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).
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).
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.
Dahlia Dalaya Jadoo is a new variety with the most majestic double blooms in bicoloured shades of red and white. Compact in habit, it is perfect for creating spectacular summer displays in your patio pots and at the front of your garden borders. Beloved by both bees and butterflies, they are also a superb choice for long-lasting cut flowers too.
Dahlia Dalina Maxi Castilo is an impressive new variety that is much admired for its vigour, robustness and non-stop flowering ability. The huge blooms come in a rich shade of red and are perfect for creating maximum impact in your flower beds and container displays. Tolerant of both wind and rain, they also will last a long time in the vase for freshly cut flowers for the home too.
Early to flower, Dahlia Dalaya Shiva will reward you with a plethora of the most exotic-looking double blooms in warms hues of red and yellow. They have excellent vigour, ensuring a continuous display for months on end in your containers and flower beds. They also have superb resistance to mildew and are a top choice for freshly cut flowers within the home.
With their large, dramatic double flowers, Dahlia Dalina Lopez is a must-have for any summer garden. Borne in an abundance of summer, these white-flowered dahlias are particularly versatile - there is no colour they won't look good within your mixed flower beds or can be used as feature plants in your patio pots. Beloved by both bees and butterflies they are a good choice for a wildlife-friendly garden too.
Bred especially for container growing, Dahlia Dalina Maxi Tampico an unbelievably glamorous and generous new variety producing masses of huge red blossoms with contrasting white tips. Beloved by both bees and butterflies, they are perfect for adding maximum impact to your garden displays this summer. Best of all, they will last a long time in a vase making them perfect for freshly cut flowers too.
Dahlia Dalina Maxi Mendoza is an outstanding new variety providing you with a wealth of huge double blooms in a bright shade of pink. Blooming continuously for months on end, they look as wonderful in the border as they do in the vase. More compact than other varieties, they are well-suited to container growing too.
Dahlia Dalina Maxi Sonora is a magnificent and eye-catching double flowering variety with huge sunny yellow blooms. The flowers are quite spectacular and will add a touch of sunshine to both your borders and bouquets. Profuse flowering, they will keep on and on all summer long until the first frosts in the autumn.
Dahlia Dalina Maxi Salinas is a superb new variety offering large, double pom-pom-shaped blooms with bright pink petals with contrasting white centres. Profuse flowering all summer long, they are perfect for attracting both bees and butterflies to the garden and best of all, they make long-lasting freshly cut flowers for the home too. Best planted in full sun and with regular deadheading will last well into the autumn.
Dahlia Dalina Maxi Topia offers dramatic blooms in a deep shade of scarlet which is borne freely over a long flowering period from May until October. Compact in habit, they have been specifically bred for container growing but will look as equally good plant at the front of your flower beds. They will attract pollinators to your garden and are excellent cut flowers providing armfuls of fresh blooms for the vase all summer long.