With its large, voluminous flowers, this Azalea welcomes the spring with its extravagant display of rich pink trumpet-shaped-blooms, which have a throat speckled in magenta and almost completely cover this neat, compact shrub. Also, the small, densely packed, glossy dark evergreen leaves make this is a hansdome shrub all year round. Happy in sun or light shade and perfect for growing in containers - where it'll make a striking addition to doorways, terraces and balconies - but also happy in the flower borders. Just the thing for bringing a bold mass of colour to the spring garden! Azaleas are easy to care for, needing little maintenance or pruning. Requiring acidic soil, incorporate plenty of ericaceous compost when planting and keep moist. Supplied as an established plant in a 17cm pot.
What could be easier than this perfect window box design of pre-spaced and filled bulbs - a lovely colourful mix of spring flowered shorter bulbs. Packed with 38 bulbs already spaced, including Muscari, Crocus, Tulips, Narcissi, Puschkinia and Scilla in a lovely colourful mix. Using the unqiue biodegradable package, these Plant-o-Mat Drop in pods are a quick and simple way to take all the hassle out of planting bulbs. No more worrying about colours, or spacing Simply plant the whole tray into the ground or a pot - watch the helpful video to see how. You cannot get easier gardening than this for flowers next Spring and for years beyond. Dimensions: Width: 12.5cm x Length: 54cm x Height: 5cm
Probably the "Number 1" new potato variety grown in UK gardens, it's not hard to see why Charlotte is so popular. It produces great yields of delicious, medium-sized tubers that are perfect in potato salads, hot or cold, or as boiled new potatoes dripping in melted butter - scrumptious! Very easy to grow - either in patio pots and planters or straight in your garden soil - Charlotte has good resistance to blight and scab, so you'll get consistent crops of delicious spuds!
Lupins are a real summer garden classic and this hardy lupin 'The Governor', with its fragrant flowers borne on tall elegant spires, is a wonderful example. Standing roughly 1m tall once fully grown, this amazing lupin certainly stands out in late spring and early summer with its bi-colour ultramarine blue and white flowers opening in succession from the bottom of the spire upwards, prolonging the flowering season, and are a magnet to butterflies, bees and other beneficial pollinating insects making your summer garden a haven for wildlife. With palmate, sage green foliage creating the perfect backdrop for these eye-catching flowers, their tall, spiky display of blooms really stand out in beds and borders, making a stunning statement in your garden. They're also great in pots where they're make a bold statement, creating a focal feature on patios and decking - or cut the stems and bring indoors to create beautiful cut flower displays. One of the Band of Nobles Series of hybrid lupins, easy to grow and totally winter hardy, 'The Governor' is also easy to maintain and makes the perfect cottage garden plant - it's perennial so comes back year after year with an ever-increasing amount of blooms. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot.
One of the nation's favourite early spring plants, Camellias are, when given the right conditions, very straightforward and problem free. Providing fabulous displays of flowers when almost every other plant is still asleep for winter, they're ideal for giving a bold splash of colour when the garden is quite drab - plus they're fabulous in pots where they can be moved to any part of your garden. The key to success with Camellias is they need acidic soils - like Rhododendrons. This means they can easily be grown in pots in ericaceous composts, and provided they are fed with specialist ericaceous feed, will provide many years of colour and interest. They are evergreen, and their neat, shiny tough leaves will provide a backdrop to other plants all year. Flower buds start swelling late the previous summer, and keep getting bigger all autumn and winter, until they burst open in early spring. The flowers can be caught by frosts when they are opening, but the buds are generally fine, and the plant is 100% hardy and tough. Supplied as one red-flowered plant, 20-40cm tall and in bud.
Lupin 'My Castle' is a gorgeous example of a cottage garden favourite with its tall, dramatic spires of scented boldly coloured flowers, great for cutting too! This strikingly coloured lupin will grow to 1m in height and makes a real statement in late spring and summer with its deep pink, almost brick red flowers opening in succession from the bottom of the spire upwards and giving a long flowering season. They're extremely attractive to bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects too, making your summer garden a haven for wildlife. With palmate, sage green foliage creating the perfect backdrop for these eye-catching flowers, their tall, spiky display of blooms really stand out in beds and borders, making a stunning statement in your garden. They're also great in pots where they're make a bold statement, creating a focal feature on patios and decking - or cut the stems and bring indoors to create beautiful cut flower displays. One of the Band of Nobles Series of hybrid lupins, easy to grow and totally winter hardy, 'My Castle' is also easy to maintain and makes the perfect cottage garden plant - it's perennial so comes back year after year with an ever-increasing amount of blooms. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot.
The colouring of this weigela is certainly unusual, with rich dark green foliage that takes on hints of deep purple as the summer progresses, it's a delightfully compact, low growing, spreading flowering shrub that will bring you months of colour with the most beautiful leaves and flowers. The foliage forms a wonderfully contrasting backdrop for the red-throated, white trumpet shaped flowers that covers the stems in early summer, great for livening up the front of the border and will also do well in pots. Recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators' the flowers a favourite with butterflies and bees. Fully winter hardy, really easy to grow and always giving good results so makes the perfect plant for new gardeners or those who prefer to spend less time maintaining and more time enjoying. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready for immediate planting.
King Edward is THE traditional favourite potato - perfect for your Christmas roast potatoes and a great all-rounder too. Mash it, bake it, chip it, roast it or boil it - serve Kind Edward any way you like and you'll simply love its delicious flavour. What's more, it is a consistent heavy cropper - you can grow your own potatoes and expect to get sackfuls from these robust, reliable seed potatoes. Eat them freshly harvested in September and October, or keep them in our specially designed Hessian Sacks - they'll keep throughout winter!
With its fabulous golden yellow, maroon edged flowers, Ranunculus 'Elegance Giallo Striato' is wonderfully striking with hundreds of petals packed into its blooms. As they fade, the flowers fade to almost white. These lovely long stemmed, upright blooms are excellent cut flowers, and quite prolific as long as you deadhead them regularly. Grown in pots or borders, they'll look gorgeous in late spring and summer, especially if planted in groups. Although hardy perennials, the corms require a mulch to survive the harshest winter. Alternatively you can dig them up and store them in a cool, dark, dry location until the following spring. Supplied as a pack of 10 corms, ready for planting.
Create a display full of colours and textures with these fabulous Dahlias. This is a seed grown mixture of both decorative and cactus dahlias. This will provide you with a spectacular range of heights and shapes and well as a mix of colours that could include red, purple, yellow orange and pink. The decorative dahlias will give you large, double blooms with colour-splashed petals and the cactus dahlias will give you large, double blooms with narrow, spiky petals. In bloom from July through to October, they are easy to grow and packed full of energy to burst into growth in Spring and produce a mass of bright colours which will pepper your garden like gemstones as Summer turns to Autumn. Dahlias are perfect for planting in your bed, borders, patio pots and containers. They also make fabulous cut flowers so pick a bunch of these pastel beauties to bring into your home for amazing colour. Dahlias will need some winter protection if you want them to return next year, we recommend that you dig them up before the first frost arrives and keep them stored over the winter. Supplied as a pack of 3 tubers, ready to plant out.
.A delicious new early maincrop potato with a golden appearance and a sensational taste. Elfe will give you a heavy crop of large smooth skinned potatoes that keep well. They are perfect for boiling, mashing and baking - do this and you'll discover the flavour wich is silky and sweet - so good that you'll think the butter has already been added! Because theflesh is soft it's much easier to mash without lumps too.
This stunning Montana clematis is an eye-cathcing climber that when in bloom is covered in beautiful and slightly scented pale pink pettaled flowers. 'Elizabeth' is great for early season colour in the garden and the perfect choice of climber for covering unsightly fences with fabulous colour. New leaves emerge flushed with bronze that turn green with age. A proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience, you can plant this clematis in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come. Growing fairly quickly, you will get a fine display from 'Elizabeth', just plant it anywhere where it can ramble - pergolas and arches or even old tree stumps are ideal - and you'll be rewarded with thousands of pink flushed blooms in May and June. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot. Deciduous so no leaves October - March. Will grow to 6m (20ft) if allowed free reign.
These semi-dwarf Dahlias are just the thing for bringing vivid colour to your garden. Their fabulous and vibrant flowers will brighten up even the dullest day! Supplied as energy packed tubers, raring to go, just plant them in pots or in the garden and they will burst into life from April, producing neat, bushy plants and masses of brightly coloured flowers to fill your garden all through summer and well into autumn. Our collection of patio dahlias will give you large, semi-double blooms in vivid shades of red, yellow, orange and pink that will reach around 60cm (2ft) tall and produce an abundance of flowers. Ideal in patio pots or in the middle area of borders, and wonderful as cut flowers. Deadheading will prolong flowering well into autumn. Plants will survive milder winters, but we recommend lifting the tubers and storing somewhere dry and frost-free over winter. If growing in pots, simply move the pot to a frost-free place with the tubers in situ. Supplied as a pack of 5 tubers in a mix of colours.
The Kaleidoscope Abelia creates a vibrant spectacle in your garden with its colourful foliage. In spring the colours are a mix of green and yellow which intensifies in summer and then transforms to orange and red hues for Autumn. Delicate funnel shaped pink flowers are produced from June to October attracting butterflies and bees. This plant is semi evergreen so may lose its leaves in the winter however fresh foliage will reappear in the spring. Supplied in a 13cm pot.
Considered by many to be a gourmet treat, asparagus is grown for its succulent tasty spears that can be harvested for up to eight weeks from mid-spring onwards. Traditionally grown from bare root plants, known as crowns, Pacific is one of the sweetest tasting varieties available. Asparagus will thrive if planted in a sunny, well-drained spot and will reward you with lots of tender spears that can be added to many dishes or simply eaten on their own try gently steaming, drizzling with olive oil and dressing with a few flakes of parmesan cheese. Yummy! Good preparation is essential for asparagus to thrive. Dig an 8in deep by 12in wide channel, spread some well-rotted mature along the bottom and cover with a 2in layer of excavated soil. Make a 4in high ridge of soil down the centre of the trench and place the crowns on top, 12in apart, spreading the roots evenly down each side. Carefully fill the trench with soil and water. Do not harvest any spears in Year 1, to build up strencgth of root systems for longer and bigger cropping. Enjoy the taste of freshly cut Asparagus in your garden - it's worth the wait!
Himalayan Blue Poppies will produce striking bright blue, poppy-like flowers in early summer each year, each one with a gorgeous contrasting golden centre. These little beauties will add stunning impact and a definite wow factor to your flower beds and borders this summer! As they are perennial plants they will die back in autumn and come back each year with bigger better displays for many years. Highly unusual and still very rare, you're unlikely to find them in garden centres, so grab your chance to get something your friends won't have at a great price! Awarded the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit for their all-round garden performance. Supplied as 3 x jumbo plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
A large evergreen shrub with rough textured reddish bark and dark green leaves producing stunning pink bell shaped flowers in the autumn. These blooms coincide with the ripening of the red strawberry-like fruits produced the previous year. The fruit is fairly bland but can be added with other fruit to make pies or jam. As a holder of the RHS Award of Garden Merit and a distant relation of the rhododendron this plant is sure to add all year round interest to your garden. Can be planted in the garden or in a patio container. Supplied in a 9cm pot.
This fabulous cordyline will bring a tropical feel to your garden wherever you position it - whether as a specimen plant in your beds or borders, or in a decorative pot as an eye-catching feature for your patio, terrace, or balcony to provide instant impact in even the most compact of spaces. Or plant into a modern container and place it by a doorway, gateway or at the end of a path for an exotic focal point. Attractive swirls of long, swordlike leaves fan out symmetrically from a central, slow-growing trunk; and being evergreen, it will look attractive all year round, maintaining colour and structure through the autumn and winter when other plants begin to fade. Place yours in a sunny spot and it will thrive for years to come! The bigger the plant, the hardier it will become - it can withstand temperatures of -7°C, but we always recommend using frost-protection fleece or wrapping, or bringing container-grown plants into a garage, porch or greenhouse during the coldest winters. Supplied as an established plant, approx. 55+cm tall, in a 14cm pot, ready to pot on or plant out.
Biting into a sweet, juicy cherry tomato on a summers day is hard to beat! They taste so much better fresh, and they should be eaten warm - when the aromatics in them are at their most active, to give the best flavour. Growing tomatoes is easy and incredibly rewarding - make salads and chutneys, or of course eat them fresh. 'Tumbling Tom' is the ideal variety to get started growing your own tomatoes - so easy in hanging baskets, tubs, planters and even wondowboxes, you will get hundreds of small red and yellow cherry tomatoes per plant in summer. Get the children growing them! They are self-branching, so other than pinching the tip out when you plant, there is no need to do anything else to them, unlike other tomato varieties. Tumbling Tom produces massive crops of firm, round fruit all summer long - each one packed with sweet, delicious juice. Perfect fresh and in salads. Supplied as 6 plug plants for potting up and growing on - 3 x yellow and 3 x red.