With its exotic glossy green serrated-edged leaves, this is a great choice for a shady corner of the garden. The Sweet Tea Vine grows quickly, providing ground cover or scrambling up a wall in no time at all. In summer it has small pale yellow flowers followed by black fruits. Gynostemma pentaphyllum, also known as Jiaogulan, comes from the forests of China where it is used as a medicinal herb. It is a tender plant, best protected from frost, so if possible it should be grown in a container and brought under cover in winter. Height and Spread: Up to 4m (13').
Hemerocallis Daylily 'Stella in Red' is the perfect choice for beginner gardeners or those with smaller gardens and will grow in most pot or garden border positions. Each crimson red, lightly scented Daylily flower will, as the name suggests, last for just one day but the mass of flowers per plant will ensure continuous summer colour. The dark green foliage provides a delightful backdrop to the stunning blooms. Hemerocallis Daylily 'Stella in Red' is a tough variety that is even rabbit proof. Height: 30cm (12) and Spread: 45cm (18).
A beautiful cottage garden favourite, Lavatera 'Barnsley' has white flowers, that turn to soft pink over the summer. They grow profusely on long arching stems. It is a great plant for attracting bees and butterflies, making it a good addition to wildlife gardens. It grows vigourously and can fill a gap in a border in just one growing season. This Mallow also looks great planted in stone planters or large terracotta pots. Height and spread: 2m (6').
This small, low-growing shrub makes an excellent container plant, as its star-like bright blue flowers keep on coming for weeks and weeks from late spring right through the summer months. Lithodora diffusa 'Heavenly Blue' is also a fine performer in the rockery with evergreen leaves providing ground cover all year. Also known as Purple Gromwell, it holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit and is easy to grow in sun or shade. Height: 15cm (6). Spread: 60cm (24).
An attractive grass variety with year-round interest, Miscanthus ?Gracilimus' is well worth serious consideration. It's a clump forming perennial which is easy to grow and after a long hot summer it really comes into its own with tall flower spikes topped with feathery textured copper coloured plumes which, along with the foliage arch over gracefully. The plumes will remain during the winter so that you can enjoy them left in situ or cut them for winter displays indoors. Height: 130cm (51). Spread: 120cm (47).
Although it's sometimes called a Phlox paniculata or Perennial Phlox, a Phlox 'Admiral' by any other name will smell as sweet! This plant's white trusses give off a delightful fragrance, which is particularly noticeable when it's planted at the front of borders or near a patio. From here, the scent can be enjoyed in comfort throughout July, August and September. The hardy perennial is particularly suited to sunny or partially shady cottage gardens, but also makes an excellent cut flower. The blooms can even be used in the kitchen, for their spicy taste adds an interesting flavour to fruit salads and makes an unusual, decorative cake topping. Height: 15cm (6).
Rodgersia aesculifolia bears small star-shaped pink flowers in large conical panicles in summer, above 2ft stems emerging from its Horse Chestnut-like leaves. This tough perennial plant originated in northern China and is perfectly suited to the edge of garden ponds and damp, waterlogged borders. It looks particularly good when planted next to Hostas and Ferns. Height: 2m (6.6'). Spread: 1m (39).
In contrast to the more usual hydrangeas with pink or blue blooms, Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle' has white flowerheads. These large and paper flowerheads last until the autumn, and this easy to maintain shrub is happy planted into garden borders or large containers. With an RHS AGM, Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle' is a great specimen plant for a range of garden designs, from modern minimalist to cottage and woodland gardens. Its dried flowerheads can be added to flower arrangements. Height and spread: 250cm (98).
Hydrangea paniculata 'Limelight' is a beautiful hydrangea for garden borders and patios. Its large conical flowerheads open in a soft shade of pea green, then fade to creamy white with hints of soft pink. As the plant holds blooms at different stages of growth from late summer into well into the autumn, the result is three-toned effect. Hydrangea paniculata 'Limelight' is often the last plant to lose its summer flowers, and a simple prune in late autumn keeps it in great condition for the following year. Enjoying dappled shade, a planting under a tree canopy or by a wall, with a shaded root zone, is ideal for this shrub. Height and spread: 250cm (98).
Perennial coneflower in a beautiful shade of rose pink. Ht. 70cm. Supplied as plug plants.
Spires of flowers in soft pastel shades, great in borders. Ht. 90cm. Supplied as plug plants.
Heather x darleyensis can thrive in exposed areas, making it an ideal plant for coastal gardens or alpine rockeries, with no shelter from fencing or trees. The plant flowers all though winter into spring, when most of the garden is dreary and dormant. Heather always looks great planted near to dwarf conifers, such as Juniper, and is extremely low maintenance. It has needle like foliage and masses of petite flowers and as a low growing shrub, it can be used as a groundcover alternative to grass lawns, if planted in groups. Height: 30cm (12). Spread: 60cm (24).
This popular miniature standard rose has been massively popular for nearly two decades now, and is much more reliable and floriferous than ever before. The White Standard Rose makes an ideal addition to the patio planted in your best container, or as a feature in garden borders. Trim as required to create the shape you prefer. Choose from a ?Full? Standard - supplied with a stem length of 40cm for a commanding presence in your garden, or the brand new ?Half? Standard - supplied with a stem length of 20cm and perfect when added to our stylish Patio Pot as shown. Supplied as bare root plants.
This shrub rose has 5 petalled, cup-shaped, cerise pink flowers, with yellow centres, that bloom from July to September and fill Rose rugosa 'Rubra' with colour. The flowers have a lovely scent, and later in the year, these are replaced by scarlet red rosehips, that provide autumn interest, along with the foliage that turns from greeen to yellow. A Red Japanese Rose is a nice plant for cottage and oriental style garden borders. Best planted in a sunny position. Height and spread: 1.5m (5').
Rose 'Easy Elegance Snowdrift' is a modern shrub that evokes memories of vintage elegance, but is easy to grow and has good resistance to pests and diseases. With very little effort on your part, you can expect 'Easy Elegance Snowdrift' to be covered in snowy-white blooms all summer. Height: 1m (39). Spread: 60cm (24).
A breakthrough in blackberry breeding! Unlike normal varieties this unique primocane blackberry will fruit on first year growth, meaning you?ll get crops sooner after planting! The incredibly large berries weigh up to 11g each and are sweeter than a strawberry, scoring highly on the brix scale for sweetness. Blackberry 'Reuben' has a very upright growth habit making it easier to manage and allowing plants to be spaced closer together.
This self-fertile British-bred blackberry produces firm, glossy-black, conical fruits on short, upright, thornless canes. 'Loch Ness' is a heavy cropper is capable of producing up to 3.6kg (8lb) of fruit per bush and is perfect for the smaller garden. The fruits can be harvested from mid-August until the first frosts. Blackberries establish quickly and are easy to grow, producing flavoursome fruits to add to desserts or for jam-making. Height: 2m (6'). Spread: 2.5m (8').Estimated time to cropping once planted: 16-20 months.Estimated time to best yields: 28-32 months.
Fig 'Brown Turkey' is self fertile and can be grown very successfully outdoors, being fully hardy and specially selected for the UK climate. This popular fig tree produces large crops of sweet, juicy fruits with a deep red flesh under the brown skins, developing in spring and ripening from August to September. A second crop will often develop in late summer and these fruits will ripen during the following summer as long as they are protected over winter. The attractive lobed foliage means that figs make a fine feature when trained against a sunny wall or grown in a container on the patio. . Height: 3m (9'). Spread: 4m (13').Estimated time to cropping once planted: 1 year.Estimated time to best yields: 3 years.
Already creating a sensation in the USA, Blueberry 'Pink Sapphire'? is a remarkable new variety of blueberry that produces abundant clusters of bright pink berries from late July to August. The berries have a lovely sweet flavour and firm texture; delicious added to pies, muffins or other desserts for something a bit different! The beautiful spring displays of pale white-pink, bell-shaped flowers are followed by fiery orange foliage in the autumn, making this hardy shrub an attractive addition to patio containers or acidic borders.
Two reliable summer-flowering annuals, bearing an abundance of pretty, pure-white flowers. Bacopa ?Snowflake? has a neat trailing habit, ideal for spilling over the sides of containers. Nemesia 'White Lagoon' has an upright, bushy habit ideal for filling containers and beds. Both varieties look superb added to mixed hanging baskets, window boxes and patio containers or grow them together for a classic, elegant display.