How to order Harvington Roscoea – as featured in Gardens Illustrated Small Gardens Special (August 2024)
How to order Harvington Roscoea from Twelve Nunns
Roscoea can be purchased as freshly lifted, flowering tubers. These are despatched during March, when they are ready to plant out.
Flowering tubers will be ready to order from early 2025. Let us know which Roscoea you are interested in by completing a Wish List, and we will email you when they are available to select.
Introduce a touch of exotic beauty to your garden with our selection of Harvington Roscoea. With a form and flower similar to the orchid, many of these remarkable plants have been featured in this month’s Gardens Illustrated magazine Small Gardens Special (August 2024). Matthew Biggs has written an extremely informative piece on how the Roscoea genus was introduced to this country. Following some careful selection….
“a host of delectable new hybrids and ease of cultivation means that everyone can welcome this exquisite, connoisseurs’ plant into their own garden.”
(Matthew Biggs, Gardens Illustrated August 2024, photographs by Clive Nichols).
The origins of Harvington Roscoea
Our selection of Roscoea include a number with the prefix ‘Harvington’. These are a set of distinctive plants bred by Hugh Nunn in the Vale of Evesham and selected for their beauty, vigour and garden worthiness. Several have been awarded the Royal Horticultural Society’s Award of Garden Merit (AGM) in recognition of these characteristics.
After 15 years of dedicated selection and reselection, we are now releasing more stunning hybrids. Many of these outstanding plants have been featured in the Garden’s Illustrated magazine article along with others from the Harvington Roscoea family.
Our Roscoea are robust, clump-forming, and vigorous plants, they can thrive anywhere in the British Isles when positioned in dappled shade with moist, free-draining soil. They are well-suited for woodland gardens, shaded borders, or as part of a rock garden where its unique and exotic blooms can be appreciated up close. They will also happily grow in a large container in a shaded corner of a patio.