These Asiatic Primulas give great value. They flower for much of the summer and into autumn, if it stays mild like this year, sending up tall 'drumsticks' of dark purple flowers above neat clumps of foliage. They are easy to grow in any soil that doe...

Perennial Violas are one of our favourite plants and 'Pasha' is one of the most beautiful. If ever a flower was destined to adorn a pudding, it's this one. We're taking cuttings now, so we should have plants for sale in early spring.

'Golden Knees', or 'Golden Star' comes to us from North America, where it grows in woodland areas from Pennsylvania to Florida and Louisiana. Fully hardy and semi-evergreen, the star-shaped yellow flowers really stand out in shady areas. Happy in ful...

What a difference a year makes. This time last year we were in the middle of one of the driest years in memory, and we didn't end up having any decent rain until late autumn. This year we've had above average rainfall all year (except for June), cont...

Lotus corniculatus is one of our wonderful native perennial wildflowers from the pea family. Widespread and found in all kinds of grassy places, from lawns to downlands, roadside verges to heathlands, common bird's-foot-trefoil can be seen flowering ...

Penstemons are reliable summer-flowering perennials with semi-evergreen foliage in winter and a flowering season from summer into autumn. They bring welcome colour to the garden and are loved by bees too. With many varieties available, there is a col...

Chaerophyllum azoricum is very much like a tidy, well-behaved cow parsley. This rare plant heralds from the Azores Islands and makes an excellent border plant in any garden. Bees and other pollinators love the many white umbel flower heads. ...

A light covering of snow at the nursery this morning. The heaviest snow just skirted us fortunately.

At this time of year we are starting to pot up in earnest. These plants are plugs which are either started from seed or softwood cuttings in autumn and are now ready to put into bigger pots. We hope for some mild weather now so these plants can reall...

This striking violet is new to us this year and will be available in a few weeks. The dark colour of the flowers really stand out at this time of year (flowering early in a polytunnel). As a bonus they are very strongly scented. Viola 'Quasar' is an ...