…gale with incessant rain. Drips from the skylight in the Billiard Room during the estate meeting (four hours) this morning while the builders fiddle with the new gutters. Venturing out…

Next Day >< Previous Day CONTRIBUTORS: FJW 1955-2007 CHW 2015- JCW 1897-1939 CW 1940-1955 2024 – CHW A fine morning to catch some autumn colour. The very first pale flower…

…Our staff will return to being on furlough and we will lose the main month of the shooting season with no recompense. The morning is spent trying to reorganise what…

…var. coreana Camellia sasanqua ‘Rainbow’ full of flower. Camellia sasanqua ‘Rainbow’ Camellia sasanqua ‘Shinonome’ well out also. Camellia sasanqua ‘Shinonome’ Mist lurks in the tunnels in the early morning. Mist…

…bad in the morning.Another unnamed seedling magnolia by the Rhododendron williamsianum clump is very good. It is now out properly and the third time this year I have photographed this….

…mid morning. 2001 – FJW Still raining! 1933 – JCW Very little in flower, exception 8 Hamamelis mollis. Camellia speciosa, the early form, is very good. 1929 – JCW Much…

…at Rescassa. Rescassa Squirrel damage on a young sweet chestnut in Old Park. sweet chestnut 2019 – CHW A strange excitement at 7.20am this morning. As I sit letter writing…

…but the first frost of the winter this morning. Camellia ‘Lady Clare’ 2019 – CHW Magnolia ‘Star Wars’ has had the odd rather decimated flower as we have seen over…

…England on Thursday. By Friday morning this had become a ‘very rare’ red warning. My guess is that ‘reds’ will now become the norm in a world where risk and…

…Rhododendron laetum Rhododendron periclymenoides Menziesia ‘Dartmoor Storm’ (now Rhododendron!) Menziesia ‘Shepherds Delight’ (now Rhododendron!) Rhododendron (menziesia) formerly ciliicalyx x var. purpurea (bit confused myself!) Menziesia ‘Spring Morning’ (now Rhododendron) Menziesia…