Does your cottage garden contain a sunny or partially shady border in need of ground cover? If so, this Cotoneaster will do the trick. Cotoneaster adpressus 'Little Gem' spreads quickly, forming mounds of deciduous, green foliage. The plant is easy to maintain, making it well-suited to difficult-to-reach places such as steep banks. This hardy shrub won't merely carpet such areas, it will transform them into points of interest when it grows white flowers and red berries in the summer and autumn respectively. Further colour is introduced at the end of the season, when Cotoneaster Tom Thumb's leaves turn magnificent shades of red. Height: 40cm (1'4). Spread: 2m (6'7).
For colour throughout the year in a sunny spot, this rainbow Spurge is hard to beat! With bright gold edges to blue-grey leaves, it is always sure to catch the eye. In winter, the foliage takes on a rosy pink tinge, while from spring to early summer, exotic flowers of lime green, each with a contrasting eye, grow towards the tip of each stem. Euphorbia x martini 'Ascot Rainbow' is a good low-maintenance plant, perfect for the front of borders or in containers on the patio. Once established, this Milkweed is tolerant of drought. Height and spread: 50cm (20).
Apricot 'Flavourcot'® has been specially bred for the cooler UK climate, producing big crops of large, egg-sized, delicious orange-red fruits. You will always get a crop, as it is late flowering and is also frost resistant. As well as being sweet and juicy when eaten fresh, This variety is also ideal for cooking, Apricot 'Flavourcot'® is self-fertile and has been propagated onto 'Montclare' rootstock for a small, manageable tree with a bigger crop of apricots. Height and spread: Up to 2.5m (8') Rootstock: Montclare.Estimated time to cropping once planted: 2 years.Estimated time to best yields: 5 years.
Extraordinary architectural feature plant boasting exceptional garden performance. Masses of small flowers in a mixture of pink and apple blossom shades bloom all summer until the first frosts. Britishbred 'Whispers Mixed' also offers excellent disease resistance, making this lovely nicotiana a 'must-have' plant for the garden this season
Providing the same spectacular garden performance as customer favourite 'Arizona Sun', we are pleased to offer a spectacular new dwarf gaillardia from seed - 'Arizona Apricot'. They are long-flowering and low-maintenance, perfect for containers and for filling gaps at the front of a border. Flowering in their first year, colourful blooms sit neatly above uniform, wellbranched plants well into autumn. Providing fabulous colour whatever the weather, these new gaillardia are great value hardy perennials
Encourage a wealth of stunning birds into your garden with this cottage wild bird seed feeder.
Reintroduced following increasing interest by garden designers and visitors to our Open Days. Nicotiana Marshmallow is a very unusual and visually stunning variety which will add stature and fragrance to your summer borders. Above basal rossettes of large leaves, are formed masses of wiry stems are covered with a 'hazeof small blooms, each one fading through red, pink and white to give the effect of three flower colours on each plant
An outstanding introduction producing large spikes of a lovely shade of Apricot. A most unusual and sought after colour. Excellent for the border in sun or part shade, and very useful as a cut flower. Flowers early summer. Height 13-15m (4-5ft)
A bright mixture primarily pink and cream based but also with 25% yellow or orange ground colour specifically added. All delightfully striped and picoteed.
Delightful, slender, white, nodding tubular blooms with a hint of blush, grace long, slender stalks shooting out from a base of mid-green leaves. Sweetly fragrant in the evening and early morning, adding a little height and a lot of style to your borders. Makes the perfect partner for its taller fragrant cousin, Nicotiana sylvestris. Height: 60-80cm (24-32in)
This magnificent strain, with fully double flowers of rich apricot on tall imposing spikes of blooms, gives an air of stately splendour. One of the finest background plants for the border and is equally effective when grown in small groups. Usually flowers in its second year. Flowers mid to late summer. Height 15-2m (5-6ft).
This fashionable deep-purple color adds a touch of class to summer displays when planted en-masse in borders. Ideal for container plantings, as well as filling the evening air with its delicate perfume