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Ken Crowther catches up with Mike Smith, Director of Meadow Croft Garden Centre in Battlesbridge, Essex.
Over the past four months Mike has been seeing how the erysimum wallflower trail at the Floral Fantasia Garden in RHS Garden Hyde Hall has been developing.
A long-time favourite of gardeners is ‘Bowles Mauve’ but this trial promises to bring many more colours and varieties to wider public attention.
The idea is to find out how different varieties of erysimum manage the British winter as part of an RHS Award of Garden Merit (AGM) assessment.
The first batch was planted in early November with the trial running to May 2025.
Meadow Croft Garden Centre in Battlesbridge, Essex click here.
For more information on visiting RHS Garden Hyde Hall click here.
For more information on W.D. Smith & Son click here.
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