Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Rose ‘Madame Isaac Péreire’ (Climbing Bourbon)
Rose ‘Madame Isaac Péreire’ is a ‘sought-after’, heirloom variety dating back to the 1880?s. This showy climbing Bourbon Rose produces large, fully double, cup-shaped flowers in a deep shade of fuchsia-pink, which recurve beautifully at the edges.
Rose ‘Cicero’ (Patio Rose)
Rose ‘Cicero’ is a very compact plant with rich-green, glossy, oval leaves. Throughout summer and well into autumn, it is decorated with clusters of pale pink flowers. With such a dwarf, compact habit, this patio rose makes an excellent choice for a patio container or ideal planted in a group in the flower border.
Rose ‘Lucky!’ (Floribunda Rose)
Rose ‘Lucky!’ flowers continuously from early summer through to late autumn. This upright, bushy floribunda rose produces clusters of semi-double, lightly scented, mauve-pink flowers with charming rippled edges. The thorny stems are covered in glossy, dark green leaves, forming a compact plant.
Rose ‘Marieken’ (Shrub Rose)
Rose ‘Marieken’ is a hardy, red-stemmed shrub rose with healthy, deep green, glossy leaves. The unscented blooms are a fabulous brick-red colour, blooming continuously from June through to October. This neat, bushy rose makes an ideal container variety, or adds a bright splash of summer colour to rose beds and mixed borders.
Rose ‘Mellgold’ (Shrub Rose)
The lightly fragranced, golden yellow flowers of Rose ‘Mellgold’ boast a central boss of yellow stamens. The semi-double blooms appear continuously from early summer through to autumn. This bushy shrub rose makes an ideal container variety, and looks equally good planted in the mixed herbaceous border, or a rose bed.
Rose banksiae var. banksiae (Climbing Rose)
This vigorous climbing species rose needs plenty of space to be appreciated at its finest. Rose banksiae var. banksiae produces long, virtually thornless stems that will happily scale walls and look wonderful trained through the branches of large trees. In late spring, clusters of small, fully double, creamy white flowers with a heavenly violet perfume
Rose ‘Sweetie’ (Patio Rose)
A very compact patio rose, that’s perfect for a container on the patio, or front of the herbaceous border. Thorny stems and glossy, mid green leaves form a backdrop for the clusters of double, lightly fragranced, apricot-pink blooms from June to September.
Rostrinucula dependens ‘Happy Cascade’
Rarely seen, Rostrinucula dependens ‘Happy Crusade’ is similar in its appearance to a buddleja. A hardy, deciduous, suckering shrub with arching stems that are cloaked with lance-shaped, dark grey-green leaves and brown, flaking bark.
Rhododendron ‘Wilgen’s Ruby’
Rhododendron ‘Wilgen?s Ruby’ is a dense, but compact variety with a pleasing rounded habit. This evergreen shrub is cloaked with dark green leaves that creates the perfect backdrop for its deep ruby-red flowers. The vibrant blooms are borne from late spring to early summer in a magnificent display.
Rose ‘Bobbie James’ (Rambling Rose)
This vigorous rambling rose produces long, arching branches filled with healthy, green foliage that can reach extraordinary heights. In early summer the stems are decorated with large clusters of small, semi-double white flowers with a central boss of golden-yellow stamens.
Rhododendron ‘Cunningham’s White’
A particularly resilient variety that will even tolerate a neutral to slightly alkaline soil. This tough evergreen produces white flowers, with a splash of pale gold at the centre, opening from mauve buds.
Rhododendron ‘Luzi’
A hardy, evergreen Azalea with an upright, bushy habit. Rhododendron ‘Luzi’ boasts a covering of small, shiny, rich green leaves all the year round. Trusses of funnel-shaped, pure white flowers appear from late spring to early summer.
Rhododendron ‘Germania’
Upright clusters of deep rose-pink flowers make a showy display in late May. The vibrant blooms stand out against a background of broad, glossy, evergreen leaves. Rhododendron ‘Germania’ is a hardy, free flowering variety that makes an appealing specimen shrub in areas with acid soils.
Rhododendron ‘Catawbiense Grandiflorum’
Rhododendron ‘Catawbiense Grandiflorum’ is a bushy, dense, evergreen shrub. The shiny, rich-green leaves are paler green underneath, providing year round colour and structure in the garden. Large trusses of mauve flowers with yellow-brown markings at the throat are borne in late spring and early summer.
Rhododendron ‘Marie Fortie’
Trusses of large, rich pink, funnel-shaped flowers with blotches of dark purple in the throat are borne during late spring and early summer. Rhododendron ‘Marie Fortie’ is a hardy spreading shrub. Its glossy, deep green,leathery leaves remain evergreen, making a fine backdrop for summer flowering perennials.
Rhododendron ‘Tortoiseshell Orange’
Rhododendron ‘Tortoiseshell Orange’ has a compact, mound-shaped habit that makes a neat and tidy, low maintenance shrub. This evergreen rhododendron is covered in evergreen, shiny, leaves that provide year round colour and structure in the garden.
Rhododendron viscosum
A bushy, deciduous, shrub with hairy shoots and dark green leaves with glaucous undersides. The foliage of Rhododendron viscosum turns a wonderful range of yellow, orange and purple hues in autumn.
Rhododendron ‘Harvest Moon’
A Knap Hill hybrid, Rhododendron ‘Harvest Moon’is a rarely seen variety from English breeding. Trusses of gently perfumed, trumpet-shaped, sunset yellow-orange flowers are borne on bare stems in May just as the leaves emerge.
