On 31/5/08 18:07, in article , "Janet Tweedy"
wrote:

In article , Charlie
Pridham writes
And don't blame the garden centres or nurseries for offering plants in
flower, you try standing all day at a plant sale not selling you plants
which are green and watching a stream of customers carrying off inflower
foxgloves and see how long it takes you to figure that people want stuff
with flower on :~)

Oh I second that, from innumerable stints at NGS days ! They'd rather
have a load of some horrible fairly invasive herbaceous plants than wait
until a hoheria comes out or a special clematis etc.!


I must support you re the Hoheria - a truly terrific tree. We have some
strange hybrids in the garden as well as selling a known variety and I think
they're very under-rated. In fact, under-rated seems to amount almost to
unknown.

--
Sacha
http://www.hillhousenursery.co.uk
South Devon
'We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our
children.'