The Ox-Eye Daisy greets me every summer around Misterland, with its bright shimmering white and yellow blooms. Little Miss Hug loves to grow them too.
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.
Producing multiple blooms continuously for many months, you can expect a full and prolific display which brings interest to the garden all summer long.
Heather x darleyensis can thrive in exposed areas, making it an ideal plant for coastal gardens or alpine rockeries, with no shelter from fencing or trees. The plant flowers all though winter into spring, when most of the garden is dreary and dormant. Heather always looks great planted near to dwarf conifers, such as Juniper, and is extremely low maintenance. It has needle like foliage and masses of petite flowers and as a low growing shrub, it can be used as a groundcover alternative to grass lawns, if planted in groups. Height: 30cm (12). Spread: 60cm (24).
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').
Description for Linum grandiflorum 'Salmon Bright Eyes' not available
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
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).
A dwarf variety of dazzling sunflowers in golden colours. These strong-growing plants are well-branched and bear several flowers per plant. Height: 270cm (6). Spread: 60cm (24).Culinary information: Some parts of these flowers are edible. Click here for more details about edible flowers.
A pair of Floribunda Roses that are perfect for garden borders and planters. Rose 'For Your Eyes Only' was named Rose of the year 2015, and Rose 'Eye of the Tiger' is a cultivar that combines the vigour of modern breeding with the charm of wild roses.