Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Hesperis matronalis
Charming, large spikes of single, lilac and purple flowers are produced in the spring filling the air with their sweet and spicy evening fragrance. Sweet Rocket will also attract butterflies and other beneficial insects to your garden. Hardy Biennial – can be perennial in some soils.
Penstemon heterophyllus ‘True Blue’
Yes, this really is a true blue Penstemon, true from seed! Azure blue trumpet blooms in abundance, with green and grey tinged foliage. An added bonus too – as this charming perennial may be treated as a annual, flowering in its first year. Highly versatile for borders, rockeries, bedding or the patio container
Hollyhock ‘Antwerp Mixed’
A rich cottage garden mixture of colourful pastel shades. The Antwerp blend has attractive and unusual palmate foliage, and is also shown to have the best levels of resistance to the common Hollyhock problem of rust. Excellent for borders, especially planted in groups. Height: 150-180cm (5-6ft).
Godetia ‘Rembrandt’
An easy to grow, uniform selection with beautiful, deep carmine rose and white bicoloured blooms, with a consistent and stable pattern throughout the summer. Looks a picture sown as drifts of colour in borders, as well as making an eyecatching cut flower
Poppy ‘Pink Fizz’
Bring your garden to life as the stems of silver foliage sway in the breeze, topped by elegant two-tone pink bicolour blooms with irregular and finely slashed ‘lacinate’ petals. An easy to grow annual that is sure to create interest in your borders
Phlox drummondii ‘Moody Blues’
An easy to grow half hardy annual and cottage garden classic, freely flowering in a broad range of attractive blue shades throughout the summer. Its compact bushy habit makes it ideal for planting as drifts of colour, as border edging or in containers
Sweet Pea ‘Prima Ballerina’
Bred by one of the world’s leading Sweet Pea breeders, this stunning new variety already holds a Fleuroselect Novelty award. Producing beautiful blooms in a blend of soft pink, mauve and cream, the unique colouring of Sweet Pea ‘Prima Ballerina’ is coupled with intricate veining and a delightful scent too. Each stem produces an average
Wildflower ‘Honey Bee Flower Mixed’
A blend of nectar and pollen rich flowers, that are proven favourites of honey bees in our gardens and providing forage all season long. Perfect for those gardeners with their own honey hives, or those wishing to encourage bees into their gardens
Cornflower ‘Classic Fantastic’
A classic mixture of single and semi-double blooms in cool blue shades, ranging from light heavenly blue to dark blue combined with a blue and white bicolour. Creates a fantastic, long flowering display in borders, or when used as a cut flower. Easy to grow
Sweet Pea ‘Promise’
Promise’ boasts 4 large, very frilly blooms on each long stem. The prettily-shaped flowers in pink and white bicolour shades, bred by Roger Parsons, horticulturalist and custodian of a National Collection® of Lathyrus species, are sure to be show bench winners
Buddleja davidii (Mixed)
A strong growing easy to raise shrub producing fragrant plumes during the summer which are much loved by butterflies. Saved from named varieties. Flowers summer. Height & Spread: 8x 6ft (240x180cm)
Brachycome iberidifolia ‘Little Missy’
Each pretty lilac blue, daisy-like bloom has a distinctive yellow central eye surrounded by a white halo. Brachycome ‘Little Missy’ blooms over a long period, making it perfect for edging paths and borders or as an eye-catching container plant on a sunny patio. Height and spread: 25cm (10)
Calendula officinalis ‘Neon’
One of the most eye-catching varieties in our flower trials, with glowing orange, double flowers edged in burgundy. The edible flowers of Calendula ‘Neon’ add height and interest to annual borders, and make a stunning cut flower. Quick and easy to grow in almost any garden situation, and even grows well in coastal areas. Height:
Cosmos sulphureus ‘Brightness Mixed’
Possibly the most free-flowering cosmos of this type. Dwarf and bushy plants are covered with flowers in a delightful mixture of gold, lemon, orange and red from early summer through to the autumn frosts. Spectacular when planted towards the front of annual borders or in containers
Monarda didyma ‘T&M Superb Mixed’
Candelabra-like whorls of flowers in a formula mixture with mint scented foliage. Indispensable border flower for most soils, particularly damp sites. Height 90-100cm (30-40in).
Foxglove ‘Summer King’
Commonly known as the Strawberry Foxglove. This very compact variety produces neat flower spikes with huge, eye-catching strawberry-rose bells. A vigorous variety which is sure to make any early season garden shine, as well as attracting nectar-loving bees. Digitalis Summer King is a naturally occurring cross between the yellow-flowered Digitalis grandiflora and lavender-rose-flowered Digitalis purpurea
Nepeta cataria
No cat should be deprived of this! Their reaction to the aromatic silver grey foliage is fascinating. Flower spikes of violet spotted white.
Poppy ‘Cherry Glow’
Like a giant version of the traditional field Poppy, this richly coloured annual is perfect for adding quick and easy colour to bedding and borders. Plus, the eye-catching scarlet petals fall away to reveal decorative seed heads, great for drying. Culinary note: All poppies are poisonous. However, the seeds produced by somniferum and paeoniflorum poppies
Salvia farinacea ‘Seascape Mixed’
A relaxing blend of three varieties of salvia with stunning flower spires in shades of blue with silver. These compact, branching and early flowering salvias will add a wonderful new dimension to bedding displays as they sway in the slightest breeze creating a truly tranquil border feature
Primula vulgaris
Without doubt this native British plant is one of the most beautiful of the Primula family and an excellent garden plant. The flowers are of softest yellow, a colour very rare among flowers, and are deliciously scented. Happy in full sun or part shade. Flowers spring. Height 6in
