Add a real WOW factor to your cooking with Albert Bartlett Purple Majesty! This unique potato variety has a stunning deep-purple colour which is retained even when you cook it - imagine your kids' faces when you serve up purple mashed potatoes! Not only that, this extra-special variety is packed full of antioxidants - just like other superfoods like blueberries - so it is super-healthy too. Best of all and most importantly, Purple Majesty is absolutely delicious! This versatile spud is perfect for boiling, mashing, baking and roasting - and what's more it is surprisingly easy to grow, even if you don't have a garden.
.A delicious new early maincrop potato with a golden appearance and a sensational taste. Elfe will give you a heavy crop of large smooth skinned potatoes that keep well. They are perfect for boiling, mashing and baking - do this and you'll discover the flavour wich is silky and sweet - so good that you'll think the butter has already been added! Because theflesh is soft it's much easier to mash without lumps too.
Bring a little Christmas cheer to your garden over winter with this glorious flowering Camellia - we can't sing its praises enough as it's bursting with buds and just waiting to erupt into glorious colour! Unlike many of the usual winter-flowering plants, Camellia 'Yuletide' will flower through Christmas and into early spring, with an abundance of brilliantly coloured, red blooms, each with a glowing cluster of golden yellow stamens at the centre - eye-catching and very distinctive. Typically, festive in sumptuous red and green, the luxurious flowers shine against the glossy leaves, making this compact shrub ideal as a Yule centrepiece in the garden - it can even be brought inside over Christmas in a pot as an unusual decoration, just remember to return it outside once the festivities are over. Plus, at less than half the price of other suppliers, it really is worth grabbing one now! More than able to bring winter interest to any garden border, you can even grow 'Yuletide' in a container, so even without a garden you can enjoy the magnificent display of flowers. Fully hardy and easy to grow, there's no need to worry about complicated pruning, just snip off any branches that are dead, diseased, or dying - so not only is this camellia easy on the eye, but it's also easy to grow too! Grow Yuletide in a sheltered, partially shaded position out of drying winds in a moist but well-drained, fertile soil which needs to be acid in nature - if planting in a pot, use ericaceous compost. Supplied as an established plant in a 13cm pot, ready to plant out.
If you're struggling to grow orchids then give our Bletilla Lucky Dip Collection a go. This easy growing orchid is as tough as it is beautiful. Bletilla will fill your garden with delicate blooms from spring through to early summer.
Oxalis melanosticta 'Ken Aslet' is a cheery little alpine plant with attractive silvery-green, clover-like foliage which is softly hairy. The tubular, golden flowers that emerge in late summer bring a splash of colour to the garden as other plants are fading.
Albert Bartlett 'Vivaldi' is a premium-quality, second early variety with a unique taste and texture. It is high yielding, giving plenty of 'baby' potatoes through July and August, and equally good larger maincrop potatoes if left to mature a while longer. These superb 'whites' have a consistent oval shape, smooth skin with small eyes, and pale yellow flesh that remains firm when cooked, whether eaten hot or cold. One of the best all-rounders, 'Vivaldi' is great for roasting, boiling, baking, mashing, steaming, frying - and even microwaving - and its firmness and delicious flavour makes it one of the best varieties for potato salad. Known as the 'weightwatcher's potato', it is lower in carbohydrates and calories than other varieties and its velvety smoothness means you don't need to add butter. Whether baked, mashed or boiled, these potatoes taste just lovely and sweet on their own! A worthy recipient of the RHS Award of Garden Merit, 'Vivaldi' receives high reviews for its taste and texture from both home and commercial gardeners. This easy-to-grow reliable cropper also has good resistance to common potato scab. Once the seed potatoes have produced shoots or chits, they will be ready to plant directly into a prepared bed or large bags or containers from mid-March, preferably after the frosts have gone. Young potatoes can be harvested from 13-17 weeks after planting. Supplied as a 2kg bag of seed potatoes (approx. 20 tubers) ready to prepare indoors for planting out in the spring.
Impressive and large flowering shrubs often seen on the continent, the sun loving Crepe Myrtle, or Lagerstroemia indica, can also be grown in the UK, providing vivid, exotic colour from its dazzling flowers. Masses of bright violet flowers in 20cm long panicles will smother it in summer and autumn, attracting bees and butterflies into your garden to feast on the fabulous blooms. The flowers are large and with crinkled edges, and produced on the current season's growth. The foliage is bronze when young, before maturing into dark green with large leaves 8cm long, and with attractive peeling grey and brown bark and great autumn foliage colour, Lagerstroemia puts on a spectacular show for most of the year. Hardy to -5°C, it'll need some protection during the coldest winters, and it can be grown in a large pot to make sheltering it easier. 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. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready to plant. Growing to 5m (16ft).
A magnet for bees and butterflies, Calamintha nepeta 'Marvelette Blue' is a garden marvel! This hardy perennial sends up airy spikes of purple-blue flowers above aromatic, mint-scented foliage. Early to bloom, with a compact, bushy habit. This charming Dw
Now even better! Sumptuous fully double fringed blooms in the most amazing shade of pink. This narcissus must be seen to be believed! Grow them outdoors in borders and rockeries, or in containers on a bright windowsill indoors. Also excellent as cut flowers to make a really pretty posy! Height: 45cm (18). Bulb size: 12/14cm.
Now includes Roots Boost mycorrhizal granules for better root establishment, worth 3.99. Protect your investment in fruit trees, with our high-quality, easy-to-use and low-cost tree planting kit. Comprising 3 treated and tanalised softwood support stakes, each 1.2m long x 3.2cm across, and 3 super-soft 38cm long rubber tree ties, to firmly hold the tree trunks in place while the root system establishes. In addition, we are including a FREE 60g sachet of Roots Boost Mycorrhizal granules, containing millions of beneficial fungi, which will colonise the roots of your newly planted trees, giving better and quicker establishment, reducing losses and making trees more drought tolerant in dry summers. Each sachet can treat 3-4 trees. The perfect way to give your Orchard Fruit Tree Collection the best start possible!
Runner Bean 'Scarlet Empire' produces longer, smoother, slender pods which are stringless, but remain as early, tasty and productive as its forebear.