Plant Of The Week

Last week I spent most of my time in the Birmingham area. One of the biggest trade shows for Garden centre buyers is held this time every year at the NEC. Over 3 days you can see everything imaginable from seeds to log cabins & anything in-between! Look out for some of the products we found coming into the centres over the next few months.

I spent a fourth day visiting our new Garden Centre in Studley which is in the same neck of the woods. It’s a lovely area which I am looking forward to getting to know better over the next few months.

Our plant of the week this week is ‘Echinacea Tomato Soup’. Flowering in the late summer & early Autumn it is a recently introduced cultivar offering a really strong red colour to any sunny & well drained border. I think the flowers would look especially lovely dancing about with some medium height grasses (Try Pennisetum or Stipa varieties) as an airy backdrop. Yum!