Fill your patio containers with the perfect mix of summer colours from our Patio Container Collection. Guaranteed to give you a summer full of colour, these four varieties are customer favourites which are reliable and free flowering.
Create a colourful tapestry of blooms with our fabulous Summer Bedding Collection. This vibrant mix combines four of our customers? favourite varieties ? tried and tested for a reliable garden performance.
Geranium 'Sunrise Smoky Eye Pink' is a colourful little Pelargonium with a naturally bushy habit and bright green foliage. Throughout summer it is smothered in bold, bicolour pink blooms that last all summer, with regular deadheading.
Exactly as the name describes, this high yielding variety produces masses of super-sweet cherry tomatoes from July to October. The tasty fruits ripen in long cascading trusses. Tomato ?Supersweet? is slightly larger than most cherry varieties, with thin skins and a particularly good flavour. This cordon variety is best grown in the greenhouse or a sheltered spot outdoors. Height: 200cm (79). Spread: 50cm (20).
The dark maroon flowers, with dramatic black edges are a spectacular sight. Their stately stems and bold blooms look striking in mixed borders.
Greenhouse typeThis all female, greenhouse variety produces 3-4 snack-sized fruits per node, and with shorter internodes between each fruit cluster, you?ll be sure of a bumper harvest!
Runner Beans are a familiar sight in the vegetable plot, but have you ever tried growing them in your flower borders? With their handsome, large leaves and pretty summer blooms they are perfect for training over a large obelisk or pergola! Runner Bean 'Summer Flowered Mixed' brings together a lovely blend of 3 varieties, chosen for their different flower colours and abundant crops. The red flowers of ?Lady Di?, blend harmoniously with the white blooms of ?Desiree?.
This reliable plant is perfect for injecting a splash of late summer colour to the garden. Tagetes lucida blooms towards the end of the season, introducing a burst of fresh colour just as other plants may be starting to slow down.
Description for Lavender 'Oregano' - Kew Collection Seeds not available
Beetroot ?Detroit? has long been a popular choice for its reliable crops of attractive, flavoursome and nutritious roots. Beetroot provides a vibrant splash of colour to any dish, not to mention great flavour, texture and excellent health benefits.
Essential for authentic Italian cuisine, this sweet basil is one of the most popular varieties, with a strong scent and distinctive fresh flavour. Try growing Basil on the kitchen windowsill or in convenient containers outside the back door.
A smaller leafed Plantain Lily which gets its name from the smooth blue-green foliage and produces pale purple bell-shaped flowers in the summer between June and July
Host ?First Frost? is an RHS AGM winner which holds on into the late Autumn ? hence the name!
This is a specially bred kale variety for the UK climate and shows a great resistance to bolting.
For ?midi size? ( for sq. metre gardening) and ?babyleaf? which commercial growers have expressed interest to add colour to supermarket packs.
Shake up your herb border with something a little different. Summer Savory has been used as a culinary and medicinal herb for 2000 years, but is rarely seen grown these days.
This versatile and easy to grow kitchen herb produces a reliable and perennial crop of flat, grass-like leaves which have a wonderful, mild garlic flavour. Chinese chives, also known as garlic chives, can be used in the same way as any other chive, perfect for adding flavour to salads, sandwiches and various cooked dishes.
A reliable variety with excellent canker resistance, Parsnip ?White Gem? produces a uniform crop of smooth-skinned, flavoursome roots in virtually any soil types. Cropping over a generously long season, sow successively and you can enjoy harvesting fresh parsnips throughout autumn and most of winter.