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Graham Rice's New Plants Blog

Graham Rice Garden writer and plantsman Northamptonshire and Pennsylvania

Editor-in-Chief of the RHS Encyclopedia of Perennials; writer for a wide range of newspapers and magazines including The Garden and The Plantsman; member of the RHS Herbaceous Plant Committee and Floral Trials Committee; author of many books on plants and gardens.

  • Date Joined: 18 Oct 2006

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  • New style begonia

    Graham Rice on 25 Feb 2009 at 01:19 PM

    Back in December I featured the Million Kisses begonias , one of a number of begonias in new styles for your outdoor beds and containers. Now here's another. ‘Ikon Blush White', bred by a British company, is the first of a new style of larger begonias for beds and containers. It has soft green... Read More...

  • Gorgeous new begonia for containers

    Graham Rice on 27 Dec 2008 at 01:09 PM

    For decades, centuries even, two kinds of begonias dominated our outdoor beds, borders and containers - the neat little varieties of the fibrous rooted B. semperflorens and the bolder, blowsier tuberous B. tuberhybrida varieties. Now, breeders are turning to the 1300 other species in search of good new... Read More...