Tough, compact and reliable - this short-lived perennial is an ideal addition to your garden, growing in all types of soil. Plant them straight into flower beds, borders and planters to create a brilliant display of fragrant colour throughout spring. Ht. 40cm. Supplied as bare roots.
The fluffy, rounded blooms of Allium carolinianum 'Rosy Dream' rise upon slender stems from clumps of strap-like foliage in early summer. This neat little Allium is a delightful lilac-pink colour that adds a soft colour palette to sunnny borders.
Thank you for buying this packet of seeds! I know you'll enjoy growing them and that you'll love to see the colourful flowers growing in your garden or on your patio. Every packet sold will provide much-needed funds to this very worthwhile charity which supports children living with cancer.
This hardy annual is a new strain of Sweet Pea that has been bred for its pretty, pink flowers and sweet scent. When given plenty of sunlight, these blooms will appear throughout the summer. They make a great addition to cut flower gardens as well as to walls and fences in cottage gardens. Sweet Pea 'Eleanore Udall' was named by Gregory Udall, the founder of Thrive, after his wife. Thrive is a charity that aims to make gardening accessible to disabled and disadvantaged people as social and therapeutic horticulture (STH). Half the profits generated from the sale of this plant will be donated to Thrive. Buying this Sweet Pea will therefore transform not only your trellis, obelisk or garden arch but also the lives of vulnerable people all over the UK. Height: 1.8m (6'). Spread: 30cm (1').
Rarely found in the UK, this hardy shrub, native to eastern USA is highly adaptable to gardens across the country. In mid-summer the flowers appear, deep-red in colour and with a strong spicy-cinnamon fragrance, even when the flowers have gone, crush the leaves to release the scent too!
A fantastic mix of new and improved Dutch Iris, producing a plethora of vibrant and richly coloured blooms, including bicolours and picotees. Flowering between mid-spring and early summer, the architectural blooms of Iris 'Metallic Mixture' look fantastic grouped in borders and patio containers, where they will return year after year.
Escallonia 'C.F. Ball' is a tough, reliable evergreen shrub, featuring a thick covering of shiny dark green leaves below clumps of vivid crimson, tubular flowers that add interest to your garden throughout the summer. Attracting pollinating insects to your garden, this Escallonia is the perfect choice for evergreen hedging. It can also be grown as a specimen shrub in coastal gardens and mixed borders, providing year round structure whilst requiring little maintenance. Height and Spread: 2.5m (8?).
Mr. Small is so small, probably the smallest person you've seen in your life, his garden is teeny weeny so when he told me his plan to grow some plants, I wasn't sure how he would manage.
Unusual lime green blooms blend to pure white, then back to pale green on this incredible variety of hydrangea. Flower heads are huge, up to 12 inches (30cm) across! and are held aloft on sturdy stems. Perfect for a patio container or a centrepiece in a planting scheme. Ht. 2m. Supplied in 9cm pots.
A rather unique lobelia that is non-seeding, so it'll flower much longer in your summer displays. Masses of royal blue flowers are enhanced with a central white flash making them appear to sparkle on summer days. Perfect for adding to patio containers and hanging baskets. Trailing to 45cm. Supplied as plug plants.
A fantastic new ultra compact snapdragon! Antirrhinum 'Farfalline' produces double blooms in a mixture of bright colours, from rich, deep hues to fresh pastels. These delightful dwarf snapdragons create a dynamic display in patio pots and window boxes or use them to edge the front of beds and borders.
From late spring, Ajuga reptans 'Black Scallop' produces violet blue flower spikes that really stand out against its thick mat of shimmering black foliage - which becomes even darker when grown in full sun. ?Black Scallop? is more tolerant of sun that many other Bugle varieties, and makes an excellent groundcover plant, thriving in almost any soil conditions. Use it to attract pollinating insects to your wildlife garden, or allow it to creep through rockeries or the front of borders. Height: 15cm (6). Spread: 60cm (24).