For all the year round production of delicious spring/bunching onions, Spring Onion Performer produces upright, dark green leaves and mild flavoured stems which do not bulb. You can successionally sow Spring Onion Performer throughout spring and summer, continuing into autumn. Prefers fertile, well-drained soil in full sun. A source of vitamin C and the B vitamins. Their pungent flavour indicates they are full of the polynutrients thought to endow onion. Height: 30cm (12). Spread: 23cm (9).
In years gone by, Cyclamen persicum were most often found as winter flowering houseplants! These Florist?s Cyclamen will certainly look great on a windowsill indoors, but Cyclamen persicum Metis Series are hardy enough to grow outdoors too, stoically surviving temperatures down to -5C (23F).
Fast-growing 'baby' leeks specially bred to be ready to pick in just 10 weeks from sowing. Pull them at 'spring onion size' for fresh and tasty leeks out of season; with a flavour that's milder than spring onions, they are delicious in stir fries and salads
Grow the first cascading African daisy for something really different this summer! This vigorous trailing variety of the African daisy comes in a sunshine blend of five vivid colours that will fill your baskets, window boxes and containers with colour.
Osteospermum 'Purple Sun' is a multi-award winning plant. The vibrant flowers smother the plant in summer. They have mauve centres, with yellow tipped petals.
A compact and relatively new variety, 'Chic n Choc' is suitable for growing in a container on your patio or balcony and produces an abundance of noticeably scented blooms. Ideal for a pot or smaller space in sun or dappled shade, this is a honeysuckle that anyone can grow, whatever the size of your garden! With an impressively long flowering period from early summer until the end of autumn, this honeysuckle produces beautiful crimson-purple flower buds in early summer which open to reveal fragrant flowers of delicate pink-white that eventually saturate with warm golden-yellow. Even when not in flower, this is a honeysuckle to covet - its glorious red stems provide the perfect contrast to the elliptical blue-green leaves and as a semi-evergreen it will hold its own in the garden for longer. Easy to grow and maintain, with the only pruning required being a quick snip to keep it tidy, 'Chic n Choc' is also disease tolerant and fully hardy. Supplied as an established plant in a 2L pot, ready for planting straight out.
Dramatic scarlet flowersIdeal for the back of borders. A monarch among bulbs! Dramatic crowns of scarlet bell shaped flowers are topped with a whirl of leaf like bracts. Just a few of their tall stately stems is sufficient to create a bold display.
The original patio pepper! An early ripening variety, Chilli Pepper 'Cheyenne' produces masses of medium sized, hot, green fruits turning orange throughout the summer. This productive F1 variety produces excellent yields from neat, bushy plants.
How often do you forget which variety you planted? With these stylish copper labels you can identify your plants without the need for ugly plastic labels that ruin your display!
Few plants are as cheerful as African Daisies! Their bright blooms open wide to greet the sun with a dazzling display that lasts the summer. This colourful Duo brings together two modern varieties with exotic colouring and neat, compact habits.
This colourful House Leek produces blood red rosettes of fleshy foliage that form radiating clumps over time. Sempervivum arachnoideum 'Coral Red' is a strong growing variety with a vigorous root system that allows it to spread as colourful ground cover.
Subtle autumnal shades harmonise with striking, bold colours in this outstanding chrysanthemum collection. A bold combination of tall, half hardy varieties with reflexed and incurved petals, mixed with lower growing, hardy chrysanthemums that form neat mounds of colour.