Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
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
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
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
Prunus laurocerasus Rotundifolia (Cherry Laurel)
The large glossy, rounded leaves and dainty, creamy white flowers in spring are why the Cherry Laurel makes a popular hedging plant. A magnet for pollinating insects the fragrant flowers fade to produce glossy cherry-red berries and provide essential food for hungry birds. The is dense low maintenance, evergreen shrub that makes it perfect for
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.
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
Geranium Zonal Jackpot Improved Mixed
Geranium Zonal JackPot Improved Mixed Produce a mass of colour on neat compact plants! Geranium Zonal JackPot Improved Mixed, is the weather tolerant, F1 hybrid. Geraniums (Pelargoniums) have more than enough vigour to ensure a spectacular, free-flowering display throughout summer. Geranium ‘Jackpot’ produces masses of colourful single blooms on neat compact plants. Perfect for filling
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
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
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
Asparagus Crowns – Guelph Millennium
Asparagus Crowns – Guelph Millennium Crops of delicious asparagus tips for the fraction of the supermarket price! The asparagus ?Guelph Millennium? is a late-season variety, bred in Canada. This asparagus plant is at its best in the UK during the month of June. Now considered to be the best late-season cultivar, it’s an All-Male hybrid,
Dianthus – Pinks Gran’s Favourite
Dianthus – Pinks Gran’s Favourite This popular RHS Award of Garden Merit holder is loved for its white blooms with raspberry picotee edges. The clove-scented flowers of Dianthus ‘Pink Gran’s Favourite’ grow in masses above a carpet of silvery green foliage. With such a prolific flowering period there will be plenty of blooms enjoy in
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
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
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
Cucumber Baby Rocky
Large numbers of fruit, 8-10cm (3-4) long, borne in compact multiple clusters close to the main stem, with little side branching. Can also be grown outdoors on a warm sunny patio. The crisp, nutritious fruits are ideal for children’s lunch boxes. Easy to grow and specially bred to provide one for a meal these varieties
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.
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
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
Tulip Flaming Parrot
Tulip Flaming Parrot A well-known parrot-type tulip boasting vibrant yellow blooms with scarlet red flames, that slowly open out to form a large bowl-shaped bloom, unraveling the purple-black anthers within. Each petal has a fringed edge, giving a ruffled effect that adds to the flame-like appearance! Ideal for hot-themed beds, borders and patio pots, grow
