Rosemary Collection At Great Comp Garden Granted National Collection Status Plant Heritage has awarded National Plant Collection® status to a collection of over 100 rosemary plants at Great Comp Garden in Kent.

Rosemary collection at Great Comp Garden granted National Collection Status by Plant Heritage ...read more on thedirt.news #Downderrynursery #DrSimonCharlesworth #GreatCompGarden #nationalplantcollection #Rosemary
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Love interesting plants and meeting likeminded people? Join our London group's visit to @monasgarden in N10 this Thursday evening, 28 Aug. Mona Abboud has the #NationalPlantCollection of Corokia and other Australasian and Mediterranean plants. To book email melwatson@me.com

It's a bank holiday on Monday, so if you're near Tiverton, Devon why not visit @Chevithorne Barton to see their #NationalPlantCollection of oak trees (Quercus). Find out more: www.chevithornebarton.co.uk/... Please book - email gw.chevithorne@gmail.com

Photo credit: J MacEwen

A new #nationalplantcollection of Veronica, showing the ornamental value and diversity of these hardy herbaceous perennials, has been created by Penny Whitehurst in #Staffordshire

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Jess Dighton from Botanica Plant Nursery in Suffolk will be chatting to Francis Tophill on BBC Gardeners World TV, tonight - Fri 4 July about the #NationalPlantCollection of #Santolina.

#yellowflowers #plantconservation @GWandShows

More medals in Plant Heritage at RHS Hampton 2025 - Jenny Prosser from Devon with Liatris - Silver medal, and Mellie Lewis with Aeonium interspecific hybrids from Shropshire - Silver Gilt medal.

#Liatris #Aeonium #NationalPlantCollection @RHS #HamptonCourtFlowerShow #Devon

National Collection Holder displays in the Plant Heritage zone at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival 2025 with their medals. Jess at Botanica Plant Nursery, Si at Mintopia, Jonathan at Hogarth Hostas and Barry Clarke.

#santolina #mint #hosta #NationalPlantCollection

Congratulations to National Collection Holder - Linda Eggins - on receiving the Brickell Award 2025 (for excellence in cultivated plant conservation).

#Aucuba #WinterbourneGardens #BrickellAward #NationalPlantCollection #plantconservation

Could you start a new #NationalPlantCollection of the #grasses #Festuca, great for lawns and gardens, low-maintenance, and drought-resistant too.

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See image from Savill Gardens Windsor Great Park

It’s #volunteersweek and we’d like to say a big THANK YOU to all our #volunteers – conservation, #NationalPlantCollection, #PlantGuardian, #localvols, #trustees . We just couldn’t do it without you. To find out more and get involved, visit our website plantheritage.org.uk

Open day to see the #NationalPlantCollection of #Ceanothus on Sunday 11 May, 2-5pm at #Eccleston Square, Pimlico, London - in support of NGS and Plant Heritage - refreshments too.

Image: Ceanothus arboreus 'Trewithen Blue'

#NationalPlantCollection open days

#Narcissus at #BrodieCastle - 26 & 27 Apr
#Lewisia at #Ashwood Nurseries - 26 Apr, 10am-2pm
#Quercus in #Devon - 27 Apr
#Malus & #Pyrus at #Megginch Castle - Sun 27, 2-5pm

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Pic: Lewisia 'Brannan Bar' cc Ashwood Nur.

Introducing a new #NationalPlantCollection of #Aeonium held by @Ottershaw Cacti

Here's Aeonium 'Toffee Apple' - such a bright colour with pointed leaves.What's your favourite aeonium?

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Caroline Stone Is Searching For Rare Kelway's Peonies Established in 1851, the plant nursery Kelways has long and distinguished history. Founded, by James Kelway, they are one the oldest nurseries trading in the

The historic Kelway’s peony collection has been awarded National Collection status, but the search for lost varieties continues...read more on thedirt.news #CarolineStone #Kelways #nationalplantcollection #Paeonia #PlantHeritage
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Coprosma are now in a newly registered #NationalPlantCollection in #Sussex.

They are grown primarily for their attractive foliage colours - see the colourful shiny leaves on Coprosma repens ‘Inferno’PBR (pictured)

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Continuing in the herb theme - here's a newly registered #NationalPlantCollection of Salvia rosmarinus at #GreatCompGardens in Kent, continuing on the great work undertaken by Downderry Nurseries.

Image: Salvia rosmaarinus 'Barbeque'

#Salviarosemary #Kent #Rosemary #Salvia

Two National Collection Holder open days on Sat 23 March 2025.

Pulmonaria in Worcestershire, Margaret Stone, 1-4pm, open for NGS and Plant Heritage

Corydalis in Durham, Prof Brian Whitton, 2-5pm

#NationalPlantCollection #Pulmonaria #Corydalis #NGS #Durham #Worcestershire

Searching for daffodils for the #NationalPlantCollection of #Narcissus (#Brodie cultivars) held at #BrodieCastle in #Moray - Can you help?

Read more bit.ly/PHBrodieDaffodils

Thanks to #RCoxGardenPhotos.

#NationalTrustScotland #NTS

There's a new National Plant Collection of Davidia involucrata at Galloway House Gardens in Wigtownshire. Known as Handkerchief trees with glorious white bracts in the spring

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#trees #NationalPlantCollection #Davidia #GallowayHouseGardens #Wigtownshire

'In pursuit of paeonias' - join our zoom talk on Wed 19 Feb, 6.30pm by Caroline Stone - a #NationalPlantCollection of #Paeonia bred by Kelways.

Free to members (non member ticket): t.co/6D1vU2xcNl

Pic: #Paeonia 'Kelways Majestic' cc C Stone

Fascinated by Peony? Join our zoom talk on Wed 19 Feb, 6.30pm by Caroline Stone - 'In pursuit of paeonias' , a #NationalPlantCollection of #Paeonia bred by Kelways.

Free to members (non member ticket): bit.ly/PHPaeoniatalk

Pic: #Paeonia 'Kelways Majestic' cc C Stone

Did you know - there are 7 National Plant Collections of Galanthus (snowdrops) - find out more: plantheritage.org.uk

Image: Galanthus nivalis 'Blewberry Tart' cc Plant Heritage

#PlantHeritage #NationalPlantCollection #saveplants #plantconservation #plants

second secretary planting cherry

Our #NationalPlantCollection of Flowering Cherries at #keeleuniversity passed a milestone this week with the planting of the 300th cherry tree by Kayo Iwakami, Second Secretary of the Embassy of Japan in the UK and former Foreign Office diplomat and two-time Olympian Mara Yamauchi.

If you have never seen a National Plant Collection in transit, here you go! These are my spider plants awaiting their smug, bubble-wrapped greenhouse. #nationalplantcollection #spiderplants