`Cerise Queen` was one of the first selection of our native yarrow that was widely available. Yarrow is a very changeable plant, and on every large meadow you will find at least a few pink blooming yarrows. By crossing and selecting those pink yarrows a large variety of colourfull yarrows ...

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Aniseed is not everybodys cup of tea. Some love it, some disgust it. There seems to be nobody neutral regarding aniseed. If you like the taste of aniseed this here is the perfect plant for you to use for infusions. Leaves and flowers are intensively scented of aniseed and the taste ...

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This Hollyhock was developed by the British seed company Thompson & Morgan. It bears a multitude of flowers from summer on till beginning of autumn. The flowers are of a dark pink with yellow eyes. The special thing about this variety ist the fact that its flowers can be single, semi double or fully double.

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This Hollyhock belongs to a `strain`, that is to say it is propagated by seed and the resulting plants look quite alike but there is always some slight variation. Its flowers are very double and their colour can be anything from yellow-apricot to yellow-orange. It was bred...

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This is our own breed of Hollyhook, that is propagated by seed and therefore contains some variation. `Our` breed is not quite correct, for it came from an unknown lady. Some years ago we had a booth at the historic market at Schongau. One day I was handed a bag full of Hollyhook seed by...

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A Lady`s Mantle with a tendency to spread, therefore very suitable as a ground cover. It does well in moist and dry soil.

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This onion bears a lot of common names. It develops small bulbs instead of flowers. Each bulb sprouts when still attached to the original plant and produces a stalk that bears small bulbs which sprout when still attached to the original plant and produces a stalk that bears ...  and so...

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Welsh onions got nothing to do with Wales, but a lot with Asia. Its Asia where this onion commes from, and it is still widely used there. Welsh onions can be regarded as a sort of giant Chives. They form no bulbs. Its their stalks (and sometimes even their flowers) that are used for...

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When horticulturist do not look closely, they often cause a mess. So it happened with this leek, that became better known with the present enthusiasm for herbs and vegetables. Usualy it is sold as Allium odorum, but this name is an invalid synonym for Allium ramosum. Allium ramosum however is not cultivated, nor in its home China nor anywhere else. What we really have here is Allium tuberosum, one of the most important alliums for cooking in China and ...

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This is the plant that once was used to prepare marshmallow. Marsh Mallow sap whiped with sugar was the main ingredient of the original recipe. Today the Marsh Mallow sap is substituted by gelatin. Even if you don`t know the name it will be obvious at first glance that this plant is...

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The range of this thimbleweed is divided into two regions without connection. One is in Alaska and the other one separated by several mountain ranges and thousands of kilometers on the eastern coast of Northamerica. It grows along riversides and on gravel banks and on similar places where its roots...

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The foliage of the Dyer`s Chamomile is pinnate and its flowers are produced in abundance. There is hardly an other plant that provides as much summer feeling as the Dyer`s Chamomile does. This one - the wild form - bears yellow flowers that appear throughout the summer.

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The wild form of Dyer`s Chamomile has yellow flowers, but there is also a number of selections that show flowers in lighter shades of yellow or even pure white. They are hard to classify since the differences are tiny. `Alba` is probably the only really white cultivar there is. It blooms...

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This is the Columbine native to Central Europe. Its foliage is nicely divides and in early summer it bears dark blue flowers. Like all Columbines it hybridizes with other Columbines. We try to keep them separated but the odd seedling is always possible.

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We have mentioned before that Columbines easily hybridize with other Columbines. In a nursery you have two possibilities to deal with this problem. Either you do not propagate from seed and get new plants only from cuttings (not easy with Columbines), or you create a socalled `strain` that is propagated ...

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One of the most remarkable British nurseries is `Plantworld` in Devon. The name is to be taken literally, for the plants in this nursery are planted in geographic order. When you visit the nursery, you take a world tour. `Plantworld` specialised in many genera, among them...

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There got to be some Columbines in every self-respecting cottage garden. But - as one my botany teachers did put it - 'there is a horticultural problem with Columbines. Other genera tend to hybridize. What Columbines do in this respect can only be described as promiscuity.'  If you grow...

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This variety was created by Plant World Nursery in Devon. Strictly speaking it is not a variety but a strain, since it is propagated by seed and the seedlings do show slight variation (but their colours are always orange, yellow and red). Its not only the colour that makes this Columbine...

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Southernwood is a culinary herb that was forgotten for a long time. Since it can`t be preserved dry (the active ingredients are too volatile) it didn`t become fashinable when spice shelfs invaded our kitchens during the 1970ies. Only recently when more people started to grow herbs in...

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The perfect plant for lazzy gardeners. It needs almost no care at all and nethertheless it will perform very well. Its flowers are pale pink and they are vanilla scented. It is in bloom from mid summer to autumn. If you manage to be not that lazzy and cut back the spent flowers the plant will reward...

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