…and very happy up against a turret. Cytisus Porlock – what a show Tropaedum ciliatum, also in full growth after a no frost winter. Tropaeolum speciosum has however, as usual,…

…remains good. About the earliest year we ever saw. M de Graf shows. 1901 – JCW Narcissi ‘Sirius’ just shows colour, a few Ciliatums open, a good few useful seedlings…

…opening, ciliatum with cantabile in the house and Watsonii with Calophytum outside. Fargesii, lutescens and barbatum show flowers hardly any others but hippophaeoides. The berberis hedge and the E hybrida…

…mollicoma + R raceosum o R rireii o R sutchuenense o R scabrifolium o R longistylum R ciliatum R dahuricum(+ = not open in 1930) (o = out in 1964)…

…is well over. R ciliatum good, R barbatum going back. 1909 – JCW None of the 1905 things open, plants have been at a standstill for a long while and…

…the best are argenteum, oleifolium, moupinense, sutchuenense, the three arborescens, ciliatum, lutescens. 1907 – JCW Far later than the above. Some G Spur, H Irving and Caerhays. Several Camellias, Nar…

…Rhododendron ‘Snow Lady’ (ciliatum x leucaspis) are just going over in the big glasshouse. No scent left. Rhododendron ‘Snow Lady’ Michelia ‘Fairy Blush’ is full out and I have not…

…near 1912 in species. Motor plough engine rolled the drive for the first time. 1912 – JCW R praecox, ciliatum, arboreum, lutescens, dahuricum, argenteum, scarlet hybrid (arbo x Thomsonii), barbatum…