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Whistlepipe Gardens is this year’s winner of Best Display of Plant and Product at Garden Week 2012, Perth’s premier garden show held recently at Perry Lakes. As an exhibitor it is always a challenge to inspire the gardening public with a ‘wow’ factor display. Not only will they then want to purchase plants but they will also follow your business into the future. To achieve this end I have found it necessary to always prepare about three times the number of display plants that I expect to need for the show as some flower too early and other too late. The Clematis above was a complete surprise, an aggregate of four pots hiding under a snail creeper, they lept up into perfect flower at the last moment, and as most of our other display Clematis had flowered too early, we lovingly disentangled these plants so that they could be part of the show.

If you missed out on Clematis varieties or Salvias at Garden Week we now have lots of additional stock for the open days in early May. I have also managed to procure more plants of the stunning Begonia rex Escargot. I’ll look forward to seeing you at the open days, or chatting online.

Best wishes, Margy