Lilac josikaea is a wide, spreading species with a big garden presence. Slender stems bear airy panicles of small, pink flowers with a sweet perfume. Hungarian Lilacs are well suited to a cooler climate, making a superb specimen shrub towards the back of the border.
Commonly known as Rouen or Chinese Lilac, this eye-catching hybrid is a cross between Syringa persica and S.vulgaris. The result is a free flowering shrub with much smaller leaves than the Common Lilac, giving a more airy appearance in garden borders.
Syringa pubescens subsp. patula 'Miss Kim' stands out for its profusion of sweetly scented, mauve-pink flowers in May and June. The blooms are delicate and smaller than the commonly seen Syringa vulgaris varieties, giving it a more elegant appearance.
Amazing plumes of mauve flowers cover this deciduous shrub almost continually from spring to the first frosts. The abundant blooms of Lilac 'Bloomerang Dark Purple' are sweetly fragrant and make a lovely addition to cut flower arrangements. With a neat, compact habit, this superb lilac bush makes a fabulous specimen for cottage garden borders and large containers.
A delightful Lilac that out blooms most other varieties by weeks! Lilac 'Flowerfesta® Pink' begins to produce its fragrant pink flowers in May, and continues into June with a second flush in September. This neat, compact dwarf lilac is perfect for patio containers or borders in even the smallest garden.
Cascading Ivy-leaf Geraniums are always popular for their gently trailing stems and vibrant colours. Geranium 'Decora Lilac? is the perfect mix of pink-purple petals with purple veins for filling your baskets, window boxes and containers with long lasting summer colour
Violet red buds open to reveal particularly large, double lilac-blue panicles of flowers, up to 25cm (10) long. Syringa 'President Grevy? is a consistently reliable, trouble-free variety with nectar rich, fragrant flowers that are loved by butterflies. A well loved specimen shrub for cottage garden borders that requires little maintenance. Height and spread: 7m (22?).
Lilac 'President Lincoln' is simple and elegant, with pale purple blooms and a deliciously sweet fragrance. This well branched, deciduous shrub is relatively compact compared to some of its sprawling cousins.
A froth of lilac-pink flowers burst into bloom from May to June, enticing bees and butterflies to their rich nectar. The sweetly perfumed blooms are an early summer treat, filling the garden with fragrance and making a fabulous cut flower for a vase indoors.
Unlike some Syringa varieties, Lilac 'Madame Florent Stepman' is relatively compact, remaining a manageable size for the average UK garden over many years.
Sweet Pepper ?Beluga Lilac? bears high yields of delicious peppers which are a gorgeous deep purple when young maturing to deep red.
The first of a new breed in trailing Vincas! Specifically for baskets and containers they are early flowering with large, rounded, overlapping petals forming striking, vivid blooms. Catharanthus is frost tender and therefore usually treated as a half hardy annual in the UK, unless grown in a warm greenhouse or conservatory.