Tips Growing Floribunda The term ‘floribunda’ meaning large clusters of flowers has been taken over by rose trees with these floral characteristics. The flowers are usually borne over long periods and are more tolerant than Hybrid Tea roses from which they were crossed with polyantha varieties. When planting prune the roots back to 8 or [...]

I have two very good Spirea varieties where I have long since lost the names. This example is a strong flowering mauve and white flowering plain leaved type. The other is a pale yellow leaved variety that has great colour in spring as the leaves start. How hard was it going to be to identify [...]

Osmanthus is an attractive genus of evergreen shrubs. The leaves are holly like with a leathery texture and spikes. The young leaves are red or purple and this is a variegated example. This variety O. hetrophylus is slow growing but can make a dense hedge or small tree. The flowers are sweetly scented in autumn. [...]