6th March

…the cold and now exhibit fantastic red blotching. What a wonderful plant for the aftermath of a cold spell. Pseudowintera colorata Pseudowintera colorata The large clump of Romeya coulteri outside…

9th July

…I have finished moving the best seedlings down to the home garden, started taking them out of the pans. 1899 – JCW Romneya coulteri open, about the first of it…

13th July

…American Pillars are good. No Buddleia. 1921 – JCW Romneya coulteri at its best say 600 flowers?! 1920 – JCW Fortunei are passing. Auriculatum and Decorum x Auriculatum coming on,…

18th July

…us all for decades. 1921 – JCW Perhaps there are 500 flowers on the Romneya coulteri. There is not much else. It is very hot and dry and is about…

18th November

…– JCW I picked a Camellia sasanqua, several were open. A Romneya coulteri open, and several fair roses. I see 131 has come through, seedlings with maximus blood are showing….

19th July

…just over, it is very late for some things. 1910 – JCW L giganteum nearly over. Brunonis over, R coulteri fair. Mitraria good. R cinnabarinum going back. Buddleias show colour….

22nd November

…1918 – JCW C sasanqua is very good indeed. 1897 – JCW A Camellia has several flowers open, Romneya coulteri has flowers on it, another of Engelhart’s seedlings above ground….