Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Sarcococca ruscifolia
Unusually, this Dwarf Sweet Box is at its sweetest in the bleak midwinter. While the leaves are falling from its deciduous neighbours, this shrub’s evergreen foliage sprouts small, snowflake-like flowers that eliminate any need for dreaming of a white Christmas. What’s more, these blooms with their sweet, vanilla scent, are succeeded by festive, red berries.
Spiraea ‘Superstar’
Spiraea ‘Superstar’ will amaze you with its colourful display. Given the right growing conditions, it produces intense-green foliage, with eye-catching, scarlet-red new growth. Pink flowers add to the display from June throughout the summer, and ‘Superstar’ puts on a final display with gorgeous bronze foliage in autumn. Height: 91cm (36). Spread: 122cm (48).
Symphoricarpos x doorenbosii ‘Amethyst’
A particularly tough plant that will withstand most weather conditions and provide interest when most other shrubs have past their best.
Styrax japonicus
Styrax japonicus is a small tree with spreading branches, which bear fragrant, bell-shaped white flowers in spring or summer. This deciduous tree has finely pointed, ovate leaves, which turn yellow and orange in the autumn. Height: 12m (39′). Spread: 8m (26′).
Potentilla fruticosa ‘Medicine Wheel Mountain’
Here’s a lovely shrub to plant as groundcover. Potentilla fruticosa ‘Medicine Wheel Mountain’ grows almost prostrate, forming a mat of small grey green leaves and being covered in a mass of bright yellow flowers for many months of the summer and into autumn. It is great in a gravel garden or in the rockery. With
Acer palmatum ‘Starfish’
The perfect option for adding dramatic autumn leaf colour to the garden. Our latest introduction offers real star quality thanks to a unique foliage which has the appearance of a fleshy starfish! The red of each leaf intensifies moving towards autumn, before working through a myriad of shades before leaf fall. This is the perfect
Albizia julibrissin ‘Ombrella’
Grown as either a shrub or small tree, Albizia julibrissin ‘Ombrella’ is large and deciduous with a rounded habit. Dark green, fern-like leaves are divided into sickle-shaped leaflets, with spherical, fluffy, fragrant, bright pink flowers from mid-summer through to early autumn.
Rhododendron ‘Palestrina’
Fantastic White blooms almost cover this hardy Evergreen Azalea completely in late spring and early summer giving it a great impact in your planting scheme wherever it is placed.
VegTrug™ Side Table
This nifty side table is a useful addition designed to be fitted onto the VegTrug™ Classic planter. Available for purchase with the small and medium versions, providing a valuable working space for holding your pots and seed trays or re-potting as necessary. Made from good quality wood and includes plastic feet to protect it from
Taxus cuspidata ‘Dwarf Bright Gold’
With its gold-green variegated leaves, this Yew is both attractive and useful. Taxus cuspidata ‘Dwarf Bright Gold’ can be grown for topiary, hedging, screens or mass planting, as well as being planted alone and left to grow in its natural, upright-spreading form. Female plants have small, soft red fruits in late autumn. The foliage is
Potentilla fruticosa ‘Hopleys Orange’
This small deciduous Cinquefoil is a great performer, bringing colour to the garden throughout summer and into the autumn when it is covered in masses of small blooms. Each of the bright, bold flowers has a yellow centre with dark orange petals fading to a lighter colour at the edges. Potentilla fruticosa ‘Hopleys Orange’ has
Commelina tuberosa
Intense blue flowers. Wonderful in containers, rock gardens and the border.
Potentilla fruticosa ‘Lemon Meringue’ First Editions
Throughout the months from June to October, enjoy masses of small double flowers with petals of light yellow fading to a pale creamy colour at the tips! This very pretty Shrubby Cinquefoil is a real delight which will brighten the garden with its cheery blooms. Potentilla fruticosa ‘Lemon Meringue’ First Editions is a shapely small
Eucomis ‘Sparkling Burgundy’
An incredible specimen for patio pots and borders, with sparkling blooms just like pineapples!
Bumper Bulb Collection
Bulbs are the perfect way to add a splash of colour to the garden! Our Bumper Bulb Collection combines a lovely mix that will flower successionally from late winter right through to the middle of summer. Perfect for underplanting shrubs and brightening the edges of woodland plantings, or bringing interest to rockeries and alpine troughs.
Symphoricarpos x chenaultii ‘Brain de Soleil’
Here’s a great way to bring vibrant colour to your garden right at the start of the growing season. In early spring, Symphoricarpos x chenaultii ‘Brain de Soleil’ sends out dozens of bright orange shoots. Otherwise known as the Snowberry, this golden leaved, deciduous shrub is adorned in late summer with creamy-green blooms. Although it
Rose ‘Red Eden Rose’
Bright red flowers, with a heady fragrance that will delight your senses, Rose ‘Red Eden Rose’ is a strong, vigorous climbing rose that will create an impact wherever it is grown. Perfect for using to cover an unsightly wall or fence, this hardy shrub is a thorny variety which also helps to make it a
Spiraea japonica ‘Candlelight’
Spiraea japonica ‘Candlelight’ is an award-winning plant – twice over! It has two prestigious awards to its name: an RHS Perfect for Pollinators and an RHS Award of Garden Merit. Sometimes known as the Japanese Spirea, Spiraea japonica ‘Candlelight’ is bushy and deciduous, and bears compact clusters of rosy-pink flowers in summer. With soft yellow,
