Iceberg Sighting

Rosa ‘Iceberg’ Born: 1958, in Reimer Kordes famous rose nursery, Germany. Parents: Rosa ‘Robin Hood’ x  R. ‘Virgo’.   The parents could never have guessed just how well their ‘baby’ was going do. By 2004, ‘Iceberg’ had been acclaimed the ‘rose of the 20th Century’ and ‘the greatest triumph of any rose breeder for m...

Good As Gold

On 16th August 1984 I received an urgent telephone call from Camellia Grove Nursery informing me that the extremely rare yellow camellia from China was flowering for the first time, in the Western World. Such excitement! I rushed over and photographed the beautiful bloom, a memory that remains with me to this day. It was named C...