…Ewe line at best and at least six doubles also Lady Clare and Lady Bullen. Hamamelis at best. Camellia Cornish Snow had a few flowers for some time. Rho ririei…

…– JCW A few daffs show in the beds, mostly jonquil crosses. The old Berberis in the Kitchen Garden is fruiting in a remarkable way. Acorns are nearly double the…

…Hydrangea quercifolia ‘Snowflake’ above Red Linney has double florets and shows its autumn colour even in summer. A vigorous plant in the nursery at Burnoose it is a bit stunted…

…before Christmas day. The double white Camellia has been nice since Christmas day and so the Hamamelis. 1924 – JCW The best Rhodo’n after mucronulatum is R parvifolium, moupinense is…

…alongside Hydrangea quercifolia flowers that have already turned pink. Magnolia ‘March Till Frost’ The female seed cones on Araucaria bidwillii have doubled in size since I first saw them a…

…wetter parts of the country where, unless in a very dry spot on the coast, they always get rust and slug damage. Here, in Townsend GC, some very nice double…

…than last year I suspect. ‘Caerhays’ is one of the last williamsii to flower and long after its sister seedling (also double), ‘George Blandford’. Camellia x williamsii ‘Caerhays’ First flower…

…greenhouse a couple of new plants of Camellia ‘Quintessential’ are full out. This is Camellia japonica crossed with Camellia lutchuensis and is supposed to be highly perfumed and semi-double. I…

…days. To me it feels as though we have had double this. rain gauge Camellia japonica ‘Optima’ fully out and touching the side door. I do not remember it looking…

…sutchuenense open. Some Rhodo arboreum open. 1912 – JCW Prunus pissardi are very very fine, Camellias quite good, double reticulata shows colour, Rhodo sutchuenense just show colour for the first…