…Decorum x Auriculatum coming on. Violas good. Rambler good. Romneya is very remarkable. Styrax just over as a family. Some rain but very little for 5 weeks. 1911 – JCW…

…several are over already – far too early! Styrax wuyuanensis Styrax wuyuanensis Styrax wuyuanensis 2019 – CHW The Caerhays charity fete opens with a little drizzle but clears up. Not…

…I could see little difference in their flowers. A. florida has slightly more pinkish red fruits on more drooping stems as far as I can see today but the difference…

…Perhaps these first flowers are a little smaller than they will be in more maturity later but the colour is as startling as when I first saw it on Jaimie’s…

…drove to Burncoose for a lengthy three and a half hour management meeting without seeing any trees down and with as little traffic as in April 2020 at the start…

…‘Little Bit’ but without the flecking. Another new variety which I do not think I have seen before. Camellia ‘Betty Robinson’ Camellia ‘Betty Robinson’ Along the top wall on from…

…in China, Mexico and Chile. I have never seen so much achieved in a lifetime’s work with rare trees and shrubs clustered together in semi maturity in their own little…

…now with ripe red berries which the birds have already been eating. Ilex latifolia Camellia sasanqua ‘Gay Border’ seems very similar to ‘Versicolor’ and ‘Narumigata’ to me. Nice enough today…

…now very good. Some good Maddeni’s very little of the above is open. 1923 – JCW The pink Moyesii is the best thing we have, something like 1922 in the…

…with little light as we know from their last gift which was much admired by house visitors in the spring. This is a different form with longer flowers. Medinella ‘J’adore’…