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24 hours later
After freezing at Chelsea on Friday, I was taking no chances on Saturday, even though the sun was shining. But I needn’t have worried and the cloakroom was there to soak up my extra layers. I was early enough to … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged Chelsea flower show, Don Billington, Every Picture, Fibrex, Plantagogo, Richard and Vicky Fox, Richard Goddard-Key, Sparsholt
Chelsea champions
This year Plant Heritage has two centres of operation at Chelsea, the Harry Veitch stand and running the cloakroom, so I have three days working up there. Although it makes for a long day, on Tuesday I got the 5.50 train … Continue reading
Posted in Events
Tagged Chelsea, David Austin Roses, Dibleys, Evison, Hoyland Plants, Lockyer, Peter Beales, Plantagogo, Robinson's, Sparsholt, Tynings Climbers, Westcountry Nursery
Meet the Collection Holders
As I said in a post last September, there is a long show season for our Collection Holders and Steve Hickman’s calendar for 2012 proved this to me when I visited him earlier this month. On Sunday I met up … Continue reading
Posted in Events, National Collections
Tagged Acanthus, Agapanthus, Chris Burchall, Elaine Hickman, Heuchera, Hillview Hardy Plants, Hoyland Plants, John Millington, Jubilee Cottage Nursery, Lorraine Burchall, National Collection, National Plant Collection, open day, Plantagogo, Rhodohypoxis, RHS Wisley, Richard Fox, Steve Hickman, Tale Valley Nursery, Tiarella, Tulbaghia, Vicky Fox, x Heucherella, x Rhodoxis
Filing fish
June was a bumper month in the RHS Garden magazine with articles on three National Collection holders; Terry Baker’s Digitalis, Evelyn Stevens’ Meconopsis and Henry and Susie Robinson’s Roses. During 2011 Chris Lane, Sue Martin and Doug Smith have written … Continue reading
Posted in National Collections
Tagged Araliaceae, Chris Lane, Clematis montana, Crûg Farm, Croft Narcissus, Digitalis, Doug Smith, Duncan and Kate Donald, Evelyn Stevens, Geum, Henry and Susie Robinson, Heuchera, Meconopsis, Plantagogo, RHS Wisley, Rose, Sir Harold Hillier Gardens, Sue Martin, Terry Baker, Val Le May Neville-Parry, Vicky and Richard Fox, Wisteria, Witch Hazel Nursery
The shows go on
From RHS Cardiff in April through to Journees Des Plantes De Courson in October, via Chelsea, NEC Gardeners Live, RHS Hampton Court and Tatton Park, 2 Malverns, 2 Harrogates, 2 Harlow Carrs, Ayr, Shrewsbury, Sandringham, Southport, Gardening Scotland, and a few others … Continue reading
Posted in Events, National Collections
Tagged Agapanthus, Auricula, Canna, Digitalis, Hartcanna, Heuchera, Hosta, Hoyland Plants, Lockyer, Mickfield Hostas, National Collection, National Plant Collection, Passiflora, Plantagogo, Rhodohypoxis, Tale Valley Nursery, The Botanic Nursery, Thunbergia, Tynings Climbers
More from Tatton Park
Matthew Biggs has just been on Gardeners’ Question Time talking about the Floral Marquee and the joy of buying plants at big events like Tatton, but also at Plant Heritage plant sales. You can catch the repeat of this programme on … Continue reading
Posted in Events, National Collections
Tagged collection holder, Dibleys, Gardeners' Question Time, Gladiolus, Heuchera, Hosta, Matthew Biggs, Medwyns of Anglesey, Mickfield Hostas, National Collection, National Plant Collection, Passiflora, Passion Flower, Pheasant Acre Pla, Plantagogo, RHS, streptocarpus, Tatton Park, Tynings Climbers
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