'Kestrel' is a favourite second early variety. Extremely productive, with harvests of up to 35-40 or more tubers from each plant. They have good resistance to eelworm and slugs. These potatoes have a long oval shape with white skins and purple eyes and the tender white flesh tastes divine and perfect for roasting and chipping. Once the seed potatoes have produced shoots or chits, they will be ready to plant directly into a prepared bed or large bags or containers from mid-March, preferably after the frosts have gone. Young potatoes can be harvested from 13-17 weeks after planting. Supplied as a 2.5kg bag of seed potatoes (approx. 30-35 tubers) ready to prepare indoors for planting out in the spring.
Introduced in the 1970s, 'Maris Bard' is an established favourite of the British kitchen - a traditional salad variety with a superb taste and texture. It can be planted from February to April and ready to harvest as 'new' potatoes from about 10 weeks after planting. Easy to grow, it is a reliable early cropper with good resistance to drought, pests and diseases - just some of the reasons this super variety has earned its RHS Award of Garden Merit. Fast growing, 'Maris Bard' will produce plentiful crops of consistent size and quality, with a good oval shape and blemish-free, smooth, yellow-white skin with shallow eyes, and white flesh that remains firm during cooking. Its waxy texture is what makes it such a good choice for potato salad - but it also has a soft creaminess that means it is great for boiling, mashing or frying. Plant in fertile, well-drained soil in a sunny, sheltered position, or in large containers or growbags. Water well in dry conditions for optimum cropping. These potatoes are best used fresh from the garden but will keep well for up to 5 days in a cool, dark and dry place. Supplied as a 2.5kg pack of seed potatoes ready to prepare indoors for planting out from February to April. Early plantings will benefit from frost protection.
Bulbs such as daffodils and tulips herald the arrival of spring - there's nothing more exciting than the sight of their bold and bright colours peeking up from the ground, marking the end of a long winter and promise of warmer weather to come. This great value collection combines the ever-popular 'Tête-à-Tête' daffodil with compact and robust 'Early Red' tulips for a display that will get your garden noticed. With their distinctive flowers, 'Tête-à-Tête' daffodils are a must-have for any spring garden. A great, green-fingered investment, they'll continue to bloom year after year, getting bigger and better all the time! Brilliant in pots, 'Tête-à-Tête' produces lots of pretty, golden-yellow flowers from late February. Then, blooming from March, the 'Early Red' tulips have more robust, short-stemmed flowers, and these red ones are geat for contrasting with beautiful yellow daffodils and will pick up just as 'Tête-à-Tête' are fininshing. Plant these bulbs in pots or straight into flowerbeds and you will enjoy a host of delicate flowers from late February onwards. Supplied as a pack of 100 bulbs, ready for planting in the autumn.
Timperley Early is one of the best and earliest rhubarb varieties around you can expect to pick fresh, juicy sticks as soon as February each year! The bright-pink, green-streaked stems have wonderful white flesh and are simply bursting with sweet, tangy, delicious flavour. They're perfect for chopping finely and making irresistible rhubarb crumbles and fools! Rhubarb is very easy and incredibly rewarding to grow perfect for gardeners of all abilities. Pick sparingly in the first year to allow your plants to establish, and youll be rewarded with literally pound and pounds of delicious rhubarb to harvest each year for many, many years to come!
A breakthrough in Rudbeckia breeding, Rudbeckia fulgida 'Early Bird Gold' flowers from June all the way through to October! Most Black-eyed Susans flower as the days shorten but this fabulous new variety flowers independently, allowing a full season of colour. The rich yellow blooms have contrasting dark brown centres and will be buzzing with bees all day. Try growing this compact Coneflower in perennial borders, prairie-style plantings or cottage gardens where it pairs wonderfully with grasses and Sedum. Rudbeckia flowers are also excellent for cutting. Height and spread: 60cm (24).
The long lasting, daisy-like blooms of Helenium 'Sahins Early Flowerer' vary from light yellow to deep orange, depending on the temperature. The colourful flowers are excellent for cutting at the end of summer, when many other plants have passed their best.
So appropriately named, 'Early Sunrise' produces wonderful double sunshine yellow flowers on tall, slender stems above compact mounds of dense thread-like feathery foliage, which gives them the alternative name of 'threadleaf', while their more common name, 'tickseed,' refers to the seeds which resemble ticks and are a great favourite of garden finches. Coreopsis is a naturally rugged prairie plant and ideally suited to today's low maintenance gardens. Easy to grow, drought tolerant, and long blooming, Coreopsis certainly earn its keep in a sunny flower border, rewarding you with an abundance of stunning flowers throughout summer and well into autumn. Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come, and it's also recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators', with flowers that are a favourite with butterflies and bees. Compact and robust, it's definitely a plant for the front of the border or a patio container - versatile and easy. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting, growing to a height and spread of 50cm (20in).
Bring your winter-worn borders back to life and get them off to a flying start with this wonderful collection of Senetti! Senetti are a fairly new variety, related to Cineraria, but having much greater cold tolerance than them - they are great for planting out earlier as they will take temperatures down to zero. Coming into flower earlier than many Summer bedding lines, thanks to their ability to cope with the cold, these brightly coloured beauties will continue to flower prolifically from early April right through to hot Summer, filling a nice early season gap! With their gorgeous shades of magenta pink and deep blue, as well as their variants with a lovely two-tone white picotee, you will get prolific displays - perfect in patio pots and tubs. Supplied as 12 jumbo plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
'Early Sensation' is an evergreen clematis which grows up to 4m (12ft) tall, with green, divided leaves that emerge with striking bronze tints for an early display of extra colour, making it a stunning centrepiece for your garden. From March to May, 'Early Sensation' bursts into life, its clusters of delicately alluring, nodding flowers releasing a delicate, sweet fragrance into the air. The large (up to 7cm wide) cupped flowers are pure-white with a greenish-yellow centre. A superb feature plant that flowers through the spring, Early Sensation is also remarkable for its evergreen leaves which provide year-round interest in your garden. Robust and fully hardy, this clematis is highly ornamental over a long period and is always in demand and quite rightly so - plant it in free-draining soil by doorways or alongside pergolas to make the most of its pristine blooms and evocative fragrance. Supplied as an established plant in a 1.5L pot, ready for immediate planting.
This veritable superfood is believed to carry all manner of health benefits and is recommended by health experts and dietitians accordingly. Packed full of vitamins and minerals as well as antioxidants, they are not only really good for you, but they taste great too! Blueberries provide true season-long interest and will produce lightly fragrant, bell-shaped blossom in spring, followed by delicious fruits that form and colour up ready for picking from June. In autumn, you get a flash of seasonal colour as the foliage will provide a bright flourish of scarlet before falling for the winter. Easy to grow and look after, blueberries make brilliant patio plants and will grow perfectly in pots - do remember though to use ericaceous (acidic pH) compost though as all blueberries are intolerant of lime (alkaline soil). This early variety will provide a bumper harvest from June providing many pounds of fruit per season once fully established. You'll receive a large, established plant in a 3L pot, ready for immediate planting. Plants reach approx 1-1.5m (3-5ft).
Clematis cartmanii 'Early Sensation' features waxy, evergreen foliage which contrasts superbly with the upturned white flowers, with their soft apple-green bases and yellow-green stamens, which appear between February and April. Later, magnificent seedheads are formed, lasting throughout the year and certainly helping this variety to live up to its common name of Old Man's Beard. This beautiful hardy climber is perfect for those looking to extend the season of interest in their garden as it flowers early in the year when there is little else to be found. Clematis 'Early Sensation' will happily grow up a sunny, sheltered wall and is the perfect choice for your patio or even conservatory. This non-clinging climber will happily ascend the vertical posts of a garden obelisk or pergola. Height: 2m (6' 6). Spread: 1m (3' 3). Pruning group: 1.