If you're searching for a rose that will brighten up your cottage garden in the late summer and early autumn, consider Rose 'The Fairy'. This hardy shrub flowers in July, producing pretty, pink blooms in abundance. Its glossy leaves and graceful, arching stems can be trained into a small hedge. Alternatively, the Rosa can be grown in a sunny, cottage garden border, where it will prove itself to be deserving of the RHS AGM it holds. Height: 60cm (2'). Spread: 90cm (3').
Here's a little beauty for the rose garden or a sunny border: a fully double old-fashioned white rose with wide open flowers and many layers of petals, shown off to great effect against the glossy dark green foliage. Rose 'White Fairy' is a paler version of the popular polyantha rose, 'The Fairy' and it makes a lovely cut flower. Height: 75cm (30). Spread: 100cm (39).
Treat yourself to a surprise package of large plants! We'll choose the plants for you, and you'll get a great bargain, paying just £5.99 for plants worth at least £7.99.
Treat yourself to a 'Lucky Dip' surprise package of large plants! We'll choose the plants for you, and you'll get a great bargain, paying just £9.99 for plants worth at least £10.99. At such a great price, we can't take orders for specific varieties, but we're sure you'll be delighted with your collection!
This large, deciduous shrub features clusters of pretty, bell-shaped cream flowers, with red veins and tips to the petals throughout May and June. The foliage blends from green to gold and then on to red during autumn. Hardy to -15°C. Height and spread 4m.
Are you tempted by the beautiful, globe-shaped blooms of African Blue Lillies but concerned that they will struggle in the changeable British climate? Perhaps the 'Northern Star' variety of Agapanthus is the answer to your prayers! Not only does it produce an abundance of deep blue flower umbels in mid to late summer, but it is among the toughest plants of its kind.
A new variety, Cephalanthus 'Magical Moonlight' is neat and compact, highly ornamental and bursting with wildlife appeal - proving there?s no need to compromise on looks when it comes to catering for bees and butterflies. The Button Bush is truly unique, with florets of white tubular flowers that open to form perfect spheres covered in a multitude of yellow-tipped pin-like stamens. Not only does 'Magical Moonlight' add a celestial feeling to your garden through midsummer, but you will love the intensely-rich perfume. In autumn its lychee-like fruits (the size of golf balls) offer up an abundance of seeds for wild birds. Thriving in most non-alkaline soils, this variety even copes on difficult damp ground where the soil is prone to seasonal waterlogging.
A unique compact plant, hardy perennial, with rich pink, daisy-like flowers that bloom upon wiry stems above silvery-green foliage from April to June. Ideal for full sun locations in the border or patio containers. Ht. 20cm, spread 30cm. Supplied in 9cm pot.
Description for Stocks 'Vintage' (Pre-planted Patio Pot) not available
Enjoy the summer fragrance of sweet honeysuckle flowers with this outstanding variety of the cottage garden favourite. Honeysuckle 'Fragrant Cloud' is the perfect variety for climbing over fences and trellises.
Sometimes referred to as Golden Lily of the Valley this hardy plant is more exotic-looking than our native white species. As flower stems develop, reaching up to 1 metre high in summer, tendrils may be produced to hold them upright. Preferring cool conditions, the hanging golden lanterns will brighten up shady corners where others fail to thrive.