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A Distinguished Visitor

Last Sunday, the 8th of September, I had a visit from a horticultural national living [...]

Narcissus ‘Beryl’

There are daffodils and there are daffodils. Some are so superior to the run-of-the-mill sorts [...]

Violets

Walking into one of our large growing houses today I almost swooned from the intense [...]

Bluebells

There is, or used to be, a bluebell wood a short walk from my East [...]

Shade Lovers from Chile

I first saw plants of Bridal Wreath, Francoa appendiculata ssp. ramosa, some fifty years ago [...]

Snowdrops (Galanthus)

Snowdrops (Galanthus) have naturalised so far and wide in the British Isles that they are [...]

Forsythia ‘Gold Clusters’ (syn Forsythia ‘Melee d’Or’)

Seventy years ago, when I was 8 years old, my father let me use a [...]