Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Agastache rugosa ‘Golden Jubilee’
Attractive, golden-green foliage with a distinct aniseed fragrance, making a vibrant contrast to the compact lavender-blue flower spikes. Adds interest to borders and containers, as well as attracts wildlife to your garden. Fragrant and excellent in borders or containers.
Ipomoea x sloteri ‘Cardinal Climber’
Stunning bright red blooms with unusual serrated foliage.
Poppy ‘Seriously Scarlet’
A dramatic new Poppy with striking scarlet flowers which have a dark purple-blue centre. opening to form an Elizabethan style ruff. The strong, tall stems boast large, highly ornamental, silver-green orientale foliage. Variable seed was sent by a customer to T&M, and breeders have selected for uniformity and trueness to type, resulting in this bright
Geranium pratense ‘Purple Haze’
One of the hardy Geranium discoveries of the century! ‘Purple Hazeis a stunning plant, producing amazing foliage with a unique bronze-purple hue, a shade rarely seen in hardy Geranium foliage. The leaves are deepest in shade during spring, gradually changing to an attractive deep green with strong purple edging. Even more exciting is the striking
Calendula officinalis ‘Porcupine’
An exciting variety with vivid orange, pointed blooms and attractive quilled petals, giving the flowers a wild, spiky effect. The distinctive flowers make a stunning cut flower and can also be added to salads as an edible flower. Quick and easy to grow, Calendula ‘Porcupine’ copes in almost any garden situation, and even grows well
Sanvitalia procumbens ‘Orange Sprite’
Despite this genus dating back to the 18th Century, named after Professor Federica Sanvitali, it is seldom seen in summer gardens. Blooming over a long period, it is perfect for containers, baskets and the Flower PouchT. Its trailing habit offers a profusion of semi-double orange flowers with dark centres. Height: 10cm (4in)
Datura metel ‘Double Blackcurrant Swirl’
A dynamic border, container or conservatory plant with large, beautifully double frilled flowers of blackcurrant and lilac-mauve. The many flowers are earlier than most and continue through to frosts outdoors. Flowers mid summer-autumn. Height 14m. (5ft)
Zinnia elegans ‘Lilliput Mix’
A superb blend of this most unusual flower type, specially selected for its wide range of bright colours. Attractive fully double 25-3cm (1-1 1/2in) pom-pom like flowers are stunning in borders or as a cut flower. Height: 45-50cm (18-20in)
Emilia coccinea ‘Scarlet Magic’
Attractive, small, flame red, fluffy flowers, sway gently in the summer breeze, resembling an artist’s brush or tassels, giving the common names of Flora’s Paintbrush or Tassel Flower. Ideal for adding a change of height, colour and texture to bedding displays. Height: 45-60cm (18-24in)
Begonia x tuberhybrida ‘Scentsation Mixed’ F1 Hybrid
The very first fragrant Begonia from seed! These vigorous plants produce wonderful, double to semi-double, pastel-coloured flowers and are stunning grown in individual pots or mixed containers. On damp mornings and sunny days, your garden will be filled with a delightful medley of fragrances from fresh lemon to a soft rose scent. This T&M New
Calendula officinalis ‘Greenheart Orange’
Rich orange, serrated petals form a floral ‘ruffaround a lime-green centre. Quick and easy to grow, Calendula ‘Greenheart Orange’ copes in almost any garden situation, and even grows well in coastal areas. Also makes and excellent cut flower. Height: 60cm (24). Spread: 45cm (18).
Dahlia variabilis ‘Bambino Mixed’
Charming, miniature semi-double flowers. Recommended for bedding, pots and containers. Height: 30-45cm (12-18in)
Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Pied Piper Red’
The only separate colour available in the Sea Shells type, with fluted, shell-like petals of velvet crimson-red. The ferny foliage helps to make this a wonderful cut flower as well as a good back of border plant
Dolichos lablab ‘Ruby Moon’
A fascinating combination of fragrant, sweet pea-like bicoloured pink flowers and dark purple to brown large seed pods, against deep green and purple/brown foliage. Wonderful summer annual for obelisks, trellis and arches
Gypsophila elegans ‘Covent Garden’
Graceful annual for the border, producing delicate flowers and foliage, splendid for cut flowers. Can also be grown as flowering pot plants, grown in drifts or planted so as to cascade down steep banks or dry walls. Flowers early summer. Height 18in
Nemesia cheiranthus ‘Shooting Stars’
Extravagant and exotic flowers in dazzling yellow and white, to illuminate your borders and containers. Just as shooting stars are a wonder of nature, so too is this exciting new Nemesia with its branching habit and delightful coconut fragrance. Flowers over a long period, throughout the summer into autumn
Onion ‘Ciboule Red Dragon’ (Bunching Onion)
Forms a clump of slender elongated bulbs and long green stalks, similar to chives. A type of perennial bunching onion usually grown as an annual, and winter hardy. Quite pungent flavoured, use both the leaves and small bulbs.
Catharanthus roseus ‘Mediterranean Lilac’
The first of a new breed in trailing Vincas! Specifically for baskets and containers they are early flowering with large, rounded, overlapping petals forming striking, vivid blooms. Catharanthus is frost tender and therefore usually treated as a half hardy annual in the UK, unless grown in a warm greenhouse or conservatory.
