Fast growing and early to flower, this special T&M blend of large- bloomed gerbera make spectacular house plants. Perfect for the patio in summer and a sunny windowsill or glasshouse during the cooler months, they'll provide months of vibrant colour. The flowers are of the very best quality and make excellent cut flowers
Years of selection means that we're now able to offer customers this very pretty and unusual-looking dianthus. Vastly improved, this incredibly fragrant variety offers better colours, including some bicolours as well as top-quality fringed flowers. 'Loveliness' will flower in its first year if sown by the end of February, and will bloom all summer long in borders or containers.
Create an ever-changing kaleidoscope of colour with this striking mixture. Florets within each bloom change colour as the flower matures, from pink to bicolour to white producing a fabulous display in the garden as well as an attractive cut flower. Will flower in its first year from a Jan/Feb sowing or can be sown in June/July to flower the following spring
Like most Viola plants, the pretty flowers of Pansy 'Tasty Mixed' are perfectly edible. These hardy summer pansies have been specially selected for their flavoursome blooms which have a mild, sweet and peppery taste.
Strikingly attractive pitcher plants which give no outward hint of their unusual dietary habits! They attract insects with their enticing scent, alluring colours and the promise of a nectar-like secretion on the lip of the 'pitcher'. A slippery footing on the bloom's rim causes unsuspecting insects to fall inside the cavity of the flower which is filled with a liquid. There is no escape; the insects die and are digested by the plant, it is thought, as a means of augmenting inadequate nitrogen levels in the soil.
Few plants can compare with the spectacular beauty of a tree peony in full bloom. A mature plant can boast in excess of a hundred wonderfully exotic blooms, each one measuring 25cm (10in) or more across. Breathtaking in borders, tree peonies also make exquisite cut flowers. When grown from seed, tree peonies will reward patient gardeners by blooming in 5-7 years from sowing.
A vibrant mix of up to 20 different coloured blooms. Primrose 'Alaska Improved Mixed' boasts extra large flowers and a sturdy constitution! These robust Primroses will happily weather the cold winter months, flowering freely in beds, borders, containers and window boxes for a superb spring display.
Narcissus 'Value Mixed' will fill your beds, borders and containers with a dazzling display. We?ve brought together Daffodils of every colour and shape imaginable, with a long flowering window for the best possible display.
The mid-season blooms of Tulip 'Triumph Mixed' boast bright, fresh colours and shapely single blooms. We?ve brought together a classic mix of these iconic Tulips in one bright and breezy collection.
Hollyhocks are a traditional feature of cottage garden borders and 'Halo Mixed' adds height and colour, with tall stems, almost 2 metres (6ft 6) high, full of bi-coloured flowers, with shades of pink, purple, white, red and yellow. Once planted, they will flower the following year and every year thereafter. Alcea rosea do well in sunny positions and are longer flowering than other Hollyhock cultivars, and will will bloom from June to July. They are great pollinators and will attract bees and butterflies to your garden, making it wildlife friendly.
Papaver nudicaule, better known as the Icelandic Poppy, is like a ray of sunshine to your summer border! Each wide, saucer-shaped bloom opens to reveal crushed-silk petals and a bright yellow boss of stamens at the centre. These cheery short-lived perennials are generally grown as annuals, for sprinkling through sunny borders, rockeries and wildlife gardens.
This versatile Sweet William is generally grown as a biennial or short-lived perennial to create a carpet of summer flowers in the following year. However, it can be grown as an annual from an early sowing, producing flowers in just 10 weeks! Dianthus barbatus 'Indian Carpet' is a low growing, well branched variety which is sweetly fragrant, with a fabulous colour mix.