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The Rose of the Year is selected annually by some of the best rose judges on the country, and in 2015 they chose 'For Your Eyes Only' as their clear winner. A repeat flowering floribunda rose, 'For Your Eyes Only' will flower over and incredibly long period from May until October. Such a distinctive rose, it's the result of over 30 years of selective breeding, and the outcome is truly wonderful! The amazing single flowers and uniquely coloured in mixture of beautiful shades of pink and orange with rich maroon centres and they carry a lovely light and sweet fragrance. 'For Your Eyes Only' has great disease resistance and will grow well in sun or light shade, in pots or borders. It's short height also makes it ideal as a flowering hedging plant. Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot, growing to a height and spread of 90cm (3ft).
Taking a 'Champion' apple tree and expertly grafting three other varieties onto it has produced a single tree that carries four entirely different varieties of apple! Perfect if you're short on space, it means that you can grow a selection of delicious apples in a pot on your patio if you don't have room in the garden space for it. With wonderful blossom in the spring followed by masses of delicious fruit, this incredible tree has something to offer all year round. The apples will ripen at their natural time, giving a much longer cropping period than you'd have if growing just a one variety. 'Champion' a cross between 'Golden Delicious' and 'Cox's Orange Pippin' with extra-large, deep red, juicy and crisp fruit that keeps fresh for a long time. A wonderful eating apple and great for juicing. Ready to harvest in October. 'Elstar' is a versatile variety that is delicious and juicy eaten straight from the tree, this apple's honeyed sweetness balanced with slight acidity means it is also a great for cooking - superb in cakes, desserts and apple sauce! Producing medium-sized dessert apples, 'Elstar' are bursting with juicy flavour, ready from October to December. 'Pinova' lovely yellow skin flushed with orange and a good juicy balance between sweet and tart. Aromatic with crisp, firm flesh and great for eating and cooking, ripening from October and stores particularly well. 'Braeburn' is the UK's most popular eating apple variety by far! The crisp and juicy white-fleshed fruits have what is considered by most to be the perfect sweet/tangy flavour balance, literally providing a flavour explosion with every mouthful, providing gorgeous fruit from mid-October.
Cambridge Favourite is one of the most popular garden varieties grown in the UK, and these British bred plants are totally hardy and will provide lbs of strawberriesthroughout their lifetime. The strawberry runners are ready to plant now and will burst into flower and fruit this summer onwards. Nothing compares to eating sweet, juicy and delicious strawberries picked from your garden, and Cambridge Favourite reliably produces bumper crops of medium-sized orange-red fruits throughout June just in time for Wimbledon! Each one has a deliciously sweet flavour and if you can resist eating them fresh from the plant they are perfect for making jams and puddings! Each plant can produce up to 400g (1lb) of strawberries this June and more in subsequent seasons. They will be supplied as frozen runners so no need to worry about late frosts. They dont look pretty, but each one will have a small bud waiting to burst into life and loads of potential to grow and bear delicious fruit! Supplied as a pack of 20 Class 1 runners.
Make Christmas more fun by growing your own non-needle drop Nordmann Christmas tree from these cute starter plants. This 3 year old tree has been nurtured from seed, trimmed twice already to get that all important shape started, and grown in its pot for a year, so is now bursting to romp away in its new home. Perfect for planting into a larger pot such as a 20-25cm (8-10in) diameter pot for 2 years or so, or popping straight into the garden soil and growing it outside for a few years, you can watch this tree grow year after year. Tough, evergreen, very hardy and easy to grow. Perfect for celebrating a new home, a new member of the family, or just so the children can learn a lot growing fun trees.
'Morello' Cherry is often referred to as 'The Cooking Cherry' because it is the variety most frequently used for making the delicious fragrant pies and jams we all know and love! The fruits are packed with juice and the skin colour is dark red. It is one of the most reliable croppers of all the sour cherries because it is self-ertile, late flowering and so less susceptible to frost damage, plus it is incredibly disease resistant a real winner for any garden! 'Morello' Cherry is also a great tree to grow on a north-facing wall because even in a cooler position with low light levels it will still grow and thrive and fruit as normal you can usually expect to pick the fruits from late August onwards.
Now, through using the right varieties, you can grow fresh Nectarines here in the UK too. 'Flavour Top' is a large frutiing variety and slow growing, suited to smaller gardens and large pots, it will only reach 7-8ft in 10 years or so. We suggest growing in a pot, as it can be moved indoors in Spring to avoid peach leaf-curl by keeping the foliage dry, and also you can then let it develop over the Summer where the fruits can be seen and easily picked too. It is self-fertile, and a heavy cropper - producing fruit in the first two or three years, with bigger crops in years 5 onwards. Some people report such heavy crops they need to thin the fruitlets down! It produces classic red fruits, very juicy, that easily leave the stone when eaten. Nectarine 'Flavour Top' really is hard to fault.
A long-flowering, semi-evergreen shrub that looks fabulous in a mixed border, Abelia 'Tricolour Charm' (R) has attractive, glossy, multi-coloured leaves and fragrant white flowers. Ideal for a cottage-style garden, this shrub is remarkable due to its tricolour foliage in shades of green, cream and pink, tinged with yellow in spring. Its perfumed white flowers appear from July and last well into September. Compact in habit, Tricolour Charm forms a neat shrub that is perfect for growing in a pot on the terrace or balcony in a sunny, sheltered position. Easy to grow and hardy to -12°C, it's best grown in the shelter of a wall or towards the back of a border to encourage it to hang on to its leaves. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready for immediate planting.
Everyone knows and loves a Buddleia for their sheer flower power and magnetic allure for butterflies - hence their common name The Butterfly Bush. Here is a new twist on a much-loved favourite - 3 separate colours on one. Our clever growers have skilfully matched 3 different coloured plants - one white, one pink and one purple blue - and grown them close together in one pot. As the plant develops, the stems intermingle, creating a most intriguing mixed colour effect which will get the neighbours talking! Retaining their magical attraction to butterflies, you can look forward to peacock and tortoiseshell butterflies aplenty this summer - and for years beyond. Buddleia is one of the most robust and easy-care shrubs to grow requiring almost no maintenance - we suggest a simple hack back to about 30cm each spring before new leaves appear, but hey, if you forget, it will be fine too! Very hardy, and disease free, grow in sunny spots or large pots.
Simply Stunning! Garden Glamour Repeat-Flowering Rose Bush Collection... Fully Fragrant Flowers For Non-Stop Summer Colour Every Year! This sensational Garden Glamour collection has been specially selected and features five multiple award-winning varieties, three of which have been honoured with the prestigious title "World's Favourite Rose"; 'Pascali', 'Queen Elizabeth' and 'Peace'! All are proven performers, guaranteed to produce masses of fragrant classic-style flowers. Each bush repeat flowers from May to October for a non-stop display of spectacular colour and scent - plant now for the best flowering displays next year! Perfect for pots, patios or borders, they reach 60 - 90cm in height and spread - perfect for all gardens, and easy to keep too. • Incredible fragrance from each flower• Repeat displays - masses of blooms from May - October• All disease resistant, proven performers in British gardens• 60 - 90cm high - perfect for patios, beds and borders Supplied as dormant, bare root roses in autumn and winter, ready to plant straight out, and they will shoot away the following spring as temperatures warm up - will flower in first year after planting.
An enduring favourite and holder of a coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, 'Defender' crops early and has a picking season that can be twice as long as other varieties, producing heavy crops of delicious and firm, mid-green courgettes. Harvest time is from July right through to October and the fruits should be picked when they're 10-15cm long. The plants will grow to 45cm high and 90cm wide.
'Patio Star' is definitely appropriately named! This fast growing, heavy cropping courgette will crop all summer long with regular harvesting. It's neat and compact habit makes it ideal for growing in pots or containers as well as in the vegetable garden. The glossy dark green skins are very thin, which makes these corgettes idea for cooking whole. For the best flavour, harvest as baby courgettes at about 10-15cm (4-6in) long. If not eaten immediately, they will keep well for a few days stored in the fridge. The bright yellow flowers are also edible, use them as soon after picking as possible for best results. Try adding them to salads for extra colour and interest. These easy to grow, attractive plants look great in the garden or on the patio, with their exotic looking flowers and temptingly tactile fruit drawing you eye. Supplied as 6 plug plants, ready to grow on and plant out when the risk of frost has passed.