Extravagant and exotic flowers in dazzling yellow and white, to illuminate your borders and containers. Just as shooting stars are a wonder of nature, so too is this exciting new Nemesia with its branching habit and delightful coconut fragrance. Flowers over a long period, throughout the summer into autumn
Mild and sweet Chilli Pepper 'Anaheim' provides just that little bit of heat, perfect for serving as a fresh garnish to spicy dishes or salads adding a chilli pepper flavour but minus the burn! This variety produces a good crop of long green chilis over the course of the summer which can be picked and used when needed. They are often used green but can also be left to ripen to a red-green colour.
A cheery mixture of smaller flowered heirloom (Grandiflora) types in a wide range of colours. Sweet Pea 'Heirloom Mixed' has a wonderful fragrance that is characteristic of these old fashioned varieties. Perfect for adding colour and fragrance to garden arches, trellises, obelisks. Height: 180cm (71). Spread: 30cm (12)
An impressive mixture of small-flowered, heirloom (Grandiflora type) sweet peas offering the widest range of beautifully scented bicolours. These old fashioned annual Sweet Peas are superb for cutting and the more blooms you cut, the more the plants will flower! Perfect for filling vases indoors with colour and perfume. Try covering a sunny fence or obelisk, or let them scramble through mature shrubs. Height: 200cm (79). Spread: 30cm (12)
More compact and earlier flowering than traditional gaura. 'Sparkle White' offers slender stems topped with a flurry of dazzling white starry blooms. This clump forming variety has a neat habit perfect for front of border or path edging. Once established, it even copes well during periods of drought. Still looks fresh at the end of summer.
Otherwise known as the spring starflower, Ipheion uniflorum produces exquisite star-shaped blooms in early spring. Each stem bears a single, sweet-scented flower (reflecting the Latin uniflorum - single flower), with six pointed petals and colours varying through shades of pale silvery-blue to lilac. The narrow leaves appear before the flowers and, being a close relation to alliums, give off an onion-like aroma when crushed. This small, herbaceous perennial is perfect for mixing with other low-level, spring-flowering bulbs in rock and alpine gardens, borders, beds and containers, and is also good for underplanting shrubs and roses. It naturalises easily, rewarding you with more profuse displays year after year. Easy to grow, the bulbs will thrive in full sun or partial shade, preferring a sheltered position with moderately fertile, well-drained soil. Supplied as a pack of 50 bulbs, size 4/5 ready for planting in the autumn.
Originating from South America, these are one of the bulb world?s best kept secrets! Clumps of bright green foliage emerge in the autumn and winter followed by an abundance of star-shaped flowers in spring, which are borne over a longer period than most spring bulbs. The flowers have a delightfully sweet honey fragrance in contrast to the leaves which have an unusual onion scent when crushed.
Gaura lindheimeri 'Siskiyou Pink' is a compact perennial with wonderful bright pink flowers held on long graceful stems above mounds of narrow foliage. Flowering from May all the way to September Gaura brings a wonderful splash of colour to your garden, and as it keeps on flowering right into the autumn, your borders will look magnificent, even as other summer flowering plants are fading away. With its fresh and airy look, the delicate flowers look a little like butterflies dancing in the breeze. The foliage forms a compact cushion of dark red flushed young leaves that mature to dark green, with flowers buds rising on wand-like stems before bursting open into beautifully bright flowers. A light, informal plant, 'Siskiyou Pink' will fill gaps in your borders and because it's a prairie native, it looks fabulous in wildflower of cottage style planting schemes. It also does well in pots, where its long flowering season will brighten up your patio month after month. Recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators' the flowers are produced through the spring and summer and are a favourite with butterflies and bees. Easy to grow and fully winter hardy and drought tolerant, it prefers a warm spot in a light soil where it can happily grow upwards through other plants, just wonderful! Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant, growing to 80cm tall and 60cm in width.
Heleniums, also known as sneezeweed, flower over a long period from June, guaranteeing you a spectacular display every year. Bursting from deep bronze buds, 'Moerheim Beauty' produces an endless display of dark centred, copper-red flowers splashed with orange from early summer into autumn. Held on tall, straight stems, they are perfect for cutting and bringing into your home for a splash of rich colour. The fiery outer petals form a blazing ring around a prominent brown button which in turn gradually transitions to yellow as it ages as a wave of stamens appear. Perfect for late season colour, still flowering abundantly when most other plants are fading away. 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. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting, growing to a height of 1m and spread of 50cm.
Incredibly pretty, Gaura lindheimeri 'Rosyjane' produces white star shaped flowers with sweet pink picotee edges, which bob on long slender stems. This fabulous hardy perennial flowers non-stop from late spring through to September for an incredible 5 months of colour! A big hit at the Chelsea Flower Show when it was launched, Gaura lindheimeri 'Rosyjane' is tall and airy; a perfect addition to large patio containers or grouped in sunny borders where it attracts bees and butterflies. Height and Spread: 60cm (24).