It came to be known as “Fairchild’s mule,” after the hybrid animal that was also sterile. It crossed a sweet William and a carnation. It is not known whether Fairchild discovered his mule or ...

It is a short walk from Columbia Road Flower Market, where the stallholders hawk the colourful successors to Fairchild’s Mule by the bucketful. Which is an altogether more satisfactory memorial ...

Attendance at the famed Chelsea Flower Show has increased so much ... Without Sloane's herbarium we would have no record at all of “Fairchild's mule”, the hybrid of a sweet William (Dianthus ...