The best selection of these cottage garden favourites includes award-winning varieties, and those with the best colouring and fragrance. Ideal for cutting, which encourages even more blooms! Grow them against a sunny fence or train up a trellis. Try them in the new Tower Pot? and watch them scramble up the lattice frame. Ht. 1.8m. Supplied as deep rooted multi-sown plug plants.
Lupin are a firm favourite for lovers of the traditional cottage garden display. Lupin 'Russell Hybrids Mixed' comes in a wonderful mix of rainbow colours, which complement each other to form a perfect border or woodland display. In May, June and July, the plants' upright stems produce tightly packed blooms in many shades of red, white, pink, purple, yellow. Lupin 'Russell Hybrids Mixed' is a particularly great choice if there's a space at the back of a sunny border you need to fill, for the flowers are sure to flourish here. Height: 90cm (3'). Spread: 75cm (2'6).
An elegant annual smothered in bright and cheerful blooms which exude a sweet fragrance on warm summer evenings. Nicotiana 'Eau de Cologne Mixed' are mid-height plants with upward facing flowers creating a really dazzling display. Fill your beds, borders and patio containers with these exotic-looking blooms and enjoy a myriad of flowers from midsummer right through until autumn.
Petunia Tickled Mixed has rapid growth, and is a fantastic variety of petunia for obelisk and trellis planters, on the patio or decking. Alternatively, it can be planted in window boxes, to create a cascade of colour.
Dahlia 'Harlequin Mixed' is a vibrant, dwarf collection of single and semi-double dahlias, that are great for adding colour to planters and garden borders.
A ready made hanging basket full of Busy Lizzie 'Vitara Mixed', perfect for adding instant colour to your garden, or front entrance. Simply hang up, then water.
Petunia 'Frenzy Mixed' F1 Hybrid is a colourful mix of over 20 varieties of petunia plants, that are great for hanging baskets, window boxes, flower pouches, planters and garden borders.
Dutch Irises make a wonderful addition to the spring garden with their highly unusual flowers. Plant them in pots or borders in a sunny spot and you will reap the rewards year after year! Ideal for indoor cut-flower displays, their unusual and striking blooms come in contrasting shades of purple, white, orange, and yellow. Be sure to plant plenty so you have enough for your own vase and for giving some to friends and family! With their straplike, grey-green leaves and sturdy stems, Dutch irises are attractive when planted in groups in beds and borders. They will also make a superb addition to pots. Very hardy and easy to grow, they are the perfect plant for those with little gardening experience or anyone who wants great results with little effort. Supplied as a pack of 50 bulbs in mixed colours, size 6/7 ready for planting out in autumn. Growing to a height of 60cm and width of 10cm.
A stunning mix of colours from purple to white, fritillaria meleagris is also known as Snakeshead due to its unusual checkerboard markings. It has delicate bell-shaped flowers that hang and sway in the wind, and although beautiful and delicate looking, are remarkably hardy and will happily thrive in shady, woodland like spots. Ideal for creating border displays or for naturalising in shady spots under trees. 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. Supplied as a pack of 20 bulbs, size 6/7 ready to plant out in autumn.
A mixture of quick growing lettuce, tasty and nutritional, and ready to eat in as little as 6 weeks. Ideal for growing on a windowsill, for a contstant supply of baby leaves all year. Height: 20cm (8). Spread: 25cm (10).
Highly colourful peppers that are sweet and crunchy to eat. A huge, tasty crop will be ready to harvest from July until October. Ideal for mixed salads, stir-fries, and for stuffing. Height and spread: 35cm (14).
These early flowering Marigolds form neat, well branched, uniform plants that give a fabulous garden performance. Reliable and free flowering, Marigold ?Durango Collection? will fill your beds and borders with large blooms in bright shades of orange, gold and red.