Essex has a remarkable horticultural heritage, and the Plant Heritage Essex Group are seeking your help to ensure an important part of it is not lost. The group are working to create a shared collection celebrating the legacy of Ellen Willmott and are hoping to locate plants associated with one of Britain’s most influential early …
One of our newest Plant Guardians, Mike Millington, celebrates two species of Clematis that he believes deserve to be more widely grown. Clematis afoliata Clematis uncinata Mike has recorded Clematis afoliata and C. uncinata to the Plant Guardian scheme, and it is particularly heartening to see C. afoliata recorded once again. It had long been a favourite of one of Plant Heritage’s founding members in the Somerset region, the late Mrs Maureen …
Continue reading Plant Guardians: A look at some unusual Clematis species
It was wonderful to be out and about meeting collection holders, members; and affiliates with an interest in preserving heathers. A special thanks goes out to our hosts at Branklyn for our Persephone plant records session, and to the fantastic speakers at our Heather Day at the Royal George Hotel in Perth. We were spoilt …
Continue reading Celebrating Heather and Plant Conservation: Highlights from Recent Events
by Stephen Peters, Head Gardener & Curator, Worth Park Sussex. Achillea millefolium 'Terracotta' Achillea millefolium, known by gardeners simply as yarrow, has long enchanted horticulturists with its delicate, flat-topped clusters of blooms, silvery foliage, and adaptability in a variety of garden settings. Yet despite this enduring charm, comprehensive modern treatments of the genus remain few …
After being approached about a cherished rose cultivated by three generations of the same family, we rallied our local Plant Guardians to help propagate it for future enjoyment, and thanks to the generosity of the family, several cuttings are now thriving under their care! The rose ‘Lorenzo Pahissa’ was named for its breeder who lived …
Continue reading  Plant Guardians – conservation in action.
Our Plant Guardian scheme plays an important role in our efforts to conserve garden plants, ensuring rare plants are safe/nurtured in people’s gardens, windowsills or homes.  Seeking out hard-to-find plants, growing them and sharing through our yearly Plant Exchange means our Plant Guardians are keeping plants in cultivation. Here’s one of our success stories. In …
Continue reading Saved! Another rare Salvia cared for by a Plant Guardian
Continuing the campaign to search for daffodils missing from National Plant Collections, we turn our attention to the collection housed at Brodie Castle in Forres, Scotland, in search of lost cultivars bred by the 24th Laird of Brodie, Major Ian Ashley Moreton Brodie. Brodie Castle is home to an important collection of daffodils bred between …
Continue reading Scotland’s Brodie Castle Daffodil Collection – Missing Daffodils
Plant Heritage Sussex wants to collect more rare daffodils bred by Noel Burr. This shared, dispersed National Plant Collection of Narcissus cvs. (bred & introduced by Noel Burr) involves 23 Plant Heritage Sussex members sharing the task of growing these plants, some in public gardens too. Their autumn annual Sussex meeting is the time to …
We were thrilled to receive a recent addition to our Plant Guardian scheme of Iris ‘Golden Flare’. Once considered lost in cultivation in the UK it has a fascinating history. Anne Milner, the National Plant Collection holder of two iris collections inspired by the work of iris breeders Arthur J Bliss and J. D. Taylor, …
Anyone who has a place to grow a plant - indoors or outdoors - using a back garden, greenhouse, allotment or windowsill can be actively involved in the conservation of cultivated plants as a Plant Guardian. This means our members can take part in active conservation without needing to hold a National Collection. Whilst most plants …
Continue reading Plant Guardian scheme – rare camellias of Worth Park.
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