New plant variety
World Radio Gardening
English - August 04, 2015 16:09 - 6 minutes - 7.54 MB - ★★★★ - 7 ratingsLeisure Hobbies Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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A lecturer at Writtle College in Essex has bred a new variety of Osteospermum. It has taken five years to breed, is hardy and needs very little care. Breeder John Cullum told Tim Gillett how the plant, called the Little Writtle was developed.