Winter-flowering hellebores, also know as the Christmas Rose, are a superb addition ro any garden, flowering when little else is growing, let alone in bloom. 'Black Swan' boasts sumptuous, dark velvety petals, with pure white stamens, and it is a great improvemnt on older black-flowered hellebores because the jet-black blooms face upward rather than down towards the soil. Height and spread: 60cm (2').
Strong honey fragranced flowers in 16 weeks, often with 14+ 10cm (4in) blooms out at once. Long lived for border, bedding or cutting. Height: 45-60cm (18-24in)
I'm a fun plant to grow as I have spotted fruits with a long neck that make me look like an elegant swan. When my fruits are dried you can paint me with faces or leave me looking like a swan. Height: 2m. Why Not invite your friends round to see who can paint the most beautiful or funniest animal or bird?
A fantastic plant for bedding, baskets and containers, suited to a full sun position. They displays masses of colourful flowers all summer long. Height and spread: 25cm (10).
Unique new cross between an early and a late flowering anemone, its delicate petals are white on one side and blue-purple underneath, it'll flower from April to October. If it looks familiar, that's because it was awarded the RHS Chelsea Flower Show Plant of the Year in 2011.