…flowers in the wind and rain. All too quickly. wisteria 2019 – CHW Now staying at Ockenden Manor Hotel, Cuckfield near Haywards Heath. Gravetye gardens are a treat, the (oval)…

…and very many other odd bits. Yellow Hammer good. Large vases of pink and yellow Maddeni hybrids in the hall. Leaves by no means all off. White heath very nice….

…its best. Still an odd flower on Magnolia delavayi and Auriculatum hybrids. Camellia sasanqua past its best. First Hamamelis out and some heath. Very wet autumn and moors flooded right…

…in full flower. Crassula coccinea. Erica cerinthoides – the heath from South African which Burncoose has sold on occasion. Echium gentianoides was a startling blue. Thymus citriodorus ‘Archer’s Gold’ covering…

…completely different from 100 years ago. Very cold – a little flower on Tree Heath on the bank. Very few Camellias, a bit of Nobleanum. Narcissi very far behind. 1994…

…New Zealand heath-like foliage plant similar to Cassinia perhaps but growing rather larger. Olearia solandri Olearia solandri Eucryphia cordifolia with virtually no flowers this year but plenty of good new…

…x Thompsonii now in flower. Bobs heath is very nice. Leucojum vernum, C coum, wild snowdrops and Aconites open also Camellia speciosa. 1921 – JCW Rhodoⁿ species showing colour about…