Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Extra Value bedding – Our Selection
Our lucky dip collection includes 270 healthy plants from our superb flower bedding plant range. If you aren’t fussy about the flurries of colour through your garden and just love to brighten up your flower beds and flower borders, then this collection of bedding plants will certainly do that! A range of varieties from our
Apple Tree – Worcester Pearmain
Early season variety with bright red fruit with sweet white flesh. Excellent in colder areas. Highly effective pollinator for other varieties. Eating apple. RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. (An English Heritage fruit variety.) Harvest September-October. Grown on M26 rootstock which produces an easy-to-control semi-dwarf tree with medium vigour. Height 3m after 10 years. Pollination group
Magnolia soulangeana Plant – Alba Superba
This beautifully fragrant Magnolia has large goblet shaped white flowers,flushed with purple-red notes blooming from dark green foliage. The ‘Alba Superba’ is perfect for creating elegant garden displays in spring. Especially suited to this, the Magnolia maintains its statuesque upright form as it matures. The graceful Magnolia ‘Alba Superba’ has remained exceptionally popular. Culinary uses:
Hedera Helix Glacier
Hedera Helix Glacier The Hedera Helix Glacier is a vigorous evergreen hardy climber which will quickly scramble up walls and fences and is perfect for covering those unsightly areas. This variety of ivy has a neat habit and is a perfect backdrop for perennials and other shrubs in the garden. Provides much needed shelter for
Cordyline Australis
Cordyline Australis A popular choice for coastal gardens as a low maintenance showy shrub! This resilient evergreen is perfectly hardy in milder parts of the UK and is a particularly popular choice in coastal gardens for its tolerance to sea air, typically dry soils and exposed sites. Low maintenance and easy to grow, you can
Hydrangea Arborescens Plant – Strong Annabelle®
Hydrangea arborescens Strong Annabelle is also known as Incrediball. A recently introduced variety, which has eye-catching really large ball-shaped flowers (up to 30cm in diameter) which cover the plant over an extended period from mid to later summer. It was bred to develop strong stems to support such large flowers and therefore be an improvement
Seed Potatoes – Gemson 1kg
Colour – white. Shape – round/oval. Has ‘Maris Peer’ in its parentage. Outstanding flavour. Good resistance to powdery scab and blackleg. Second Early variety. Quality Control – following inspection our seed potatoes receive a certification number (see bag label). They are size graded within riddle size 35mm x 60mm to achieve the ideal size, although
Raspberry – Cascade Delight
A later variety that is very productive with good disease resistance producing glossy delicious tasting berries that hold their shape long after picking and is a mid-summer fruiting variety. Ideal for adding to summer desserts or eating fresh. Height: 150cm (59). Spread: 50cm (20).
Cornus sanguinea Plant – Midwinter Fire
Bright flame-coloured stems will brighten up any garden during the darker winter months. Oval green leaves are produced on this deciduous shrub which also develops clusters of white flowers in early summer. During the autumn the foliage becomes even more interesting as it takes on shades of yellow before revealing the stems. To keep the
Chilli Pepper Plant – Tabasco
Chilli Pepper Plant – Tabasco This famous chilli pepper reached a fiery 30,000 – 50,000 SHU! The ‘Tabasco’ is one of the most well-known varieties of chilli peppers. This chilli pepper plant will produce an abundance of upright pods about 4cm long. Ripening from yellow-green to a vivid red this fiery pepper weighs in at
Grafted Tomato Plant – Moneymaker
Tomato Grafted Plants – Moneymaker One of the most popular varieties packed full of delicious flavour. The Moneymaker grafted tomato plant will produce reliable heavy crops of medium-sized fruits. Greenback resistant, it is a superior multipurpose tomato. The Moneymaker gained its popularity during the ?60s/70s for its phenomenal flavour and uniformity and remains one of
Lobelia Plant – Starship Blue
Starship Blue is a showy perennial, the green foliage compliments the rich-blue flower spikes perfectly. Flowering from July to October, they will add colour to borders, patio pots and containers. The butterfly-shaped blooms will attract bees and butterflies into the garden. Flowers July-October. Height 50-60cm; spread 30-40cm. Supplied in 9cm pots.
Ranunculus Bulbs – White
These gorgeous rose-like flowers with many petals on thin strong stems, are long lasting in flower and very rewarding as the more you cut the more they flower, perfect for the garden border along with containers, they are also ideal as cut flowers. Flowers May-July. Height 25cm (10). HHP – Half-hardy perennial. (Please note: We
Tulip (Single) Bulbs – Apricot Beauty
Beautiful, delicately scented apricot blooms and sturdy stems make this one of the world’s most popular tulips. We certainly could not recommend it more highly! RHS Award of Garden Merit winner. Early Flowering. Height 45cm. Bulb size 11/12cm. Single type. (Bulb sizes quoted in centimetres refer to the circumference of bulbs. All bulbs are sourced
Eryngium Plants – Blue Hobbit
Small, thimble-like, rich blue flowers are surrounded by short spikes and carried on much-branched, short, blue stems that rise from a rosette of mid-green, oval leaves. Great for seaside garden, and the front of the border. Can be cut for the vase as well. Flowers July-September. Height 20-30cm. Supplied in 9cm pots.
Tulip Bulbs – Darwin Hybrid Golden Apeldoorn
Giant flower heads in a rich yellow with a contrasting black centre. Flowers late April-May. Height 50-60cm.
Daffodil Dick Wilden Bulbs
Daffodil Dick Wilden A stunning variety with huge, double pastel yellow outer petals that contrast with butter yellow golden centers, giving an appearance similar to that of a carnation. The ruffled blooms make for a stunning cut flower.
Tulip Bulbs – World Friendship
Superb cut flower and a great contrast colour for tulips such as Purple Prince or the darker Paul Scherer. Flowers late April-early May. Height 30-40cm (12-16); spread 20-30cm (8-12). Mid flowering variety.
Delphinium Mixed
An absolute must-have for any cottage garden! Delphinium ‘Mixed’ boasts upward spires of blue and soft white flowers. They provide fantastic height and architectural structure for the back of sunny garden borders and also make a superb cut flower!
Woodland Tulip Bulbs
Introduced in 1597, this tiny beauty, with its richly scented, nodding yellow heads, bears little resemblance to its showy cousins, but is nevertheless absolutely enchanting! Flowers in April. Height 10-20cm. Bulb size 4/5cm. (Bulb sizes quoted in centimetres refer to the circumference of bulbs. All bulbs are sourced from cultivated stocks.)
