Allen Bush, Author at GardenRant

Allen Bush

Allen Bush founded Holbrook Farm and Nursery, a mail order source for rare and unusual perennials in 1981. He opened the North American office of Jelitto Perennial Seeds in 1995. Allen served as its Director of Special Projects for 22 years. Jelitto offers over 3,700 seed choices of perennials, alpines, herbs and ornamental grasses. Allen received The Perennial Plant Association’s Award of Merit in 2011. In 2017, he received The American Horticultural Society’s Paul Ecke Jr. Commercial Award. The Garden Club of America selected Allen as an Honorary Member in 2020. He has contributed to Garden Rant since 2013. Allen gardens in Kentucky with his wife, Rose Cooper, known sometimes as Rose Bush.

Articles by Allen Bush

The Undaunted and Undented Osage Orange

The Undaunted and Undented Osage Orange

By Allen Bush|2021-01-19T16:33:10-05:00October 25, 2012|

Pumpkin, osage orange, honey locust crown of thorns at Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest Clermont, KY The Osage orange tree doesn’t have a large following but I have [...]

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Wilson Pickett Made me Love Pink Roses

Wilson Pickett Made me Love Pink Roses

By Allen Bush|2021-02-04T08:59:38-05:00September 20, 2012|

I owe my love of pink flowers to Wilson Pickett. The rhythm and blues singer was my high school cosmic everything. Teenage boys often feel they are irrelevant. Or at [...]

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Travels with Horticultural Cowboys in Colorado

Travels with Horticultural Cowboys in Colorado

By Allen Bush|2021-01-28T16:08:06-05:00August 30, 2012|

From left: Steve Castorani, Bill Barnes and Joel Hayward at Pawnee Grasslands Willie Nelson warns, in his song of the same name, “Mamas, don’t let your babies grow [...]

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In Israel, a Date Palm Spy Thriller

In Israel, a Date Palm Spy Thriller

By Allen Bush|2021-02-04T08:59:49-05:00June 23, 2012|

Aside from the Mutiny on the Bounty, where the disgruntled crew tossed breadfruit overboard, I’ve never heard such a High Seas Adventure as the one I learned last month in [...]

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In Praise of the Humble Catalpa

In Praise of the Humble Catalpa

By Allen Bush|2021-01-19T11:50:37-05:00May 8, 2012|

Guest Post by Allen Bush (who has since become a regular!) Catalpas are seldom planted anymore. Mike Dirr notes these relics in his Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubs: “Ever ask the local [...]

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