…one of the Lanarth bred hybrids by P D Williams? Perhaps ‘St Keverne’. By heather standards it has already lived three lifetimes on this hot dry bank which was completely…

…this year just like ours. Stewartia rostrata Seeds now ripe on a Pieris clump while Pieris japonica ‘Little Heath’ has flowers nearly out. Pieris A view across the top lake….

…The hydrangeas are very nice. There are some fair roses, one heath is open but there is not much in flower otherwise. 1910 – JCW Cyclamen and hydrangea are going…

…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…

…are 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 –…

…CW Sent off to Munroes both white heath and Darleyense and some hundreds of single Camellias. J.C.W out also double white and a few other doubles out. Rho mucronulatum, Yellow…

…in Storm Bella. Rhododendron ‘Winter Intruder’ The mass of heather at the Four in Hand is just out. White in bud opening pale pink. I had thought this might be…

…and Bob’s heath is opening. 1917 – JCW Some C Coums open, Hamamelis mollis very good, bits of R Lutescens, dahuricum mucronulatum, Thomsonii, nobleanum, Venustum and Racemosum section, Thomsonii x…

…most of them frosted. 1921 – JCW The Auklandii x White Arboreum are good. The red Auklandii wanes. The heath Erica darleyense fades. Rho bodartianum is good, the first Mag…

…warm and sunny. Camellias look magnificent. 1997 – FJW Garden completely different from 100 years ago. Very cold – a little flower on Tree Heath on the bank. Very few…