The Plant Review

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@GB43039563 @ukorchids @BSBIbotany Hi Gleb. Please could we use one of those images in a news story? - Mike (mikegrant@rhs.org.uk).

Now that’s what I call a lawn daisy! These is just a bedding cultivar grown from seed a couple of years ago and planted. It gets mown like any other Bellis perennis and responds in the same way - by gently spreading and flowering like mad!

A variegated sport found on a hedge at the local park. It’s not very stable as yet, however!

Two rather different seedlings of Acer ‘White Tigress’ which suggest hybridisation somewhere along the line. Does anyone have a firm idea of what the attribution or parentage of ‘White Tigress’ is? Anyway, hoping for something pretty from this pair in due course.

You see quite a lot of cedars about like this with stiff but downward pointing branches. Could they be C.deodara hybrids? This one’s in Birkenhead Park.

Quite a crop of ripe olives at 53.4 degrees North.

Well this doesn’t look promising. Echium pininana still covered in frost at lunch time. Feels like a repeat of last year.

We've been fascinated by the different shapes and sizes of Muscari, or grape hyacinth, bulbs 🧄🧅 that we have been planting up into containers this month. Look out for our trial of 50(!) different Muscari in the Trials Garden @RHSWisley flowering in spring🏆🪻 #muscari #bulbs

Hebe ‘Amy’ in a car park flowering it’s socks off in the middle of November. What a fantastic plant!

Exciting! My copy of the new The Orchid Review yearbook arrived today. Get yours from Summerfield Books summerfieldbooks.com

Vote for your favourite Dahlia from the trial display here!

Top 4 dahlias from the trial @RHSWisley, chosen by visitors to the National Dahlia Society show were... 'Feline Yvonne', 'Bettina Verbeek', 'Copper Boy' and 'Tangerine Gem'! Let us know your favorite in the poll below ⬇️ #dahlias

@thorogoodchris1 I don't want to put anyone off popping them, but one of us on #ThePlantReview team once heard it called "my condom bush" by a visitor to the Chelsea Flower Show asking for an identification!

I grew a bladder senna tree from a seed, four years ago, specifically to do this:

And other great articles on Aucuba, Bulbinella (@HitchmoughJames), Cassytha (@CymruPlantsman), Chaenomeles, Hibiscus syriacus breeding, Lobelia bridgesii, Melanoselinum, Ruscus, eponyms, apples and Banks & Solander. #ThePlantReview

Bog Salvia standard! Salvia uliginosa is belying it's moisture-loving disposition, performing alongside it's drought-tolerant neighbours in the Trials Garden @RHSWisley

A tent full of dazzling dahlias! And votes for the People's Choice dahlia from the trial @RHSWisley are coming in. Which is your favourite?

Many members of the #TOPC committee gathered for one of their annual meetings at @RHSWisley on Monday and were treated to a guided tour of the brand new #Orchid house display in the #Glasshouse, which is very impressive and also contains many fascinating #Tender plants!

Some of the dahlias on trial have been picked (difficult decisions!) today, to display at the National Dahlia Society Show @RHSWisley all this week. Visitors to the show can vote for their favourite - we're excited to see which comes out on top!