Hellebores are my personal favourite of the winter flowering plants. From December through to the end of March their blooms provide welcome relief from the winter dullness before the spring bulbs begin to show their heads above the cold soil. The early bees use them as a precious source of nectar. Their charming flowers rival[...]
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Cornish city crowned ‘Champion of Champions’ in UK-wide community gardening competition Truro beat the heat to win in the most challenging year on record for gardeners 76 communities celebrate success, with over half walking away with gold medal Cornish city Truro has been awarded top prize and crowned ‘Champion of Champions’ in the Royal Horticultural[...]
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Daphne x transatlantica ‘Eternal Fragrance’ is a delightful semi-evergreen shrub famed for it’s exquisite fragrance. It has been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit, and therefore has been tested for it’s outstanding performance in U.K garden conditions. It’s compact nature makes it ideal for containers as well as borders. The fact that this shrub[...]
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Autumn is upon us and it’s time to prepare your garden for this season and next. As the temperature drops and the light fades, your outdoor space and the wildlife that inhabit it, need some extra TLC. Whilst the lawnmower can be stored away until the Spring, other items can emerge from their summer holiday.[...]
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Following its success at RHS Chelsea Flower Show in May, Thompson & Morgan’s in-house-bred sunflower, SunBelievable™ ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ has won even more awards and accolades. Proving hugely popular in the US, the new sunflower was awarded the Retailers’ Choice Award at the FARWEST Show in Portland, Oregon, as well as the 2018 American[...]
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Begonias have been voted a plant favourite in the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) annual People’s Choice Awards. Visitors to RHS Garden Wisley in Surrey were asked to vote for their favourite from 84 new varieties trialled over the summer, with the basket and bedding classic securing the top two spots. The pink-frilled petals and lemony[...]
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Hydrangea hybrid Runaway Bride® ‘Snow White’ is fantastic new breeding, hence it achieved the prestigious accolade of Plant of the Year 2018 at RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2018. It is an extremely floriferous and vigorous Hydrangea. Many of the Hydrangeas you see for sale produce only one bloom on the end of each branch, but Hydrangea[...]
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Mulberry Charlotte Russe is a breeding breakthrough. If you wanted to grow mulberries in the past you would have had to have been able to accommodate a large tree up to eight metres in height. This plant however is a dwarf mulberry bush which will only reach the height of one and a half metres,[...]
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Many of the new season’s seed ranges are available online now or in the coming weeks. If you are anything like me you will derive great pleasure from trawling through the new seed selections and, with baited breath, you will be eager to discover the latest breeding in flowers for your summer displays and[...]
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