You can really make a statement with the silver veined foliage of Brunnera 'Alexanders Great' - they shout 'look at me' for all the right reasons. This particularly large leaved variety is wonderfully dramatic. It makes superb spreading ground cover, or why not grow it in a prominent container on your patio?
An organic-based feed with added iron for use with acid loving plants including Heathers, Conifers, Magnolias, Skimmias, Camelias, Berberis, Hydrangeas, Raspberries and blueberries. This fertiliser is ideal for ericaceous plants, helping them to thrive in both neutral and acid soils, producing bigger blooms, greener leaves and robust plants. In alkaline soils or where hard water is used for irrigation, yellowing of the leaves may occur caused by lack of available iron, and this feed will help alleviate the problem. Newly planted azaleas and Rhododendrons can benefit from a light dressing of fertiliser in early March after flowering. Make sure that you keep them regularly watered during the first two growing seasons to help plant establishment. Application rate: Note 1 small gloved handful contains approx. 30g For established plants Sprinkle pellets evenly at the base of the plant at a rate of 30g per square metre and lightly incorporate into the soil - watering if the soil is dry.Feed twice during the year, with the first application in March or April when growth starts and the second at first flowering. For new plantsSprinkle pellets evenly at the base of the plant at a rate of 30g per square metre and light incorporate into the soil - watering if the soil is dry. For Chalky/Alkaline soils Plants grown in these soils will typically develop yellow leaves, especially between veins. By adding Vitax Azalea, Rhododendron and Shrub fertiliser along with additional soil supplements to acidify the soil, plants will be provided with essential nutrients.
A highly unique, dwarf Rhododendron with bright orange flowers, which will virtually cover the evergreen foliage throughout May, and often into June. Japanese Azaleas makes a lovely feature in the rockery or a grown in a container on the patio.
With strong clubroot resistance, Calabrese 'Komodo' F1 is a reliable variety that will guarantee a decent harvest. This F1 Hybrid is a vigorous grower that produces dense, dark green heads from July, and continuing well into the autumn.
These glossy-leaved, evergreen house plants are loved for their extravagant display of ruffled blooms.
Made specifically for acid loving ericaceous plants to give create healthy strong plants with beautiful flowers and strong roots.
Recent breeding has given Kale 'Reflex' more intensely curled, succulent and nutritious, dark leaves which stand well without yellowing. This delicious curly kale can be picked over a long period or can also be used as a baby salad leaf ingredient .
Single, gleaming white flowers emerge in autumn to brighten faded gardens with their goblet-shaped blooms. Colchicum autumnale 'Album' provides late season interest and plenty of late nectar for the pollinating insects in your area.
Calendula 'Spiky Orange', as the name suggests, has bright orange, spike shaped petals, that form large, fully double flowers.
Scarlet, heart-shaped blooms drip from complementary, arching red stems of this outstanding variety. Commonly known as Bleeding Heart, Dicentra 'Valentine' will be the star of your spring border, right from the moment the plum-coloured, shoots push through the soil in spring.
From the fabulous British breeding programme of huge, ruffle-flowered Belarina Double Primroses comes 'Valentine Red' - a sumptuous velvet burgundy-red that is 100% hardy and perennial - so will come back year after year, giving better displays every year. The brilliant red blooms contrast beautifully with the crisp green leaves, and form perfect buttonhole flowers that herald the return of spring as they burst into a spectacular show of colour throughout the season. These fabulous, compact plants are smothered in with blousy blooms that create a dazzling burst of cheerful colour in borders, pots and baskets in sun or semi shade - they really are an ideal, easy-to-grow garden plant. In addition, because the magnificent flowers don't set seed, their energy goes into making more blooms and they will flower their socks off for months. Perfectly hardy in the garden, the clusters of double flowers look fabulous wherever you plant them and are even better when added to your favourite container as a specimen plant, where you can get up close and personal with their fabulous flowers, which perfectly complement their lush, ridged, bright-green leaves. Supplied as 3 plug plants ready for potting up and growing on before planting out into their final flowering positions, you can grow some love in your garden this season and enjoy Valentine Red Double Primroses for years to come.