Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Shallot ‘Jermor’ (Autumn Planting)
Autumn Planting. Often referred to as ‘bananashallots by chefs and foodies, Jermor is from French production of Jersey ‘half longtype shallots with long, rather than round bulbs. Highly rated for their flavour and increasingly sought after for gourmet recipes due to their superb sweet taste. The shiny copper-skinned bulbs with crisp, pink-tinged flesh make Jermor
Chaenomeles x superba ‘Pink Lady’
This well-loved Japonica makes a stunning display of deep coral-pink flowers and is extra special because it blooms in early March, signalling the start of spring. The dainty cup-shaped flowers grow on bare branches, providing a welcome supply of nectar for pollinating insects. Golden-green aromatic fruits appear in autumn and can be made into jellies
Gooseberry ‘Giggles Red’
This worthwhile variety produces good crops of smooth skinned, red fruits that have a juicy, berry flavour. The crops are borne in profusion in summer, making a delicious snack or dessert fruit.
Lilac josikaea
Lilac josikaea is a wide, spreading species with a big garden presence. Slender stems bear airy panicles of small, pink flowers with a sweet perfume. Hungarian Lilacs are well suited to a cooler climate, making a superb specimen shrub towards the back of the border.
Ligustrum sinense ‘Sunshine’
The golden foliage of Ligustrum sinense ?Sunshine? will brighten your spirits on even the darkest winter days. This versatile evergreen is densely covered with small oval leaves, which produce their best colour when grown in full sun.
Gooseberry ‘Giggles Gold’
Gooseberry ?Giggles Gold? produces large, voluptuous, golden fruits with smooth skins and a deliciously sweet flavour. This robust variety makes a fine addition to the kitchen garden or allotment, producing generous crops in summer.
Jasminum x stephanense ‘Starry Starry Summer Scent’
A treat for the senses – Jasminum x stephanense ‘Starry Starry Summer Scent’ sweetly scented and a vision to behold! The starry pink flowers fade to white at the edge of each petal, giving it a pretty bicolour appearance.
Allium ‘Millenium’
Allium ‘Millenium’ is one of the best recent introductions of Ornamental Onions – so good we crowned it our Perennial of the Year! This neat little Allium produces rounded heads of light purple, star-shaped flowers atop stiffly, upright stems.
Hellebore ‘Black Swan’
Grow the most prestigious Christmas Rose in your garden. Hellebores are true garden gems during the winter months; producing luxuriant flowers during the coldest months of the year when little else is in growth, let alone in flower! We run our own unique hellebore breeding programme at our Suffolk trial grounds. New for 2015, we
Delosperma ‘Wheels of Wonder’
Standard ice plants make excellent ground cover, providing low-maintenance and continuous flower power. But if you find the blooms a little small, then new ‘Wheels of Wonder Series’ is for you. A marked improvement, this new strain has flowers twice the size and it boasts some super psychedelic colour combinations too. Plants are hardy, and
Rose ‘Bright as a Button’ (Shrub Rose)
The dense glossy green foliage makes this magnificent persica rose ideal for filling bare spots in garden borders. But it’s the repeat-flowering scented blooms, from May to October, that make ‘Bright As A Button’ a real stand out beauty. Cut the scented blooms for indoor use and new pink flowers will just keep on coming,
Classic Perennial Collection
What could be easier than our Classic Perennial Collection? Not only will we send you these fantastic perennial plants at the perfect time for planting, we’ve also chosen 5 superb varieties that will look perfect together in any perennial border!
Rudbeckia hirta ‘Prairie Sun’
An impressive debut for beds and borders, this unique new plant was awarded a Fleuroselect Gold Medal. The unusual blooms with central green cones and bright orange petals radiating back to lemon yellow, make dazzling cut flowers
Rose ‘Centre Stage’ (Shrub Rose)
Rose ‘Centre Stage’ is a spreading shrub rose with a particularly low-growing habit, making it a phenomenal ground cover plant. In flower almost continuously from June to August, it bears a succession of small, single, pale-pink flowers with a light clove fragrance. Small, dark green foliage and slender stems remain a picture of health throughout
Spiraea japonica ‘Little Princess’
A mound forming shrub whose deciduous foliage starts off bronze, turning mid-green as it matures. In summer, tiny pink flowers form on upright stems. As with all Japanese Spirea’s, ‘Little Princess’ has been classed as an RHS plants for pollinators, meaning that bees will be all over this plant when at the peak of its
Escallonia ‘Iveyi’
Escallonia Iveyi is a worthy holder of an RHS AGM award, it’s not hard to see why. The plant is an evergreen shrub that is clothed with glossy dark green foliage and further enhanced with large clusters of pristine white flowers from June to August. Iveyi is vigorous, very hardy and is versatile enough to
Lonicera fragrantissima
The Winter Honeysuckle produces wonderfully scented, creamy white flowers during the winter months upon semi-bare branches, sometimes also followed by red berries. Come spring, the leaves of Lonicera fragrantissima will appear a deep, rich green, with a purple/bronze flush to them.
Lysimachia punctata
Golden Lysimachia punctata is often known as a Dotted Loosestrife. This hardy cottage-garden favourite is guaranteed to give your cottage garden a welcome splash of colour. Stunning golden blooms will decorate your garden from June through to September. Dotted Loosestrife is ideal for heavy clay soils and shady areas. It particularly enjoys boggy areas and
Euonymus fortunei ‘Emerald ‘n’ Gold’
An evergreen shrub, Euonymus fortunei ‘Emerald ‘n’ Gold’, is compact and low maintenance, making it perfect for small gardens, or as ground cover alongside driveways, or under tree canopies. The leaves are variegated with golden yellow centres. In cold periods the leaves can turn a shade of pinkish red. It can be grown in full
