Visiting nurseries and gardens are one of the big pleasures of being a garden designer. Somehow there is never enough time to see all of the nurseries or all of the gardens one wants to but in 2015 I’m making a concerted effort to see one or other, possibly both, every month. Rooting out excellent…
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The Collector (Nerd)
As well as being a Garden Designer I, like many others, am fairly fanatical about plants. So much so that a few years back I started collecting the apparently unpopular Miniature Tall Bearded Iris. It’s daintier and makes a much better cut flower than it’s big brother the Tall Bearded Supported by Plant Heritage and…
Continue ReadingGarden Visit – Barrington Court
On a whim a couple of weeks ago I went ‘nursery trawling’ in the south west-ish of England. I collect Iris, specifically Miniature Tall Bearded iris but of late I have been expanding into Tall Bearded and Standard Dwarf Bearded. The best place to find them is at a specialist, not because they have better…
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Hybridising Iris
We have had a collection of beautiful little Miniature Tall Bearded Iris for about 2.5 years now and this year we are doing so hybridising, just for fun to see what we can cross and create, if anything. We have some unknown hybrids from last year that have bloomed, but they are temperamental things and…
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