I'm one of those people who loves leaving the garden show with bagsfull of paper crap. In part, this is because I'm professionally interested in paper media (innovative folding! diagrams of exquisite simplicity! colour or no colour?), but it's also because I do take notes, and sometimes act on them later. Here's my of interest list from this year's shows:
Flowers
Veggies
Flowers
- Dahlia POOH (orange swan type)
- Dahlia Dreamy Fantasy (sunset waves)
- Heuchera "Coral Reef" - may be a challenge to find this var. as Heuchera's common name is Coral Bells which is enough to muddy the searches
- Regal Pelargonium "Bushfire" - much more neon than it appears in its online photos
- Pelargonium Rushmore Orinoco - cherry blossom delicate
- Stellar Pelargonium Vectis Glitter - fireworks
- Decorative Pelargonium My Chance - Rich translucent petals
- Epimedium spine tingler - red and yellow
- Tanecetum Coccineum - Bright pink and yellow daisy
- Iris Natchez Trace - I already bought this!!!!
- Iris Rajah - yellow and rust
- Fuchsia Rose Fantasia - pretty pink and Fuchsia Dorothy Hanley - Aubergine & Barbie, semi-double and Lye's Unique - half long, white and orange
- Fuchsia Twist & Shout - very curled outer petals
- Species Sweet Pea - Azureus also at Chilterns
- Heucherella Red Rover and Tierella Pink Skyrocket
- Scizanthus Grahamii - Poor Man's Orchid
- Corydalis tomentella - silver and yellow
- Primula/Dodecatheon Meadia - shooting star
- Iris Sibirica Silver Edge - Small blue irises, in the Van Gogh style
- Epimedium × perralchicum 'Fröhnleiten' - Yellow and red
- Saxifrage Silver Velvet - also burgundy leaves
- Canna Cleopatra - bold striped leaves
- Persicaria Neofiliformis - lime green leaves with red chevrons
- Arisema Utile - sex-changing cobra lily
- Cycas revoluta - a miniature cycad palm
- Rodgersia Pinnata Superba - lovely leaves, shade-loving (chocolate wings also good)
- Ligularia tussilaginea 'Aureo-maculata' - Leopard Plant
- Paris Quadrifolia - Might take some finding
- Polygonatum Bifloratum Variegatum - needs to be bought in person to get a good pattern
- Fascicularia Bicolour - a hardy bromeliad!!!
- Podophyllum "Spotty Dotty" - dots in the border!!!!
- Cordyline Fruticosa Purple Compacta - here's Kiwi, maybe it belongs in the Houseplants?
- Coleus Main Street Wall Street - available in colourful coleus seed mixes
- Yellow Archangel - invasive, apparently, it can invade me any time
- Trifolium repens - purple leaved clover
- Asarum Europeum - Wild Ginger
- Viola Heartthrob - aubergine and lime heart-shaped leaves
- Mukdenia - red frills
- Anthropodium candidum
- Sedum Spathufolium Capo Blanco - silver foilage, yellow flowers
- Clematis Rebecca - Red large flowers
- Tulip Marilyn - pink and white
- Tulip Fly Away - Flaming lillies
- Tulip Elegant Lady - Delicately flushed
- Tulip Temple of Beauty - Orange/Pink
Veggies
- Mizuna Black Knight (here's Red Knight)
- Perilla/Shiso Purple
- Persicaria Hydropiper Rubra / Yanagitate - might take some finding
- Alexanders - old culinary herb
- Japanese mint - not widely available
- Crimson Flower Broad Bean - plant in autumn and water this time
- Kale Nero de Tosciana - black kale
- Kale Redbor - crimson kale
- Kale Scarlet - scarlet kale
- Cabbage Red Drumhead - red tight headed cabbage
- Tree Spinach - pink and green
- Scots Lovage - it won't like your conditions
- Amaranth Red Army - microleaves
- Microgreens - and more of these!
- Mizuna - Japanese greens
Shrubs
- Physocarpus Diablo D'Or (rich red foliage)
- Rosa Chevy Chase - so red!
- Crinodendron Hookerianum - Chilean Lantern Tree
- Desfontania Spinosa - Spiny Bird Holly
- Pterostyrax Corumosa, aka the Little Epaulette Tree
- Cornus Controversa Variegata - small ones are also beautiful
- Zanthoxylum Piperatum - Szechuan Pepper
- Luma Apiculata 'Glanleam Gold' - Variegated Myrtle
- Solanum Crispum - I've already taken a cutting of this from the little estate by the river
- Mitraria Coccinea "Lake Puyehue" - small orange flowers
- Happydendron Pushy Purple - definitely out of budget!!!
- Rhododendron Barbarella - sunset shades
- Pinus Mugo - dwarf creeping pine
- Calycanthus Hartledge Wine - Carolina Allspice
- Photinia Fraseri Louise - buy in peson for a good patteren
- Rosa Gabriel Oak - so pink!!
Houseplants
- Vriesia Delicatula - a bromeliad that may take some finding
- Racinaea Dyeriania - giant airplant, red/peach flowers
- Paphilopedilum Black Jack - Black Slipper Orchid
- Epicattleya Black Comet - Meristem Orchid
- Mastevallia Copper Angel - Orange Dracula Orchid (or any, veitchiana also good)
- Zingiber Zerumbet - Shampoo Ginger
- Helliconia Chartacea Sexy Pink - Lobster Claw
- Painted fingernail Bromeliad - hot pink leaf tips
Kit
- Keder Greenhouses
- Hydroveg mini hydroponics set
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