6th June

…finally out but I have missed the gentle pink hue it first is. Paeonia ‘Moon River’ Dianthus ‘Shooting Star’ is a dwarfish pink with a good purple flower. Dianthus ‘Shooting…

31st May

…Rhododendron stamineum Rhododendron stamineum A new wild collected Rhododendron oreotrephes has its first flowers with delicate purple stemmed new growth with purplish edging to the new leaves. The flower is…

29th May

…seed originally is just coming into leaf. Quite a nice purple hue to the new growth of this bizarre and really rare plant. We grow two other species of ehretia…

1st March 1897 – 2020

…– a dwarf clump forming species with single mauve or purple flowers. Rhododendron calostrotum subsp riparium Nitens Restio-Rhodocoma capensis – an attractive reed like plant with architectural merit in a…