This vigorous climbing honeysuckle produces clusters of fiery red-orange flowers over a long period from July to September. Semi-evergreen in all but the coldest winters, Honeysuckle 'Dropmore Scarlet' will quickly cover walls, fences and pergolas with fabulous colour, providing year-round interest.
A mahonia without the spiny stems! This compact evergreen shrub won the RHS Chelsea Flower Show's 'Plant of the Year' in 2013. Flowering in the autumn with delicate spikes of yellow, honey-scented flowers, Mahonia 'Soft Caress' is a valuable plant for late season colour, and adds an exotic touch to the garden with its slender palm-like foliage.
This deciduous shrub bears small flowers during summer but it's most attractive feature is the large white berries that are produced in autumn. Ht. 1.5m. Supplied as bare root plants.
A bright new development among Grape Hyacinths! Muscari ?Pink Sunrise? is a captivating new variety with exquisite pale pink, conical flower heads in spring. Just like their blue cousins, they are reliable and low maintenance, returning year after year in an ever increasing colony.
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.
Cornflowers are a traditional wildflower or annual border addition. Now you can bring them to yourbaskets and container displays thanks to the relaxed prostrate habit of 'Trailing Blue Carpet?. Perfect for path and border edging. Height 10cm (4in).
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!
Feast your eyes on this festival of colours. This tulip mixture is ideal for your spring garden and includes beautiful double peony-like blooms of deep red, white, lilac, white/red and yellow/red. Ht. 30-40cm.Useful links:How to plant bulbs, corms and tubers
Add a tropical touch to your spring displays with this exciting parrot tulip! Ruffled yellow petals each have a delicate orange-red margin, with the odd flash of green appearing on the outer petals. From mid to late spring Tulip 'Caribbean Parrot' erupts into a frenzy of colour, looking striking grouped in borders, beds and patio containers.
Cottage, coastal and low maintenance gardens will surely benefit from the addition of this hardy shrub. Caryopteris x clandonensis 'Ferndown' is an exceptionally undemanding plant that tolerates drought and will grow in exposed areas, providing it is placed in full sunlight. In addition to these practical advantages, Bluebeard produces interesting, structural stems adorned with elegant, grey-green foliage. These leaves are faintly aromatic, pleasing the senses of smell and sight alike. What's more, the 'Ferndown' variety bears clusters of blue, pollen-rich flowers in the late summer, attracting pollinators such as bees. It can therefore be given pride of place in wildlife areas. Height: 1.2m (4'). Spread: 1.5m (4'11).
Carex comans 'Bronze Perfection' is a beautiful sedge, capable of adding gorgeous and rich texture and movement to the front of your borders. Its arching, evergreen foliage is a striking shade of bronze, providing year-round interest and colour. Its neat, clump forming habit makes Carex comans 'Bronze Perfection' well-suited to growing in patio containers, or for dotting through borders and rockeries. This hardy perennial grass is easy to grow in almost any soil, and requires very little maintenance. Height: 35cm (14). Spread: 60cm (24).