Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Wallflower ‘Sunset Orange’
We’ve hand-picked the special orange wallflower for its quick flowering to offer you fragrance and colour in autumn as well as spring. This tough performer establishes quickly after planting in autumn to offer a strong flush of fragrant flowers before winter. ‘Sunset Orange’ loves the cooler weather, and is the perfect winter border filler. As
Abelia x grandiflora ‘Sunny Charms’
The perfect summer shrub for patios and small gardens. This unique colour form produces elegant trumpet-shaped flowers from mid-summer, bearing butter-yellow throats flushed through with pink blotches. A rich honey fragrance will bring butterflies and other pollinators to the garden.
Aristolochia elegans
A show stopping climber is highly sought after. The stunning blooms of this Brazilian vine take on a rich purplebrown hue overlaid with a creamy white patina and exude a soft fragrance. A little fuss is well worth the effort.
Aster ‘Ann Leys’
New to the gardener, this florist’s favourite is a highly sought after cut flower across Europe. For home gardeners it is invaluable as a late season perennial, flowering right through September and October on stems up to 70cm tall. you’ll find it hard to leave any on the plant when you see how they perform
Astilbe x arendsii ‘Look at Me’
Turn any dark, damp corner of the garden into a focal point with this stunning, sought after astilbe. This easy-grow perennial will thrive in soil too wet for other garden plants, but you don’t have to tuck it out of site. This star perennial is also a top performer in patio pots when kept shaded
Blechnum brasiliense ‘Volcano’
Dicksonia tree ferns too large or expensive for your garden? We’ve found the answer – try the dwarf Brazilian tree fern instead! An exciting new find for the home gardener, only recently introduced to the UK, but surely set to be the next big thing! Compact plants lend themselves well to growing in patio pots;
Campanula ‘Pink Octopus’
Japanese lantern buds swell out to burst forth as striking pink-tentacled flowers on this truly unusual campanula. It produces up to 50 of these amazing blooms on each upright branch, fluttering above strong, deeply cut foliage to give two months of summer colour.
Small Patio Pot
This durable planter has punchable holes in the base making it ideal for a wide range of uses, and is embellished with an embossed trellis effect. Perfect for your patio displays and ideal for all bedding plants. 13 litre. Height: 26cm (10in). Diameter: 33cm (13in).
Cephalanthus ‘Magical Moonlight’
Be the first in the UK to grow the truly unique Button Bush. Compact and highly ornamental. Florets of white tubular flowers open to form perfect round spheres, covered in a multitude of yellow-tipped, pin-like stamens.
Lupin ‘Chandelier’
The Lupin ‘Chandelier’, from the ‘Band of Nobles’ series, provides a delightful display of golden flowers throughout the early part of summer. Lupin ‘Chandelier’ is a wonderfully traditional cottage garden plant which forms attractive clumps of palmate foliage. Grown along the back of borders, the Lupin Chandelier adds attractive structure to your garden design. Height:
Sedum ‘Matrona’
Sedum ‘Matrona’ is a delight in autumn when peachy-pink flowers appear on dark red stems above the clump of fleshy bronze-coloured leaves. With its soft autumn colours, this Stonecrop extends the flowering period in the garden. Rich in late-season nectar, it is a magnet for butterflies. Sedum likes a sunny spot. It is long lived,
Lupin ‘Noble Maiden’
The traditional beloved Lupin is a must for every cottage garden. Strikingly elegant, the Lupin ‘Noble Maiden’ provides stunning vertical displays of pure white blooms which tower above clumps of palmate leafage. Lupin ‘Noble Maiden’ is the perfect choice for bringing a splash of cool colour to dappled areas of woodland gardens. Height: 90cm (36).
Scabious ‘Vivid Violet’
Each flower of Scabious ‘Vivid Violet’ is neat and perfect, looking like a pincushion above finely cut foliage. The mauve-purple flowers bloom freely from July to September and, being low growing, it is a great choice for the front of a sunny border. Scabious is attractive to bees and butterflies so it is a good
Lupin ‘The Chatelaine’
With its twin-tone white and pink blooms, the charming Lupin ‘The Chatelaine’ brings a contemporary twist to conventional garden designs. It’s a robust, tough, perennial which produces fine, elegant floral displays from early summer onwards. Each spire is clustered with attractive little flowers. Lupin ‘The Chatelaine’ is a real favourite of cottage gardeners, bringing style
Phygelius ‘Pheeges Passionate Pink’
Phygelius ‘Pheeges Passionate Pink’ is normally a hardy variety in mild parts of the UK despite its South African origins, making it ideal as a patio plant or in a perennial border. This magnificent Cape Fuchsia features splendid bright pink tubular blooms upon bushy upright stems from June to August. Phygelius ‘Pheeges Passionate Pink’ can
Polemonium reptans ‘Stairway to Heaven’
Polemonium reptans ‘Stairway to Heaven’ features cream edged, heat tolerant leaves that develop a stunning pink tinge when grown in full sun. Beautiful light blue flowers are borne in April in May, held on stems above clusters of dainty variegated foliage. Jacob’s Ladder is an eye-catching, cottage garden hardy perennial that is a pleasant companion
Pulmonaria ‘Blue Ensign’
An RHS AGM winner, Pulmonaria ‘Blue Ensign’ has clear blue flowers formed in clusters from March to May. Unlike many Lungwort cultivars, the green leaves of Pulmonaria ‘Blue Ensign’ don’t have the typical pale spots and are broader and more refined, creating low spreading clumps that form useful but attractive ground cover. ‘Blue Ensign’ is
Sedum ‘Beach Party’
This low-growing Sedum is perfect for a rock garden, alpine bed, or the front of a sunny border. Loved by bees and butterflies, it is a great one to include in the wildlife garden too. Rose pink, star-shaped blooms smother the foliage in summer, and when it is not in flower, Sedum ‘Beach Party’ makes
Sedum ‘Herbstfreude’
A traditional favourite in the cottage garden and a magnet for butterflies, Sedum ‘Herbstfreude’ brings a welcome splash of pink to the border in late summer. Each of the wide blooms is a dense mass of starry pink flowers held above a mound of fleshy blue-green leaves. Sedums are reliable and easy to grow. They
