Sadly Cupid`s Bow is somewhat out of fashion nowadays. That`s hard to understand for they are low-mainetance-plants with beautiful flowers in summer and autumn. It is a bit difficult to obtain one of the old hybrids. We were unlucky, too, for what we received under the name of `Ambroise Verschaffelt` ...

This variety comes from Ireland and it bears very dark blue flowers. It is not one of the `hardy` varieties so it is better kept in a cold room during winter. Water in winter causes much more damages than frost. We keep our plant in an unheated polytunnel over winter. From Decemer to February we hardly ...

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Bottlebrushes do come from Australia, where they live in a large number of varieties. In Europe mainly hybrids are sold, very rarely the species. We were looking for a tub plant that could be winterized without trouble in our unheated greenhouse and came across Callistemon rigidus. It show the typical ...

Ginger that is used in the kitchen is a difficult to keep plant outside the tropics. Fortunately it got a number of relatives that are far less demanding. One of them is the Butterfly-Ginger. It is a perfect tub plant, satisfied with a sunny position on the patio. If given ample food you can expect ...

The Dawn Redwood was quite successfull in hiding from the botanists. It wasn`t a question of size, for in its home it grows as high as 40 meters. Relatives of this tree were well known to botanists, but only as 70 million years old fossiles from coal mines in Manchuria. It was generally accepted ...

This passionflower is an old friend from the window sill. Since it deals much better with cool temperatures than with modern over-heated living rooms it was kept with more success by our grandmothers. Nethertheless it is a very interesting plant for us, for it belongs to the relatively hardy species ...

Just a few years ago New-Zealand-Hamp was a very, very unusual tub plant in Europe. It became somewhat fashionable meanwhile but that is absolutely nothing compared to the situation in the UK. There New-Zealand-Hamp is hardy almost everywhere and landscapers are just crazy about it. As a result hybrids ...