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Lavender blue, dilly dilly – and white, pink, green, mauve, violet (more from the RHS Chelsea Flower Show & Downderry Nursery)

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Downderry Nursery in Kent are magicians when it comes to Lavender - with a collection of over 400 varieties and a breeding program bringing new cultivars to market.  Their Gold medal exhibit at Chelsea was a huge wheel of colour and fragrance - and in my haste to capture as many individual varieties in detail,…

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A kaleidoscope of colour, coming to a garden near you…

Categories Architectural Plants, Bedding, Bulbs, colour, container gardening, Cutting Garden, Dahlias, Fragrant plants, General comment, Hellebore, herbaceous, Hydrangea, Kitchen Garden, Magnolia, Petersham Nurseries, Plants for a shady garden?, Seasonal colour, Seeds, spring flowering, Spring Garden1 Comment on A kaleidoscope of colour, coming to a garden near you…

So much colour exploding in our gardens now that winter is loosening its grip and Spring is given a chance - longer days, some sunshine but still chill nights and cool temperatures yet ... the sap is rising, buds are bursting into leaf and blossom and the woodland floor is a bright mosaic of primroses,…

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