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My plants

Geranium 'Jolly Bee'
This magnificent, long-blooming cultivar is covered with huge cupped blue flowers set off with large white centres.

Geranium 'Sweet Heidy'
Multi-coloured flowers on long-blooming plants.

Hybridiser

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August in Marco's breeding garden

06-08-2004 17:02 A number of interesting new plants are now in bloom. These are under observation to assess their suitability as future introductions.

By Miriam Young

These oriental poppies have been blooming all summer, and are still in flower in August, with more buds yet to open.

This un-named Geranium has pale violet-pink flowers with dark veins.

A variegated Bergenia. Apparently it has deep purple flowers.

Geranium 'Starman' has a unique flower pattern, with large magenta-purple stars over a paler background. It could be available in the next couple of years.

A double Leucanthemum

Biography

A Man of many Hats
By Miriam Young
Marco van Noort is a man with a great enthusiasm for everything he does. Including collecting hats.

The Nursery

The van Noort Nursery
By Miriam Young
The van Noort nursery is located in Warmond, Holland, and grows a number of sought after perennial varieties.

Breeding work

Marco's hybridising garden
By Miriam Young
Marco van Noort maintains a large hybridising garden where he's working with a number of different genera.

Tools of the trade

The van Noort bees
By Miriam Young
While some plant breeders use high-tech proceedures to create new varieties, Marco encourages the method nature intended.

Other Varieties

Rodgersia 'Chocolate Wing'
By Miriam Young
Rodgersia 'Chocolate Wing' is an ex-Darwin PlantSpotters variety that you may still be lucky enough to get your hands on.

Other Varieties

Tradescantia 'Pink Chablis'
By Miriam Young
Tradescantia 'Pink Chablis' is another ex-Darwin plantSpotters variety introduced by Marco in 2003.