Horticulturist Howard Drury shows his enthusiasm for traditional and newer specialist nurseries on this video tour at the NEC.
He admires Home Farm Plants' delphiniums, Hillview Hardy Plants' Ixias, Potash's geraniums and Chrysanthemums Direct' display.
Drury also profiles acers and dwarf conifers, succulents including aeoniums, salvias, alstroemerias and alpines, giving his tips on which are up and coming, which are old favourites and which plants suit what type of garden.
The best-selling plants by turnover in October, according to latest electronic point-of-sale (EPOS) data from garden centres.
Cosmos and hollyhock collection holder and RHS exhibitor Jonathan Sheppard writes about the RHS's peat plans.
