14th December

…jasminum ‘Album’ still with flower in a tunnel. Solarium jasminum ‘Album’ Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Jelena’ just out. Other varieties still to show colour. Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Jelena’ Schizostylis coccinea ‘Major’…

5th January

…of a bucket but hollow. Only Hamamelis and a few Cyclamen out. 1931 – JCW Hamamelis about ½ a crop owing to a wet August a small frost on one…

7th January

…JCW Hamamelis and mucronulatum v g, some Camellias are nice, C speciosa particularly so, C Coum is showing, C sasanqua is over, a few snowdrops. 1921 – JCW Hamamelis and…

7th December

…Oleifera quite good considering the hard winter last year. Just beginning to get flower on Nobleanums on Drive. Turning colder. 1931 – JCW Hamamelis just showing colour just as in…

4th January

…of Saluensis and Hamamelis. A few Sutchuenense hybrids. A good pink one in beech walk best. Frost has cut an odd early Rho Thompsonii but not scarlets which are beginning….

3rd January

…mid morning. 2001 – FJW Still raining! 1933 – JCW Very little in flower, exception 8 Hamamelis mollis. Camellia speciosa, the early form, is very good. 1929 – JCW Much…

29th December

…of the Sutchuenense hybrids, bits of Yellow Hammer and Golden Oriole and Moupinense. Hamamelis only beginning. Camellia Double white been out 2 weeks and the first J.C.W bud (opening) picked…

26th January

…but plants not so soft. Hamamelis quite perfect and not touched. 1930 – JCW Much as on January 27th 1924 but more C speciosa in, H mollis over but H…

9th January

…thing, snowdrops showing since Christmas. 1920 – JCW Just as the above but less of excepting for the Hamamelis which is better. Cotoneaster salicifolia is nice and Bob’s heath is…

23rd January

…CW Half a dozen flowers on Cam reticulata Mary Williams fully out. First red cup in Tin Garden. 1923 – JCW Hamamelis going over, first Caerhays daff open in the…