Spring’s most colourful bulbs are about to bloom. Clare Coulson visited author and specialist grower Polly Nicholson on her Wiltshire estate, to find out how she selects and cultivates her tulips.

One of the most beloved and ubiquitous flowers is elevated to new heights in a new book by one of the world's top experts…

In Polly Nicholson’s new book, The Tulip Garden, the expert grower shares her secrets on raising the most rarefied tulips…

Looking for bulbs that come back reliably year after year? We asked plant experts and growers for their advice on reliably perennial tulips, plus other beautiful spring bulbs to grow with them.

Tulips have been lovingly cosseted over the years by countless mothering hands – particularly back in their 17th-century heyday…

Famous for its spring bulbs, the garden at Blackland House comes into its own in autumn with its crisp underpinning of geometric forms.

Current obsession: Cleaning and sorting all my historic tulips. Historic tulips seem to be an ongoing current obsession in fact.

An interest in cut flowers has developed into a successful artisan floristry business for Polly Nicholson, who makes excellent use of the blooms she grows…

On her estate in the English countryside, one horticultural historian is cultivating a small empire of almost extinct varieties that once bloomed centuries ago.

Like the 17th-century collectors before her, Wiltshire flower grower Polly Nicholson became obsessed by the unique markings on historic tulips – no two flowers are alike…

Over the past two years, I have been working with a local Women's Group through Friends of Vamizi, teaching them the process of windrow and compost making.

In their first flush, allium flowers add to the joyous rite of spring. Although they are overtaken in color and height by midsummer blooms, their striking spherical silhouettes…

Around Blackland House in Wiltshire, Arne Maynard has designed a series of walled gardens filled with plants of the highest pedigree.

Polly Nicholson started Bayntun Flowers 10 years ago with the aim of growing British flowers for her own artisan floristry. She now grows 100 varieties of tulip…

The proprietor of Bayntun Flowers, “Polly is a grower and a florist (who studied medieval art) so it seems right that the scene in her walled garden hints not only at the industry of Brueghel, but the flowery allure of Botticelli…

Chrysanthemums are not only pronounced in a hurry (shortened to mums or chrysanths), they also are bought in a hurry—in random colors that look dyed, and often are.

The Keys to Success: Growing flowers that aren’t readily available in any of the commercial flower markets: Historic English Florists’Tulips dating back to 1760, Persian Fritillaries, Cedric Morris Irises…

Polly Nicholson, a Wiltshire-based florist and grower with a taste for adventure, shares with us the results of her zinnia trials this autumn…

Sweet pea enthusiasts know that when they go on vacation it’s a good idea to get someone in, not only to feed the cat but to cut their sweet peas…

Polly Nicholson’s walled garden in Wiltshire is a balance of form and function. There are rows of vegetables and flower-filled cutting beds for her business Bayntun Flowers, with room for topiaries, a pond, and free-ranging plants…