Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Lemon Verbena Freshman (3) Botanical Infusions
Lemon Verbena Botanical Infusions Plants – Freshman The Lemon Verbena plant is very special in that its leaves make a refreshing sherbert like lemon flavoured tea! The lemon verbena plant’s leaves can be dried and used later or for the best taste use them fresh. During the hot summer months, iced lemon verbena tea will
Guava Plant
Guava Plant The true epitome of tropical excellence. Have a piece of the Caribbean in your home! Guava plants will be right at home in a warm conservatory. Very similar to citrus plants, they are of a similar size and just as hardy. When kept in a large decorative pot, these guava plants make excellent
Azalea Tit Willow
Azalea Tit Willow Azalea Tit Willow offers fairly small(30mm) lilac-mauve blooms which cover bright green foliage. This compact variety offers later flowering than most. Makes a perfect choice alongside other Rhododendrons as the later flowering extends the display providing longer seasonal interest. Tit willow offers a neat, upright habit which makes it ideal for containers
Chilean Guava Plant – ‘KA-POW’
Chilean Guava Plant – ‘KA-POW’ A royal favourite this Chilean Guava plant will be the talking point of any garden! The Chilean Guava Plant – ‘KA-POW’, is the unique fruit that looks like a blueberry but, taste likes a delicious wild strawberry. Rumour has it that this tasty little berry was Queen Victoria’s favourite fruit!
Cardamom Plant
Cardamom Plant Our ornamental edible spices will allow anyone to enjoy cardamom from the comfort of their very own home. Producing beautifully structural evergreen foliage this edible cardamom plant is the perfect addition to any household. Not many people know that cardamom leaves are in fact edible, fresh to taste its leaves produce a classic
Salix Flamingo
Salix Flamingo This Dwarf Japanese Willow is sometimes known as the Flamingo Tree. The leaves are a colour explosion, with marbling in pink, green and white. The Flamingo Tree is the perfect tree for small gardens! Height and Spread: 2m (6.6′).
Callaloo Plants – Amaranthus sp
Callaloo Plants – Amaranthus sp Create beautiful ornamental beds and borders! The Callaloo plant ‘Amaranthus sp’ originated from West Africa. It’s the Caribbean spinach that comes in glorious technicolours. Easy to grow, this Callaloo will look beautiful and ornamental in beds and borders. This exotic ‘Amaranthus sp’ tastes just like spinach, broccoli and watercress.
Azalea Plant – pontica (luteum)
Azalea pontica flowers through May and June, a spectacular bright yellow centre is surrounded by pale yellow petals, giving off a lovely sweet fragrance. Through the Autumn its glossy green leaves develop into a burnt orange colour. A deciduous climber, growing in height and spreading to around 4m, this shapely large open Azalea is superb
Apple (Malus) Ashmeads Kernel (M26 Rootstock)
Apple (Malus) Ashmeads Kernel (M26 Rootstock) Apple ‘Ashmead’s Kernel’ – Pollination Group 4 – Eating Apple – is a superb variety that holds a RHS Award of Garden Merit that dates back to the 1700s. This is a versatile heritage variety that can be enjoyed when eaten fresh, cooked, juiced or used for homemade cider.
Rhubarb Crowns – Victoria
An easy-to-grow old favourite. Ideal for beginners as it requires so little attention! Perfect for that rhubarb crumble and custard with the rhubarb picked straight from the garden! The greenish-pink coloured stems have tender flesh with an excellent balance of sweetness and acidity, and not as stringy as some varieties. One of the most sought-after ingredients in the
Strawberry Plants – F1 Delizz®
Summer-long strawberries will crop for up to five months! What’s not to like about our first ever AAS strawberry winner Strawberry Delizz® F1? These vigorous strawberry plants are easy to grow and produce an abundant harvest throughout the summer until September. The best part though, is the wonderful sweet strawberry burst of flavour from every
Strawberry Plants – Snow White
A vigorous selection, producing attractive, medium-sized, uniform, conical berries. It was the sweeetest strawberry in our trials. This selection is June-bearing, ripening mid-season, is winter hardy and has excellent disease resistance. The flavour is characteristic of white-fruited strawberries being very aromatic with a unique fresh fruit flavour reminiscent of pineapple. Height 41-50cm; spread 51-60cm; spacing 51-60cm. Invisible
Strawberry Elegance Misted Tip
Early, heavy Cropping variety with enormous well-shaped berries which are deliciously tasty !
Gaura lindheimeri Plant
Gaura lindheimeri is an elegant hardy perennial which compliments any planting scheme with its movement and grace. The enchanting slender arching stems are tipped with pink buds which gradually open to reveal white flowers. Gives a frothy or cloud-like appearance to the border, pollinators and other insects are drawn to the dazzling flowers which bloom
Jasmine Stephanense
Jasmine Stephanense Boasts star-shaped blooms and with a gorgeous sweet perfume! Jasmine Stephanense grows an abundance of pink, star-shaped blooms which give off a gorgeous sweet perfume all through midsummer. The deep green foliage is a stunning backdrop to the pink blooms and bright yellow ripples through the leaves in full bloom. This variety is
Escallonia Pink Elle
Escallonia Pink Elle is a super low maintenance neat, compact shrub, with masses of pink flowers which are larger than most escallonias from early Summer. Perfect shrub for borders or a hedging plant and is an ideal variety for coastal areas. Height and Spread: 100cm (39”).
Antirrhinum Eternal Magenta
Eternal Magenta gives you handsome tall stems of pale rose-pink buds that slowly darken to bright pink with orange mouths. The exceptional blooms stand against grey-green foliage edged with cream margins. A perfect plant for Cottage Gardens. Bee’s and pollinating insects love it! Height: 50cm (20"). Spread: 30cm (12").
Clematis Montana Elizabeth
Clematis ‘Montana Elizabeth’ – Clematis plant Awarded an RHS Award of Garden Merit, this Old man’s beard is a well-known popular variety of Clematis. It is a vigorous climber that enjoys sprawling its glossy green foliage throughout hedges and other mature shrubs, it also expands well over sunny walls and fences. It grows in height
Berberis Thunbergii Helmond Pillar
The Berberis Thunbergii Helmond Pillar is a low maintenance compact hardy shrub, ideal for narrow borders and small gardens. This Japanese Barberry is tall and slim, and perfect for contributing colour and architecture to borders. The Berberis Thunbergii Helmond Pillar is mainly grown for its deep purple foliage, making a wonderful backdrop for the small
Geum Plants – Sunrise
Geum Plants – Sunrise The Geum Sunrise is ideal for bringing a splash of sunshine to your garden and home as long-lasting cut flowers! Bright yellow flowers from early June will last through to autumn, semi-evergreen, this hardy perennial is clump-forming and vigorous. Awarded the RHS Plants for Pollinators, it will provide nectar and pollen
