Echinacea, also known as the Coneflower, are hardy perennials that flower at the height of summer and continue until the first autumn frosts. The name refers to the cone-shaped centre of the large, brightly coloured flowers. Not only are they beautifully, they're also one of the best plants you can grow for attracting all manner of wildlife into your garden. In this collection: Echinacea Hybrida Papallo Lemon - Produces classic daisy-like single Echinacea flowers, with vibrant yellow petals packed around a green-yellow central cone. Echinacea Hybrida 'Papallo Orange' - With its spectacular, daisy-like single flowers with fiery orange, backward swept petals around a darker orange central cone. They are perfect for late season colour and flowering from July until September. Carried on long, straight, and sturdy stems, they are wonderful cut flowers and are adored by bees and butterflies and once they fade, birds will feast on the seeds, so try to resist the temptation to deadhead the later season blooms. Popular in cottage garden planting, they're perfectly at home in borders and pots, and look spectacular planted in groups, returning year after year to give you a stunning display. Supplied as 2 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting, reaching a height of 70cm (2½ft) and a spread of 50cm (20in).
Recent Lily breeding has created some huge and beautifully fragrant Oriental type Lilies, in their pinks and whites, their brighter, bolder and brighter Asiatic cousins seem to have been left out. Not any more following their breeding with the ever-popualr Longilforum scented lilies, to create Longiflorum Asiatic (LA) hybrids. With their beautiful sunshine rays of colours in a range of bold 'fruit-salad shades' in yellow, berry pink, orange and red, these vibrant and hot tropical colours really light up your hot summer garden, and they even inherit some of the fragrance of their parents too. Short and strong enough to grow in pots, yet tall enough to cut armfuls of flowers each summer, they are versatile, and very hardy and easy. Plant en masse in large pots or in groups for maximum impact, or maybe just dot them round your garden to brighten up odd spots. Plant in spring, and pick in summer - and again year after year. Great value and easy to do Lilies.
Cucumber 'Femspot' is particularly early variety with a strong growth habit! Throughout summer it produces good crops of slender, ribbed cucumbers with a crisp, refreshing texture and no bitterness. As the name suggests, this is an all-female variety that is best grown in the greenhouse.
Inject beautiful shades of pink into to your garden this summer with 'Piilu' clematis. It will produce a simply gorgeous, early season display with its large and eye-catching blooms. Never one to disappoint, it will produce a second display of its star-shaped flowers later in the summer from August to September. A vigorous climber, this clematis has a relatively compact habit, and this makes it suitable for growing in container if space is limited, where its free-flowering nature can be put to best effect. Clematis plants make wonderful additions to any garden and can be used very effectively to screen and hide objects and to enhance other plants such as other climbers and shrubs, especially roses. Due to the compact nature of this plant, you can also plant in a pot or container on the patio, so you should not worry about finding space in your borders. Why not grow up an obelisk in a pot for a beautiful patio display? Winter hardy and free flowering, they can pretty much be left to their own devices with just a light trim in late winter/early spring and a prune back in the summer after flowering. Supplied as an established plant in a 15cm pot, with a supporting tripod, ready to plant.
Flowering later in the season, this 'Justa' clematis is made up of beautiful lavender-blue blooms that are smaller than most hybrids but large in numbers, making sure that there is enough colour on this climber to satisfy the eyes! A vigorous climber, this clematis has a relatively compact habit, and this makes it suitable for growing in container if space is limited, where its free-flowering nature can be put to best effect. Clematis plants make wonderful additions to any garden and can be used very effectively to screen and hide objects and to enhance other plants such as other climbers and shrubs, especially roses. Due to the compact nature of this plant, you can also plant in a pot or container on the patio, so you should not worry about finding space in your borders. Why not grow up an obelisk in a pot for a beautiful patio display? Winter hardy and free flowering, they can pretty much be left to their own devices with just a light trim in late winter/early spring trim and a prune back in the summer after flowering. Supplied as an established plant in a 15cm pot, with a supporting tripod, ready to plant.
Tomato 'Patia Rose' is a medium sized tomato producing plum shaped fruits with an excellent flavour. This vigorous variety bears respectable yields that can be enjoyed in salads or made into sauces.
Sweet Pepper 'Celica' is an F1 Hybrid variety producing good crops of rounded Bell Peppers that ripen from glossy green to scarlet red.
Specially selected from the well-known ?Ligtu Hybrids?, Alstroemeria ?Butterfly Hybrids? make fabulous cut flowers in the best shades of purple, adding a tropical theme to vases and bouquets. They are highly attractive to butterflies and also make great cut flowers. Ht. 60cm. Supplied as Postiplug plants.
Description for Begonia x tuberhybrida 'Giant Mixed' not available
Anemone x hybrida ?Honorine Jobert? doesn't insist on having plenty of sunlight the way a lot of plants do, this cheerful plant is happy to be placed in the sun or a nice shady spot in your garden. The flowering period of August through to even as late as October means that these elegant white, single flowers will bring interest to your borders when the days are shortening and your summer displays are at an end. The pristine white flowers with large yellow centres stand tall above the attractive foliage on strong thin stems so they they'll catch the breeze and flutter gently. Japanese anemones are easy to grow and the clump-forming attractive foliage will gradually spread forming good ground cover. Height: 90cm (3'0); Spread: 90cm (3'0).
Spinach ?Tetona? is a productive variety with plenty of F1 vigour. Good yields of bright green, smooth, rounded leaves are produced over a long cropping period. The leaves have a delicious sweet flavour and a crisp bite, making them perfect for sandwiches and salads when picked as baby leaves.