The 5,000th plant has been added to the Royal Horticultural Society’s (RHS) free and unique online service, RHS Plant Selector. The plant, Adam’s laburnum (+ Laburnocytisus 'Adamii'), is a deciduous tree and a graft-hybrid between laburnum and purple broom. It bears flowers of each separately and also some intermediate ones. The online service is an ideal source of … [Read more...] about RHS plant finder online reaches 5000 entries
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Gorse smells of coconut
The ever present bright yellow flowers of Gorse may seem fairly insignificant but the smell can whisk you away to a tropical paradise. Gorse ( Ulex europaeus ) can be found growing along motorway embankments, colonising scrub and hillside and is a common shrub in many UK hedgerows. Although the plant is meant to flower from midwinter to June, our generally milder … [Read more...] about Gorse smells of coconut