Island Life Magazine Ltd August/September 2013 | Page 77

GARDENING

several clumps of Calla lilies, roses
and Primulas.
Barton Manor has held the National
Collection of Kniphofia for 20 years.
There are 100 different varieties
of Red Hot Pokers grown in raised
beds built from oak sleepers. They
provide a firework display from May
to October in a sizzling spectrum of
colours from green to flaming orange
and include ‘Barton Fever’ a cultivar

raised when the estate was owned by
Robert Stigwood.
They are growing with a large
ornamental sage Salvia turkestanica
and the shimmering Stipa tenuisima
a lovely ornamental grass. I’m
hoping to beg a plant or two of
‘Barton Fever’for the border I’ve
recently designed for a new garden at
the John Cheverton Centre.

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