'My Choisya Lightens Lots Of Gardens!'

I had a little home-made frame and sowed some marrow seeds in it.

The first plant I ever grew

After recovering from a bout of mumps I was allowed outside and looked at my frame (just a piece of glass on bricks) and the seeds had germinated.

The plant that shaped the nurseryman I am today

Where I lived during the war years there were a pair of monkey puzzle trees, Araucaria araucana in the front of the house. One day I ran indoors saying they were on fire. It turned out that the wind had got up and it was just the pollen that was blowing out of the top the trees! This fired my lifelong curiosity.

My favourite plant in the world