Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Daydream’
Create a dreamy summer display with this pastel masterpiece, Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Daydream?. Tall upright stems with soft ferny foliage create an airy effect which provides gentle movement to a planting scheme, each plant topped with a profusion of large daisy-like flowers.
Morning Glory ‘Flying Saucers’
A free-flowering vigorous climber for quickly covering trelliswork, obelisks and fences. In summer, an abundance of exquisite white blooms with blue-mauve streaks are produced, their antique appearance giving an air of yesteryear. Climbs to 180-240cm (6-8ft)
Morning Glory ‘Scarlett O’Hara’
The sumptuous cherry-red flowers of Morning Glory ‘Scarlett O’Hara’ add a bright splash of colour to your summer garden
Sweet Pea ‘Mollie Rilstone’
Long, slender stems are graced with large, fragrant, cream coloured blooms with a dusky pink picotee edge. Sweet Pea ‘Mollie Rilstone’ has a lovely antique appearance that really catches the eye. Perfect for winning prizes on the show bench or simply enjoying in a vase indoors. Height: 180cm (71). Spread: 30cm (12)
Layia platygossa ‘Tidy Tips’
An easy to grow annual with attractive, single golden ray-petalled blooms tipped with white and enhanced by a light fragranceIdeal for adding colour to borders and attracting beneficial insects to your gardenHeight: 45cm (18m)
Sweet Pea ‘Cream Southbourne’
Without doubt, Sweet Pea ‘Cream Southbourne’ is one of the best cream varieties available for cutting. Luscious, large, frilled blooms are well placed on long stems with a fantastic fragrance. This elegant variety associates beautifully with other colours but is equally good on its own, grown over obelisks, arches and trellis. Height: 180cm (71) Spread:
Nemesia cheiranthus ‘Shooting Stars’
Extravagant and exotic flowers in dazzling yellow and white, to illuminate your borders and containers. Just as shooting stars are a wonder of nature, so too is this exciting new Nemesia with its branching habit and delightful coconut fragrance. Flowers over a long period, throughout the summer into autumn
Catharanthus roseus ‘Mediterranean Lilac’
The first of a new breed in trailing Vincas! Specifically for baskets and containers they are early flowering with large, rounded, overlapping petals forming striking, vivid blooms. Catharanthus is frost tender and therefore usually treated as a half hardy annual in the UK, unless grown in a warm greenhouse or conservatory.
Salvia farinacea ‘Victoria’
Tall, handsome spiky plants which add a touch of elegance to a bed or border. The flower spikes are produced over a long period and are excellent for cutting. A Fleuroselect Bronze Medal Winner. Flowers summer/autumn. Height 18in
Heteropappus meyendorfii ‘Blue Knoll’
Seed of this amazing new garden plant can be sown early in the year* and by the same autumn will be completely smothered in hundreds and thousands of shiny, light reflecting flowers, forming perfect mounds (or knolls) 30cm (12in) high and 45cm (18in) across. During a season when little else is in flower, they are
Clarkia ‘Fruit Punch Mixed’
A superb quality mix which outshines many of the more expensive F1 hybrid types. Dwarf and compact, uniform plants with early blooms in a sumptuous colour range, embracing bicolours as well as pastel tones. Brilliant for borders, bedding and containers. Height: 25-30cm (10-12 in)
Larkspur ‘Cloudy Skies Mixed’
These are some cloudy skies that won’t ruin your day! Airy plants, covered in orchid-like blooms in glistening white, soft blue and unique bicolour tones. Perfect for filling your beds and borders with quick and easy summer colourPrefers a light, well-drained soil in full sun
Delphinium nudicaule ‘Laurin’
A most unusual red-flowered Larkspur, but certainly a real beauty, Delphinium nudicaule ‘Laurin’ is a dwarf variety which will liven up any patio container or mixed border scheme. Profuse red flowers sit in groups on slender stalks above a neat clump of green foliage.
Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Pied Piper Red’
The only separate colour available in the Sea Shells type, with fluted, shell-like petals of velvet crimson-red. The ferny foliage helps to make this a wonderful cut flower as well as a good back of border plant
Cephalaphora aromatica
Attractive, bright yellow pom pom flowers complemented by pale green foliage. This novel plant releases a sweet, apple fragrance when brushed against or by gently. Height: 30-45cm (12-18in)
Poppy ‘Applegreen’
A delighted T&M customer discovered this very unusual apple green coloured Poppy in their garden. Its striking pom-pom blooms stand out above tidy grey- green foliage. Very eye catching in borders when planted en masse. Height: 60-90cm (24-36in).
Onion ‘Jaune des Cevennes’
Originating from the steep terraced hillsides of the Cevennes mountain range, Onion ?Jaune des Cevennes? produces attractive, slightly flattened bulbs.
Cabbage ‘Tourmaline’ (Winter Savoy)
Cut Tourmaline throughout the winter and into spring thanks to its excellent cold weather tolerance. Replacing the ever-popular but now discontinued Tarvoy, this attractive, deeply savoyed, dark green cabbage produces compact, delicious heads. Plants also show a high resistance to xanthemonas (black rot)
