…Buddleia var Veitchii and Magnifica at about their best. Very very dry, several things dead. 1909 – JCW Buddleia variabilis shows colour. Mitraria fair. Cyclamen none. Half the daff seed…

…parlour and cemetery. Not much life in the nursery either but at least it actually grows something – mainly summer bedding and veg plants. Cyclamen for Christmas just potted with…

…yet. 1911 – JCW A good few cyclamen are up. Buddleias are going back. Mitraria suffered badly in the long spell of dry weather, some lapagerias show, roses coming again….

…flowers good yet. 1910 – JCW The buddleias are just starting. Mitraria are good. Ferns by the mitrarias good. Honeysuckles good, not much else, an odd lapageria and so cyclamen….

…CW It has been very dry for long. Lapageria coming out – Auriculatums good and hybrids. Prophortum nearly over. Big wall Magnolias about at best – a few cyclamen. Hydrangeas…

…Decorum, Neriiflorum, Scintillans, Felonateium, 10278, Flavidum, Intricatum, Rupicolum, Hippophaeoides, Trichocladum, Fastigiatum and Barum (=10423). 1916 – JCW Hydrangeas, cyclamen and cassia are all good. Lapagerias nice, several (6-7) species of…

…pinnatifolia at its best only odd flowers on Nymansensis, a few cyclamen. A lot of Auriculatum hybrids still good and some not out. An odd Mag parviflora. Lots of both…

…flowers. 10332 is the best. Buddleia veitchii is nearly over, the dark one is good. The hydrangeas have begun – Romneya and a hybrid Gladiolus are good. Some fair Cyclamen….

…clearance work up from pond – start of a warm week. 1914 – JCW Roses in the three beds are nice, Cassia good, cyclamen good, hydrangeas very good. Lapagerias some….

…Top Lodge are making a real show. 1993 – FJW Rob Williams [FJW’s elder brother] died. 1918 – JCW The cyclamen are nice, the hydrangeas are fair, roses fair, there…

…– JCW Cyclamen, solanum, cassia, hydrangeas, roses are very good. The lapagerias coming on. R flavidum has some nice flowers open and also R decorum, Wilson’s best Intricatum is good….

…are nice, lapagerias are fair, hydrangeas fair, cyclamen good as times go. Have cut the worst of the weeds in the lawn myself and also the brambles and nettles in…

…and 2 Sundays worked. 1927 – JCW Came from Scotland for one day. The cyclamen are wonderful. Hoheria with a narrow leaf is nice. Roses good. Eucryphia cordifolia good but…

…– JCW German line on the Somme is now bending under heavy French and English attack. 1914 – JCW The solanums on the big wall are very fine, cyclamen very…

…colour on the Magnolias. Best value Cam reticulata wild + cyclamen + snowdrops.1965 – FJW In the evening we had 14 degrees of frost.1963 – FJW First crocus picked by…