…flowers this year on Erica arborea. Erica arborea Good yellow colours on Wisteria ‘Violacea Plena’ (‘Black Dragon’). Wisteria ‘Violacea Plena’ (‘Black Dragon’) As in previous years the odd secondary flower…

…Magnolia sieboldii frying with its leaves being progressively burnt off by the sun – the other half of the plant already dead. Magnolia sieboldii 2021 – CHW Bell heather (Erica…

…1920 – JCW Hydrangea remain good, very good. A few Camellia sasanquas but it was too wet a summer for them. I picked some Moupinense two days ago. Erica hybrida…

…house. Leaf still on Beech Walk oaks. A very dry autumn. 1916 – JCW Erica hybrida and Erica codonodes are opening. C sasanqua is fair. Have picked a good deal…

…2020 – CHW Erica arborea out in flower already but not every clump as yet. Erica arborea Prunus ‘Ichiyo’ (‘Pink Champagne’) with its autumn colours. Prunus ‘Ichiyo’ Taiwania cryptomeroides with…

…the new fuchsia open. Erica darleyense very good. 1928 – JCW C sasanquas and lapagerias nice, finished the Mag delavayi flowers two days ago, the first autumn cherry open about…

…iberica Cornus iberica Ripe seed on Cupressus torulosa. Asia might find this easier to grow from seed than cuttings? Cupressus torulosa I thought I spied early flower on Camellia ‘Adolphe…

…to open. C sasanqua almost all over. Oleifera good. Hardly any rhododendrons show colour just Burmanicum and a very few bits. Erica medit a lot out, some darleyense. A few…

…beside the side door. 1934 – JCW Most abnormal rain for days but quite warm always. 1932 – JCW Erica hybrida is opening, some Magnolia delavayi bud show white and…

…Erica arborea now full out having shown colour for a month. Here on the bank outside the Stable Flat. Erica arborea My father’s Rhododendron ‘Winter Intruder’ now full out about…

…winter and 8 degrees of frost. 1920 – JCW Very little open because of the recent frost. Erica darleyense by far the best thin. Lapagerias and Cam sasanqua a few…

…take some home. Father has been mad keen to get it’. (Bob’s entry in his diary of his finding the white Erica australis). 1911 – JCW Clematis cirrhosa is good,…

…few blood red hybrids. Camellia sasanqua never half as good before. 1924 – JCW Hamamelis mollis. Cotoneaster salicifolia and frigida good fruiting. Erica darleyense V.G and a few Primula Forrestii…

…on the wall. C sasangua over, Coums are late, mucronulatum good, lutescens fair, Erica hybrida fair. 1924 – JCW Rather behind 1922, Coums are starting but most things are a…

…1933. 1921 – JCW About 14 species of Rhodo’s in flower, one Caerhays daff, some Aconites, Snowdrops are going back. P.D’s pink Azalea is v.g, Erica darleyense also. 1920 –…

…hybrids red or white, few buds and most of them frosted. 1921 – JCW The Auklandii x White Arboreum are good. The red Auklandii wanes. The heath Erica darleyense fades….

…the Drive not open. Poets hardly open. Mag halleana (nursery window) most of it open. Erica arborea very good. Standard reticulatas not open. 1923 – JCW Daffs are all over…

…heat, hydrangeas bad. Camellia sasanqua good, one with strong scent. Some Erica [?] are very good. Clematis paniculata is nice and so are the lapagerias. 1918 – JCW Rho decorum…

…colour of which Haematodes is the best. 1917 – JCW The first Erica darleyense, Camellia sasanqua is fair, a good few P helodoxa open. Some jonquil x up in the…

…are showing in the quarry. A few rhodo’s give us a chance flower. Lapagerias are quite nice and the first Erica hybrida showed in Oct 3. 1922 – JCW Fruit…