19th November

…best Sasanqua year I have seen. About 15 rhodo show bits of flowers of which Lutescens is the best. 1925 – JCW C sasanqua has been fair, but a hard…

5th February

…and Moupinense just out. First yellow incomp out. Lapagerias hanging brown on plants. All Rho mucronulatum cut but Lutescens hybrid almost entirely survived the frost. 1935 – JCW No ice…

16th November

Lutescens, perhaps out forms Dicroanthum hybrid wild. Cotoneaster salicifolia and Stransvaesia salicifolia are the best things showing colour. 1915 – JCW Only about 6 buds on Camellia sasanqua here but…

10th April

…collected in China? RHODODENDRON bahuiniflorum Rhododendron bahuiniflorum is a little known species but its yellow flowers are better than Rhododendron lutescens. If there is ever time (!) this would be…

16th February

…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 on it.1924 –…

24th October

…Prunus mignelleana shows flower. Many buds and flowers on Mag grandiflora. Rhodo lutescens, dahuricum, tethropeplum etc show some flowers. 1924 – JCW Just as in 1920 including no frost but…

15th February

…Mucronulatum, Moupinense, Triflorum, Thomsonii x , Barbatum, Lutescens, Sutchuenense near sinogrande, Prunus conradinae – pissardi – p yunanense – p triflora. Snowdrops very good, no magnolias yet. 1901 – JCW…

25th February

…Three or four yellow incomps open in the Tin Garden, one with colour. Hybrid Camellias very good. Moupinense at its best, Moupinense x Lutescens fully open, a good deal of…

17th February

…spell of cold, a fair lot of Barbatum open, Lutescens has had some flower ever since the autumn, Moupinense opening and frosted any bits of colour on anything but Barbatum….

18th February

…Sutchuenense – Keiskii – Arboreum – Lutescens – Pachypodum colour showing – Argenteum – Primulicuum – Cuneatum – Dahuricum – Dahuricum semperivens – Scabrifolium – Barbatum – Ririei – Oleifolium…