Polemonium Plantery

30/10/2026

06/09/2026

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19/08/2026

Just added some new items to the oak bathroom and display area at Polemonium Plantery B&B- new stack of unbleached organic facecloths and soap from Cosy Cottage, handmade in Yorkshire.

24/06/2026

Fragaria vesca National Plant Collection

12/06/2026

A poster from World War II ... still relevant today?

20/05/2026

Thanks to Carol Klein for promoting my latest addition to the National Plant Collection of Polemonium at Chelsea flower show this evening. My only correction is it is not a Polemonium reptans cultivar — the anthers are always white on reptans and the flowers are smaller. I believe it to be a white flowered cultivar of the Japanese P. yesoense which has that striking central purple ring.

20/05/2026

Ushaw 2026. Over 20 plant nurseries plus garden craft stalls and garden machinery as well. Please share😀

Crosby Holme Grown Primrose Bank NurseryWorking for Gardeners Plantopia - The Plant Shop LionMouth Rural Centre Northern Ark Nursery East of EdenMiddlemoor Farm Cafe Harperley Hall Farm Nurseries Wack's Wicked Plants

15/05/2026

Received a pot of California subspecies on Saturday at the Plant Heritage talk on the restoration of the Palm House at Edinburgh Royal Botanic Garden. I already had Fragaria vesca subsp. bracteata grown from wild collected seed which produced 1 plant last year, and I have planted 3 of the new ones to the west and one back up in a terracotta pot, and to use in displays. I look forward to comparing flowering and fruiting this summer.

12/05/2026

Not being able to wander round Garden Centres checking out what’s available, looked on EBAY on Sunday evening, and bought some bare root Fragaria vesca for the National Plant Collection.
Arrived Tuesday lunchtime-
20 Russian bare root plants “brought to the UK as seeds by my grandma from Russia, many decades ago” and flourishing in Huddersfield;
10 Wild Alpine organic strawberries from Tewkesbury- with slightly larger flowers.
The Russians will line up along the northern edge of my centre bed and the Tewkesbury organic ones down the west side, with a couple in terracotta pots to make comparisons easier.