushes. Rhododendron lutescens Just one decent…