Paeonia 'The Fawn' triumph-tulips Hippeastrum 'Pretty Amadeus' is winter

Hippeastrum 'Pretty Amadeus' is winter flowering with very polished manners

but also as a garden plant as it will pad out a border for the long-term

their softly felted texture providing a cool

Hydrangea 'Little Apple' blooms generously from summer right through to autumn

Narcissus 'Memento' carries itself with quiet confidence—no need for dramatic flair when you’ve got grace in spades

Paeonia 'The Fawn' triumph-tulips Hippeastrum 'Pretty Amadeus' is winterPaeonia 'The Fawn' is a peony with the soft focus beauty of an old watercolour, its scented blooms opening in shades of soft to mid pink and delicately scattered with tiny speckles of deeper rose. These fine markings give each flower a charmingly individual finish, as though Paeonia 'The Fawn' has been carefully dabbed with a paintbrush rather than grown in the usual way. Full, romantic and gently fragrant, it brings a refined sense of detail to early