Ilex ‘Lady Valerie’
Ilex ‘Lady Valerie’ Ilex ‘Lady Valerie’ originated as a sport of Ilex × altaclerensis ‘Golden King’. It was noticed, propagated and named by a founding IGPS committee member, nursery owner and plantsman, Dr Neil Murray. Neil named the plant for Lady Valerie Goulding as it was in the Goulding’s garden at Dargle Cottage, Co Wicklow […]
Agapanthus ‘Kilmurry White’
Agapanthus ‘Kilmurry White’ Found at Kilmurry Nursery, Gorey, Wexford, part of a range of varieties developed by the owners Paul and Orla Woods. A lovely clean pure white flower, prolifically produced in summer. Flowers are partially sterile, enabling the plant energy to concentrate on flowers – a young plant will thus have many flower stems. […]
Sorbus ‘Autumn Spire’
Sorbus ‘Autumn Spire’ A relative of the native rowan or mountain ash Sorbus aucuparia, this is a wonderful, small, fastigiate (upright growing), deciduous tree, reaching about 4ms in height but only 2ms wide. A clone of the popular Sorbus ‘Joseph Rock’, a chance seedling found at Flannery’s Nursery, Staplestown, Kildare in 1996. Clean white flowers […]
Romneya coulteri
Romneya coulteri The Californian poppy is a gorgeous plant with glaucous foliage and huge blooms, their white petals looking like slightly crumpled tissue paper surrounding a central boss of golden stamens. But how can a poppy from California be an Irish plant? It has strong Irish associations having been collected by Thomas Coulter of Dundalk […]
Dahlia ‘Matt Armour’
Dahlia ‘Matt Armour’ Dahlia ‘Matt Armour’ commemorates the gardener at Glenveagh Castle in Co. Donegal who grew it from seed in the 1930s when the estate was owned by Henry McIlhenny. Now run by the OPW, it was registered by the present Head Gardener, Seán O’Gaoithín in 1996. A single-flowered red, it makes a stunning […]
