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.
Extra long stems bear 5 to 6 large blooms each and have a superb colour range. Though not well suited to training as a cordon, Sweet Pea 'Early Mammoth Mixed' is an excellent variety for growing in the greenhouse, producing masses of early blooms for cut flower arrangements. Height: 150cm (59). Spread: 30cm (12).
Contains a mix of the varieties: Alyssum White, Cornflower Dwarf Mix, Corn Poppy, Coreopsis Mixed, Cosmidium, Cosmos, Californian Poppy. Height: 60cm (24). Spread: 30cm (12).
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.
Well known variety that yields solid, crisp, spring cabbages that boast firm pointed, well flavoured hearts. Ideal for cooking and make tasty ?spring greens?. Height: 30cm (12). Spread: 35cm (14).
A useful winter-cropping vegetable, hardy and easy-to-grow. It produces masses of tender purple broccoli shoots which turn green when cooked. Height: 90cm (35). Spread: 60cm (24).
Easy-to-grow, reliable variety that is quick to mature with medium length, uniform, rich tasting roots. These are ideal for sowing from late winter until mid-summer. Height: 30cm (12). Spread: 15cm (6).
This variety of Sweetcorn is a superb, deliciously sweet variety. It is more tolerant of cold soils allowing it to mature more quickly.
'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.
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).