Individual Flower Pages

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Savoy Cabbage'Cordesa F1' from Seed A genuine horticultural milestone — the first clubroot-resistant savoy cabbage ever bred, allowing gardeners with clubroot in their...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cabbage'Red Drumhead' from Seed The heritage autumn and winter cabbage whose deep purple-red colour intensifies dramatically after the first frosts — large, dense,...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Cabbage'Greyhound' from Seed Britain's earliest pointed cabbage — the RHS AGM heritage variety with a conical heart of exceptional sweetness, almost no wasted...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Bupleurumgriffithii (Hare's Ear) from Seed The florist's secret weapon — acid-lime-green stems with rounded blue-green foliage and chartreuse bract clusters that make every...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Borage(Borago officinalis) from Seed The bee magnet with the electric blue stars — one of the very few truly blue flowers in cultivation,...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Beetroot'Chioggia' from Seed The Italian candy-stripe beetroot — an heirloom from the coast near Venice with alternating rings of pink and white that...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Beetroot'Boltardy' from Seed Britain's favourite beetroot — the RHS Award of Garden Merit variety whose bolt resistance makes it the only reliable choice...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Bunny Tails Grass(Lagurus ovatus) from Seed The most tactile plant in the cutting garden — impossibly soft, fluffy oval seedheads on slender wiry...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Bronze Fennel(Foeniculum vulgare 'Purpureum') from Seed The ultimate architectural border perennial — towering clouds of smoky bronze-purple foliage that shimmers and moves in...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Briza maxima(Greater Quaking Grass) from Seed The easiest plant in the cutting garden — heart-shaped lockets that tremble and dance on hair-thin stems...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Bells of Ireland(Moluccella laevis) from Seed The florist's essential green — architectural spikes of apple-green bells running up 60–75cm stems, carrying tiny fragrant...

Bishy Barnabee's Growing Guides How to Grow Beetroot'Boldor F1' from Seed The golden beetroot that doesn't bleed — globe-shaped roots with copper-orange skin and rich golden-amber flesh that retains its...