Growing your own Saffron is easier than you might think. The golden stigma of the Saffron Crocus can be harvested and dried, before adding to your favourite rice dishes to provide colour and flavour.
Huge flowers up to 15cm (6) across add an exotic flavour to patio pots. The flamboyant blooms of Begonia Giant Picotee Mixed boast layers of elaborate, ruffled petals with a picotee edge. Supplied as a mixture of sumptuous bicolours, that looks simply spectacular set against lush serrated foliage in containers, beds, and window boxes. Height and spread: 30cm (12).Useful links:How to grow bulbs, corms and tubers? Culinary note: Add the bright coloured petals to sandwiches or salads for a light lemon taste and crisp texture. For more details about edible flowers click here.
Grown for their wonderful coloured foliage and vibrant winter stem colours, Japanese maples make stunning feature plants for sheltered parts of the garden. Acer 'Going Green' has amazing yet simple bright green leaves that give a lush feeling to your border or patio and will slowly turn to autumn shades later in the year to give another spectacular display.
Acer palmatum ?Seiryu? is a beautiful tree that is perfect for medium sized gardens. This Japanese Maple is ideal for gardens with a Japanese theme, but also suits a wide range of garden styles, including rockeries and also as a specimen plant in a large planter, within a courtyard.
Perfect for rockeries, alpine gardens and stone planters, Erica x darleyensis 'Darley Dale' is a winter flowering Heather, that looks superb planted alongside dwarf conifers and other varieties of heather. It has hundreds of small, pale pink flowers, when in bloom, that fill the compact, evergreen shrub. Erica 'Pink Perfection', Heather can be grown in all types of soil and is extremely low maintenance. As well as rockeries and borders, it's also a great ground cover plant for areas of the garden which are underplanted and prone to weeds. For example very narrow borders between the driveway and boundary fence. Height: 30cm (12). Spread: 55cm (22).
A fabulous new cherry tomato producing unique rose-pink skin with smoky overtones.
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This striking variety bears soft rose-pink ruffled blooms with a red wine blotch. Their stately stems and flamboyant blooms look striking in mixed borders.
Lavatera x clementii 'Strawberry Milkshake' comes straight from our own breeding. Our take on this cottage garden favourite boasts a profusion of mauve-pink flowers with a crimson eye at the centre of each bloom.
Fiery yellow-orange blooms with flame red edges make a blazing contribution to hot colour schemes. The stately stems and flamboyant blooms look striking in mixed borders.
If you're fed up with messing around with canes and twine to keep your tomato plants upright then this durable, plastic framework is perfect for you!
Dianthus 'Haytor White' is an RHS AGM winning variety of Carnation, renowned for its attractive, evergreen foliage and pure white, clove-scented flowers. These blooms appear in abundance from June until September, adding a touch of class to scented or cottage gardens and illuminating cut flower displays. For maximum impact, this Pink should be grown in a sunny border or patio container. Height: 40cm (1'4). Spread: 40cm (1'4).
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For exotic glamour on your patio, look no further than Gardenia 'Celestial Star'. This hardy Cape Jasmine produces pristine white, fully double blooms with tightly scrolled petals at their centre.
Diascia personata ?Hopleys? is not to be confused with the popular bedding Diascia which is grown as an annual.
The sumptuous colours of Iris germanica ?Rose de Perse? will have you swooning.
Add a splash of colour to rockeries and the front of borders with Berberis thunbergii 'Lutin Rouge'. New leaves emerge bright red and gradually deepen to rich wine red throughout summer ? perfect for creating a dramatic contrast with the green foliage of neighbouring plants.