A vigorous evergreen climbing plant that will certainly add a huge amount of summer sunshine to your patio! Mandevilla plants are exotic looking specimens that do need to be brought indoors during the winter months but will happily adorn your garden in pots during the summer!
Swirling folds of dark petals are delicately edged will pale gold margins, to sensational effect! This jaw-dropping new variety shows good colour stability, regardless of changes in heat and light throughout the summer.
This hard working shrub bears a profusion of flowers in winter and spring, just when the garden is at it dullest. Fragrant pale yellow, pea-like blooms stand out against a backdrop of blue-green foliage that remains evergreen. With a compact, rounded habit Coronilla glauca 'Citrina' is ideal for gardens of any size, adding a splash of valuable winter colour to sunny borders. Coronilla is particularly useful in coastal areas where it will happily tolerate exposed conditions. This hardy shrub also makes a superb wall shrub. Height and spread: 100cm (39).
A luxurious mix of double 'peony' bloomed tulips, offering an explosion of early spring colour. Long lasting in borders, returning strong each spring for many years in the garden. A low growing mix ideal for filling out beds and borders. Ht. 20cm.
Aquilegia vulgaris 'William Guinness' is a striking variety of Columbine. From the shape of its flowers, it is easy to see why it is sometimes dubbed 'Granny's Bonnet', although the black blooms with white corolla are certainly more fashionable than the average pensioner's headwear! Indeed, these unusual colours give the plant the alternative name of Aquilegia 'Magpie' and you will certainly want to collect several of these hardy perennials which are attractive to beneficial garden insects such as bees and butterflies. After it has flowered in the late spring, the green foliage and appealing seedheads of Aquilegia 'William Guinness' remain an attractive addition to sunny or partially shady gardens throughout the season.
Potentilla fruticosa 'Mount Everest is a Shrubby Cinquefoil, which are native cold regions of the Northern Hemisphere, making them ideal for British gardens. This hardy plant has delicate flowers, with five rounded white petals and pale yellow centres. It flowers all through the summer months, from May to September. A good option for small gardens, or as an addition to an alpine rockery. Easy to maintain and good drought tolerance, it is a wildlife friendly plant that will attract bees and butterflies. Height and spread: 1m (39).
Known as Portuguese Squill, Scilla peruviana is a dramatic late spring/early summer flowering bulb that is certain to draw the eye in any display. Large heads, each containing up to 100 deep blue starlet flowers create domes of colour from May to June.
Slightly paler in colour than the more common Tickseed varieties, Coreopsis ?Moonbeam' is a large hardy perennial plant with lemon yellow flowers. The attractive daisy type flowers sit above ferny foliage making it a perfect choice for borders, bedding displays and because butterflies will flock to feed on the nectar Tickseed will be invaluable in wildlife gardens too. Coreopsis 'Moonbeam' will make excellent ground cover and is tolerant of most soil types. Height: 50cm (19). Spread: 45cm (18).
These remarkable new 'Sweet Williams' will flower in the same summer as they are planted - normally they bloom the following year! So treat yourself to some colourful, scented flowers in your borders or containers this year, and be sure to display some of the flowers in a vase too. Ht. 40-50cm. Supplied as plug tray plants.
Begonia x tuberhybrida 'Illumination Mixed' are a great option for easy maintenance and long flowering summer window boxes, planters etc.