My Garden

One of the great things about visiting any big flower show - and the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show is the biggest of them all - is that you get the chance to talk to the breeders of some wonderful new varieties. Richard Fulcher, who runs Pine Cottage Plants in Devon, is a holder of a National Collections... Read more..

I looked at one of the new introductions from Pine Cottage Plants at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show in the run-up to the show but National Collection holder Richard Fulcher also had two more of his new introductions on show. Agapanthus ‘Blue Ice' , which has been overlooked when exhibited previously... Read more..

Agapanthus are everywhere at the Hampton Court Palace Flower Show this year and there were two newcomers on show from the Hoyland Plant Centre in Yorkshire. Agapanthus ‘Yorkshire Dream' is a lovely new variegated form. A seedling of A. praecox , the variegation is unusually luminous and, unlike so... Read more..