Val Bourne on Cherries, Scillas and Geums (Part One)
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This week one of our Talking Dirty favourites is back! Val Bourne is an award-winning garden writer and grows all manner of treasures in her 1/3 acre Cotswolds plot. This week - in part one of her latest appearance - she shares some of her favourites Prunus and the Scilla you must grow, plus those to avoid! And as usual her coversation with Alan Gray (East Ruston Old Vicarage) and Thordis meanders via a host of plants from Geums to Ferns. Next week Roses, Trilliums and Violets...plus FLOMO* *FLOMO = FLoral/plant-based fear Of Missing Out PLANT LIST Geum 'Totally Tangerine' Geum 'Prinses Juliana' Amsonia Helenium 'Sahin's Early Flowerer' Geum 'Bell Bank' Geum 'Mai Tai' Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus' Echinacea purpurea 'White Swan' Galanthus plicatus 'E.A. Bowles' Succisella inflexa 'Frosted Pearls' Galanthus 'Marjorie Brown' Hamamelis Prunus mume 'Beni-chidori' Prunus 'Kursar' Prunus 'Okame' Prunus incisa 'Kojo-no-mai' Prunus 'Tai-haku' Prunus 'Chocolate Ice' Scilla siberica Scilla bifolia Scilla bithynica Allium triquetrum Tulipa saxatilis (Bakeri Group) 'Lilac Wonder' Adiantum Anemonoides nemorosa Polypodium
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