However as demand for Auriculas is high we would also recommend subscribing to our newsletter to receive up to date information about the plants and availability. On our website you can add your name to a ‘waitlist’ of any plants that are out of stock and you’ll be notified when they are available once more. This is often the only availability release of the year so we recommend enthusiasts order early. Plants can then be ordered for dispatch in late March. Auriculas are hardy and like the cold, so don’t worry about the frosts, just keep sheltered away from heavy rainfall and snow in the winter months.Īt Woottens we release our Auricula availability each year in late February when propagation is completed. They suffer from very few pests and diseases and don’t need heavy feeding. They require shading from scorching sun in the summer but good natural daylight in the winter. This cornus was the plant of the moment – a new introduction.In brief Auricula plants need a well-drained compost, they dislike being overwatered in the cooler months. A gorgeous selection of iris flowers – reminding me of Monet again. Passionflowers floating in a bowl of water. Auricula theatre – I think this display was by a British grower. Some of my favourite flower show photos My favourite flower of the day – a rose called Claude Monet. The city was awash with tourists, and who better to buy lavender bags by the armful to take home for friends and family? It seems the only people who don’t realise how popular lavender is are the French. In my meanderings around Paris at the weekend, I couldn’t help thinking what a great sales opportunity for someone. But what better companion for all the roses and geraniums than a lavender plant? What would a cottage garden be without lavender?
It was clear that the French were adoring all the blousy cottage garden plants. The lack of lavender plants actually surprised me more than the lack of dried lavender.
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Full stop! These are the only lavender flowers I saw in a display. At this extensive show, I saw two or three plants on sale at the herb stands, and a few tufty Stoechas plants in a display. In the UK at any out-of-town garden centre, you will be offered Angustifolia, Intermedia, Stoechas, often an additional tender species, and probably a choice of light or dark purple, white or pink. The lack of lavender plants to buy at the show was surprising. Additionally, as lavender grows wild in the South of the country, perhaps they don’t prize it to the same extent.
Lavender has had such a resurgence in this country in the last few years that I imagined France, the home of commercially produced lavender (well this century anyway), to be awash with it!īut no – the French currently seem to disdain lavender the same way the English did fifteen years ago.Īdmittedly, the heart of the lavender-growing industry in France is Provence, much further South, so perhaps the Northern French in Paris don’t feel quite as linked to it as we would imagine. In my home town of Seaford, we have a French market visit us twice a year, and there is always a stall selling olive oil soap, lavender bags, and some slightly scruffy dried lavender bunches. This display garden by Truffaut, a large garden retailer, is full of blousy flowers – even on the roof.Īs a dried flower enthusiast – lavender in particular – I was looking forward to seeing a lavender nursery and possibly a dried lavender stall. By the plants available, it would appear that English country style is all the rage in France! Cut peony flowers in a barrel of water. The show was awash with roses, peonies and many herbaceous perennial flowers. It is held in the grounds of a 17 th century chateau.
This is one of the biggest French flower shows, with hundreds of nurseries exhibiting. I was in Paris at the weekend as a visitor to the Courson flower show.
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