Spring!!

Hello, Well the suns out and so are our Primulas! It's nice to see some colour after such a difficult winter - lets hope it's all over now! Walked the Prim crop at our grower in the North West, thankfully he dipped in his pocket and paid for some heating oil, the plants have really appreciated that! They are looking really good, a few pic's to prove it. You will find many of these in Bents or Grosvenor garden centres, check out the stockist page if you don't know them! Many growers have lost most of their Primrose crop this winter, the temperatures were so low for such a long period, those who could not heat suffered badly. I can see numbers of plants being well down.
Cheshire Life- Rose Passion - Olde English and below Woodland Walk

Merry Christmas!

Hi everyone, last few weeks spent checking on the Primrose crops and trials, yet again we have severe winter, trying to keep these plants frost free is expensive!

However, everything is looking well if slightly behind, depending on the snow in the new year we should see some deliveries from mid/late Jan.

We have a tremendous amount of trials this, too early to judge but should be some interesting additions for 2012 onwards.

Finally would just like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year

Hello!

The web site is now updated with our new Primulas for flowering 2011, make sure you have a good look around, check out the Whats New? and Collectors Corners pages for the most striking of varieties - keep calling back for news on the varieties we are trialling for future introduction.

A few pictures of things to come - maybe!

Hello!

Apologies, it is not since July I had time to 'blog', time has just flown.

Primrose crops are all on the point of potting, we have some exciting new lines for potential introduction, more of that when we view the trials spring next year.

Have assessed a number of new Begonias this summer, a few pictures below, it will be a year or two before they are fully commercial, however we do have a recent basket type introduction in the range for 2011 Elserta.

Dennis is busy raising new seedlings for next years trials, looks to be some promising new types in there, more on these next summer.

Hello!

Hope you are enjoying the sunshine.

We have our Begonia trials all planted out now both here and at Dennis', we also have around 15 varieties in trial at two commercial plant companies, will make some assesments across the summer but now its back to Primula - the seed is now all harvested, just in the thro's of counting and packing and a couple varieties have a priming treatment to improve the germination.

I know it seems the wrong time of year to be thinking about Primula but we will make the first sowings in the next few weeks!

Will keep you upto date on any new Begonias but here's a couple of Prim's ready for introduction next year -

Good Evening

Well, in the end the Primrose season went pretty good finally - hope you could find what you wanted, we are now planning seed production for another year, should be harvested over the next month or so!

Now its time to think about Begonias and long hot summer days, check out the web site for news on the new variety Buffy and additions to the Renaissance range of Begonia.

They really give exceptional value for money flowering right through to autumn, there's not many plants which will do that for you!

A few pic's of Buffy, Ami Jean Bard and Lemondrops below.

Hi There

Dare I say it but we may be heading towards Spring! At least the sun is getting you all out buying Primrose's particularly for Mothers Day, they make an ideal gift for indoor or outdorr containers, and the later flowering Glorious Laced Silver & Gold along with Cheshire Life make great garden plants.
Thoughts move onto the summer and our Begonias, more news later but have a look at the National Begonia Society web site for lots of information on lots of Begonias and a recent article by Dennis covering 2010 new introductions www.national-begonia-society.co.uk