…for the last 3 weeks. Hydrangeas, roses, cyclamen, R moyesii (fruit) are all good. 1900 – JCW Some Polyanthus up. Many good roses on walls and in beds. Belladonna V.G….

…flower also by Georges Hut. Gevuina avellana Gevuina avellana Tim has cut the banks for the second time leaving the cyclamen to be lightly strimmed over rather than mown. banks…

…– JCW No C sasanqua yet. R neriiflorum has a good many flowers open. 1916 – JCW Lapagerias good, cyclamen on the wane. Cassia good. Hydrangeas nice. 1901 – JCW…

…garden since 24/1/19101963 – FJW First few snowdrops and cyclamen on Georges Bank. 1944 – CW Five or more inches of snow and very cold a week ago. Almost all…

…best. Nymansii very good, some cyclamen and lapagerias. Very hot over Bank Holiday. 1948 – CW H.H.Hume, University of Florida came today on Camellias most interesting. Likes plants. 1918 –…

…are good. 1912 – JCW Just as above but Primula malacoeides replaces Iris alata. 1908 – JCW Lapagerias fair. C sasanqua fair. Roses nice. No frost yet. Cyclamen over. Solanum…

…– no others out. A few bits of Rho Yellow Hammer and others but no Auriculatum hybrids left. Some coum cyclamen and a couple of flowers of early white polyanthus…

…Nobleanums have been very nice. Narcissus cyclamineus is open and the Cyclamen coum are fair. One good blood red hybrid is open near Engine House. 1917 – JCW Hamamelis mollis…

…swelling buds.1941 – CW Pond half frozen, ice in buckets over 3 inches and turned out shape of a bucket but hollow. Only Hamamelis and a few Cyclamen out. 1931…

…at the best. Cyclamen coum is coming on. Hamamelis mollis has been out for a fortnight. 1912 – JCW A seedling trumpet (poor) is in flower and 35 blooms of…

…fair + Camellia. Soleil d’or and Lent Lily open. P pissardi very nice indeed. Prunus cerasus conradinae going over. 1915 – JCW Cyclamen coum are good. Some Lapagerias, some Camellias,…

…japonicum Cercidiphyllum japonicum 1917 – JCW Cyclamen wane but are good yet, there is little else but hydrangeas and lapagerias, and the roses are poor now. Finished cutting corn yesterday….

…the balance. 1985 – FJW Crocus, cyclamen and daffodils + 1 flower Mag Mr Gove + Busaco magnificent brought in. 1932 – JCW Camellia speciosa at about its best in…

…spell and had some rain 10 days ago but still very dry. I find even the cyclamen suffered badly. The magnolia in my old garden had over 25 flowers out…

…late flowers and Saluenensis – several Lapagerias and cyclamen. Fuchsias good but feel the heavy rains of the last weeks. 1916 – JCW The following rhodo’s show flowers or bits…

…adapted to our Cornish climate? Lapageria rosea Lapageria rosea Lapageria rosea 1918 – JCW Rhodo’s as below. Cyclamen very good. Lapagerias fair. Hydrangeas fair. (Hand written note attached to Garden…

…pink Auriculatum hybrids, Eucryphia pinnatifolia very good, one lapageria and a few cyclamen. Been very dry. Hydrangeas very small. 1921 – JCW No Auriculatum bud on the place. Fog and…

…on the bank outside the front door. Primroses Snowdrops and cyclamen with the primroses. Snowdrops Narcissus ‘Mr Julian’ full out. This was bred by Ron Scamp as a N. cyclamineus…

…JCW Returned from Scotland, R brunonis very fine. Mitraria nice. No cyclamen. No buddleia’s. R decorum flower buds not moving yet. R cinnabarinum good and shaping. 1897 – JCW Anemone…

…1916 – JCW The first Lapageria is open, and the last Azalea viscosum, I have crossed it with Lanarth azalea. 1897 – JCW I saw the first cyclamen in flower….