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The World's Best Nurseries Series No 2.

Posted by Catharine on September 14th 2010
I have never been to Avon Bulbs in person.  Once a year in autumn, a parcel arrives with contents looking like an upmarket take-away.  Whispery paper bags with a twist and drizzle of shredded paper. Inside, the  new bulbs, salivated over previously on their stand at Chelsea.  Or in the Avon Bulbs catalogue. The owner, Chris Ireland-Jones has a fine eye for  stunning plants and  (a recent outbreak this) an addiction to musical puns.     His stand at Chelsea in the big marquee is always worth making a bee-line for. As a designer, I don't shop here for bulk carpet bomb plantings but for the new, exotic or enticing to trial at home.   This years's list includes a brick red imperial fritillary, the huge blue hat of Scilla peruviana and a blue tassle of a bulb, Triteleia laxa corina.
The World's Best Nurseries Series No 2.