Blue ideas

In this area, the joints between sandstone pavers are filled with Dymondia margaretae ( 1). The path leads past a pot overflowing with Aeonium ‘Mint Saucer’ ( 2), and low-growing plants including the spreading, pale-flowered Pelargonium fragrans ( 3) and a bright-blue Echium candicans seedling ( 4), one of several seedlings that popped up in Bernard’s garden. It has been selected to be propagated and named. Bernard often uses his garden to breed and trial new plants, and plantspeople regularly come to collect cuttings or seeds of his plants and develop them into new cultivars.