The Grower's Notebook

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...

Rosy Hardy

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...

Rosy Hardy

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...

Rosy Hardy

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...

Rosy Hardy

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

Rosy Hardy

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

Rosy Hardy

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...

Rosy Hardy

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...

Rosy Hardy

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,...

Geum 'Totally Tangerine' — soft apricot-orange flowers on fuzzy stems, hardy perennial in bloom

Geum 'Totally Tangerine' — The Chelsea Hero Tha...

Rosy Hardy

Geum 'Totally Tangerine' is a Chelsea hero — a sterile, long-flowering perennial with bold tangerine-orange blooms from May to autumn. Bred by Tim Crowther and introduced by Hardy's at RHS...

Geum 'Totally Tangerine' — The Chelsea Hero Tha...

Rosy Hardy

Geum 'Totally Tangerine' is a Chelsea hero — a sterile, long-flowering perennial with bold tangerine-orange blooms from May to autumn. Bred by Tim Crowther and introduced by Hardy's at RHS...

Oenothera lindheimeri Rosyjane in flower — white blooms with pink picotee edge on graceful wand-like stems

Oenothera lindheimeri 'Rosyjane' — A Hardy's Or...

Rosy Hardy

Oenothera lindheimeri 'Rosyjane' is a Hardy's original — the first true colour break in the Gaura family, with large white flowers edged in pink picotee. Named for Rosy Hardy and...

Oenothera lindheimeri 'Rosyjane' — A Hardy's Or...

Rosy Hardy

Oenothera lindheimeri 'Rosyjane' is a Hardy's original — the first true colour break in the Gaura family, with large white flowers edged in pink picotee. Named for Rosy Hardy and...