9th October

…cleistocarpa, 4 from Stellata, Alba superba and Liliiflora yet to be picked. 1923 – JCW The wild clematis (Old Mans Beard) on the silver firs is our best thing now….

6th May

…year old Japanese ones are flowering. Magnolia kobus is very good. Several hybrids are well open i.e nigra, Brozzoni, alba, superba and speciosa etc. Falconeri is just opening. Auklandii is…

19th May

…the Maddeni x Roylei. Mag speciosa and alba superba are very good. 1927 – JCW Mag parviflora is very very good the big one, Nicholsoniana with about 9 flowers is…

12th March

…both have flowers open but some a little brown – over 50 of the purpurescens quite perfect. Camellias (single) past their best. Daffodils small and want rain. Michelia superba coming…

13th May

…Rhododendron loderi which go unnoticed by Schima superba. Rhododendron loderi Rhododendron morii from Glendoick with bronze new growth which our plants have never had. Rhododendron morii New growth on Pseudotaxus…

3rd August

…bistorta ‘Superba’. Grows to about two and a half feet, flowers to three and a half feet. Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Fat Domino’ Persicaria amplexicaulis ‘Fat Domino’ Coprosma ‘Pacific Dream’ – not…