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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.
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Bee power on the increase
05-07-2004 11:19 Marco's little helpers have been doing a little of their own breeding work, and have multiplied in numbers as well as producing new Queens. As a consequence, new hives have had to be set up, which have been scattered around the hybridising garden.
By Miriam Young   
The different colour scemes on the hives help the bees identify which one they belong to.

 
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.