Horticulture Week has covered the Patent Box developments.

We support our licensed grower clients extensively by providing information, images and "stories" for use in catalogues, labels and on websites. Our best licensees make good use of these to promote the varieties that they are growing, and we reward them by offering them the chance to trial new varieties as they come along.

Our friends at Globe Planter in France are a good example of a company that does a good job of promoting plants, both to their grower and retailer customers and also to the end user. Here is an excellent example of this, a webpage that promotes Euphorbia, including three varieties licensed by PFE (in French).

Helleborus Walberton’s® Rosemary is a fantastic plant.

But don’t take my word for it – read this article.

Salvia Wendy’s Wish has been voted one of the top plants in the landscape trials at the University of Illinois annual trials. To be given a “standing ovation” in a trial of 1100 plants is quite an achievement!

Greenhouse Grower covers the trials here.

University of Illinois website

Salvia Wendy’s Wish is featured on Graham Rice’s blog at the Royal Horticultural Society website – click here.

Wendy’s Wish is a great plant, with a long season of flower, neat habit and handsome foliage. The flower colour is striking and it is easy to grow.

Need more information? Contact us! Plants For Europe Limited is the EU agent for this variety, bred by Wendy Smith in Australia.

EU Plant Variety Rights applied for.

It’s the Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show this week, probably the most prestigious horticultural event in the world. Some of our customers and some of our plants are at the show. If you’re visiting, take a look and say hello!

Rosy Hardy of Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants is the breeder of Gaura Ruby Ruby and Linaria Freefolk Piccolo. She has won first prize in the best new plant competition, as well as a gold medal for her display, which features Geum Totally Tangerine, bred by Tim Crowther.

Downderry Nursery, owned by Simon Charlesworth, is a breeder of exciting new Lavandula varieties. We are working with Simon on some great new plants for the future (but you will have to wait to find out more!). Simon has won a silver-gilt medal for his display which features Lavandula With Love from Australia.

And on the subject of Australian plants, the Australian Garden at Chelsea is promoting a list of ten Aussie plants that can be grown successfully in the UK, which includes Dianella caerulea Cassa Blue, a recent addition to the PFE portfolio, from the Ozbreed programme. Young plants are already available in Europe of this variety.

Contact us if you would like any more information on these plants.