4th October

…sasanqua ‘Rosea Plena’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Rosea Plena’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Paradise Vanessa’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Paradise Vanessa’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Rainbow’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Rainbow’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Narumigata’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Narumigata’ Even a single…

16th December

…open. Flowers on the white C japonica Dutch Pearl shows colour. 1927 – JCW A good few lapagerias flowers, several Rho sulfureum and lutescens, and then odds and ends of…

31st May

…very good and it finished in the rain. 1901 – JCW Leave for London tomorrow, a little outside seed picked and all under glass. Pink Pearl going over. Iris germanica…

18th May

…Roylei mostly open. Augustinii gone. White and Pink Pearl good as far as they know how. Coombe Royal hybrids very good. Azaleas are very good. 1901 – JCW About five…

15th January

…barbatum, R moupinense, Thomsonii x a blood red, R oleifolium, R lutescens, R chrysanthum and a bit of Pearl. The snowdrops, coums and aconites are fair, no daffodils yet. Wilsons…

31st December

…fair. Dutch Pearl opening. Mucronulatum moderate. 1917 – JCW Much as in 1910 excepting Keysii, but it is very cold and has been for a fortnight. We have just put…

27th December

…1927 – JCW H mollis very good. Double white Dutch Pearl open and the old camellia. 1925 – JCW H mollis fairly good but not really out. White camellia fair….

2nd June

…the greenhouse. A unique and wonderful plantsman’s paradise and the smallest of the genuinely Great Gardens of Cornwall.We have a quick tour after the meeting:The tallest and largest Clianthus puniceus…

10th July

…miles? the valley Phlox [?] and Ceanothus ‘Pearle Rose’. PHLOX x paniculata blue paradise AND ceanothus perle rose The commanding view of the house over the valley. the house Geranium…

16th July

…one of only two chines in the UK. Smugglers paradise 200 to 300 years ago. Today 80,000 visitors (entry £3.00 for OAPs and £4.00 adults). Half is a natural woodland…