The Japanese art of kokedama allows me to bring fresh, long-lasting flowers into the house during the bleakest days of winter.

Polly Nicholson, collector of tulips, explains her passion to Country Life.

The Tulip Garden author Polly Nicholson on the colours, the culture, and the rare bulb that costs more than a house

To coincide with the publication of her book The Tulip Garden, specialist organic grower Polly Nicholson shares her passion for these blooms.

A kaleidoscope of tulips blooms in spring on Polly Nicholson’s land in southwest England, the base for her organic cut flower business Bayntun Flowers.

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…