…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 needs more…

…show bad signs of frost damage. No colour on the Magnolias. Best value Cam reticulata wild + cyclamen + snowdrops.1965 – FJW In the evening we had 14 degrees of…

…and English attack. 1914 – JCW The solanums on the big wall are very fine, cyclamen very good, cassia nice, hydrangeas and roses good, lapagerias fairly good. Germans are really…

…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….

…one lapageria and a few cyclamen. Been very dry. Hydrangeas very small. 1921 – JCW No Auriculatum bud on the place. Fog and heavy air with half hearted rain after…

…Auriculatums good and hybrids. Prophortum nearly over. Big wall Magnolias about at best – a few cyclamen. Hydrangeas very dried up. A few of the late Auriculatum pink hybrids still…

…First lapageria out 2 days ago. Eucryphia pinnatifolia at its best only odd flowers on Nymansensis, a few cyclamen. A lot of Auriculatum hybrids still good and some not out….

…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….

…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 mountain rhodo’s in flower….

…of a bucket but hollow. Only Hamamelis and a few Cyclamen out. 1931 – JCW Hamamelis about ½ a crop owing to a wet August a small frost on one…