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!
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).
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).
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 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).
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.
Also known as Fritillaria imperialis, this stately 'Crown Imperial' is a must have for your garden this spring time. It get its name from the facinating whorl of leaves on the top of the bright orange, striking blooms that look like a crown. 'Crown Imperial' has a unique and usuaful fragrance that repels moles, mice, and other rodents. Perfect for early season and tough, hardy colour in mixed borders. Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come. Very easy to grow, after the psring season and the blooms have faded, just leave in the ground to naturalise and get bigger and better displays every year. Supplied as a pack on 2 bulbs, size 20/24 ready to plant out in autumn.
This elegant collection of patio shrubs will bring colour, fragrance and interest to your favourite seating areas! These hardy shrubs can be grown in borders or containers, growing bigger and better, year after year.
With five fantastic varieties in our Spring Bulb Bumper Pack you are guaranteed a super display of colour from the end of winter through into spring. With colours ranging from dazzling whites to rich purples and striking blues you are sure to add cheer to your beds, borders and patio containers alike. Plant these bulbs now, chase the winter blues away and start your gardening year with the best possible mix of spring flowers!Collection comprises of the following varieties:Russian Snowdrop (25 bulbs) - Intriguing star shaped flowers, with delicate pale petals, striped with deep blue. These hardy Russian snowdrops make a stunning alternative to traditional spring bulbs. Allium 'Mount Everest' (10 bulbs) - Globes of more than 50 star-shaped blooms during June, just before your summer bedding comes into flower.Allium caeruleum (15 bulbs) - Bright blue globes of starry flowers are carried on stiff upright stems. Height: 60cm (24). Spread: 8cm (3).Muscari armeniacum (25 bulbs) - A popular spring bulb that is probably one of the easiest to grow - a clump of grape hyacinths will gradually spread over the years to form a carpet of vivid blue flowers that look stunning planted in a woodland setting or with other spring bulbs needing virtually no maintenance.Allium sphaerocephalon (45 bulbs)- An understated allium with unusual oval shaped, purple green flower heads, that associates beautifully with swaying grasses. Height: 60cm (24). Spread: 8cm (3).
There?s no shortage of F1 vigour in this productive variety. Chilli Pepper 'Lyric' produces heavy crops of bullet shaped, green fruits that gradually ripen to scarlet red. Each Chilli Pepper reaches up to 7cm long making an attractive display as the fruits ripen.
Not for the faint hearted - this Scotch Bonnet/ Habanero type is volcanically hot! Originating from Mexico, this variety produces tall plants with good crops that ripen early. Chilli Pepper 'Animo Red' produces short lime green fruits that ripen through orange to a dark red colour, when the skins become slightly wrinkled.