Category Archives: Plants & Seeds

Pansy Frizzle Sizzle

Frilled petals and bright colours combine to make these little fellas rather striking. A fun addition to your autumn garden, our collections of 15 and 30 Frizzle Sizzle garden ready plugs are simple and fuss-free. This collection combines a vibrant mix of bold colours, bringing an autumn garden to life. We love the unusual frilly

Cabbage Cordesa

We’re thrilled to introduce our first club root-resistant cabbage variety. This compact and heavy cabbage stands well too, so you don’t have to harvest it all in one go. Cordesa is the first clubroot resistant Savoy Cabbage variety making it perfect to grow if your soil is prone to club root. Harvest September-early December. Height

Beetroot Boltardy

Beetroot Plants – Boltardy A top seller for its reliability, tastiness and resistance to bolting! The ?Boltardy? is one of the most popular beetroot varieties, producing a great yield of deep red, globe shaped roots with excellent flavour. This beetroot plant is bolt resistant which means its perfect for early sowings. Beetroot ?Boltardy? has been

Cauliflower Late Summer Collection

Cauliflower Plants – Late Summer Continuity Collection Three top quality cauliflowers for late summer! These superb Late Summer Cauliflowers are as delicious as they are attractive. Cauliflowers are a dynamic vegetable packed full of vital vitamins and minerals. You can enjoy cauliflower raw, steamed, or boiled. Add this delicious vegetable to your favourite cauliflower cheese

Sweet Potato Plants – Murasaki

Sweet, tender, nutty-flavoured tubers, with the added bonus of delicious, edible leaves. This Japanese, purple-skinned variety doesn’t lose its colour when it’s cooked. Harvest August-September.

English Lavender

English Lavender This traditional English Lavender is guaranteed to fill your garden with a beautiful fragrance and highly attractive blooms. The fragrant flowers are a magnet for pollinators such as bees and butterflies and are great for drying or cutting for indoor flower arrangements. This variety is a great addition for fragrant patio pots or

Bulb Bumper Collection

This Bumper Bulb Collection will provide a show-stopping performance for your garden: from jewelled carpets of Anemone blanda in spring, followed by the spherical pom poms of alliums in early summer and then the summer sensation of exotic and showy lilies. For the autumn finale, we?ve included Nerine bowdenii, which sparkles in pink exactly when

Corylopsis spicata Plant

Corylopsis Spicata The Corylopsis spicata is a low-maintenance deciduous shrub that originated in Japan. The Spike Witch Hazel is perfect for the back of a border, or segment of a woodland garden, or shrubbery. Finely scented racemes of yellow flowers hang down from its bare stems by late Winter or early Spring, shortly followed by

Inca Berries Plants

Easy to grow just like tomatoes, you may well have seen this South American delicacy garnishing expensive dishes in posh restaurants, or in small, very pricey packets in supermarkets. If so you would be forgiven for thinking this glamorous fruit is far too high maintenance to grow on UK soil.  Recognisable in patisseries or indeed

Dog Rose

The Dog Rose, Rosa canina has long, thorny stems that grow vigorously every year which makes it ideal to form a hedge. In summer large pink or white flowers cover the hedge and provide colour, they will continue to form into bright red hips in autumn are enjoyed by a wide range of birds as

Begonia Illumination Apricot Shades

This Begonia is as beautiful as it is versatile! With huge, double blooms that cascade from decorative containers and patio pots all through June to October. With this plant you’ll enjoy fantastic flowers in flurries of orange and apricot that reach 6-10cm (2.5-4) in diameter all summer and long into autumn. These begonias will perform

Tulip Angelique

Tulip Angelique This pretty in pink tulip is delightfully fragranced and boasts a rosette blooms in the purest pink! With so many petals per flower head, these are best planted in groups for maximum impact, as experiencing them opening up and revealing their magnificent colouring in masses is beautiful. This variety is perfect for cut

Antirrhinum Plants – Dazzling Lips Pink

Antirrhinum Plants – Dazzling Lips Pink This dazzling antirrhinum grows showy, large bicolour blooms in delicate shades of pink and white. This variety is early flowering and continues over a long period while being a magnet for bees and butterflies to its nectar-rich blooms. These sturdy little plants are strong growers, ensuring an eye-catching floral

Begonia Rex-Hybrid Helen Teupel 12cm Pot x 1

Begonia Rex-Hybrid Helen Teupel A stunning colourful focal point & thrives in kitchens and bathrooms! The Golden Shield Fern is a stunning showcase plant and is bound to be the focal point of any room you put it in. in the right conditions it can grow up to 1m, the foliage will begin with a

Citrus Tree -Kumquat

Citrus Tree – Kumquat Grow these exotic ‘chinese oranges’, a small citrus fruit! Kumquats, sometimes known as Chinese oranges, are the smallest of the common citrus fruits. Unusually, the skin and zest of a kumquat is sweet, while the juicy insides are tart with a hint of bitterness. A real winter treat, you can eat

Tiger Nuts

Purchase your garden ready plugs here at Dobies in packs of 12 and start growing your own tiger nuts today. Tiger nuts are an easy to grow grass that produces masses of intensely sweet tubers (not actual ?nuts?). They are bigger than peanuts, tasting like almonds and coconut. They are easiest grown in a container.

Phlox Creeping Plants – Collection

Carpet your garden in rich colour and keep weeds at bay with our perennial creeping phlox collection. Underplant trees, shrubs and tall perennials, soften path edging or cover awkward slopes and banks. Height: 15cm (6). Spread: 50cm (20). Your collection will include: Phlox ‘Candy Stripe’ Phlox ‘Red Admiral’ Phlox ‘Emerald Cushion Blue’ Phlox ‘Pharao Red

Daffodil White Diamonds Mixture Bulbs

A departure from the traditional yellow daffodils, Narcissus White Diamonds Mixture adds a dazzling white experience to spring borders and containers. A superb mix combines some of the best bulbs giving a superb range of shapes and sizes. Height: 35cm (14). Spread: 15cm (6).

Orchid Star Class Apollon in Ceramic

Orchid Star Class Apollon in Ceramic An elegant variety for the home or a special gift! This orchid is a stunningly elegant house plant that makes for a wonderful gift. The upright stems house crowds of crisp white flowers with yellow centres. They have a delicate scent to them allowing them to perfume your home.

Osteospermum Plants – Falling Stars?

Osteospermum Plants – Falling Stars™ Grow your own cascading African daisy for a show-stopping floral display this summer! This vigorous trailing Osteospermum variety of the African daisy comes in a sunshine blend of three vivid colours, orange, purple and white! They will pack your baskets, window boxes and containers with vibrant blooms all summer long