Patience,'observed Edward Augustus Bowles, 'seems to be the only manure Iris unguicularis needs.' One of the greatest British plantsmen of the last century, 'Gussie' was almost always right, as in the ...

Algerian iris (Iris unguicularis), Hepatica, the climber Clematis cirrhosa, and Erica carnea." While she claimed that winter still provides an opportunity to display some of her favourite flowers ...