I have been growing my own fruit and vegetables for over 30 years and have been interested in self sufficiency most of my life. I am a member of the Heritage Seed Library, enjoy growing and saving seeds from many heritage varieties and I have a small collection of old varieties of apple trees. My horses are very rare Crabbet Arabians and I have a small flock of rare breed Castlemilk Morit sheep. 

I have always been an avid composter and this led to my interest in growing Comfrey to make my own fertiliser. Comfrey bocking 14 was the variety developed to make high potash fertiliser and I have been growing it for over 10 years. 

This led to an interest in other varieties of Comfrey and after discovering that many are becoming rare and are disappearing I started buying plants, the collecting addiction had started! I had a list of plants I wanted to collect but soon found that most on my list was barely available. After searching and hunting many down including hassling plant nurseries and growers to propagate for me I now have many extremely rare plants.

I joined Plant Heritage who have a mission to conserve our horticultural heritage and I am now a plant guardian with them for some critically endangered Comfrey species and cultivars. 

In the words of Roy Lancaster "The best way to save plants is to successfully cultivate and propagate them, then share them with others.

Thank you for your interest and I hope you find a Comfrey plant that is suitable for your garden, allotment or smallholding.

Pauline Atkinson, British Comfrey