Add a touch the exotics to your garden this year with the Black Persian Lily, a tall fritillary with upright flower spikes decked with pendant, deep purple, almost black, bell-shaped flowers in spring. One of the easier fritillaries to grow, they're fabulous when planted alongside silvery foliage plants, and their upright habit gives almost instant interest to beds and borders. Blooming in April - May, this stately fritillary sends up a leafy spike which is topped with its characteristic, dusky bells. Perfect in a gravel garden or a large pot where you can mimic the free-draining gravel slopes of its Middle Eastern origins. Supplied as 3 hand-packed bulbs ready for planting straight away. Plants will reach approx. H100cm x W10cm.
Highly nutritional winter spinach leaves. This variety is ideal for growing over summer and autumn. Leaves are succulent, with a tasty flavour, and are best lightly steamed. Height: 50cm (20). Spread: 45cm (18).
Compact plants produce a large crop of bright, orange, blocky peppers, that begin green and ripen to orange. Ready to harvest from July, they are ideal for summer dishes. Height: 75cm (30). Spread: 50cm (20).
Highly colourful peppers that are sweet and crunchy to eat. A huge, tasty crop will be ready to harvest from July until October. Ideal for mixed salads, stir-fries, and for stuffing. Height and spread: 35cm (14).
Tulip ?Whispering Dream? will mesmerise you with its gradual transformation as the blooms mature. Initially the white blooms are delicately edged in soft pink, but this gradually darkens and diffuses toward the base of each flower, until the top half is a deep shade of raspberry over an ivory-white base. The elegant, champagne-flute shape of this Lily-flowered variety also widens slowly to reveal the centre of each flower. Plant this variety alone or mix it with a plain white variety to create an unforgettable display in beds, borders and containers this spring. Height: 40cm (16). Spread: 10cm (4).
Add our Nurseryman's Choice Seasonal Perennials to your order and you'll receive a selection of plants from our wide range of hardy herbaceous perennials at a fantastic price!
One of the best known chilli peppers for adding a hot, pungent flavour to your favourite dishes and sauces. Chilli Pepper ?Cayenne? is an upright variety producing good yields. The slender, red peppers reach up to 15cm (6) long with a slightly wrinkled appearance when fully ripe.
Not only an impressive cropper but also an ornamental feature, you can grow tall and upright Artichoke ?Imperial Star? in rows on the allotments or as a dual purpose feature at the back of a sunny border. The flower buds are large and flavoursome, held above tall study stems during summer.
Hypericum 'Hidcote', more commonly known as St John's Wort, a plant used traditionally to lift mild depression, has bright yellow flowers, with orange anthers in the centre, from summer through to autumn. Its evergreen foliage provides greenery all year round. It's a nice shrub for small and medium sized gardens and makes a colourful low hedge if planted in a line. It can be planted in all types of soil and prefers a sunny or partial shade position. Height: 1.2m (3.9'). Spread: 1.5m (5').
The foliage of Juniperus chinensis (also known as Juniperus x pfitzeriana) 'Blaauw' has an unusual blue-grey tone. Its colouring makes this dwarf conifer stand out in rockeries and other sunny or partially shady parts of the garden. Alternatively, the Chinese Juniper can be grown as a specimen plant or tree. Like most Sabinas, it is slow-growing, but requires little maintenance once mature. The plant is therefore a useful and long-lasting hardy shrub. Height: 1.2m (3'11). Spread: 1m (3'3).
Sweet Pepper 'Bontempi is a vigorous variety that offers early crops, and high yields. Cropping well, even in cooler summers, it makes an excellent choice for UK gardeners. The thick-walled fruits ripen from dark green to bright red, but can be harvested at any stage.
Fill your beds and borders with this lucky dip collection of perennials. Perennial plants bloom year after year, and many can also be cut and brought into the house for beautiful flower arrangements. In this lucky dip you will receive at least 5 different varieties from a selection of lavender, carnation, aquilegia, delphinium, erigeron, geum, achillea, armeria and much more. To allow us to offer you such a good price, we can't take orders for specific varieties, but whatever we decide to send, you won't be disappointed.