We were sorely tempted by the streptocarpus and alarmed by the Rex type begonias (especially the hairy one) if only because they ought to be whimsical beasties found in an Edward Gorey book. Frankly all requirements were catered for, from garden sundries to ...
... the outré - Pycnoporus sanguineus
The breadth of choice offered by the exhibitors at the RHS London Early Spring Plant Fair was overwhelming. The jostle of the marketplace made it a bit difficult to stop, peruse and assimilate - which is how we roll. The copious swathes of spring bulbs and double-flowering plants were a little hot-housed for our taste - we like our Spring familiar and stock, straggled, hardened and raw. Though that is not to say once we've got the garden to a point where it is keeping itself that a little pot or patch of something précieux might be cherished.
