A really useful bedding type of sweet pea, with lowbushy growth and masses of pretty flowers, adding a light fragrance to your summer garden. Height and spread: 30cm (12).
This early cropping variety produces an abundance of 20cm (8) pods and very little foliage making them easier to spot when harvesting. The succulent pods will set under almost all weather conditions to ensure good yields. With its excellent tolerance to Halo Blight, Runner Bean 'Red Rum' makes a good choice for organic gardeners. (Please Note: Seed saved from this hybrid will not come true) Height: 3m (10'). Spread: 30cm (12)
In recent years, kale has become a staple ingredient of any healthy diet. Now, you can grow your very own superfood crop in any cottage or kitchen garden. All Kale 'Midnight Sun' needs is some space in a sunny vegetable bed. Given this, the hardy annual will produce edible, textured leaves with unusual red veins from the autumn right through to the spring. Whether left to mature or eaten as baby leaf kale, this plant will provide gardeners with a welcome, winter boost of protein, fibre and vitamins. Height: 90cm (2'11). Spread: 60cm (2').
A stunning first year flowering Lavender with large, attractive, fragrant, sky-blue spikes on strong stems, reaching out from bushy well branched plants. A long lasting addition to borders or containers, attracting bees and butterflies to your garden. Height: 30-35cm (12-14in).
A striking blend with a wonderful colour surprise! Amongst the fiery orange and yellow pot marigolds appears an intriguing calendula with delicately ruffled, blooms in a unique shade of apricot-pink. This beautiful mix of daisy-like flowers are excellent for cutting and can also be added to salads as an edible flower. Quick and easy to grow, Calendula 'Pink Surprise' makes a bright impact in beds, borders, and containers, and even grows well in coastal areas. Height: 60cm (24). Spread: 45cm (18).
These very unusual and distinctive small viola faces produce a palette of colours as if individually brushed by an artist. Bushy, dwarf plants give outstanding garden performance in summer or autumn displays.
Charming, large spikes of single, white flowers, fragrant in the evening
Nasturtium 'Phoenix' has a flower formation like no other - its high number of flame-like blooms have intriguing split petals AND it's easy-to-grow.
The sherbet-yellow blooms of this first year flowering clematis open just six months after sowing! They don?t just have a unique beauty, they also give off a coconut-like fragrance and are followed by decorative silky seedheads. Height 2.4m (8ft).
A free-flowering vigorous climber for quickly covering trelliswork, obelisks and fences. In summer, an abundance of exquisite white blooms with blue-mauve streaks are produced, their antique appearance giving an air of yesteryear. Climbs to 180-240cm (6-8ft)
Compact, bushy plants produce hundreds of pure white flowers. Ideal for bedding, pots and rockeries where they will flower non-stop from summer to autumn. Height: 15cm (6). Spread: 20cm (8).
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Bred with beauty and use in mind. A myriad of colour combinations sing-out from lacy orchid-like blooms, many striped and veined, others pure with only a hint of another contrasting colour. Early flowering, well branched plants produce a non-stop summer display in containers, bedding and baskets. One of the best Petunias giving value for money. Flowers summer. Height. 30cm (12 inches)Growing tipGet the best out of your petunias with our specially formulated Petunia Fertiliser - the perfect balance of nutrients to get them off to a flying start and nourish them through the summer
Travelling in the Alpine regions of Europe one is struck by the magnificent and visual impact of their window boxes, hanging baskets, pots, tubs etc. And then we realised that they make liberal use of pendulous carnations adding an extra slant in perspective and design. The colour range is mainly pink and red shades.
Intriguing deep purple-blue flowers that are so dark they almost appear to shimmer black in the summer sunshine. The large, fragrant blooms, set atop particularly long stems, make an astonishing exhibit for the show bench and are equally eye catching in flower borders. Sweet Pea 'Blue Velvet' is a free flowering variety producing 4 or five blooms per stem. Height: 180cm (71) Spread: 30cm (12)
Showers of petite, rose-pink single flowers with pretty yellow centres hang in delicate clusters against unusual maple-leaf foliage. Creates an outstanding and colourful display in baskets or window boxes where it will keep flowering well into the autumn
Large flowers in shades of yellow, gold and bronze with deeper brown central cones. These are a reliable border plant for colour, late summer to autumn. Height: 60cm (24). Spread: 45cm (18).
World-famous strain producing exotic bicolours, primrose yellow centres with rich velvet surrounds including carmine, maroon-carmine, coral pink, deep orange, maroon-black and many more. Ideal for partially shaded positions on rockeries or borders, or spring flower beds, pots, tubs etc. Flowers early spring. Height 23cm (9in)
Geranium 'Orchid Blue' is a selection by Thompson & Morgan from the species Geranium bohemicum. A short-lived border and ground cover plant which self-seeds to keep continuity. Masses of 2cm (0.75in) flowers of orchid-blue, veined in purple-violet, borne on bushy plants. Makes a delightful show, particularly when situated in a sunny position in the border. Flowers summer. Height 30-45cm (12-18in).
Without doubt, Sweet Pea 'Cream Southbourne' is one of the best cream varieties available for cutting. Luscious, large, frilled blooms are well placed on long stems with a fantastic fragrance. This elegant variety associates beautifully with other colours but is equally good on its own, grown over obelisks, arches and trellis. Height: 180cm (71) Spread: 30cm (12)