A striking variety from T&M breeding. Classified as a perennial but from an early sowing it acts like an annual! Prolific, early flowering, fully double scarlet flowers up to 50% larger than other varieties, over a long period. Fantastic in the border and cottage garden, and a dazzling cut flower. Fleuroselect Quality Award
Fill you garden with the spectacular colour and eye-catching blooms of Geum x chiloen feuerball 'Mrs Bradshaw'. This hardy perennial will make a perfect addition to your beds, borders, and containers. A cottage garden favourite, it produces simply stunning, flame red, semi-double blooms. The petals look almost like tissue paper and the yellow centres a gorgeous focal point on each bloom. They stand atop unique purple stems, and the dark evergreen foliage has coarsely textured leaves. 'Mrs Bradshaw' is a versatile perennial and will suit any situation. If you are looking to encourage wildlife into your garden, this Geum is a magnet for bees and butterflies, it will also make a perfect addition to a cutting garden and look beautiful when arranged in bouquets with other flowers. 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. Easy to grow, 'Mrs Bradshaw' will thrive in sull sun or partial shade in well-drained soil, try to avoid soils that prone to getting waterlogged and deadhead faded blooms to prolong the flowering period. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready to pot on or plant out. Growing to a height and spread of 50cm (19.68in)
Geum Lady Stratheden is perfect for perennial borders, in a prairie or cottage garden style. It has semi-double buttercup-yellow flowers, above a spreading clump of coarsely hairy, dark green foliage.
A real dazzler, Geum 'Fireball' is easy to grow in a sunny spot and comes back year after year with its fine display of fiery blooms. The ruffled orange flowers with scalloped edges are borne on thin stems above clumps of leaves and last from May right through to July. They contrast wildly with strong blues and purples. Loved by pollinating insects, Avens also make great cut flowers. Height and spread: 45cm (18).
A great choice for a splash of lemon yellow in a sunny spring border, Geum 'Banana Daiquiri' has an enchanting little flower with a swirl of yellow anthers surrounded by the most delicate lemon yellow petals, each one lined with almost-transparent veins. The flower grows on a tall fuzzy stem above the neat clump of semi-evergreen leaves. This little Avens looks good at the front of the border and makes a nice cut flower in a spring arrangement. Height: 45cm (18). Spread: 35cm (14).
A lovely new variety, Geum 'Cosmopolitan' has a very pretty flower with ruffles of creamy-apricot petals veined with fine rose-pink lines and tinged with deeper pink at the tips. The petals surround a deep yellow centre and the flowers are held on tall stems above a clump of semi-evergreen foliage. The sweet nectar of this Avens is loved by bees and other pollinating insects. Planted in full sun, this is a good choice for the front of the border. Height: 60cm (24). Spread: 45cm (18).
A worthy cottage garden stalwart and RHS AGM winning perennial, Geum 'Mrs J. Bradshaw' has eye-catching semi-double scarlet blooms throughout summer. The attractive open-faced flowers are produced on slender stems above clumps of scalloped foliage and the plants are well suited to be placed at the front of herbaceous borders. Height and Spread: 60cm (24).
Flowering freely from early summer right through to early autumn, this bright and cheerful cottage garden plant really works hard to earn its place at the front of the border. Geum 'Totally Tangerine' has masses of gorgeous pale orange flowers with warm orangey-brown centres, held on branching stems above clumps of semi-evergreen, finely serrated leaves. This pretty Avens makes a lovely cut flower too. Height: 60cm (24). Spread: 45cm (18).
Geum 'Samba Sunset' comes from the latest breeding programmes for larger blooms and a free-flowering display. The results are spectacular! Enormous, double flowers, twice the size of traditional varieties, are borne throughout the summer.