Viola sororia ?Freckles? sports unusual violet-purple, speckled blooms during spring and summer. The eye-catching flowers are held above neat clumps of heart shaped, deep-green foliage. This charming Violet will abundantly self-seed, its offspring will around the garden to provide welcome reminders of its loveliness the next spring!
Raingel is a perfect all-in-one hydrator and fertiliser for all of your plants. The gel absorbs water and then it is released as and when required. Because Raingel is also a plant feed a single application will nourish your plants. The crystals swell to absorb water then water is released as needed throughout the season reducing your watering by up to 90%! Only one application is needed to last the whole season. A 150g tub can treat up to 10 x 27cm Hanging Baskets.
Whitecurant 'White Versailles' is an early cropper that produces an abundance of pale yellow fruits, eye-catching fruits. Pick in early summer and enjoy the tasty sweet flavour the whitecurrant has to offer. It is a very relaible cropper, and will provide a good yield year after year - it is just this reason that it has become so popular with the UK grow-your-own customers!
A real gem for winter gardens, producing long lasting floral displays from late October through winter into spring. Clusters of really fragrant, pale to deep pink, long-lasting flowers just seem to keep going and going in winter! A compact shrub at 2.5m tall or so after 10 years, it is easy to manage, and very hardy once established. Some flowers may get frost damage in extreme cold, but new ones appear quickly, and the plant is unharmed. Preferring a sunny spot, it can be grown in large pots. Because of its stunning fragrance and winter displays, plant it close to where you can smell it and see it regularly!
One of the early so called 'hybridberries' resulting from a raspberry x blackberry cross, Loganberries are a splendid plant to train along a wall or trellis. It produces juicy sweet berries from August to October with an aromatic tang and larger and longer that it's raspberry parent. These are preceded by white summertime blossom which provide a nectar feast for all friendly insects. To enjoy the berries at their sweetest be patient and pick when they are purplish red and perfectly ripe, they're lovely eaten fresh and make lovely preserves too. This is a vigorous plant and needs space to thrive, allow 2-4 metres along wires or trellis and you'll enjoy bounteous yiels every year. Once fruiting is over prume away old canes leving freshnew growth in place as these will give fruit the following summer.
Chaenomeles x superba 'Pink Lady is a lovely early spring flowering shrub, that has won the Award of Garden Merit from the RHS. This cultivar of Japanese Quince has coral pink, cup shaped flowers that provide nectar early in the growing season, for pollinating insects.
Wallflower 'Bowles's Mauve' has incredible flower power - flowering from February through to July! This bushy evergreen perennial produces masses of tall, mauve-purple flower spikes which are a great source of early spring nectar for bees. Although relatively short-lived, this lovely Erysimum makes real impact in patio containers, borders and rock gardens where it tolerates even the poorest, dry soils. Erysimum 'Bowles's Mauve' has been awarded an RHS AGM for its outstanding garden performance. Height: 75cm (30). Spread: 60cm (24).
For exotic glamour on your patio, look no further than Gardenia 'Celestial Star'. This hardy Cape Jasmine produces pristine white, fully double blooms with tightly scrolled petals at their centre.
Oca is a tuberous crop from the Andes which produces potato like swollen roots with a lemony, nutty flavour.
Iris germanica, also known as Bearded Iris, are some of the earliest flowering perennials which provide sumptuous flowers in hot summer borders.
Rose 'Timeless' varieties have been carefully chosen to form a collection that is vibrant in colour, disease resistant and heavily scented too. Each of the varieties is available separately although when planted in a group, they will look truly spectacular.