My Garden

Avon Bulbs , the renowned bulb specialists from Somerset, are not one of those nurseries which comes out with a vast flurry of new varieties year after year. Their customers are more focused on choice plants, and good garden plants, rather than novelties - or that's what Chris Ireland-Jones, who... Read more..

I wrote up the bright new bicoloured Pacific Coast Iris from Broadleigh Gardens , ‘Broadleigh Fenella' , before the show. Then when I talked to Christine Skelmersdale, who runs Broadleigh, down at the show I found that she had two unexpected new introductions that she was showing at the Chelsea Flower... Read more..