Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Cornflower ‘Classic Series’
Easily sown en masse directly into beds, the ‘Classic Series’ will create longflowering swathes of colour when sown in drifts. Added to the series for 2015 ‘Classic Magic’ has single and semidouble blooms in purple to almost black shades and purple and white bicolours. Makes an easy-to-grow cut flower.
Verbena ‘Buenos Aires’
Verbena ‘Buenos Aires’ features tightly clustered, rich purple florets which sit atop long stalks in a typically striking verbena bonariensis style. The long lasting blooms of the stunning variety are guaranteed to attract clouds of bees and butterflies into your garden.
Tall Perennial Mix
Perennials will fill your borders with colour, grace and elegance for many years with the minimum of maintenance. Some will even flower in their first year. To help you make the most of your borders, we have grouped together varieties that can be sown in June or July by height to help you achieve a
Short Perennial Mix
Perennials will fill your borders with colour, grace and elegance for many years with the minimum of maintenance. Some will even flower in their first year. To help you make the most of your borders, we have grouped together varieties that can be sown in June or July by height to help you achieve a
Ophiopogon planiscapus ‘Nigrescens’
This hardy, clump forming, herbaceous perennial associates beautifully with grasses. Its dainty bell shaped blooms in summer are followed by dark inky-blue berries. Evergreen Lilyturf creates a spectacular feature plant in borders or containers, producing 60% truly black grass-like foliage with the remaining leaves an attractive, darker green shade. Height: 20cm (8"’). Spread: 30cm (12"’)
Tulip ‘Florist’s Treat Mixed’
Fill your house with home-grown tulips next spring. So much more exciting than supermarket types, ‘Florist’s Treat’ mixture contains better colours, with voluptuous doubles, and even some fringed types. This pot luck mix of tulips are specially selected for their cut flower life, and the mix may vary from those illustrated.
Tulip ‘Greenland’
No spring garden would be complete without tulips. Now available in a variety of wonderfully-shaped blooms and colour combinations. By planting a selection of varieties, you can enjoy their beauty from early spring until early summer. Tulip bulbs are very easy to grow and look fabulous planted in large groups in borders or in containers
Tulip ‘Spryng Break’
Spryng Break’ has huge showy blooms that begin white with red flames, but once developed, the flames become more prominent and bare a surrounding cream yellow glow. Plant in masses for the best displays, or in large containers to give your patio unbelievable impact. Height 75cm (26). Spread 15cm (6). Bulb size: 12+
Spring Companions Bulb Collection
It’s rare to have spring bulbs in bloom at the same time, but this duo will flower spectacularly together!
Vegetable Seed Collection
This good value collection of vegetable seeds is a great starting point for new gardeners wishing to grow their own food. It also makes for an interesting expansion to pre-existing vegetable gardens. The Vegetable Seed Collection includes 40 Runner Bean ‘Snowstorm’ seeds, which produce edible, green beans after attractive, white flowers. Knowledgeable, green-fingered growers might
Pansy ‘Mystique Blue Halo’
Fill your beds and pots with ‘Mystique Blue Halo’s unique colouring. The super-sized blooms will create a dazzling, cool blue display.
Narcissus bulbocodium
You’ll be amazed at how many blooms one single bulb can produce! Sugary fragrance too.
Viola Sorbet ‘XP Yellow Pink Wing’
A cheery combo of yellow and pink blooms. Just perfect for baskets and borders.
Wallflower ‘Winter Party’
The pick of the crop when it comes to perennial wallflowers! The deeply perfumed flowers are constantly changing colour with primrose, burnt orange and mauve shades.
Stock ‘Most Scented Mix’
With their spicy, clove-like scent, and tall sturdy stems, these stocks make fantastic cut flowers that bring fragrance and colour to your home. The closely packed flower spikes of this tall, clove scented mix emerge in a blend of at least 6 lovely pastel shades. This customer favourite mingles beautifully in cottage garden borders, or
Dianthus barbatus ‘Mixed’
A cottage garden favourite with the sweetest perfume! Clusters of flowers in shades of white, pink and mauve are produced in summer on stiff upright stems. The fragrant blooms of Sweet William ‘Messenger’ are particularly attractive to bees and make a superb cut flower for a vase indoors. Often grown as a biennial, this short
Viola ‘Sorbet XP’
Our garden-ready plants are now even bigger and better! You can plant our garden-ready plants straight into the garden when they arrive – it couldn’t be easier! There’s no need to re-pot them or to grow them on – just plant and water them. Pretty soon you’ll be enjoying their wonderful displays of colour. If
