…the big beds. Standish hybrids are good and so Sappho x auklandii, Roylei just opening, but a very few Azaleas open. Azalea amoena is good. Azalea mollis comes on. Augustinii…

…very large. 1925 – JCW Azaleas just starting. Zealanicums very fine. Triflorum series not quite their best. Some Augustinii over. Many Davidsonianums to open. The two late back yard Azaleas…

…flowers on a single plant of Rhododendron augustinii. A pale form. Rhododendron augustinii First flowering of Magnolia ‘Sentinel’ in the Isla Rose Plantation. Nothing, as yet, to get very excited…

…of daffs there, did not go to Dinton. Camellias reticulata is over. Rho augustinii at their best, some very good Augustinii. Daffs at the tail end. Auklandii a few good…

…Centurion’ just about out. Rhododendron ‘Red Centurion’ Rhododendron veitchianum Cubittii Group just coming out. Rhododendron veitchianum Cubittii Group Rhododendron veitchianum Cubittii Group Rhododendron edgeworthii x leucaspis and Rhododendron augustinii together…

…Pride’ out side by side outside the front gate. Rhododendron veitchianum ‘Cubbitti Group’ Rhododendron ‘Michael’s Pride’ at its best. Rhododendron ‘Michael’s Pride’ Rhododendron augustinii – a good dark blue form….

…flowers off the Rho orbiculare. It has layered itself. Rain badly wanted. 1932 – JCW Augustinii very good in most places, and so are the Maddeni x Roylei. Mag speciosa…

…over but was excellent. The nursery wall stellata is in full flower. 1928 – JCW Cernus rubens is at half length in the Donkey Show, Augustinii nears its best. Campylocarpum…

…things like the Augustinii’s. 1914 – JCW Daffs are near their best. Clematis alpina is lovely. Mrs Butler x at its best. R fargesii at its very best. R lutescens…

…JCW Magnolia sargentiana came into flower. It is the finest magnolia bloom of any here. 1930 – JCW No Augustinii or Triflorum excepting Lutescens. Some of this has shown bloom…