Calendula 'Art Shades', otherwise known as English or pot marigold, is an enduring cottage garden favourite that looks equally at home in traditional or contemporary planting schemes, where the richly coloured flowers will add cheerful character to your beds, borders or pots. They make a great cut flower for your vase, too, and the dried flowers are also excellent added to pot pourri. This easy-to-grow hardy annual produces masses of frilly petalled, fully double blooms in shades of creamy peach, orange, gold and yellow. They are hugely attractive to many beneficial insects, so make a great companion plant for your kitchen garden. In fact, the petals are edible, with a slightly peppery taste, and make a colourful garnish or addition to salads. They can also be used instead of saffron for colouring rice dishes, or in soups, stews or curries - or even as a substitute for nutmeg, sprinkled over rice pudding. The ancient Egyptians used calendula as a rejuvenating herb and the flowers have been used for centuries in cosmetics and creams for their therapeutic properties. The seeds can be sown directly into their flowering position or started off in seed trays indoors. Either way, they will flower in the same year as sowing. Calendulas thrive in a sunny spot in well-prepared, fertile soil or compost. Once established, these robust little beauties will do equally well through a wet or dry season, and with regular watering and dead-heading will flower all summer long, well into the first frosts of autumn. Supplied as a packet of 200 (approx.) seeds ready to sow outdoors in their flowering position or indoors into trays of compost. Growing to a height of 60cm (24in) and spread of 30cm (12in), sow or transplant outdoors from March to June and again from August to October, directly where they are to flower. Late summer and autumn sowings will flower the following year. Spring sowings will take 10-12 weeks to flower.
A very heavy cropping runner bean that crops well even in dry conditions. Runner Bean 'Desiree' produces long, broad pods up to 30cm (12) in length that are completely stringless. The beans of this white flowered variety produce few seeds, making them particularly flashy and flavoursome. Height: 3m (10'). Spread: 30cm (12)
Anemone blanda Blue Shades classic daisy-like flowers appear as if from nowhere in early spring, creating a carpet of colour that will come back for years to come! Their long, pretty purple-blue petals burst from its central yellow stamens, creating a beautiful contrast when planted with white varieties. Very easy to grow, once planted you can leave them in the ground and they will naturalise, so if you want to create the perfect spring paradise, then this collection is the easy way to an eye-catching floral display. Supplied as a pack of 50 bulbs, size 4/5 ready for planting in autumn. Growing to a height and width of 15cm.
Benefit from the vitamin rich, flavoursome heads of freshly harvested cabbage throughout summer and autumn with this flavoursome and versatile Savoy.
Providing the same spectacular garden performance as customer favourite 'Arizona Sun', we are pleased to offer a spectacular new dwarf gaillardia from seed - 'Arizona Red Shades'. 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
Desiree is a hugely popular maincrop potato that is highly versatile as far as cooking goes, it can be used for boiling, chipping, baking, and mashing. Early bulking, offering high yields of red-skinned tubers with first-class flavour. It also has good resistance to potato virus Y and powdery scab. #html-body [data-pb-style="60599B2140C73"]{justify-content: flex-start; display: flex; flex-direction: column; background-position: left top; background-size: cover; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-attachment: scroll; border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 10px;}#html-body [data-pb-style="60599B2140C84"]{border-style: none; border-width: 1px; border-radius: 0px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;}
A best seller, Begonia 'Apricot Shadesis as versatile as it is beautiful! Large, cascading double blooms in sunshine shades of apricot and lemon will pour from your containers from July to October. These tuberous begonias will perform whatever the weather, in sun or semi shade. The trailing habit of Begonia 'Apricot Shadesmakes them ideal for hanging baskets, window boxes and flower pouches for a really impressive display that will light up even a shady corner. Height: 30cm (12). Spread: 45cm (18).
A delightful bushy, compact and free flowering variety in delicious rose shades. Each bloom has an attractive yellow eye and darker whiskers, plus the added bonus of a sweet fragrance. Ideal for planting in spring or summer borders and containers. Height: 15-25cm (6-10in).
This hands free door screen is great for keeping the bugs at bay this Summer. This magnetic door mesh soves the problem of allowing fresh air through open doors without allowing flying insects into your home. It's easy to use, just gently push on the mesh and it opens to allow entry or exit. It then securely closes itself with the 16 powerful magnetic fasteners attached to the opening. This is the perfect solution on hot summer days when you want the doors open, and the mesh is so light that even your pets can use it with ease. This mesh door screen fits most patio or conservatory doors and is extremely easy to fit. With 3 easy steps to fit, you can keep bugs at bay in no time.Contents: 2 x Mesh panels 12 x Hook and loop strips20 x wood tacksImage for illustration only. Mesh design may vary slightly.Approximate dimensions: 83 x 39 inch (2 x 83 inch x 19.5 inch panels)Explore more of our range, we have a huge variety of products in stock. Have a query or can't find something you're looking for? We receive new deliveries every week, so if the item you wish to purchase is currently out of stock, please contact our Customer Services Team and we may be able to reserve the items you require.Features:Zebra Stripe designGreat value for money!Colours may vary slightly1 x Listed item supplied only
An eye catching, golden leaved form of the popular Fountain Grass. The slender, arching foliage of Pennisetum 'Hameln Gold' emerges bright gold and slowly matures to a gentle lemon shade as summer progresses. From July, the neat clumps of foliage are transformed by a halo of fluffy flower spikes that rise on tall stems, and remain well into autumn.
One of the most popular potatoes we stock, Desiree is a brilliant potato for gardeners and now you too can grow your own! Simply delicious and highly versatile, creamy-yellow flesh contrasts well with the red skins. Desiree is a great all-round maincrop variety - make them into chips, roasties, jacket potatoes or simply boil them up and melt butter over them! A great cropper and very easy to grow - keep your home-grown potatoes in our Traditional Hessian Sacks and they'll keep right through to have with your Christmas dinner!
A hugely popular red potato with pale, yellow, firm and waxy flesh. Early maincrop Potato 'Desiree' has become a supermarket favourite for its versatility in the kitchen - roast, bake, boil or mash it.