The Peanut Mandala is great to grow with kids! Grow your own homegrown peanuts! Whether eaten raw or roasted, peanuts are an excellent source of fibre, vitamins and minerals.
Euphorbia amygdaloides 'Ruby Glow' features bright lime green flowers on red stems between April and June, providing a spectacular display. This hardy evergreen perennial has a tidy, compact habit with dark purple foliage and glowing red new growth in spring. This Milkweed variety is perfect for adding an exotic feel to the front of your lightly shaded or sunny borders. Height and spread: 45cm (18).
Sky blue is a very welcome colour for garden flowers so Corydalis flexuosa ?Purple Leaf' needs serious consideration if you are looking for a change from pink, red and yellow blooms. Purple Leaf Corydalis has delicate fern-like purple foliage tinged with red forming a backdrop to the long tubular flowers rising above the mound of foliage from May to mid summer. This Corydalis needs to be placed in a border, rock garden or woodland area that benefits from dappled shade where it will grow to form clumps. Height: 15cm (6). Spread: 50cm (19).
Ferns are a great addition in any garden, offering architectural forms as their fronds uncurl. Give them a relatively shady position and they will thrive. Fern 'Vidalii' is citrus green with deep cerise stems. Ht. 30- 50cm. Supplied as plug plants.
Digitalis purpurea is a dainty, delicate Foxglove with peach-coloured flowers, which give it the alternative name 'Dalmatian Peach'. These blooms appear on characteristic, upright stems, which add structure and architecture to borders in cottage gardens, woodland gardens and cut flower gardens alike. The hardy biennial is equally deserving of a place in wildlife areas, for bees love its nectar-rich florets. These insects will 'buzz off' when the flowers die after midsummer, but are sure to be back the next year if you allow the plant to seed around. Height: 50cm (1'8). Spread: 40cm (1'4).
Perfect for rockeries, alpine gardens and stone planters, Erica x darleyensis 'Darley Dale' is a winter flowering Heather, that looks superb planted alongside dwarf conifers and other varieties of heather. It has hundreds of small, pale pink flowers, when in bloom, that fill the compact, evergreen shrub. Erica 'Pink Perfection', Heather can be grown in all types of soil and is extremely low maintenance. As well as rockeries and borders, it's also a great ground cover plant for areas of the garden which are underplanted and prone to weeds. For example very narrow borders between the driveway and boundary fence. Height: 30cm (12). Spread: 55cm (22).
Perfect for those challenging shaded areas beneath deciduous trees, or meandering through cottage garden borders! Euphorbia amygdaloides 'Purpurea' is a compact evergreen perennial that will seed freely once established, making superb groundcover.
Petunia 'Tidal Wave' is a mix of popular petunias, with a profusion of flowers that are red, pink, lilac white and purple in colour.
Heucheras, also known as Coral Bells, are amazing perennial plants, famed for their spectacular foliage in a huge range of colours with wonderful leaf shapes forming low growing evergreen or semi-evergreen mounds. 'Dale's Strain' is perfect if you're looking to add year-round colour to your garden. It has serrated, wavy foliage in a beautiful and silvery mid green colour that are often flushed with purple details. In late spring and early summer, 'Dale's Strain' produces panicles for small bell-shaped flowers in a gorgeous blush pink that contrasts effortlessly against the gorgeous green foliage. They are also attractive to wildlife such as bees and hummingbirds. It will thrive in pots and looks great planted towards the front of mixed borders, especially when several different varieties are planted together, creating a carpet of colourful, evergreen groundcover. These adaptable plants are happy in sun or partial shade and aren't too fussy about soil conditions if it isn't heavy and waterlogged as that will cause the crown to rot. Usually evergreen, severe winters may cause leaf loss, but they'll regrow the following spring. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready to pot on or plant out. Growing to a height and spread of 40cm (16in) x 35cm (14in).