…Barbatums open, nothing open in the Tin Garden. Some Molle Azalea swelling very much. Snowdrops and Aconite wane and so do Moupinense. Wilson and Korea seed came a week ago…

…considered ‘early’ either although many of them will never have witnessed magnolias in flower beside them. Rh moupinense, Rh mucronulatum, Rh delavayi and even Rh ‘Cornish Red’ are out on…

…Blood Red – Arboreum in middle ride – Moupinense beginning. Cam reticulata species bud picked just opening – Rho Ririei – Camellia hybrids good and early double white – cut…

…At 2.40pm DFW fell. 1965 -FJW Magnolias frosted very badly also the Michelias. It would have been a good year. 1963 – FJW Camellias just began very slowly. Moupinense has…

…yellow and white. Rhododendron moupinense going over and Rhododendron Golden Oriole var Talavera in front. nice mix of yellow and white 2016 – CHW I am starting the photography to…

…barbatum, davidii, sutchuenense, moupinense, scabrifolium, lutescens, argeteum, arboreum, irroratum (only just), mucronulatum. Cerasus conradinae just opening.1914 – JCW One Cam reticulata on wall by Library. R argenteum and most arboreums…

…rugosa Decaisnea insignis Myrtus paraguayensis Viburnum awabuki Viburnum atrocyanea Plus Thomas Methuen-Campbell gives us from Penrice: Callistrus (a rare conifer) Quercus hypoxantha Salix aff moupinense (TH Vietnam) 2015 – CHW…

…Sutchuenense at the Engine House to open in water. Berberis polyantha is the only thing to talk about and the Stransvaesia fruit. 1917 – JCW The plant of Moupinense is…

…Salix moupinense (but Salix fargesii nearby has none). Beautiful orange-yellow berries on a Sorbus for which we have lost the label. Any ideas please? Sorbus I did reply to Roy’s…

…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…