…JCW Griersonianum and maddeni hybrid (late one) are the best rhodo’s but a number of good Dichroanthum are giving bits of flower. R Brunonis is very good, also American Pillar…

…on Camellia ‘Ruby Wedding’ today. Camellia ‘Ruby Wedding’ Camellia ‘Ruby Wedding’ 2019 – CHW The first year that the American bred magnolias (mainly Gresham and Pickard’s hybrids) in Forty Acres…

…been open for some time. 1913 – JCW Many good roses, over 100 lapageria on the pillar plant. Clematis cirrhosa very good. Camellia sasanqua, some heaths nice. Sweet leaved geranium…

…an aconite out, a wild primrose, daff seeds hardly any but Maximus blood moving.1902 – JCW C imperati nearly open. Galanthus nearly. About 100 lapageria on the pillar plant. Some…

…have picked H Irving but it is hardly ripe. Edgeworthi and Dalhousi are very good. Eremuri are opening. Carmine pillar good. 1898 – JCW Pink Thorns coming out well. I…

…pots and very good seed. The daffs have nearly all gone. Recurvas seed to Dinton. Campylocarpum, thomsonii, auklandii etc open. 1904 – JCW Carmine pillar opens a bud, several Auklandii’s…

…to come, several Auklandii and Azaleas open, a few carmine pillar open. Thomsonii over. Maples are good. 1900 – JCW Came back from the Drill Hall and Appleshaw, Triandrus hybrids…

…been called the late flowering ‘American’ (deciduous) azaleas on the drive by the Trevanion holly. ‘American’ (deciduous) azaleas Cornus kousa chinensis just about fully out on the drive above Four…

…sundries store like our Griggs in Cornwall. Not much of interest plant wise. Kniphofia ‘Orange Vanilla Pop’ Kniphofia ‘Orange Vanilla Pop’ Coreopsis ‘American Dream’ and Lysimachia ‘Alexander’ Coreopsis ‘American Dream’…

…it has sat undisturbed and unadmired ever since. Lyonia ovalifolia After much head scratching and research Jim Gardiner and Roy Lancaster thought it was a LYONIA; supposedly an American plant….