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).
Coreopsis 'Cosmic Eye' flowers throughout the summer and well into autumn, producing stunning blooms with rich burgundy petals with golden edges that attract both bees and butterflies. Versatile Tickseed plants are very useful in the garden, growing almost anywhere, even in dry soil. Coreopsis 'Cosmic Eye' is a compact and bushy variety, and makes an excellent cut flower. Height: 40cm (15). Spread: 30cm (12).
This new variety is Rose of the Year for 2015 is amazing! Luxurious blooms with a subtle scent and a blend of enthralling colours is sure to create a sensation in your garden. Rich burgundy centres speckled with golden stamens and surrounded by pink petals produce a subtle and enchanting aroma. This superb rose will make a stunning feature in the border or in a patio container. Height of mature plant.90cm. Supplied as a bare root plant.
Create maximum colour in your flower beds and patio displays this year - the unique, green-edged chocolate coloured foliage makes the brightly coloured blooms stand out even more dramatically! The upright plants are incredibly floriferous, producing masses of flower stems from June until October. Height 30 cm (12'). Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Osteospermum 'Blue Eyed Beauty' is a welcome beauty in any sunny borders, beds, or containers.
Creeping Phlox are useful for dry, sunny spots and parched ground where other plants just won't grow! Once established, Phlox 'Pharao Red Eye' will thrive in the driest of soils, producing an impenetrable mat of fragrant flowers, suppressing weeds and resisting drought!
White petals are heavily patterned with rich blue and a yellow stripe with dark blue freckles, pushing through the cold soil to brighten the late winter garden. This adorable dwarf iris is a fantastic variety for patio pots, rockeries, windowboxes and at the front of borders. Ht. 15-20cm
Bees and butterflies love the lavender-blue, nectar-rich flowers of Lilac 'Katherine Havemeyer'. Gardeners love this shrub too, for its graceful hanging flower clusters, delicious fragrance, heart-shaped leaves, and because it is such an easy shrub to grow and maintain. Syringa vulgaris grows quickly in a sunny spot and attracts many beneficial insects to the garden. Height: 7m (23'). Spread: 7m (23').
Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm' is a neat daisy which erupts into bloom from July to October adding warm, end of season colour to your borders. Also known as Black-Eyed-Susan, 'Goldsturm' produces masses of uniform, golden-yellow flowers, each with a rich brown centre that will light up the garden like sunshine. A compact form of the garden coneflower, the sunflower-like blooms are carried on branching, upright stems which makes them great for cut flowers as well, so you can bring the colour indoors. Totally hardy, even in the harshest winters where it will die back underground, Rudbeckia Goldsturm will flower its socks off, getting bigger and better each year and you'll get months of blooms which look fabulous whether in a container or at the front of the flower border. Growing to just 80cm tall, the toothed, hairy leaves form a compact mound which adequately fills those gaps in borders which appear as the seasons progresses, providing a green backdrop for late spring and summer flowers. Easy to grow and particularly robust, this delightful rudbeckia is low maintenance too as it won't need staking and in late winter the stems just need a quick chop back to ground level - or if you want to encourage wildlife leave them on to provide a natural mulch and home for overwintering insects and invertebrates. 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 and it will return year after year getting bigger and better for many years to come. Supplied as an established plant in a 2L pot ready to plant out.
The original patio pepper! An early ripening variety, Chilli Pepper 'Cheyenne' produces masses of medium sized, hot, green fruits turning orange throughout the summer. This productive F1 variety produces excellent yields from neat, bushy plants.