Picotee-pink-edged, large flowers that look at you from a tall stem. Followed by marbled evergreen leaves. A sterile cultivar from Rodney Davey, it flowers prolifically as its energy is saved for flow

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For impossibly beautiful flowers that open in the depths of winter, look no further than the many astonishing forms of Camellia japonica , writes Charles Quest-Ritson

Modest, alluring and versatile, Viola odorata, or sweet violet, is a small, hardy, herbaceous perennial that tumbles and scrambles close to the ground, forming dense clumps of dainty, heart-shaped, gr

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Kari-Astri Davies considers a pair of double-flowered, golden-hued plants treasured by a 17th century botanist