It is pleasing to hear visitors to our Floral Fantasia area (at RHS Hyde Hall) exclaim: “There is still colour here!” Pleasing, because we work hard to ensure there are plants flowering every month of the year.
While dahlias and other frost-tender summer bedding plants were removed in mid-November, hardy cyclamen and the pretty hardy small-flowered pot cyclamen, plus Wallflower ‘Sugar Rush’, keep the flower colour coming. Last month, on a trip to trade shows in Holland, time was taken to visit a large herbaceous nursery in Boskoop, the place to see one of the greatest concentrations of hardy plant nurseries.
This story is from the December 11, 2021 edition of Amateur Gardening.
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