Hints and Tips

Here are a few answers to common questions about our Mail Order Service. We aim to sell plants that are large enough...

Have you noticed how good they are this year?  There’s more flower and the leaves have much less fungal rust than...

Ed (my son) has taken over Steve Eyres’ collection of tender Nerine sarniensis cultivars.  Steve had to move house and...

They mostly come in yellow but if you weed out the yellow ones you’ll get oranges and reds.  However, whether they’re...

(Reproduced from ‘Cotswold Garden Flowers’ catalogue 2004 and amended under lockdown in April 2020.) Winter is coming...

Years ago – maybe as far back as 1985 – Anne Jenner took a census of HPS members favourite plants, or maybe it was...

ALLIUM TRIQUETRUM It’s very beautiful, immensely invasive, a problem weed in the west of Britain and, I’ve discovered...

What’s not to like? Late winter and early spring are dominated by yellow flowers and here’s a red.  OK mixed with...

Ed Brown looks at what to look for when selecting potential new Dahlia varieties.