…late. Solanum good. Iris alata and stylosa open etc. 1902 – JCW Camellia sasanqua by the stables very good. A few seedlings of all ages are up. A good lot…

…nice and C sasanqua are good yet, no real frost above the top terrace so far. Daffs just show a little. Some Iris stylosa. Several Maddeni hybrids show. 1906 –…

…should make my first cross tomorrow or the next day. Several coums open. Lapagerias look well yet, could pick several nice roses yet. 1897 – JCW Iris stylosa in flower….

…put out for autumn colour only. 1923 – JCW Cotoneaster salicifolia is first, Berberis polyantha second best, Erica hybrida wants a mild week. 1897 – JCW Iris bakeriana in flower….

…Roses hold on yet. We have had frost but not really very hard. C balearica nice. 1897 – JCW Iris stylosa in flower at Tregony been out for a week….

…kinds of Caucasicum. 1901 – JCW A very few roses left. Coums coming on fast. A few Iris alata. 1900 – JCW Didden [A M Williams] picked the first primrose….

…Scilly White.1897 – JCW Many daffs through ‘37’ of the new ones. Crocus imperati still good. Many camellias, a good few roses. Some snowdrops well open. Iris stylosa and bakeriana….

…to late September. Not a great time of the year for delphiniums, lupins, iris, bedding, tulips, herbaceous or woody plants which are mainly spring/summer flowering and the mainstays of the…

…is nice, Ericas good – very. Snowdrops are nice, one trumpet shows colour. 1898 – JCW 40 or 50 Crocus out. Picked several spikes of Iris germanica. Most of the…

…flowers have been pushed aside rather. 1911 – JCW Most of the coums open, it is the best thing now with the R nobleanum, some Anenome blanda show colour. Iris…

…two buds of Magnolia delavayi. 1903 – JCW C sasanqua very good for a long while, some coums open, lapageria good, primroses moving. Hidalagoa[?] good. Iris alata and stylosa out….

…– JCW Nearly all the Minimus, one Soleil D’or, several anenomes, a few crocus, a large lot of Coum and snowdrops, a good lot of Iris stylosa, all the Aconite,…

…show. 1904 – JCW Camellia sasanqua very fine indeed. No break in the weather, much leaf on yet, a few more daffs up. 1900 – JCW Picked an Iris stylosa….

…– JCW Leave for London tomorrow, a little outside seed picked and all under glass. Pink Pearl going over. Iris germanica over, moving a good few bulbs. Granite soil came…

…are in flower, and C sasanqua is well out. 1898 – JCW A few more seedling daffs up, a Christmas rose in flower. Lapagerias very good indeed. Iris stylosa open….

…open in a pot, some of the two batches of Maximus x Cyclamineus are coming up in the Tin Garden. Iris alata remains most beautiful. A dry cool east wind…

…few daffs besides Polyanthus coming through the ground, mainly maximus. I picked a lot of yellow Polyanthus Primrose. D phaloenopsis is at its best. I saw the first Iris stylosa….

…has gone. Solanum and hydrangeas are the best things. Some roses are nice. 1901 – JCW Several Iris alata open. Roses good yet also cyclamen. The weather has not broken…

…Iris and Azaleas at their best as we only see the garden in August and September. Deutzia ningpoensis looking very fine in Tin Garden. I am on a tour with…

…the iris which is looking worse than ever today. The good news is that we present to the judges (up to 150 and 200 RHS committee members and plant trials…