My Garden

“Remember, remember the 5th of November”. It works for fireworks, and it works for the wonderful Wisley chrysanthemum display. Every year, the team in the Glasshouse work tirelessly to put together a breathtaking display of colour and shape comprising chrysanthemums. Some are compact, some seem to almost... Read more..

Trials of outdoor carnations and chrysanthemums take place every year at Wisley. It's a long standing tradition and even after so many years fine new varieties are still being recognised and receiving the Award of Garden Merit . The latest awards have just been confirmed. Although attracting a fervent... Read more..

Martyn Flint has recently made a dramatic transition from growing alpines in Susex to growing chrysanthemums in Cheshire and at his first Chelsea Flower Show with Chrysanthemums Direct (Great Pavilion, C27) he has a splendid new variety on show. ‘Tim Wonnacott' is new anemone-centred chrysanthemum... Read more..

If you were a flower what would you be? It's an interesting thought, but have you thought about how you'd feel to have a plant named after you? Many new plants are introduced every year at the RHS Shows and especially at Chelsea - just take a look at Graham Rice's blogs and you'll see... Read more..

I was surprised by the wealth of attractive but unfamiliar chrysanthemums on the Chelsea Flower Show display staged by Graeme Iddon . A lovely colour-coordinated display featuring what for gardeners are unfamiliar chrysanths, they should prove easy to grow and valuable cut flowers. These are all bred... Read more..

A great many new chrysanthemums are produced every year, mainly to be grown as cut flowers, so Martyn Flint of Chrysanthemums Direct has to choose carefully exactly which ones to introduce for home gardeners. At Chelsea he had the yellow, anemone-centred ‘Tim Wonnacott', and here at the Hampton Court... Read more..

You have just a few days to enjoy the beautiful, yellow, fragrant Peruvian daffodil. It isn't common in cultivation, and this is the best I have ever seen this rarity flower, so I extend my congratulations to the team in Glass. Matt Pottage explains: "The Paramongaia is known as the Peruvian... Read more..