Plants For Europe Limited
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Independent plant breeders' agent - we bring the best plants from the best plant breeders to the best growers and, ultimately, to your garden! We love plants and people and work to bring them together.
We are both excited and daunted by this - but what an opportunity to promote our portfolio of plants and take our business to the next level! www.plantsforeurope.com/flowertrials...
Stop press: Plants For Europe to exhibit at FlowerTrials® ‘25! | Plants for Europe
The Plants for Europe team is delighted to announce that we will be representing plant breeders at FlowerTrials® this year!
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February 7, 2025 at 6:00 PM
We are both excited and daunted by this - but what an opportunity to promote our portfolio of plants and take our business to the next level! www.plantsforeurope.com/flowertrials...
You still see this on the continent at this time of year, but it's rare. To have the fragrance in your living room in February is a lovely thing.
Two Covent Garden florists admire pots of lily-of-the-valley, once sold as a forced flower for the winter months.
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February 5, 2025 at 12:35 PM
You still see this on the continent at this time of year, but it's rare. To have the fragrance in your living room in February is a lovely thing.
I wonder if @rspbengland.bsky.social consider the weather for the #BigBirdCount. Our feeders are normally busy, today they are just swaying in the gale. Our local coal tits, nuthatches and woodpeckers are far too sensible to fly in this storm.
January 26, 2025 at 2:37 PM
I wonder if @rspbengland.bsky.social consider the weather for the #BigBirdCount. Our feeders are normally busy, today they are just swaying in the gale. Our local coal tits, nuthatches and woodpeckers are far too sensible to fly in this storm.
Sunset viewed from near Ditchling Beacon earlier.
January 25, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Sunset viewed from near Ditchling Beacon earlier.
I'll be speaking at Why do we need new plants? at IPM Essen! Make sure to attend it on January 29. I think that there will be quite an audience - and the other panel members are excellent.
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Why do we need new plants? at IPM Essen | LinkedIn
Don't forget to check out the international new plants debate at IPM Essen on Weds 29 January - hosted by @HortWeek
https://www.hortweek.com/article/1901483
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January 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
I'll be speaking at Why do we need new plants? at IPM Essen! Make sure to attend it on January 29. I think that there will be quite an audience - and the other panel members are excellent.
www.linkedin.com/events/whydo...
www.linkedin.com/events/whydo...
IPM Essen next week - see you there? Sambucus SNR1292 Laced Up has been nominated for the best new plant award! Columnar habit, dark finely divided leaves and pink flowers. Entered by Zu Jeddeloh Pflanzen and Kordes Jungpflanzen, variety management by Plants For Europe Limited.
January 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
IPM Essen next week - see you there? Sambucus SNR1292 Laced Up has been nominated for the best new plant award! Columnar habit, dark finely divided leaves and pink flowers. Entered by Zu Jeddeloh Pflanzen and Kordes Jungpflanzen, variety management by Plants For Europe Limited.
Is it rude to lift up Helleborus flowers to look at the reproductive parts?
January 21, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Is it rude to lift up Helleborus flowers to look at the reproductive parts?
SOUND THE HELLEBORUS SEASON KLAXON! One of the lovely seedlings in the PFE HQ garden - nice markings on the petals, and very dark nectaries (although the nectaries are a little too small to be showy).
January 14, 2025 at 9:38 PM
SOUND THE HELLEBORUS SEASON KLAXON! One of the lovely seedlings in the PFE HQ garden - nice markings on the petals, and very dark nectaries (although the nectaries are a little too small to be showy).
The temperature graph is going downhill and somewhat steeply! If anyone asks, I'm with the cat, by the fire!
January 9, 2025 at 7:01 PM
The temperature graph is going downhill and somewhat steeply! If anyone asks, I'm with the cat, by the fire!
Horticulture is brilliant and this is a wonderfully uplifting story. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
A moment that changed me: I went to Kew Gardens – and found a place of safety after homelessness and drug addiction
I’d had a very tough few years after my father died, living on the streets and sleeping with one eye open. But as I looked at a tulip tree that day, my love of gardening came flooding back
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January 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Horticulture is brilliant and this is a wonderfully uplifting story. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Happy New Year everyone! It's ghastly outside (in every sense) so here's a reminder of summer - Passiflora caerulea in the PFE HQ garden.
January 7, 2025 at 8:47 PM
Happy New Year everyone! It's ghastly outside (in every sense) so here's a reminder of summer - Passiflora caerulea in the PFE HQ garden.
I hadn't reckoned on being in the office today, but there are a bunch of urgent things to do. At least I was reminded to refill the office bird feeder for the coal tits. Best wishes to everyone for the holiday season, our office reopens on Friday 3rd January.
December 23, 2024 at 12:46 PM
I hadn't reckoned on being in the office today, but there are a bunch of urgent things to do. At least I was reminded to refill the office bird feeder for the coal tits. Best wishes to everyone for the holiday season, our office reopens on Friday 3rd January.
Plant From A Conversation - Spiraea Walberton's(R) Magic Carpet WALBUMA. Winner of the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit. A truly great plant.
December 16, 2024 at 5:29 PM
Plant From A Conversation - Spiraea Walberton's(R) Magic Carpet WALBUMA. Winner of the Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit. A truly great plant.
Interesting, and backs up my own experiences. Rewilding is a strange concept to me - without human management, it can go very wrong
In Britain, the absence of a better term, we’ve used ‘native thugs’ to describe species that dominate habitats where management has ceased - brambles, nettles, scrub thickets on cliffs etc. They are the most successful species that can withstand high nutrients and competition
Paper alert. 🧵
As biologists and biogeographers, we are all aware that invasive plants are bad. However, when it comes to assessments of what actually threatens biodiversity most, they rarely rank as high as strong, competitive native species that outcompete rare ones through natural succession.
As biologists and biogeographers, we are all aware that invasive plants are bad. However, when it comes to assessments of what actually threatens biodiversity most, they rarely rank as high as strong, competitive native species that outcompete rare ones through natural succession.
December 15, 2024 at 1:16 PM
Interesting, and backs up my own experiences. Rewilding is a strange concept to me - without human management, it can go very wrong
Today's Plant From A Conversation - Helleborus Walberton's(R) Rosemary WALHERO. An outstanding plant, demand always exceeds supply.
December 12, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Today's Plant From A Conversation - Helleborus Walberton's(R) Rosemary WALHERO. An outstanding plant, demand always exceeds supply.
Euphorbia martinii Ascot Rainbow - a great year-round plant.
December 6, 2024 at 8:54 PM
Euphorbia martinii Ascot Rainbow - a great year-round plant.
At Wisley today for a meeting and spotted a Plant From A (recent) Conversation - Rubus cockburnianus. Possibly currently out of fashion?
December 3, 2024 at 8:39 PM
At Wisley today for a meeting and spotted a Plant From A (recent) Conversation - Rubus cockburnianus. Possibly currently out of fashion?
Golden light on the oak against a brooding sky.
December 2, 2024 at 3:26 PM
Golden light on the oak against a brooding sky.
Today's Plant From A Conversation - Polemonium Golden Feathers. We've seen one or two lurking in garden centres, left over from the summer stock. But why don't retailers stock this all year round? It still looks great in winter, holding its variegated foliage really well.
November 30, 2024 at 9:19 PM
Today's Plant From A Conversation - Polemonium Golden Feathers. We've seen one or two lurking in garden centres, left over from the summer stock. But why don't retailers stock this all year round? It still looks great in winter, holding its variegated foliage really well.
Gentle reminder - we will follow you back if you follow us - but not if you have an empty profile! Make sure you have a profile picture, a photo at the top of your profile and a short bio. Otherwise, we might think you're a bot! 🤖
November 27, 2024 at 4:29 PM
Gentle reminder - we will follow you back if you follow us - but not if you have an empty profile! Make sure you have a profile picture, a photo at the top of your profile and a short bio. Otherwise, we might think you're a bot! 🤖
Today's "Plant From A Conversation" (might become a regular Bluesky feature!) is Pennisetum advena Chelsea - great habit, excellent leaf colour, super for a pot and British bred! Talk to us about availability.
November 27, 2024 at 2:11 PM
Today's "Plant From A Conversation" (might become a regular Bluesky feature!) is Pennisetum advena Chelsea - great habit, excellent leaf colour, super for a pot and British bred! Talk to us about availability.
We've been talking about Coleus Skeletal in the office today, so here's a picture of this great plant from earlier this year, grown by our friends at Kernock Park Plants.
November 26, 2024 at 6:51 PM
We've been talking about Coleus Skeletal in the office today, so here's a picture of this great plant from earlier this year, grown by our friends at Kernock Park Plants.
After the frosts last week turned a lot of things to mush and Storm Bert wrecked some of the standing grasses over the weekend, today is sunny and we spotted the first Narcissus poking through.
November 25, 2024 at 2:20 PM
After the frosts last week turned a lot of things to mush and Storm Bert wrecked some of the standing grasses over the weekend, today is sunny and we spotted the first Narcissus poking through.
Giving Matt Biggs the lifetime award at the Garden Media Guild awards is exactly right - he's achieved so much for gardening and horticulture and is an absolutely lovely person too!
It’s become a tradition (since the 1990s) to attend the Garden Media Guild awards at TheSavoy Hotel, London .
Thank you Horticultural Trades Association!
I’m so delighted to see Matt Biggs get the lifetime award and it’s so richly deserved and a massively popular choice!
Thank you Horticultural Trades Association!
I’m so delighted to see Matt Biggs get the lifetime award and it’s so richly deserved and a massively popular choice!
November 23, 2024 at 10:19 AM
Giving Matt Biggs the lifetime award at the Garden Media Guild awards is exactly right - he's achieved so much for gardening and horticulture and is an absolutely lovely person too!