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Il vous sera arrivé au moins une fois dans votre vie d’acheter une belle plante, de la ramener à la maison et de la regarder,...

P de Jager and Sons, the Netherlands.

Walter Pennell, Pennells of Lincoln. Daniel Deronda x Beauty of Worcester. Named after Walter Pennell's wife.

David C H Austin, Albrighton, Shropshire. Austin's first introduction, named after the flower arranger.

Syringa vulgaris. Victor Lemoine, Nancy, France. Flowers deep purplish pink in the bud, opening lilac-pink and fading to bluish mauve, in rather long, narrow clusters.

Jacques-Julien Margottin (père) Ivry-sur-Seine, Paris, Bourg-la-Reine, France. Bourbon.

This snowdrop was found in Norfolk in 1994 and is a double of hybrid origin which has noticeably boat shaped and pointed outer segments with pale green lines meeting at the apex. All the inner segments are darkly marked with a large X. Well grown plants produce two scapes when growing well.

Bred by Auguste Dessert, Chenonceaux, France, 1922. Introduced by Doriat & Fils, Lapalisse, Auvergne, France, 1924.

Ann and John Bentall, Havering-atte-Bower, Essex. Hybrid musk.

Synonym Mousseu des Quatre Saisons Blanc. Breeder unknown. Moss.

Gilbert (Philibert) Nabonnand, Golfe Juan, Alpes-Maritimes, France. HT

Breeder unknown. Introduced by Louis Smirnow of Long Island, New York, USA. Light pink, red streaks, ages to white. Mild fragrance. Average diameter 8". Large, double bloom form. Mid.

'Rose de Rescht' is a Portland Rose that was originally introduced into England around 1880 but forgotten about by 1890. It was rediscovered in 1945 by Nancy Lindsay, an English garden writer and plant collector of Sutton Courtenay Manor, Oxfordshire, in Rescht, Iran and was re-introduced into Great Britain.

Syringa vulgaris. Victor Lemoine, Nancy, France. Single white flowers from greenish buds, very large, in unusually tall and broad conical trusses.

Apple Cornish Aromatic, at its best in December and January. First listed in 1813, when Sir Christopher Hawkins sent fruit to the London Horticultural Society, it has been described as "looking and feeling like an expensive but worn old tapestry."

Samuel Davidson McGredy III, Portadown, NI. HT.

Alphonse Alégatière, Lyon, France. Polyantha.