Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Agapanthus Collection
This wonderful collection comprises of:- Agapanthus Midnight Cascade Produces very dark plum-purple flowers giving this captivating perennial a distinct look from other African Lilies, they are useful ground cover in those sunny borders. Height: 70cm (27). Spread: 45cm Agapanthus africanus Pitchoune Blue This plant delivers a glorious summer display and is suited to small spaces
Mushrooms Plugs – Twin Pack – 60 Spawn Plugs (30 of each variety)
Mushroom Plugs – Twin Pack Two different delicious flavoured mushrooms! Whether served as a side dish or the main event, mushrooms’ texture and flavour is very satisfying. Cooked with a little sherry, or sauteed on garlic toast, we love them! Our ‘plugs’ will provide you with mushrooms for several years. (Please refrigerate on receipt.) Twin
Perennial Value Plug Lucky Dip (22)
A selection of beautiful perennial varieties that will put on a colourful display year after year. The plants will be selected by us and supplied as healthy value plugs. (PLEASE NOTE: Varieties will vary from those pictured.)
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
Hemerocallis Strawberry Candy
Hemerocallis Strawberry Candy Glorious coral pink blooms with strawberry red centres are held above dense, close clumps of strap-like foliage from early summer. ‘Strawberry Candy’ is a fantastic re-blooming variety that begins flowering early in the season and develops more rounds of blooms throughout the summer. Like most Daylilies, the individual and unique flowers are
Begonia Illumination Apricot Shades
This Begonia is as beautiful as it is versatile! With huge, double blooms that cascade from decorative containers and patio pots all through June to October. With this plant you’ll enjoy fantastic flowers in flurries of orange and apricot that reach 6-10cm (2.5-4) in diameter all summer and long into autumn. These begonias will perform
Citrus Tree -Kumquat
Citrus Tree – Kumquat Grow these exotic ‘chinese oranges’, a small citrus fruit! Kumquats, sometimes known as Chinese oranges, are the smallest of the common citrus fruits. Unusually, the skin and zest of a kumquat is sweet, while the juicy insides are tart with a hint of bitterness. A real winter treat, you can eat
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.
