Here’s a shrub much loved by foliage ferrets (flower arrangers) everywhere, this is ‘Pittosporum tenuifolium Silver queen’ and it is totally hardy no matter what you might hear. The tenuifolium species make a charming large shrub of columnar habit and... [more]

How’s this for a weird Christmas tree? Believe me it gets even weirder with age which you can check out via google. Just type in ‘Picea abies inversa’ or ‘Picea abies pendula’ then click on the images tab. You’ll be... [more]

The following is an article I was asked to write for the ‘Lakeland Horticultural Society’ unfortunately they were not prepared to print it for editorial reasons, not least being causing offence to their local horticultural college, thereby losing revenue. I... [more]

Perhaps if I had but one rose to choose I would select this variety. Rosa bonica is a cracking rose with silvery pink blooms borne throughout summer and on well into autumn. Seen as a single specimen bush it always... [more]

Meet Clyde, or as he is more commonly know ‘Chamaecyparis nootkatensis pendula’. A customer came into the gardens during summer and told me he and his wife had moved house and were able to dig up most of their favourite plants... [more]