Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Hydrangea macrophylla ‘Black Diamonds Shining Angel Blue’
From recent breeding comes this stunning hydrangea with truly unique colouring and flower shapes. Masses of unusual purple-pink-blue flowers are produced on dark, almost black stems – and the colours look different every time you look at it!
Lily ‘Perfume Garden’ Series
You can’t go wrong with this stunning new patio lily. Some Oriental Lilies are too tall for patio pots; so need staking and support, not with the ‘Perfume Garden’ Series, the stems are short, stout, yet still long enough for cutting if you prefer. This new series offers a wide colour range; with every shade
Oriental Lily Collection
Fill your summer garden with an explosion of tropical colour! Oriental Lilies are prized for their large, trumpet shaped flowers and powerful fragrance. The tall, sturdy stems are cloaked in dark green foliage creating the perfect contrast to their vibrant coloured blooms.
Foxglove Trio Collection
Instantly recognisable as a cottage garden favourite, the foxglove has to be one of the most popular garden plants in a summer border. The tall spikes bearing a multitude of dazzling flowers not only provide your outdoor space with a bounty of stunning colour, it will also be an absolute favourite with the bees in
Clematis urophylla ‘Winter Beauty’
This superb evergreen clematis bears its delicately fragrant, waxy, bell-shaped flowers in the depths of winter. The foliage is so lush, that you’ll think its summertime all year round! Plant Clematis ‘Winter Beauty’ against a warm house wall so that you can appreciate its winter flowers from your window. This sought after variety will appreciate
Rhododendron ‘Goldflimmer’
This colourful Rhododendron hybrid certainly won?t blend into the background! Dark evergreen foliage is variegated with bright gold that will light up a shaded border all year round. Throughout May, large trusses of lilac-mauve flowers make a bold contrast with the leaves.
Rhododendron ‘Mayor Johnson’
Vibrant orange-red, funnel-shaped blooms stand out from the bright green foliage in late spring. Rhododendron ‘Mayor Johnson’ is a compact, spreading shrub that provides valuable evergreen interest, adding structure and colour to the garden all year round.
Rhododendron ‘Molten Gold’
You won?t find a better variegated variety than Rhododendron ‘Molten Gold’. The glossy, dark green foliage is streaked with gold, and retains its leaf colour better than other variegated Rhododendrons, rarely reverting back to green.
Rhododendron ‘Nancy Evans’
A first-rate variety that well deserves its RHS Award of Garden Merit. Exquisite pale yellow blooms open from amber-orange buds in early May. The evergreen foliage of Rhododendron ‘Nancy Evans? emerges bronze and slowly matures to dark, glossy green.
Daphne ‘Perfume Princess’
Fill your garden with fragrance this spring!Like the bigger brother to ever-popular variety ‘Eternal Fragrance’, ‘Perfume Princess’is a robust shrub for the border,with stems clothed in deeply fragrant florets.This shrub may be slow-growing, but it’s well worth the wait. Each potted plant is supplied as 1 stem with 2-3 branches with 10-15cm of growth.
Rhododendron ‘Nova Zembla’
The exotic looking blooms of Rhododendron ‘Nova Zembla’ appear in early May, borne in large, showy clusters. Each bright red flower is delicately spotted at the throat. In strong sunlight the blooms may fade to strong pink which is equally eye-catching.
Rhododendron ‘Tortoiseshell Wonder’
From late May, Rhododendron ‘Tortoiseshell Wonder’ bears loose clusters of funnel-shaped blooms. The large flowers are a glowing shade of coral-pink which is particularly striking.
Rhododendron ‘Cary Ann’
This free-flowering evergreen hybrid puts on an exuberant display from an early age. Rhododendron ‘Cary Ann’ produces large, coral pink flowers in dense clusters throughout May, which are unmissable – even from a distance!
Pea ‘Golden Sweet’ (Mangetout)
A tall growing variety with red leaf nodes and lovely mauve flowers followed by deliciously sweet pale golden-yellow, crisp pods. Best picked regularly before the peas swell in the pods, ideal steamed whole or added to stir fries. Mangetout Golden Sweet grows to 210cm (7ft) so needs support.
Pea ‘Jumbo’ (Maincrop)
Maincrop variety producing a very good crop over a long picking period on vigorous plants. Straight, long, pointed, large 13cm (5in) pods containing up to 10 plump and sweet tasting peas. Resistant to Fusarium race 1.
Runner Bean ‘Benchmaster’
A top quality, red flowered British-bred variety producing pods of over 40cm (16) in length. Abundant crops of pods hang in clusters and are fleshy, but slender, smooth and straight. For exhibition, thin to one pod per flower stem to increase the length of each bean. Runner beans are a good source of Vitamin C,
