Over the last twenty years I have seen an explosion of interest in paeonies in England, Japan and, more recently, China, the home of many original species. I happened to visit Shanghai Botanic Garden in 1995, the week they flowered the basic Chinese cream, flesh-coloured flower.In 1999 we received a wonderful catalogue from Paeo...
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...
Rosa ‘Iceberg’
Born: 1958, in Reimer Kordes famous rose nursery, Germany.
Parents: Rosa ‘Robin Hood’ x R. ‘Virgo’.
The parents could never have guessed just how well their ‘baby’ was going do. By 2004, ‘Iceberg’ had been acclaimed the ‘rose of the 20th Century’ and ‘the greatest triumph of any rose breeder for m...
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