Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Foxglove ‘Dalmatian Peach’ F1 Hybrid
Soft apricot coloured blooms delicately spotted with yellow cream markings make this beautiful digitalis particularly beguiling. Foxglove ‘Dalmation Peach’ produces well branched, compact, dwarf plants that flower surprisingly quickly in their first year from sowing.
Lisianthius nigrescens
The blackest flower in the world! This rare and completely unique plant is little known outside its native Mexico. Long, tubular, truly black flowers are set against large lanceolate leaves making this rarely- offered exotic an eye-catching and dramatic feature plant. Grow it in borders to create interest and wonder. May require some winter protection
Nicotiana x hybrida ‘Whisper Mixed’ F1 Hybrid
Extraordinary architectural feature plant boasting exceptional garden performance. Masses of small flowers in a mixture of pink and apple blossom shades bloom all summer until the first frosts. Britishbred ‘Whispers Mixed’ also offers excellent disease resistance, making this lovely nicotiana a ‘must-have’ plant for the garden this season
Rose multiflora nana perpetua ‘Garden Party’ (Miniature Rose)
Easy to grow from seed and bred to have improved germination, this lightly-scented mini rose will flower in the first year from a January to March sowing. Ideal for bedding, edging and containers, ‘Garden Party”s pretty shades of pink, rose and white will enhance your garden wherever you plant it
Zinnia elegans ‘Pop Art Golden & Red’
Impressive bicoloured zinnia variety with large golden yellow blooms, intricately speckled and splashed with red. Each flower of this long-flowering Fleuroselect Novelty winner is patterned differently, making an eye-catching feature in borders as well as in floral displays as a cut flower
Datura meteloides ‘Evening Fragrance’
Huge and heavily fragrant pure white trumpet flowers, with a soft lavender picotee edge, 20cm (8in) long and 10-15cm (4-6in) across, hang from tree-like plants, with soft, slate-blue foliage. Perfect for growing in tubs, containers, on patios or sheltered corners close to the house where the evening perfume can be appreciated. Despite their exotic appearance
Foxglove ‘Pam’s Choice’
One of the best new foxgloves found in recent years. Stout, strong spires of creamy white flowers with attractive throats attractively painted in deepest burgundy. Creates an unforgettable sight when planted en masse in borders. Height 90-150cm (3-5 feet)
Gourd ‘Russian Dolls’
Unusual, doll-shaped gourds that can be harvested at various sizes, dried and painted to your own design, creating a family of Russian dolls. NOT EDIBLE – Use acrylic paints to create your own designs
Zinnia elegans ‘Magellan Mixed’ F1 Hybrid
Uniform, bushy, free-flowering plants produce large, fully double blooms of exceptional quality and weather resistance. Ideal planted in borders and containers for a knock-out display all summer. Height: 30-35cm (12-14in)
Madia elegans ‘Tropical Fruits’
An intriguing, easy-to-grow annual that produces foliage with a fragrance similar to that of a basket of tropical fruits. A profusion of canary-yellow, daisylike flowers with an attractive central maroon-red ring open during the morning and early evening, and close during very strong sunlight. Ideal for adding height and fragrance to annual borders. Height: 60-80cm
Pennisetum macrourum ‘Tail Feathers’
Robust green foliage is enhanced by tall erect pinky-beige spikelets in late summer to autumn, gracefully moving in the slightest of breezes. Height: 180cm (6ft)
Dierama pulcherrimum ‘Slieve Donard Hybrids’
An exciting selection of purple, red, pink and pale pink forms. Bred by the nursery situated near, and named after the highest of the Mourne Mountains in Co. Down, Ireland – Slieve Donard. Height: 90-180cm (3-6ft)
Thunbergia alata ‘Superstar Orange’
A stunning bright orange Black-Eyed Susan with the largest flowers we have ever seen on a seed raised Thunbergia. Vigorous plants quickly cover a trellis against a sunny fence, or look spectacular growing up an obelisk in a container
Malva sylvestris ‘Mystic Merlin’
A magical back of border plant with many large, silky blooms in shades from rich purple, through mauve, to the highly unusual and elusive blues. Flowers summer. Height: 150-180cm (5-6ft). Flowers in first year
Laurentia ‘Avant-Garde Pink’ F1 Hybrid
T&M’s flower breeders have struck gold with the first ever F1 Hybrid Laurentia to be entered into the Fleuroselect trials. Both ‘Avant-Garde Blueand ‘Pinkhave the same uniform, vigorous plant habit and have earlier scented, star shaped blooms which are produced in abundance over a long flowering season. Your garden will be filled with colour all
Pansy ‘Majestic Giants Mixed’ F1 Hybrid
They resist both heat and cold, and are earlier flowering than other varieties in this class carrying blooms up to 10cm (4in) across in a wide and iridescent range of colours.
Ammi majus ‘Graceland’
An elegant border filler with beautiful, lacy white flower heads that float above ferny foliage. This graceful annual creates a soft froth of blooms that associate beautifully among herbaceous perennials. The airy blooms on slender stems are excellent for cutting, with a good vase life. Ammi flowers are also attractive to wildlife, luring bees and
Venidium fastuosum ‘Jaffa Ice’
A dazzling blend of orange and white, I0cm (4in) blooms, like miniature sunflowers, all with a purple to black centre. An excellent border filler and container plant, easy to grow, with deeply lobed silver-green foliage. Flowers summer. Height: 60cm (24in)
Salvia horminum ‘Claryssa Mixed’
Dwarf, compact habit and broader, bright mixed colour blooms (bracts). Superb for cutting and dried as an everlasting flower. Easy to grow – direct sow into borders where they are to flower
