What a reward for the effort of planting twenty-seven new roses last winter! All of them are growing well. I believe the secret is to keep them moist. Never allow your rose to dry out. And water them with seaweed once a week, at least a watering can full for each. 'Lavender Pinocchio' is dusky mauve, with a coffee tint to it. Th...
For a 'Mediterranean' feel in your outdoor living areas, lots of lively colour in patio pots and baskets, this new addition to the Million Bells range produces millions of tiny technicolour flowers through spring, summer and autumn. Each plant grows to 60cms and spreads up to one metre. This perennial petunia is the latest of a ...
First of the pokers, 'James Nottle' is flowering with twenty or so spikes, green in bud, changing to gold suffused with apricot and opening to soft butter lemon...glorious! David Glen of Lambley Nursery raised this poker and named it for the son of well-respected author and rosarian, Trevor Nottle. Alongside the soft grey arteme...
I discovered Alister Clark through his rose ‘Squatter’s Dream’. I was on holidays, but a rosarian remains a rosarian even when on holidays, so the car turned into a rose nursery. Right there was my favourite colour in a rose – apricot - as well as my preferred form - single/semi single. Into the car it went for a tou...
“I was immensely excited that someone else shared my obsession for the unconventional and offbeat and I just knew that Mahonia lomariifolia would fit right in.”
Tall, handsome, interesting and very unusual – these were the characteristics I had been looking for, when as student I fell in love as I strolled through...
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