…since Christmas but not cold, yet the ground was too cold to let them grow. Erica hybrida is very beautiful. 1906 – JCW C reticulata shows colour. Narcissi cernuus open…

…gone or nearly so. Lutescens and Argenteum wane. Auklandii showing colour for some days. Erica hybrida remains good. About the earliest year we ever saw. M de Graf shows. 1901…

…and Erica arborea growing on a bank. Rubus tricolor Swelling magnolia buds outside the back yard but both the bud protection coverings remain in place. magnolia buds Twenty new varieties…

…and so is Erica darleyense. 1918 – JCW Just as above but a bit further on with a snowdrop or two, an aconite or two, mucronulatum having gone over. The…

…sasanqua several also. 1930 – JCW No real frost yet. Camellia sasanqua, Christmas camellia all with flowers, also lapageria and some fuchsias. Erica darleyense in flower and some Rho lutescens…

…Erica hybrida and codenodes. White australis, Hamamelis mollis very good. Rhodo mucronulatum nice. 4 kinds of Caucasicum. 1901 – JCW A very few roses left. Coums coming on fast. A…

…on, a good few fuchsia but no gardenias. 1915 – JCW C sasanqua has several flowers open, no real show on it this year. Lapagerias are fair. Erica hybrida has…

…One Thea forrestii. Some nice flowers of Roylei, fair of Learsiae. Hamamelis just starting. Mucronulatum open. Darleyense some flowers. 1924 – JCW Hamamelis mollis are opening and Erica darleyense. Cotoneaster…

…quarry, it has been out for 3 weeks. A few Sasanquas have flowers and now some Rho lutescens. Cotoneaster salicifolia has a fine lot of fruit. Erica hybrida in bud…

…but not its exceptional autumn colour. Cotoneaster horizontalis Cotoneaster horizontalis Magnolia ‘Caerhays Belle’ is still holding most of its leaves above the Erica arborea in full flower. Not unusual in…

…above the ground. C sasanqua in flower but very few buds. A few lapagerias. Erica hybrida opening. Cotoneaster salicifolia very nice at the reservoir. Some Maddeni x nice. 1905 –…

…30. Sasanqua fair. Erica darleyense begins to be good. 1915 – JCW A very few Sasanqua buds this year. Lapagerias nice. We have bad frost but nothing to stop planting….

…a chance flower. Lapagerias are quite nice and the first Erica hybrida showed in Oct 3. 1922 – JCW Fruit on Dracena very good. Lapagerias fair. No C sasanqua, roses…

…1917 – JCW The first Erica darleyense, Camellia sasanqua is fair, a good few P helodoxa open. Some jonquil x up in the Tin Garden, say up to 6 inches….

…JCW The Yuccas are our best flower after the great heat, hydrangeas bad. Camellia sasanqua good, one with strong scent. Some Erica [?] are very good. Clematis paniculata is nice…

…the Drive not open. Poets hardly open. Mag halleana (nursery window) most of it open. Erica arborea very good. Standard reticulatas not open. 1923 – JCW Daffs are all over…

…Red, some [?] carlesi. Erica hybrida is good and has been since Christmas. 1913 – JCW R ciliatum nearly over, C reticulata half out, much as in 1897. 1904 –…

…prevents a show. No magnolias yet. Rho praecox and Erica hybrids are very good.1928 – JCW A bad year for Rho praecox. Mag denudata Wilson has but one flower open….