Hyde Hall Floral Fantasia Rudbeckia

Floral Fantasia

The new display area at the RHS Hyde Hall garden in Essex has been a popular visit destination in these post-lockdown days.
One of the attractions has been the colourful display of ‘Floral Fantasia’ which is incorporating the work of breeders of new pot and bedding plants. This year some of the plants have been pro-duced from the Fleuroselect trials of Rudbeckia, both seed and vegetatively propagated.
Starting in 2018 with initial garden ideas and some commercial backing, Peter Seabrook has masterminded the development of a large-scale, colour, bedding gar-den on the RHS site. He has brought in several companies who would like to cooperate with the aim of creating a ‘shop window’ for flowering plants especially new forms and varieties.
Last year, Peter re-purposed plants used at other exhibitions to produce a fantastic display and at the Spring Conference at Peterbor-ough in January, gave us all a brief ‘virtual’ walk through the garden with a presentation of beautiful images. The pdf copy of his presentation is available on the website downloads page.

This year, Fleuroselect has proclaimed 2020 the year of the Rudbeckia and arranged trials of 50 seed raised and 36 cutting-raised cultivars at six sites around Europe including RHS Hyde Hall & Harlow Carr (read more @ fleuroselect.com) Many of these are now gracing the gardens at Hyde Hall and will be flowering in the next few months for trade and gardener visitors to admire. Despite lockdown, they have managed to plant the trials and then, following some bad weather, Peter took the trial out again and re-planted it in the ground.

“Rudbeckia splendour radiates across Europe

Within the framework of the ‘2020, Year of the Rudbeckia’ marketing campaign, Fleuroselect members have joined efforts this summer to offer a full overview of the existing Rudbeckia range. Over 80 varieties have been grown and planted by five top level public parks: RHS Garden Hyde Hall and RHS Garden Harlow Carr (U.K.), EGA Park Erfurt and Blumeninsel Mainau (Germany) and Jardin des Plantes (France). In addition, the Irish research station TEGEASC is also showing a part of the assortment to its visitors.

The goal of this yearly campaign is to highlight the wide diversity of a crop for the Home Gardener. Simon Crawford, Commercial Director at Burpee Europe and Chairman of the Home Gardening Business Unit at Fleuroselect: “Each year we choose a crop which is suitable for the Home Gardener. For the first time we have added varieties from cuttings as well as from seed to mirror the width of the selection available. We anticipate that the attention given to Rudbeckia this year will clearly raise the profile and inspire gardeners to choose these spectacular plants with their long season performance for their gardens and patios.” 

The Rudbeckia plantings are expected to look at their best in August and will last until the end of September. Both industry colleagues and the general public are warmly invited to visit and be inspired.”

You can read more here: https://fleuroselect.com/press-room/rudbeckia-splendour-radiates-across-europe/

• Fleuroselect also reminds us that 2020 is the year of the Cucumber
  • Save money
  • Easy to grow-
  • Lots of varities even mini ‘cues’
  • Recipe choices
  • Male and female flowers
  • Care notes
  • Raise from seed yourself

read more…. https://fleuroselect.com/assets/Uploads/001252-fleuroselect-komkommer-spread-EN-Long-1.pdf