Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Luffa Cylindrica Plants
Did you know a luffa comes from a plant similar to a climbing courgette and not the sea!Grow your own sustainable luffa sponge! Perfect to use as an ‘eco-friendly’ home-grown pan scourer or bath luffaLuffa can be cooked and eaten like courgettes when they are young and tender (up to 15cm)Why just grow veg when
Fuchsia Heidi Ann
Winner of an RHS award, Fuchsia ‘Heidi Ann’ will bloom non-stop through summer up until the first frosts. This bushy, deciduous shrub, bears fully double flowers with lilac-mauve petals and carmine red outer sepals. Fuchsia ‘Heidi Ann’ is a hardy deciduous shrub which makes a perfect specimen for a container or planted in borders. Like
Aztec Sweet Herb Botanical Infusions Plants – Colada
Aztec Sweet Herb Botanical Infusions Plants – Colada The calorie-free sweetener of the Aztecs! Also known as Lippia Dulcis, the Aztec Sweet ?Colada? herb is quick growing and perfect for summer displays. The Lippia Dulcis will produce beautiful little white flowers that smell amazing! These plants can be used either in your herb garden or
Heuchera Marmalade
A terrific Heuchera that’s perfect for adding colour to the garden. In late spring, sprays of brownish flowers appear but this Heuchera is really grown for its exciting foliage. It has rich, shiny, undulating leaves in a range of colours from amber to peachy bronze with hot pink undersides.
Alstroemeria Inticancha Sunset
Alstroemeria Inticancha Sunset, a compact, clump-forming variety with lovely flowers with creamy yellow flowers with dark flecks displaying a show of raspberry in the centre. Easy to grow, loved by florists for long-lasting cut flowers, Peruvian lilies flower from early summer to the first frosts. This short variety is perfect for planting on a sunny
Caryopteris clandonensis Kew Blue
Caryopteris Kew Blue is a neat and easy to care for shrub, the foliage has a soft aroma and appears silvery with dark blue flowers looking lovely from late summer to early autumn. A tough, easy to grow shrub, a popular garden plant, loved by butterflies and bees, and ideal shrubs for sunny borders. Height:
Penstemon barbartus Twizzle
This graceful hardy perennial is a far cry from the showy, large-flowered varieties that most gardeners are familiar with. It was bred to preserve the natural beauty of the American native Penstemon barbartus, with slender, tall stems and narrow, tubular flowers. The blooms are borne in clusters from each leaf axil, creating a prolific display
Salvia Amethyst Lips
Recently introduced to the very popular Salvia Lips series, this purple and white bicolour bloom has all the same attributes . The aromatic foliage has a slight blackcurrant scent all adding to its glamour. This gorgeous plant is ideal for any cottage garden border or containers for a dynamic summer display and though hardy perennial
Digitalis (Foxglove) Excelsior 15 Garden Ready Plants
This foxglove produces delicate bell shaped flowers in pastel shades of mauve, pink, yellow and white. Perfect for back of border either full sun or dappled shade. Height: 100-150cm Spread: 51-60cm
Fatsia Camouflage
Sporting bold, almost tropical looks, Fatsia ‘Camouflage’ bears large, deeply dissected leaves splashed with green gold. Clusters of globular white flowers in autumn are followed by black berries. This tough and reliable evergreen shrub provides all year-round interest and will lighten dry, shady corners or can be used as a feature plant in a container.
Lavender Meerlo
Lavender ‘Meerlo’ is an unusual Lavender with bright green, highly aromatic foliage variegated with pale cream margins. In mid-summer it produces spikes of pale blue flowers. This is the perfect plant for a sunny dry spot, where it will attract masses of bees and provide all year interest with its variegated evergreen foliage. Height: 50cm.
Alstroemeria Inticancha Sunday
Alstroemeria Inticancha Sunday, a compact, clump-forming variety with stunning bicoloured flowers in pink with a yellow centre. Easy to grow, loved by florists for long-lasting cut flowers, Peruvian lilies flower from early summer to the first frosts. This short variety is perfect for planting on a sunny patio or adding to make a dazzling border
Cordyline Red Sensation
Cordyline australis Red Sensation is a superb, architectural evergreen that reaches an imposing height when mature, it will bring a feeling of the exotic to any garden with its bronze foliage. A bare stem will appear as it matures creating an architectural tree-like appearance, the white flowers make a lovely display in summer filling the
Alstroemeria Inticancha Bryce
Alstroemeria Inticancha Bryce, a compact, clump-forming variety with tropical looking flowers in shades of orange, yellow and peach, a similar colour palette to the well known Indian Summer but a little shorter. Easy to grow, loved by florists for cutting, Peruvian lilies flower from early summer to the first frosts. This short variety is perfect
Alstroemeria Everest (Tree) Clear
This superb Peruvian Lily produces extra-long stems topped with gorgeous flowers making them ideal for cut flowers! Carefully selected for its height and free-flowering habit New Tree Everest Clear shows each creamy-white bloom is dappled with orange-red markings to create a distinguishing contrast. This hardy perennial is reliable and perfect for borders or containers making
Tomato Grafted Plants – Sugar Plum Raisin F1
New and exclusive – the first tomato that dries on the vine! The ‘sun-blushed’ tomato plant, plants produce long trusses of bright red, semi-plum shaped fruit, probably the sweetest tomato you will ever grow. They’re deliciously sweet picked fully ripe like a normal tomato, but fruit will start to ‘dry’ on the plant without splitting
Brussels Sprout Crispus
Very well adapted to growing under stressed conditions it reliably produces good crops of smooth dark green sprouts that hold well on the stalks. Pick from September to November.This variety is at the cutting edge of new breeding will allow you to overcome the scourge of Club Root! You don’t have to have a large
Kale Plug Plants – Red Russian
Kale Plants – Red Russian Tender to eat and sweet in flavour! Kale plant ?Red Russian? will produce good crops of delicious grey-green leaves, almost like giant oak leaves. As the weather gets colder, the leaves take on a red tinge and the flavour sweetens. In fact, the 60-90cm high plants are so attractive that
Agapanthus Plant – Ever Sapphire
Treat your eyes to a feast with the bursting blooms of Agapanthus Ever Sapphire. With Sapphire providing a rich, medium blue, this is the perfect addition to mixed borders or patio containers for a compact splash of colour. Disease-free and very low maintenance, you’ll find Agapanthus Ever to be a very pleasing plant to have
Broccoli Purplelicious
This new purple sprouting broccoli will brighten up your plate with its unique colouring. Broccoli ‘Purplelicious’ turns purple sprouting broccoli on its head with vivid purple stems and green florets. As the weather cools the stems mature to a delicious purple which darkens even further on cooking.Add some colour to your diet with these sweet
