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    A Thompson and Morgan Giveaway
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    By Alan Down
    In Container gardening, New Varieties, Summer colour
    Posted April 11, 2022

    A Thompson and Morgan Giveaway

    One of the UK’s biggest seed and plant suppliers has asked me to share with you the chance to win some great plants! They are Thompson and Morgan and they’re offering some really [...]

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    West Country Lupins
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    By Alan Down
    In Hardy perennials, New Varieties, Plant breeding, Plant Focus
    Posted February 20, 2022

    West Country Lupins

    West Country Lupins have been developed high up on Exmoor. It’s not the place that I would choose to build a nursery but Woolsery is where that classic of the cottage garden the lupin has [...]

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    Downy mildew free Impatiens
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    By Alan Down
    In Annuals and half hardy seasonal plants, Bedding Plants, Container gardening, New Varieties, Plant breeding, Plant Review, Summer colour
    Posted July 16, 2020

    Downy mildew free Impatiens

    Downy mildew free Impatiens has long been the bedding plant breeders holy grail! That’s because Impatiens, which are often called Busy Lizzies, were the number one selling bedding plant [...]

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    What Skimmia plant should you grow
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    By Alan Down
    In Evergreens, Gardening, New Varieties, Plant Focus, Plant Review, Scented plants, Shrubs, Trees and Shrubs, Winter colour
    Posted September 17, 2018

    What Skimmia plant should you grow

    What Skimmia plant should you grow? Skimmia shrubs will not stop you in your tracks with showy bright blooms. They’re not the most eye catching shrub in a planting scheme – that is [...]

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    About Alan

    Flora and fauna have always fascinated me but it was a lifelong career in horticulture that filled most days.

    Having grown up on a farm where boyhood days were filled with discoveries of the natural world I soon found that my passion for plants – wildflowers at that time – would direct my career…

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