Breeding is a dedicated game, that much is a given: you need to know your plants, be able to spot the vigour here, the variation over there; the mottled leaf or a dainty tilt of a head, then there's the record keeping and the space required for all those little babies to become the ones that stand out. On top of this is the time it takes. To give some perspective to this, the breeding programme at Twelve Nunns Nursery spans two generations and has taken more than 20 years of careful, meticulous selection to create a three new Harvington erythroniums. And now that Harvington trio is finally ready to meet the world.
Twelve Nunns Nursery, based in Lincolnshire, is known for delightful woodlanders: the Harvington Hellebores, interesting anemones
