A cottage garden favourite with an extra dimension, 'Starlight Scentsation' is an exquisite night-scented stock. What a glorious flower to enhance those balmy summer evenings spent outdoors while their perfume becomes more intense as the dusk descends. Gloriously pretty, with petals in shades of white and palest yellow to the softest lilac pink, mauve and purple, they will dance in the half-light on slender stalks amid delicate grey-green leaves. Indeed, their heady scent and translucent, pollen-rich blooms seem to come alive at night, attracting a whole host of night-feeding bees, hoverflies, butterflies and moths to your garden. This half-hardy annual germinates rapidly and with staggered sowings will perform all summer long, well into early autumn. Its dwarf, bushy habit makes it an ideal choice for the fronts of beds and borders - and perfect for patio containers, where a profusion of these gorgeous flowers can be enjoyed best close at hand. They make a fabulous cut flower too, so you can bring those pretty pastel colours and glorious fragrance indoors. The flowers are edible, with a delicately perfumed flavour. Pick them fresh as a garnish and for scattering over salads, or as a pretty decoration for desserts and cakes. They can even be candied to keep in your store cupboard ready for those sweet dishes. Easy to grow, these night-scented stocks will thrive in a sunny position in well-drained soil or compost, growing to a height of 30cm (12in) and spread of 20cm (8in). Sow outdoors from May to June, directly where they are to flower. The blooms will appear continuously from June to October, in the same year as sowing. Supplied as a packet of 700 (approx.) seeds ready to sow outdoors directly into their flowering position.
Purple Sensation, with its enormous bright purple spherical flower heads standing tall on thin stems above deep-green leaves, will look simply stunning in wherever you plant it in your garden you could also cut and dry it for fantastic indoor displays. Plant them with white alliums such as Mount Everest for a wonderful contrast! Related to onions (but don't eat them!) they are very tough and hardy. Very easy to grow, and with very little needed in the way of care, they're the perfect plant for novice gardeners or for those short of time - perfect results can be achieved by anyone! 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. Supplied as a pack of 25 bulbs, size 10/11 ready to plant out in autumn.
Hardy Geraniums, or 'Cranesbills' as they are commonly known, are one of the easiest and best garden performers for low maintenance, flowering displays, and versatility to growing conditions. Everyone should find space for them! A real showstopper, from May to July every year, Geranium Censation 'Kora' stands tall above its foliage and produces incredibly beautiful blooms with delicate, tissue paper petals in an eye-catching shade of mauve-blue with contrasting white centres. Not to be confused with bedding Geraniums, more correctly called Pelargoniums, these really are one of the most versatile plants - sun or shade, wet or dry, pots or garden, they just keep doing their thing year after year. From their dormant state over-winter, in spring they produce neat and tidy small domes of foliage that will become smothered in flowers in Summer. A mecca for bees, they will be buzzing with activity on sunny days. Supplied as 3 x bare root plants, ready to plant out.