Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Garden Snips
Pocket-sized, great value mini-scissors. Perfect for harvesting bumper bunches of your own cut flowers, or for neat dead-heading of your summer annuals
Vegetable Patio Bags
These sturdy 40ltr bags are ideal for growing your favourite vegetables on the patio. The stitched sides and strong carrying handles make these hard wearing, reusable bags both durable and portable. Perfect for patio crops of potatoes, sweet potatoes, rhubarb and asparagus
Verbena ‘Peaches and Cream’
Evenly spread buds open to reveal clusters of salmon-orange flowers that individually fade through apricot to creamy yellow. This RHS AGM variety is an excellent performer flowering over a long period throughout summer, regardless of the weather! The trailing stems of Verbena ‘Peaches and Cream’ make this the perfect choice for filling gaps in hanging
Laurentia ‘Indigo Stars’
Exceptionally long-flowering laurentia is perfect for both containers and bedding. Drought tolerant and generally resilient, new ‘Indigo Starsis a deeper-coloured selection and its compact habit makes it ideal for pots.
Lobelia erinus ‘Waterfall Blue Ice’
If you’ve been disappointed by lobelia in the past, your faith will be restored when you try Lobelia ‘Waterfall’. In recent RHS trials, this variety flowered on and on through every sort of adverse weather, still blooming long after other lobelia had faded. Raised by cuttings, so plants won’t waste time setting seed.
Mimulus x hybridus ‘Magic Rainbow’
These low growing, bushy mimulus plants produce masses of tubular blooms, looking much like exotic, wide snapdragon flowers. Although monkey flowers are tender perennials, they are best treated as an annual for beds, containers and baskets, except in the mildest parts of the country. Mimulus ‘Magic Rainbow’ is ideal to add a bright splash of
Pansy ‘Ballerina’
Unusual frilly tutu-like flowers of Pansy ‘Ballerina’ create a bright carnival of colour throughout the summer. The delicately ruffled petals make a stunning display in containers, beds and borders. Perfect for planting in window boxes where you can enjoy their pretty blooms close up. Height and spread: 23cm (9) Culinary note: Pansy flowers are edible.
Dianthus ‘Ever-blooming Mixed’ (Hardy)
Strong upright stems carry large ruffled blooms in a vibrant mix of red, orange, yellow and pink carnations. These hardy perennial dianthus are cottage garden essentials. The fragrant carnation flowers are excellent for cutting for a bright display indoors. Perfectly proportioned for the front of sunny borders where their mounds of silvery green foliage remain
Freesia ‘Crown Jewels Mixed’
Thanks to new technology, we can now offer you high quality plants mfrom seed instead of freesia bulbs. Freesia ‘Crown Jewels Mixed’ are double the size, double the colour, and double the fragrance of other varieties! From the world’s leading, royal warranted freesia breeder, this pack will give more than £100 worth of cut freesia
Chrysanthemum ‘Bumper Pack’
Subtle autumnal shades harmonise with striking, bold colours in this outstanding chrysanthemum collection. A bold combination of tall, half hardy varieties with reflexed and incurved petals, mixed with lower growing, hardy chrysanthemums that form neat mounds of colour. Savour the colourful shades of these magnificent perennials in your autumn garden when summer bedding plants have
Chrysanthemum ‘Decorative Mixed’
Tall stems bear wide blooms that are perfect for long-lasting flower arrangements. Savour the colour of these magnificent half hardy chrysanthemums in your autumn garden when summer bedding plants have faded away. This vibrant collection will reward you with dazzling blooms right through until the frosts. Disbudding the stems will produce fewer, but larger blooms,
Chrysanthemum ‘Incurved Mixed’
Yes, you CAN grow fancy chrysanths. Not just for enthusiasts, these glorious, mop-head, incurved chrysanthemums can be grown outside. I love their majestic appearance in the autumn border or when they are cut and shown off indoorsHeight and spread: 120cm (47)
Lily of the Valley (Pink)
Sought after and highly prized! Each delicate arching stem carries a flurry of rose pink, bell shaped blooms with a powerful, timeless fragrance. Set against of a carpet of lush green foliage, the exquisite blooms of Convallaria majalis make a wonderful cut flower for scented, springtime posies. Once established, lily of the valley requires little
Delphinium ‘Rising Stars Mixed’
We’ve given our customers the chance to get their hands on some very new, very different delphiniums from the world-famous ‘New Zealand Hybrids’ programme. There are far too many hybrids produced for our supplier to sell, so we’ve grouped our favourites into an exclusive ‘Breeders Mixture’, aptly named ‘Rising Stars’! This exciting mix of delphinium
Begonia x tuberhybrida ‘Fringed (Fimbriata) Mixed’
Vibrant blooms with crimped edges that resemble large carnations are produced on sturdy plants throughout summer. These beautiful fringed begonias, in a mix of vibrant colours, are ideal for creating a memorable display in beds, window boxes and patio containers. Height and spread: 30cm (12)
Begonia x tuberhybrida ‘Giant Picotee Mixed’
Huge flowers up to 15cm (6) across add an exotic flavour to patio pots. The flamboyant blooms of Begonia Giant Picotee Mixed boast layers of elaborate, ruffled petals with a picotee edge. Supplied as a mixture of sumptuous bicolours, that looks simply spectacular set against lush serrated foliage in containers, beds, and window boxes. Height
Gladiolus murielae
Perfect for late summer and early autumn displays. With its heady fragrance, this variety has been popular since Victorian times for use both in borders and vases
Gladiolus ‘Tango’
Gladioli are making a comeback! Thanks to innovative new breeding, producing new colour combinations with stripes, speckles – the possibilities seem endless. So easy to grow; just plant the bulbs and forget about them until midsummer when you can enjoy the abundance of blooms in situ or in vases
Tree Peony ‘Hai Huang’ (High Noon)
Savour the superb fragrance of these unique golden yellow peony blooms. There are few plants that can compete with the beauty of a tree peony in full bloom. A mature plant can boast in excess of a hundred exotic blooms, each measuring up to 25cm (10′) or more in diameter! These exceptional shrubs are hardy
