The Telegraph:
Always on the mind of the keen gardener is: what’s new? With a long tradition of plant exploration and amateur breeding, in past years the majority of new introductions originated in the UK but, more and more, the latest, coolest plants are coming from across the Atlantic.
Tony Avent of Plant Delights Nursery in North Carolina likens it to an American version of our Victorian era. Even for some previously British stock-in-trade plants such as hellebores, the bulk of new varieties now come from the United States, sometimes fuelled by UK genetics that hopped the Pond.
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