This colourful Hemerocallis Collection is a fabulous re-blooming variety that will begin to flower early in the season and produce further flushes throughout next summer. Like all Daylilies, the individual flowers are short lived, but the blooms of daylilies can last a full 24 hours before being replaced by new blooms the following day. This reliable hardy perennial is undemanding and easy to grow, plus perfect for adding colour and with their picotee edged frills, add texture to summer borders. Your hemerocallis collection will include the following daylily varieties: Iced Lemon, Ida's Magic, Laced Babydoll, Startle and Thundering Ovation.
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Hemerocallis 'Everyday Lily Series' is a Daylily that is great for sunny borders. It is well suited to cottage and informal gardens.
Escallonia 'Iveyi' is a white flowering shrub that is well suited to a medium sized garden. It is an RHS AGM winner, due to its hardiness, dark green foliage and its continuous flowering of large clusters of ice-white flowers, from summer until early autumn.
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?).
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).
This stunning re-blooming Hemerocallis 'Strawberry Candy' begins flowering early in the season and produces further flushes throughout the summer. With coral pink blooms which are dabbed with strawberry red centres, each is carried above dense clumps of strap-like foliage from early summer. Like all Daylilies they are short lived, but the blooms of Hemerocallis 'Strawberry Candy' can last a full 24 hours before being replaced by new blooms the following day.
Fill a patio container with these stunning, exotic-looking summer bulbs. Their brightly-coloured spathes are complimented by clusters of silver-spotted heart-shaped leaves during summer. Overwinter these half-hardy bulbs in a warm, dry, frost free position to enjoy for years to come. Ht. 60cm. Supplied as bulbs.
The Beauty Berry is a wonderful deciduous shrub for providing year-round interest, the culmination of which is a grand display of violet-purple berries and rosy pink foliage in autumn. The purple-tinted leaves that appear in spring are followed by small pink flowers by midsummer, attracting bees and other pollinating insects. Callicarpa bodinieri var. giraldii 'Profusion' has a prestigious RHS AGM and is both exotic and hardy, an eye-catching choice for both borders and low maintenance gardens. Its berried stems make a lovely addition to autumn flower arrangements. Height: 3m (10?). Spread: 2.5 (8?).
Escallonia 'Apple Blossom' produces a profusion of gently-scented pink flowers all summer, and is very attractive to bees. The small and glossy leaves of this wonderfully versatile shrub, which has an RHS AGM, remain on the plant all winter, providing structure and colour in even the bleakest weather. Escallonia 'Apple Blossom' is robust and easy to grow, a fantastic shrub for low-maintenance gardens. It thrives in coastal situations and even in difficult clay soils, and makes a superb evergreen hedge. Height and spread: 2m (6.5?).