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Heuchera 'Color Dream'
NO LONGER SOLD AS A DAWIN PLANTSPOTTERS VARIETY.
Changing foliage colours keep this plant interesting all season.
Hosta 'June Fever'
If Hosta 'June' had a coat of varnish, this is how it might look!
Hosta 'Magic Fire'
This wider-margined mutation of 'Sagae' burns with character.
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Birds of a feather
11-08-2004 11:13 Jan has friends all over the world with whom he swaps plant material.
By Miriam Young   

Among these are a Danny van Eechert, the Belgian Hosta collector who also has close links with Gert van Eijk-Bos, and named both ‘Christmas Candy’ and 'June Fever'.

 

Danny van Eechert

Chicago-based Roy Klehm of Klehm Nurseries is another of Jans illustrious plant enthusiast friends. A well known plant breeder, he provided the material from which Heuchera 'Color Dream' was derived.

 
Biography
You only live once
By Miriam Young
Following a dream led Jan van den Top to become first breeder of Hosta and Heuchera in The Netherlands.
The Nursery
European exclusives
By Miriam Young
Jan van den Top's nursery in Barneveld, The Netherlands, has varieties people travel from far and wide to find.
Breeding Work
The Netherlands' original Hosta breeder
By Miriam Young
Jan van der Top operates an extensive Hosta breeding program at his nursery, continually experimenting with crosses to see what happens.
Connections
Birds of a feather
By Miriam Young
Jan has friends all over the world with whom he swaps plant material.
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