4th June

…create the new areas which now need hard coring. passing places passing places A very nice Caerhays sort of thing happened today. Bob Tregunna had been going through his eldest…

13th May

…vulgaris ‘Carpe Diem’ Bob has purchased two young Aberdeen Angus bulls to work with our suckler herd as replacements for the Charolais bull. The bulls were squaring up a bit!…

13th April

…Camellia japonica ‘Pink Tinsie’ – this is the pink in bud opening near white form of C. japonica ‘Bob’s Tinsie’ – very good and compact/ small growing it was too….

12th April

…few open, no de Graaf, similar to 1900. Shilsonii very good and so the Argenteums, probably the best things we have out. 1898 – JCW Bob saw the first swallow….

10th April

…there were no poets out then he declared them to be 30% above average. 1905 – JCW J C W and Mary saw the first swallow. 1901 – JCW Bob

7th April

…1928 – JCW Poets opening and the best daffs are all over. The blue tit forms are good. The pink Triflorums are opening. Bob’s white heath is and has long…

31st March

…our best things. Corylopsis are all over. Bob’s heath never so good. 1925 – JCW No bloom on Rho planetum. Not so far on as in 1923. 1923 – JCW…

20th March 1897 – 2020

…– JCW Isceuticum, Roxieanum, a new Irroratum and Martinianum all should flower for the first time this week. 1915 – JCW Bob came in from France for two days. Frost…