Blackberry ?Triple Crown? is a thornless semi-erect blackberry named after its triple crowning attributes of flavour, productivity, and vigour.
Also known as Fritillaria imperialis, this stately 'Crown Imperial' is a must have for your garden this spring time. It get its name from the facinating whorl of leaves on the top of the bright orange, striking blooms that look like a crown. 'Crown Imperial' has a unique and usuaful fragrance that repels moles, mice, and other rodents. Perfect for early season and tough, hardy colour in mixed borders. Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come. Very easy to grow, after the psring season and the blooms have faded, just leave in the ground to naturalise and get bigger and better displays every year. Supplied as a pack on 2 bulbs, size 20/24 ready to plant out in autumn.
An F1 breeding improvement of Crown Prince. Very popular for its attractive, flattened fruits with a steely-blue skin, each weighing up to 4kg (8.5lb).
Truly hardy Gardenias with the most exquisite snow-white flowers on a backdrop of glossy green foliage - the perfect trio of shrubs to add elegance to your garden.A collection of compact shrubs ideal for gaps in borders or containers on the patio, this set includes varieties that produce that hypnotising, sweet fragrance that is widely used in perfumes. Plant around entertaining areas in the garden or along pathways and near entrances where you can fully enjoy that much sought-after scent.The classic single, star-shaped flowers of the 'Kleim's Hardy' create a simple, understated elegance, while the showier double, rose-like blooms of the 'Crown Jewel' can be cut and used in stunning vase displays. The new variety ''Sweet Heart' that we have added to this collection has larger blooms and is also hardier, blooming heavily from late spring.Flowering all summer-long, with an abundance of blooms smothering the rich green waxy foliage, these beautiful shrubs will provide you with months of fragrant displays, and they'll also keep their evergreen leaves for interest all year round. Easy to grow and maintain, simply plant in a pot or straight into the border, preferably using ericaceous compost, and it will happily grow and flourish outdoors all year round. Supplied as three plants in 9cm pots, ready to go into the large pots or a sheltered, sunny area of the garden.
Gardenia jasminoides 'Crown Jewel' is a beautiful ornamental shrub with elegant evergreen foliage with long, slender green leaves edged in creamy yellow. A compact Gardenia, 'Crown Jewel' blooms prolifically from July to September with stunning, exotic looking, large pure white double flowers that will fill your garden with delicious, jasmine-like fragrance that's one of the most powerful and intoxicating scents around! It is one of a new breed of hardier Gardenias, and so can be kept outside all winter, as long as it receives protection from the coldest weather, and as it keeps its beautiful leaves all year, it's always a handsome plant, whatever the season. Due to its size it makes a wonderful specimen plant in a large patio pot and is stunning in borders too. Easy to care for, requiring little pruning apart from a trim each spring and the removal of dead stems. 'Crown Jewel' will appreciate being grown in dappled shade, without too much full sun in neutral or slightly acid soil that's well drained, so incorporate ericaceous compost when planting. Remove faded flowers to encourage new buds and you'll be rewarded with at least three months of fabulous fragrance and flowers. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready to plant and reaching a height and spread of 1m (3ft).
The Silver Crown is a very sculptural succulent. It grows incredible oyster shell-like leaves that neatly overlap each other. Each leaf has this silver like dust (bloom) that protects it against strong sunlight. It’s a unique and stunning colour not seen in many plants. Light and Water It grows in sun or part shade but flowers best in full sun. In summer keep cool and provide some shelter from direct sun during the hottest hours. In shade the body colour will remain greener, while in harsh full sun conditions the foliage can develop its characteristic blue-grey tinge. This is a very dry-tolerant plant so its ok if your one of those who regularly forget to water their plants! You should water regularly in the growing season but avoid waterlogging and let the soil dry between watering. This plant should be watered from below in ordered to preserve the waxy covering on their leaves. If grown in a container, watering by immersing the container is recommended. Good drainage is very important as it is prone to root rot and prefers dry to very low humidity environments.
Considered by many to be a gourmet treat, asparagus is grown for its succulent tasty spears that can be harvested for up to eight weeks from mid-spring onwards. Traditionally grown from bare root plants, known as crowns, Pacific is one of the sweetest tasting varieties available. Asparagus will thrive if planted in a sunny, well-drained spot and will reward you with lots of tender spears that can be added to many dishes or simply eaten on their own try gently steaming, drizzling with olive oil and dressing with a few flakes of parmesan cheese. Yummy! Good preparation is essential for asparagus to thrive. Dig an 8in deep by 12in wide channel, spread some well-rotted mature along the bottom and cover with a 2in layer of excavated soil. Make a 4in high ridge of soil down the centre of the trench and place the crowns on top, 12in apart, spreading the roots evenly down each side. Carefully fill the trench with soil and water. Do not harvest any spears in Year 1, to build up strencgth of root systems for longer and bigger cropping. Enjoy the taste of freshly cut Asparagus in your garden - it's worth the wait!
Wonderful small fruits of creamy-white to green and yellow striped. Uniquely shaped, resembling a crown
An easy to grow annual, perfect as a filler, where the rich gold will weave through your border. The ferny foliage of Cladanthus Golden Crown gives rise to many golden discs, and each new stem radiates from the edge of the faded flower in a most unusual fashion. Prefers an ordinary, well drained soil in full sun
Perfect for growing in large swathes of bright colour in your summer borders, Calendula ?Crown Orange? is an extremely robust variety of this cottage garden favourite.
Enjoy a fabulous, cheery display of sunny flowers all summer long with this easy to grow, low maintnenace plant.
Add perfume and colour to your garden with this rare, yellow-flowered, deciduous daphne. Slow but steady growing, this is a bushy shrub with lush green foliage that is covered with pretty clusters of yellow flowers from late spring to summer. Bees and other insects love visiting the flowers which are followed in late summer by attractive red berries.