Finding year round foliage colour for mixed planters, especially for Autumn and Winter colour is a significant challenge - but variegated Ivies are the perfect foil to many plants.Their thuggish green relatives may take over the garden if left unchecked, but these are far better behaved with a tidy habit.. Not only do Ivies bring all round interest to the garden but are are haven for wildlife, providing shelter for friendly insects and a nesting site for birds. Hedera Goldheart 3 lobed mid green leaves with stikingly attractive yellow markings. Happy in most moist soils it climbs without support, clinging to posts and walls by means of aerial roots. It bears fragrant flowers in autumn followed by black berriesThis is a great plant to quickly cover unsightly structures in the garden and is easy to grow and problem free. Can be trimmed to shape and limit growth at any time of year too.
This beautiful evergreen clematis 'Cartmanii Joe' is a compact climber that is perfect for smaller and courtyard gardens. From February to April, 'Cartmanii Joe' bursts into life with its clusters of white, bowl-shaped flowers that sit amongst the divided, leathery dark green foliage. A superb climber, that flowers from later winter to spring, providing your garden with some early season blooms. It is also a perfect choice thanks to its evergreen leaves which provide year-round interest in your garden. Robust and fully hardy, this clematis is highly ornamental over a long period and is always in demand and quite rightly so - plant it in free-draining soil by doorways or alongside pergolas to make the most of its pristine blooms and evocative fragrance. Supplied as an established plant in a 1.5L pot, ready for immediate planting.
Parthenocissus tricuspidate 'Veitchii' is much better known as Boston Ivy, named so because it can be found covering the campus buildings of New England colleges and is where the term 'Ivy League' originates. This extremely vigorous, self-clinging climber has stunning, three lobed dark green leaves and wonderful autumn colour. A native of China and Japan, Boston Ivy is related to the Virginia Creeper, but is more tolerant of shade, so it'll grow just about anywhere and in any lighting conditions from full sun to heavy shade, where is will quickly climb and cover walls and fences and is particularly popular for cover the walls of houses, which it can do completely if that's what you're looking for. The lush, dark green foliage looks incredible and becomes even more spectacular in the autumn when the leaves turn to hot, fiery shades of red, orange and purple before they eventually fall. Boston Ivy is easy to look after, just tie in or trim back any wayward shoots and prune in autumn to keep it under control, and you'll have walls of amazing foliage in no time! 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, and it's also recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators' with the summer flowers a favourite with butterflies and bees.Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready to plant, reaching a height of 20m (65ft) and a spread of 10m (33ft) in 10 years.
What a cracker this lovely peony is, and a one off too. It's an Intersectional Peony, a hybrid between traditional perennial varieties and the tougher tree peony, combining beauty, colour and robustness in one, also known as an Itoh Peony after Dr. Toichi Itoh. Created in 1986, Paeonia Itoh 'Bartzella' produces beautiful lemon-yellow flowers with frilly, ruffled centres and unique magenta streaks at the petal base. This created quite a stir at the time, with an individual root selling for over $1000.00! Fortuantely now much more affordable, Bartzella quickly forms a neat mound of deep-green foliage that acts as the perfect backdrop for its giant flowers, this superb peony with flower its socks off in April and May, and even into June. What's more, the blooms carry a wonderful lemon-citrus scent which is a joy on those sunny spring days! Long lived and easy to grow, this fully hardy peony is especially vigorous with sturdy flower stems that don't require staking - making them exquisite cut flowers. Being a perennial, each autumn Bartzella retreats underground, only to emerge bigger and more floriferous next year. Perfect in mixed borders in sun or light shade, it's not a plant that enjoys the confines of a pot for too long - if you must grow them in a container, use a large one and after a few years unpot the plant and relocate to a bed or border. Plants will produce dozens of flowers when happy and because they grow wide rather than high, they are an excellent choice for a border hedge, with a wave of flowers which add to the overall planting scheme. Consider growing them in several groupings of three or more at intervals along the length of a flower border for an early wave of romantic colour tones. Supplied as a bare root plant ready for potting up and growing on or planting straight out when the soil has warmed.
Californian Poppy 'Monarch Art Shades' is a compact and wonderfully colourful addition to the summer garden. The plants produces double or semi-double flowers in powerful shades of orange. Perfect in pots and at the front of borders, or scattered amongst your planting to give intense highlights. They thrive in poor, dry soil and will self seed freely in borders, gravel and any cracks in the pavement. These hardy annuals will grow to H30cm (1ft) x W15cm (6in). Flowers from June to August. Dead-head for longer flowering, or if you want to prevent self seeding.
Calendula 'Art Shades', otherwise known as English or pot marigold, is an enduring cottage garden favourite that looks equally at home in traditional or contemporary planting schemes, where the richly coloured flowers will add cheerful character to your beds, borders or pots. They make a great cut flower for your vase, too, and the dried flowers are also excellent added to pot pourri. This easy-to-grow hardy annual produces masses of frilly petalled, fully double blooms in shades of creamy peach, orange, gold and yellow. They are hugely attractive to many beneficial insects, so make a great companion plant for your kitchen garden. In fact, the petals are edible, with a slightly peppery taste, and make a colourful garnish or addition to salads. They can also be used instead of saffron for colouring rice dishes, or in soups, stews or curries - or even as a substitute for nutmeg, sprinkled over rice pudding. The ancient Egyptians used calendula as a rejuvenating herb and the flowers have been used for centuries in cosmetics and creams for their therapeutic properties. The seeds can be sown directly into their flowering position or started off in seed trays indoors. Either way, they will flower in the same year as sowing. Calendulas thrive in a sunny spot in well-prepared, fertile soil or compost. Once established, these robust little beauties will do equally well through a wet or dry season, and with regular watering and dead-heading will flower all summer long, well into the first frosts of autumn. Supplied as a packet of 200 (approx.) seeds ready to sow outdoors in their flowering position or indoors into trays of compost. Growing to a height of 60cm (24in) and spread of 30cm (12in), sow or transplant outdoors from March to June and again from August to October, directly where they are to flower. Late summer and autumn sowings will flower the following year. Spring sowings will take 10-12 weeks to flower.
Previously known as Dicentra, Bleeding Heart produces masses of delicate, rose-pink, heart-shaped flowers in late spring every year, each tipped with an elegant white teardrop. The branches spread into arching sprays of unique blooms in a simply fabulous display of colour to fill your garden with passion! Perfect for planting at the front of a shady border, or in groups, and will make an unusual and interesting addition to a cottage garden theme - try planting them under rose bushes where their blooms will complement the roses perfectly. Their compact, reliable habit means that they are also great in pots, for unbeatable displays. Awarded the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a plant that has been rigorously tested for guaranteed garden performance. Fully winter hardy and super-easy to grow, Bleeding Heart is a perennial plant so although it dies back underground each summer, you can be assured that each year your plant will come back bigger and stronger, giving you show-stopping displays every spring! Best of all it is one of the easiest to grow of all perennials and is pretty much NO maintenance!
Recent Lily breeding has created some huge and beautifully coloured Lilies and Lily 'Heartstrings' is one such introduction. Combining bright yellow with vibrant pink, this is a lily that demands attention. Lilies are one of the most graceful and beautiful of the garden bulbs and 'Heartstrings' is no exception - an Asiatic type lily, it's large and upright facing and produces around 5 flowers per plant. A little later flowering than other types, you can expect blooms at the end of June and into July from its sturdy 1.2m stems. Short and strong enough to grow in pots, yet tall enough to cut flowers each summer, this lily is versatile, reliable and very hardy. Plant en masse in large pots or in groups for maximum impact, or maybe just dot them round your garden to brighten up drab spots. Plant in spring, and they'll return year after year, getting bigger and bigger. Great value, easy to grow and truly stunning, they're worth a place in your garden. Supplied as a pack of 10 bulbs, ready for immediate planting.
One of the best yellow roses released, and thus awarded an RHS Award of Garden Merit, Rosa 'Climbing Arthur Bell' is repeat flowering right up until autumn, with large, golden-yellow floribunda blooms and glossy green foliage - it will look wonderful wherever you decide to plant it. Perfect for growing in containers and small spaces, this robust, semi-double rose is a real winner. Make sure you plant it somewhere that you can enjoy its strong rose-fragrance which sets the blooms off beautifully. As a recipient of an RHS AGM, you can be sure that this is a garden-worthy plant which will perform as expected. Climbing Roses bring height and a sense of plenty to the garden, where they are normally grown along house walls and fences but are also perfect for growing up obelisks, arches and trellises. Growing to a height of around 3m, Arthur Bell will repeat flower throughout the year, adding much needed colour to the garden when other plants have finished. Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot, growing to a height of 3m.
Brighten up your garden with these beautiful Asters, flowering throughout summer and into autumn every year with gorgeous, yellow-centred daisy blooms. The 'Moch' have vibrant lavender-blue petals that surround a golden yellow centre, this bright and perfect looking Michaelmas Daisy flowers from July - October, creating a bold splash of colour. Forming a sturdy clump, these fully winter-hardy perennials perform brilliantly as a central feature in containers or in the middle of borders for reliable, no-fuss colour year on year. 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. It is also recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators' the flowers are produced through the spring and summer and are a favourite with butterflies and bees. Blooming over many weeks, Asters make great cut flowers being very long lasting in a vase. In the garden, they will attract a whole host of beneficial pollinating insects as they are loved by butterflies and bees. Easy to grow and low maintenance, this plant will grow to around 90cm tall, and you should deadhead faded flowers to encourage more blooms. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant out.
Penstemons are a classic cottage garden perennial that has enchanting bell-shaped flowers in a range of bright colours. We've brought together two fabulous varieties in shades of pink and purple that complement each other perfectly. Both are recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators' the flowers are produced through the spring and summer and are a favourite with butterflies and bees. In This collection: 'Ice Cream Blackberry' - 'Ice Cream Blackberry' has elegant flowers in shades of rich purple with attractive white markings on their throats opening from red wine-coloured buds. The luxurious upright spires appear in from June and continue well into the autumn. 'Strawberries and Cream' - Ice Cream Strawberries and Cream' is perfectly named, with sturdy upright spires boasting pink tinged, creamy coloured buds opening to delicious looking flowers in shades of pale pink and white with red and white striped throats. Flowering from June until October, these unusual Penstemons will be a real talking point in your garden! Superb grown in beds and borders, Penstemons prefer well-drained soil and forms large clumps over time, rewarding you with more flowers year on year. Looking after them is easy too, occasionally deadhead fading blooms to prolong the display and cover plants with a dry mulch of compost in late autumn to protect the roots from frost. Grow them in a sunny or slightly shaded spot and they'll flower in upright spires for month after month from June until the autumn. Easy to grow and winter hardy, you're guaranteed masses of spectacular flowers that are also great for cutting for indoor arrangements. Supplied as 2 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant out.
This fabulous decorative Dahlia will look incredible in your beds and borders during the height of summer. 'Tartan' produces large, show stopping blooms of layers and layers of delicate petals in gorgeous shades of white and dark burgundy. Each ruffled petal is edges in the gorgeous deep red tone that helps create the overall tartan effect. So easy to grow, as they are supplied as tubers, packed full of energy to burst into growth in Spring and produce a mass of bright colours which will pepper your garden like gemstones as Summer turns to Autumn. Dahlias are perfect for planting in your bed, borders, patio pots and containers. They also make fabulous cut flowers so pick a bunch of these pastel beauties to bring into your home for amazing colour. Dahlias will need some winter protection if you want them to return next year, we recommend that you dig them up before the first frost arrives and keep them stored over the winter. Supplied as a pack of 3 tubers, ready to plant out.