The Grower's Notebook

Self-seeded white flowering Hellebores growing in a border beneath deciduous trees and shrubs.

Helleborus × hybridus — How to Grow Hellebores

Helleborus × hybridus — the Lenten Rose — produces its nodding blooms in the depths of winter, when colour in the garden is most needed. Modern cultivars extend the season further still, with...

Helleborus × hybridus — How to Grow Hellebores

Helleborus × hybridus — the Lenten Rose — produces its nodding blooms in the depths of winter, when colour in the garden is most needed. Modern cultivars extend the season further still, with...

Why Autumn is the Best Time to Plant Hardy Perennials

Why Autumn is the Best Time to Plant Hardy Pere...

Autumn is one of the best times of year to plant hardy perennials — and yet, for reasons that are hard to fathom, it has rather fallen out of fashion....

Why Autumn is the Best Time to Plant Hardy Pere...

Autumn is one of the best times of year to plant hardy perennials — and yet, for reasons that are hard to fathom, it has rather fallen out of fashion....

Echinacea ‘Big Kahuna’ — large honey-mango orange coneflowers with warm brown spiny cones, multiple blooms on upright stems against a green garden background

Echinacea — The Coneflower That Earns Its Place...

Echinacea are among the most rewarding perennials you can grow — bold, long-flowering, loved by pollinators, and beautiful even in winter. In this Grower’s Notebook guide, we explore the history...

Echinacea — The Coneflower That Earns Its Place...

Echinacea are among the most rewarding perennials you can grow — bold, long-flowering, loved by pollinators, and beautiful even in winter. In this Grower’s Notebook guide, we explore the history...

Viola Avril Lawson in flower — deep purple blooms with gold eye over heart-shaped evergreen foliage

Viola 'Avril Lawson' — Rosy's Favourite Viola a...

Viola 'Avril Lawson' is one of Rosy's favourite Violas and a Hardy family favourite — fragrant, free-flowering, and a sublime companion for roses. Its story begins at Dove Cottage in...

Viola 'Avril Lawson' — Rosy's Favourite Viola a...

Viola 'Avril Lawson' is one of Rosy's favourite Violas and a Hardy family favourite — fragrant, free-flowering, and a sublime companion for roses. Its story begins at Dove Cottage in...

Close-up of Gaillardia 'Apricot Honey' flower showing warm apricot and yellow petals

Gaillardia ‘Apricot Honey’ — Ahead of Its Time

The story of Gaillardia 'Apricot Honey' begins with a chance seedling spotted by Rosy in 2002 — a discovery the RHS called 'an important colour break'. Sixteen years later came...

Gaillardia ‘Apricot Honey’ — Ahead of Its Time

The story of Gaillardia 'Apricot Honey' begins with a chance seedling spotted by Rosy in 2002 — a discovery the RHS called 'an important colour break'. Sixteen years later came...

Salvia × sylvestris Crystal Blue — pale sky-blue flower spikes in a summer border

Salvia × sylvestris 'Crystal Blue' — The Sky-Bl...

Salvia × sylvestris 'Crystal Blue' is a genuinely rare sky-blue perennial salvia, launched by Hardy's at RHS Chelsea 2017 where it was runner-up for Plant of the Year. Fully hardy,...

Salvia × sylvestris 'Crystal Blue' — The Sky-Bl...

Salvia × sylvestris 'Crystal Blue' is a genuinely rare sky-blue perennial salvia, launched by Hardy's at RHS Chelsea 2017 where it was runner-up for Plant of the Year. Fully hardy,...