Conserving the diversity of garden plants.
Welcome to Plant Heritage Guernsey.
We are proud to be affiliated to Plant Heritage in the UK.
Guernsey at heart
Here in Guernsey we have around 300 members who enjoy our annual programme of plant sales, lectures, garden visits and the well-established Nerine Festival.
We are keen to conserve plants that thrive or are linked with Guernsey and have several on-going projects.
Key projects
Our projects include an expanding nerine collection, which was designated a National Collection in 2017, pelargoniums and the collection of camellias planted at Government House.
We are also setting up a Caparne Iris collection.
Help is always required and very welcome.
Get involved
We send out a newsletter three times a year and have copies of the Plant Heritage Journal available to collect at our events.
Membership is only £12.00 a year (one or a couple) and many events are free. Why not join us today?
Our current projects
Currently there are four conservation projects:
The Nerine Collection
The Camellia Collection at Government House
The Pelargonium Collection
The setting up of a Caparne Iris Collection
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This is Geranium maderense, which is pretty spectacular in the spring of year two, but then dies after a long flowering. However it self-seeds happily and finds its own preferred spots in your garden. It also comes in white. #Guernsey #LoveGuernsey #Gsy #GuernseyLife #PlantHeritage #PlantHeritageGuernsey #Plants #Flowers #geraniummaderense
Steph Watkins was chatting to Dr Sue Stuart-Smith on BBC Radio Guernsey this morning and if you use there listen back system you can hear their conversation from 10:18am. Dr Sue Stuart-Smith's talk The Well Gardened Mind is at Les Cotils tomorrow, 18 April from 7:00-8:00pm. Tickets will be available at the door.
The cowslips are out, but are not that easy to get going in Guernsey as our winters are not often cold enough for germination. They are perennial, so you can buy one at a garden centre, even if it has gone over and then be patient! I rather like the tall one in the photo as it has sent up a second flower through the first. #Guernsey #LoveGuernsey #Gsy #GuernseyLife #PlantHeritage #PlantHeritageGuernsey #Plants #Flowers #primrose
We have the following tomato plants available, for £2 each, but it is first come, first served. You can buy them at the Plant Heritage Guernsey glasshouse at the back of Guernsey Gardens, La Ramee between 10am and 12 noon tomorrow, Saturday, 13 April. Alternatively you can email Karen Kristian on karen_kristian@hotmail.com or PM me on this Facebook/Instagram. CHERRY TOMATOES Gardener's Delight – sweet and tangy, good crops Sungold Tomato – round, golden cherry tomatoes Orange Paruche – another golden cherry tom, meant to rival Sungold Sweet Baby – Small, very sweet cherry tomatoes. "A lunchbox favourite" Sweet Aperitif – Large trusses of incredibly sweet cherry toms Black Cherry – Heritage: prolific 20 gm fruits with great flavour, long harvest period Red Pear – Heritage: masses of pear shaped red fruit grow like cherry tomatoes SALAD TOMATOES Outdoor girl – Popular weather tolerant medium sized toms with superb flavour. PLUM TOMATOES Roma VF – a favourite tomato for making sauces and preserving Principe Borghese Cherry Tomatoes – Classic Italian "sun dried" variety, for salads and sauces BEEFSTEAK TOMATOES Country Taste – large indeterminate tomatoes, can grow up to 450gm. Excellent flavour Marmande – a favourite French beefsteak, best grown outdoors in a sheltered spot
Friends had great success growing on our PHG tomato plants, so I have decided to try myself this year. I bought my plant at the Sausmarez Manor Plant Stall on Saturday. I was advised to plant about six inches of the stem as well, having nipped off the little bits growing out of the V (see photo) both above and below the soil. In this way, the stem puts out more roots and you get a much stronger plant. I have added a couple of little marigolds as companion plants to ward away any whitefly. We have some tomato plants over and I will let you know tomorrow the varieties and how you can buy them. #Guernsey #LoveGuernsey #Gsy #GuernseyLife #PlantHeritage #PlantHeritageGuernsey #Plants #Flowers #tomatoplant
