Actinidia Arguta Issai (Kiwi Issai) is an extremely hardy kiwi plant, and so ideal for our variable U.K weather. It is native to Siberia and so hardy with slow temperature drops to -34 degrees C. We all know the kiwis that are sold in our local supermarkets. These whilst delicious, are harder to ripen in[...]
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In recent years vegetable plant suppliers have been offering the gardener grafted vegetable plants. This simply means that the best vegetable varieties have been taken and grafted on to a very vigorous rootstock. This method has been used for many years with fruit trees for example to change the vigour of an apple tree[...]
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• Striking display of thousands of Dahlias • Incredible sensory floral immersion experience • Power of Trees celebration From 5-9 June, the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) newest Show, RHS Chatsworth Flower Show partnered by Wedgwood will return to the magnificent 1,000acre Chatsworth Estate bursting with exciting new content including a mass planting of thousands[...]
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The catalogues that we avidly view each season are teeming with new “improved” varieties of veg for you to grow that may be more disease resistant or heavier yielding, but are they always preferable? I have heard many a more senior member of society utter the words “they just don’t taste like they used to”.[...]
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Lupins were introduced to the U.K from North America by David Douglas and they were a fairly insignificant perennial. It wasn’t until 100 years later in 1937 that George Russel exhibited at the RHS Westminster Show the plants that he had spent 25 years of his life breeding on his allotment in Yorkshire. The Russel[...]
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