This worthwhile variety produces good crops of smooth skinned, red fruits that have a juicy, berry flavour. The crops are borne in profusion in summer, making a delicious snack or dessert fruit.
What could be better on a warm summer day than picking lush, juicy strawberries directly from plants that you've grown yourself? The freshest way to eat them! 'Florence' is one of the post popular late season strawberry varieties which starts cropping in late June and continues for several weeks, producing a bountiful crop of firm, luxurious dark red berries that are long lasting and have an outstandingly sweet and juicy taste. Absolutely delicious eaten fresh from the plant and also perfect for making your own jam, or you can freeze them to enjoy after the season have finished. Ideal for growing in the ground, and also perfect in hanging baskets or containers too - a 12in pot is large enough for around three runners. 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. The plants are supplied as bare root runners which are delivered in a dormant state having been held in cold storage. They are fully hardy and ready to be planted out straight away as long as there is no risk of frost. Supplied as a pack of 10 bare root runners.
This close relative of the raspberry is really something special and is perfectly suited to UK gardens as it loves moist soils and will easily withstand the coldest winter weather. You'll get masses of fruit which ripen in July and August and have a rich raspberry taste which is enhance with a sherberty zing! They are delicious eaten fresh and make a great addition to summer puddings. This is an ideal plant to train against a wall or fence where it will quickly establish giving coils of attractive stems with pink hairs and bold lime green leaves. Treat as you would a summer raspberry, pruning out old fruiting stems to make room for new ones to grow for the following years crop.
Dahlia 'Blackberry Ripple' is a fabulous cactus dahlia that will fill your summer beds and borders with their unique spikey blooms. A semi-cactus variety of dahlia, these gorgeous blooms guaranteed to be the envy of all you neighbours with their layers of multiple petals creating a round spikey head in a mixed pattern of pink, purple and white. Flowering from June through to September, this cottage garden classic will provide you summer displays with four months of fabulous colour. 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.
The splendid tayberry is a hybrid plant resulting from a cross between raspberries and blackberries and bear some resemblance to both its parents. The deep red fruit resemble large blackberries but are sweeter and more aromatic and can be enjoyed picked straight from the bush when they ripen in late summer - to get the best flavour wait until the berries are really deep red before picking. Grow in a sunny spot trained on a trellis, fence or best of all on wires against a sunny wall and you'll be picking pounds of fruit every year. Tayberries are easy to grow and problem free and the lovely blossom will attract many friendly insects to your garden. They're fully hardy too and will withstand the worst of winter cold.
Decadently rich shades of purple cover this stunning penstemon all summer and autumn long, making it a fantastic addition to any border or container. Easy to grow and keep, Penstemon ?Blackberry Ice? will add superb depth and colour to your garden!
'Autumn Bliss' has proven itself as a popular and successful gardener's variety for a number of years, with good disease resistance and long cropping period. 'Autumn Bliss is a Primocane variety, so it produces fruits on its new season stems, from August to first frosts of late October. This saves a whole year of growing time in the garden compared to old-fashioned varieties, and means they are more compact and suitable for pot and patio growing, reaching 4ft (1.2M), on sturdy stems, requiring little support Because they fruit on same year's growth, they are exceptionally easy to maintain - simply cut all shoots back to ground level when dormant in February.
'Bluegold' is a commercially successful highbush type Bluebrry, producing good sized reliable crops of mid-sized fruit, and is fairly disease and pest free, making it an ideal garden variety. As with all blueberries, they must be grown in Ericaceous (Acidic) soil, so grow in pots in ericacreous compost if your soil is not naturally acidic. Feed well when flowers from, until harvest. Pick the fruit fresh as it ripens over several weeks, packed full of antioxodants - great fresh or in smoothies.. Then enjoy the added bonus fo flame-like autumn leaf colour too as the leaves drop. A real long season productive fruit plant for all smaller gardens.
Never has there been a better time to Grow Your Own and reap the benefits of producing your own fresh, healthy food. Making use of home gardens has always been a sensible thing to do, but now more than ever with genetic modification, predicted supermarket shortages and environmental damage, produce picked and eaten from your own plot has never been a better idea!'Raspberry 'Sweet Sunshine' is a new concept rapsberry variety, producing masses of short-branched canes that reach no more than 1m (3ft 3in), with the added bonus of being thornless. This thick clump of canes produces heavy crops on established plants in 2 years or so, and starts fruiting in June, so is an early starter. Fruit flavour is good, as demanded by today's consumers, making this the perfect all-rounder.For best results, grow in a large pot about 30cm or so in diameter, allowing room for growth over many years. Picking height is at 80-100cm tall, so easy to net and easy to pick - perfect for children too - or why not make a raspberry hedge?Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready for picking June - August. Plant about 70cm apart.
One of the most widely grown of all British Strawberry varieties, Cambridge Favourite is a resilient variety with an excellent resistance to disease. A heavy cropper, it will supply you with an abundance of juicy fruits with an excellent sweet tasting flavour
Trixi ?Blueberry Parfait? is a stunning mixture of verbenas, calibrachoa and bacopa, creating a wonderful scene of purples, pinks, and whites.
An award winning Raspberry that beats other varieties for flavour and fruit quality. Once established, this fabulous variety produces a massive crop of 2.5kg of fruit per cane of mouth-watering berries from July through to October. An excellent, spine free variety with good disease resistance, which can even be grown in a large patio container! Height:180cm (70) Spread: 90cm (36). Supplied as bare root plants.