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Hosta ‘Guacamole’

By |2024-03-06T10:41:30+00:00June 1st, 2014|Categories: , , , |

Hosta of the Year 2002 Potsize - 1L Hosta 'Guacamole'. Medium. 25cm x 50cm. An open mound of overlapping rounded gold leaves margined dark green. A fast grower for a sunny spot where it will quickly achieve its full potential. Large fragrant flowers in August held well above the foliage. The green margin can be [...]

Hosta ‘Abba Dabba Do’

By |2024-03-06T10:41:31+00:00June 1st, 2014|Categories: , , , |

Potsize - 1L Hosta 'Abba Dabba Do'. Large. 60 x 170cm. A fairly fast growing Hosta with an upright growth habit. Dark green leaves with a wavy edge and gold margin. Relatively sun tolerant and pest resistant, this is a distinctive plant with its rippled mound appearance and is very garden worthy. Sport of H [...]

Hosta ‘Abiqua Drinking Gourd’

By |2024-04-27T13:53:21+00:00June 1st, 2014|Categories: , , , , |

RHS AGM Potsize - 1L Hosta 'Abiqua Drinking Gourd'. Medium - Large (90 x 50 cm). A fabulous blue Hosta with puckered heavy textured leaves, round in outline and distinctly cupped. Great topped with the white flowers. Just wait for it to rain ! H. 'Tokudama' x H. sieboldiana (Walden West  1989) Discount of 25p per plant [...]

Hosta ‘Big Daddy’

By |2023-05-12T15:42:29+00:00June 1st, 2014|Categories: , , , |

RHS AGMHosta of the Year 2014 Potsize - 1L Hosta 'Big Daddy'. Large. 65 x 160cm. Very large, distinctly cupped and puckered, deep glaucous blue leaves of great substance makes an impressive large clump to 1m across. Short dense spikes of near white flowers.   Very pest resistant variety. Slow growing and requiring a well-shaded situation [...]

Hosta ‘Brim Cup’

By |2023-07-26T13:41:42+00:00June 1st, 2014|Categories: , , , |

Potsize - 1L Hosta 'Brim Cup'. Small. 30 x 40cm. A small sized Hosta that quickly makes a good size. The leaves are strikingly marked with broad creamy edges and an irregular dark green central splash. Texture is puckered and leaves are cupped. H. 'Aden 392' x H. 'Wide Brim' (P Aden, 1986) Discount of [...]

Hostas – A Comparison

By |2017-02-19T15:04:49+00:00April 26th, 2014|Categories: Genus Comparisons|Tags: , |

I have arranged all of the Hostas we grow into an ordered list so that you can compare them side by side. For want of a better scheme, I have grouped them by size and then by colour form within that. There are some very helpful cultural notes that have been written by my good [...]

Papaver ‘Turkish Delight’ (Oriental Group) (Helen Elizabeth)

By |2022-03-29T16:44:58+00:00April 8th, 2021|Categories: , |

Pot size - 1L When we started growing plants (cough).. years ago these two varieties were separate, but nowadays they are considered so similar as to be the same. Both names refer to plants that are a little smaller than Mrs Perry but of similar salmon pink colouring with silky ruffled blooms no prominent spots [...]

Papaver ‘Picotee’ (Oriental Group)

By |2022-03-29T16:44:57+00:00April 8th, 2021|Categories: , |

Pot size - 1L This is definitely a showstopper when in full bloom. The large flambouyant ruffled flowers are white with a variable orange-red ruffled edge. I like to see the extravagant flowers flopping and cascading out at the front of a bed, but do stake plants if you want them upright at their full [...]

Papaver ‘Mrs Perry’ (Oriental Group)

By |2022-03-29T16:44:51+00:00April 8th, 2021|Categories: , |

Pot size - 1L The original colour break amongst Oriental poppies and still a fine plant. Large ruffled blooms in a salmony rose-pink. Found in 1905 amongst a bed of red seedlings by nurseryman Amos Perry, named after his wife and shown the following year at the RHS. He sowed many seeds from it hoping [...]

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