…Blood Red and hybrid, Lutescens, Barbatum and one or two Mrs Butler hybrids. Perhaps 20 different daffodils. 1933 – JCW Camellia speciosa at Gun Room door has about 300 flowers…

…next. Camellia speciosa is beautiful.1924 – JCW Cold NE wind and frost for a week and all Rhodo’s bloom is cut out for the time but the early stuff has…

…wind for say 3 weeks. A very few daffs are open, snowdrops over. Heath very good indeed. Forrest’s Camellia speciosa has had hundreds of blooms on it untouched by the…

…Another hard spell – pond partly frozen over. 10° of frost. 1932 – JCW A lot of Camellia speciosa in flower, Hamamelis is very good, R mucronulatum wanes, some R…

…is the first magnolia as in 1929. The blood red hybrids are good and so is Cam speciosa. 1929 – JCW 150 flowers on the early Kobus show white. 1926…

…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…

…is really the worst time in all the year, if the H mollis were taken away there would be nothing but Camellia speciosa. 1929 – JCW Just as in 1923…

…my father’s old one. Ice on the pond but over 100 waterfowl. I picked Thea speciosa flowers yesterday. 1932 – JCW White camellia as above. Lapagerias nice. Fuchsias fairly good…

…Camellia speciosa, the early form, is very good. 1929 – JCW Much as in 1926, H mollis v.g., flowers cut out by 7 or 8 days of frost, ½ “…

…has started and is severe around the house but hardly moves much in the New Planting. 1927 – JCW Rather earlier than 1924, not much cold so far. Camellia speciosa…

…1917. Originally called C. speciosa, then C. pitardii and, as today, C. saluenensis. One of the parents of the new C. x williamsii strain of camellias bred here in the…

…– JCW Camellia speciosa recovered the frost and flowered well after it. 1929 – JCW Wilson’s Magnolia is very fine and as good as the best Campbellii. Kobus, the early…

…(Handwritten note in Garden Book) On April 11th I crossed the old Camellia speciosa on about 20 or 30 flowers with the pollen of Camellia salicifolia. 1932 – JCW Magnolia…

…4 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…

…Bleddyn is here for the record.Ternstroemia gymnathera Rhederodendron ichangensis Acer leptaphlebium Lindera angustifolia Polyspora axillaris Ucodendron whartonii Magnolia crassifolia Rhodelia aff henryi Magnolia foveolata Rhederodendron kwangtungense Rhoiptelea chiliantha Polyspora speciosa…

…however when finished until the wind blows again. 1940 – CW First Sutchuenense hybrids out also Arboreum thomsonii x. Camellia sasanqua, double white, speciosa and its light and dark pink…

…some places, I saw an untouched Decorum bud and an untouched Camellia speciosa at the end of it (20th). 1919 – JCW The first Hamamelis and first Rho mucronulatum show…

…2 good Gordonia flowers as the Rh mucronulatum is late. Hamamelis is very good indeed. White Camellia has flowers, early speciosa is frosted. Moupinense and Lutescens have shown colour for…

…1934 – JCW I saw two Camellia speciosa buds showing flowers. So far no frost, no big wind smash, but it has been very rude weather. 1933 – JCW Just…

…by a man in the house. 1928 – JCW A bud of Eriogynum opening in the Hall. C speciosa opening and a few Cam sasanqua left. Hamamelis mollis ½ open….