The Independent - London, October 27th, 1996
When A large industry is devoted to breeding and perfecting ever more spectacular plants for our gardens, it seems perverse to hanker after the less striking specimens that nature scatters spontaneously across the landscape. Yet more and more people want to cultivate wild flowers. That they can now buy them at garden centres is mainly due to the enterprise of Marney Hall, a determined scientist who spotted the emerging trend eight years ago. Countryside Wildflowers, the firm she and her husband Roger started in 1988, produced fewer than 20,000 plants in that first year. Today the annual outpu...
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