Acquiring plants and moss and arranging them in a container to provide an attractive and practical display is only the beginning; there are numerous other requirements if success is to be the reward.

Anyone not familiar with these rare and now fast-disappearing plants might think that the small woodland Cyclamen is merely a bedraggled offshoot of a once-large specimen purchased at the florist’s.

The reason for the specific name of the Burning Bush, which is albus or white, is not immediately obvious, for its leaves are deep green and the petals are rose-coloured. Well concealed in the ground, the only white part is the inside of the rhizome.