Also known as the tree Hollyhock or the Rose Mallow, Hibiscus syriacus 'Walbertons Rose Moon' is a breeding breakthrough, being covered in ENORMOUS bright rose-pink blooms from July - not stopping until all buds have opened, sometimes right into autumn. WIth its lobed, dark green leaves and giant rose-pink flowers up to 20cm (7.5in) across, Rose Moon is an award-winning, deciduous shrub that'll take pride of place in your garden. Each bloom is marked with a red centre and the flowers shimmer faintly with iridescence in the sun, making this a garden plant that everyone will comment on. Fashioned by our expert growers into a beautiful standard tree with a lollipop head, Rose Moon is ideal in sunny beds and borders where its will create a visually arresting tower of colourful beautiful double blooms. Perfect for pots on your patio, it will eventually grow to 1.25 - 1.5m (4-5ft) tall if left untrimmed. Incredibly easy to care for - prune to size just once a year in early spring, they are also totally winter hardy anywhere in the UK! Despite its exotic looks, Hibiscus is very tough, winter hardy and easy to care for, producing a mass of blooms for months on end - even on young plants! It's best placed in a prominent position, where it will bring a colourful display when other plants are beginning to look tired. Supplied as a standard plant 90cm tall (inc 3L pot). Hibiscus 'Walbertons Rose Moon' will reach a maximum height of around 1.5m. FLowers June - October
Grow you own fabulous and juicy seedless Dessert Grapes (often called Table Grapes), right here at home in the UK. 'Superior Seedless' is one of the most popular varieties beings eedless, and can be grown successfully outdoors here, producing good crops of medium sized fruit in Autumn. Delicious picked fresh from the tree over several weeks, they also keep well too. Great for juicing as well.
Grow you own fabulous and juicy dessert grapes (often called table grapes), at home, right here in the UK. 'Red Globe' is one of the most widely grown varieties, and can be positioned successfully outdoors here, producing big bumper crops of very large-sized fruit with few seeds in autumn. Delicious picked fresh from the tree over several weeks, they also keep well.
Picking plump, juicy figs straight from a tree is one of life's greatest pleasures, especially when served up with some wafer thin slices of Parma ham and a drizzle of honey. Divine!Boasting masses of large, pear-shaped fruit with deep red flesh that are ready for picking in late summer and early autumn, Brown Turkey is perfect in a large pot or grown in the ground. Even before the fruit is ripe the large shrub or small tree adds a presence to the garden as branches are clothed with large, deeply lobed leaves. Despite originating from warmer climes, this amazing fig is incredibly tough, easily shrugging off temperatures down to -15C in the UK. Extremely drought tolerant when established, figs do best in a brightly lit, sunny spot.Keep plants productive and compact by restricting roots by growing in large pots or planting in 60cm square planting holes fill the base with a layer of gravel and line sides with paving slabs.
It would be easy to ignore Pomegranates as a fruit that can be grown in the UK, but you would be wrong. Yes, they do need hot summers and warm spots, but will crop here, and produce spectacular flower as a bonus, so also have good ornamental value. A highly attractive feature tree with the added bonus of producing glossy, versatile fruits in autumn each year! With deep green foliage and bright orange flowers in summer, it will look great in your garden for years to come.The leathery skinned, glossy fruits ripen in the sun each summer and have a wonderful flavour. Pomegranate bushes love hot summers and your bush will thrive in a sunny spot it is perfect for a patio pot. Easy to grow and completely hardy in UK (-7-10C), Pomegranates will easily tolerate our British winters and just need those long hot summers we all look forward to, to maximise fruit yields. The fruits can be used in cooking sweet or savoury and taste great when made into refreshing, fragrant pomegranate juice! They are super-healthy and packed with antioxidants. We suggest growing in a large pot, in well-drained compost, so you can move it into protection in winter, not to protect from frost, but to get it growing as soon as possible in spring. Outdoors they are very late back into leaf, so you lose valuable growing season time. They will produce their dark orange to red flowers in July, and then set and produce small reddish orange fruits, which need to be left on the tree as long as possible in autumn to ripen. Supplied as a standard tree in a 22cm pot, 1.4m tall including pot.
We are constantly on the lookout for great garden plants, which are easy to grow and make a great addition to any garden - these fabulous Photinia tick both boxes.'Little Red Robin' is quite a new cultivar with smaller leaves, giving an even bolder and brighter red glow as the new leaves emerge and throughout the summer. What's more, in this stylish lollipop standard form, it's even more of a year-round focal point and feature too.Skilfully crafted over 4 years, this unusual format adds height to any garden, and yet is easy to maintain with a simple trim to shape each autumn. Grow in full sun for best red foliage colour and it will glow on those long summer nights. Whilst it will fade to darker green somewhat over winter, it retains a mix of red tones all year.Great for year round evergreen use (it should be ever-red!), they work well in pairs in large pots either side of doorways, gates and porches, or as a single focal point in a formal bed.
A wonderful feature tree for home gardens, the Salix 'Kilmarnock' is a beautiful dwarf tree with waterfalls of dark-green leaves smothered in golden catkins in the spring. Forming a dome-shape, like a beautiful waterfall centrepiece, the long stems hang and gently wave in the breeze throughout the year, whilst bright-golden furry catkins liven things up in the spring time. Ideal for growing in the ground or in containers that can be moved into position on a patio, terrace or even a balcony, this dwarf tree will stay compact and neat but bring a real unique feature to even the smallest of gardens. A stunning solution to creating instant impact in a small space, this weeping willow will create a real talking point next spring!Supplied as a grafted standard tree, approx. 70cm tall in a 17cm pot, ready to plant out.
A heavy cropping, large fruited, modern variety that ripens from July through to August. Grow your own delicious blackcurrants from your patio! Bursting with flavour and Vitamin C, blackcurrant 'Titania' has a rich, tart flavour that makes it ideal for cooking and for using as a purée. Add it to yoghurt or ice cream, or use in pies, jams or juices. The glossy black berries also freeze well. Unlike many blackcurrants, which require a lot of space to grow, this beauty stays compact making it perfect for the smallest of gardens. Grow it in a border, a large pot or even plant several to make a fruiting hedge. The juicy blackcurrants ripen in strings and stay on the bushes through to August, making this blackcurrant one of the longest croppers. Frost resistant and disease resistance to problems including powdery mildew and rust, so an ideal starter blackcurrant for those looking to grow fruit in the garden or on the patio for the first time.
Sweet, juicy and with a flavour that far surpasses any shop-bought berries, home grown gooseberries are a taste sensation that everyone should try and Hinnomaki is one of the best with big crops of large, delicious fruit that are ready for picking in mid-summer. Perfect for growing in a sunny spot, this standard form Gooseberry Hinnomaki Green will add an ornamental touch to beds, borders or even in large pots on the patio and unlike many other varieties, these gooseberries are sweet enough to be eaten straight from the bush Hinnomaki is a robust hybrid and this makes it very easy and relaible to grow, meaning that every gardener can get superb results whatever their level of experience. This also means that they are an excellent choice if you garden orgainically as they have excellent resistance to mildew. Self-fertile, so you dont need a pollinating partner, and they make a great companion to red and black currants. Supplied as an established standard plant in a 3L pot, 90cm tall.
This gorgeous fine-leaved selection of weeping Maples makes a wonderful feature or specimen plant. Never taller than a small tree, it is slow growing, and makes a super focal point. And with this standard clear-stem form, you get extra height to show off the weeping habit to it's very best. Covered in lovely red feathery lace foliage from early Spring, which darkens to burgundy over Summer, and then finally a riot of bright orange red in Autumn before it falls. Grow in a large pot, or in a lawns as a feature plant, or in mixed borders - perfect both in modern, minimalist gardens, or more traditonal mixed settings. Adds a lovely textural and colourful feel, which will last many, many years.
Gooseberry 'Invicta' is the number 1 outstanding Gooseberry variety for home gardeners - and is now available in a unique standard form! Grafted onto a long straight stem, the foliage and fruit will be produced in a ball atop the stem for a really unique productive, yet decorative display! Producing big crops of classic green berries, almost twice as many as any other variety, 'Invicta' is one of our favourite gooseberry plant varieties and it is also mildew resistant, making it very easy to grow for even a novice 'grow your own' gardener. It has good vigour, so supports the big crops well in your garden and is winter hardy so can be left outdoors all year round. Each summer 'Invicta' produces numerous large green fruits which are sweet enough to eat straight off the bush, but are also ideal for cooking with - something a little bit different to strawberries and raspberries that tend to be grown in home gardens. In its standard form, it brings a different dimension to growing your own adding a real decorative feature to patios, or even straight in the border where it will add height and interest. 'Invicta' really is the all-round Gooseberry for gardens - why not try one this year?
The canary-yellow blooms of the Flowering Mimosa Tree are a spectacular sight from January to April every year, where hundreds of bobbly yellow blooms smother the branches of the Mimosa tree in a lemon haze, almost hiding the stunning grey green filigree foliage that makes this tree a handsome year round feature in the garden. Set among a ball of fern-like leaves on a standard stem, the eye-catching pom-pom blooms not only look a picture but carry a heavenly fragrance and provide a valuable nectar source for friendy insects that emerge in milder weather. Widely seen across southern Europe, this variety will thrive outdoors in most of the UK too and is a great plant for conservatories or sunny corners of a room indoors in regions prone to severe frost - altogether a super tree to own! It's a great choice for a large container too producing a really unique feature tree and if you buy a pair you can frame doorways and entrances.