Bengal Beauty – A First Class Rose with First Prize for the First Flowers of the Year…

The China rose - Bengal Beauty - or Bengal Crimson - the first Old Roses to flower at Petersham - the first of any of them by a country mile! A deep cherry-red - large sumptiously-coloured single blooms, with a stretch and a twist, set against deep green, purple-flushed foliage. And set to flower continuously…

Lilac hues in the glasshouse – Passiflora ‘Amethyst’

    Passiflora 'Amethyst'- a tender, vigorous climber suitable for the conservatory. A lilac/lavender cousin of the more usual blue Passiflora caerulea. (P. caerulea  is a hardy climber, more or less happy outside whatever the weather) Of Amethyst - this beauty can survive outside, down to 0°C, if the new wood has had time to…