The easy to route to summer colour. Simply scatter the seed in any sunny border for months of colour. The perfect floral option for sunny borders, coping well in dry spells. The sheer variety of purple-starry blooms make each stem a standout specimen.
Plant breeders have managed to create a world-first pure white English marigold! Even more interesting is the seeming colour change of the flowers - petals have a yellow underside and show that colour while in bud. As the flowers open the white topside is revealed, surrounding a large brown or yellow central eye.
An easy to grow annual lupin that flowers just 12 weeks after sowing. Short flower spikes have a sweet pea-like fragrance. Perfectly suited to growing at the front of borders in large patio containers.
The ideal snacking tomato. Grow under glass for an extra early crop of sweet yellow cherry tomatoes, or grow in the garden for guaranteed cropping before the cold weather sets in. Each fruit weighs up to 20g, offering, high sweetness, a juicy texture and balanced flavour.
We love the colours and flavours in the unusual Artisan Tomato series ? a new class of elongated mini-plumtomato. We?ve brought together 'Artisan Blush Tiger? (pink blush on golden skin) and 'Artisan Pink Tiger? (pink and gold stripes) to offer not only superb flavours but a highly decorative duo for both greenhouse and outdoor cropping.
When it blooms in the spring and summer, Calendula 'Art Shades' is a wonderful addition to cottage garden borders. The annual's double, textured blooms also make for a great indoor display, where they will add exotic shades of orange, purple and white to any vase arrangement. What's more, this English Marigold's flowers are edible. Their petals can therefore be used as a colourful addition to salads, delighting chefs and gardeners alike. Height: 6cm (2'). Spread: 20cm (8).
T&M is proud to bring you the first ever star-shaped petunia from seed. A white version of this uniquely-shaped flower was originally sent to us by a customer, Edward Cragen from Kent in 1998. After 10 years of breeding and many generations of selection, the perfect star shape was obtained as well as this fabulous range of colours. 'Sparklers' also differs from a typical petunia in that its leaves are pointed rather than rounded
Large, slightly flat fruits of up to 500g (18oz) are simply delicious! The flesh is juicy, sweet and meaty and have very few seeds, plus a striking streaky orange and red skin. An heirloom variety, best grown as a cordon outdoors but will be earlier to form ripe fruits in the greenhouse.
Contrasting purple-red and white bicolour flowers. Good for cutting, or for adding height to borders.
Few plants can compare with the spectacular beauty of a tree peony in full bloom. A mature plant can boast in excess of a hundred wonderfully exotic blooms, each one measuring 25cm (10in) or more across. Breathtaking in borders, tree peonies also make exquisite cut flowers. When grown from seed, tree peonies will reward patient gardeners by blooming in 5-7 years from sowing.
Exceptionally long lasting blooms on tall, sturdy upright stems, this eye-catching mix looks great in the garden as well as the vase.
Perfect perfume and masses of large bi-coloured red and white flowers. Cut blooms regularly for a vase indoors, throughout summer, and this vigorous variety will keep more and more flowers coming.
From Thompson & Morgan?s renowned breeding programme comes this truly astounding development in nasturtiums! Not only do the summer flowers resemble exotic-looking orchids, they also change colour. This colour switch needs to be seen to be believed!
Here?s a poppy that will reign supreme in borders all summer! This is another fabulous variety from Thompson & Morgan?s own breeding. Poppy 'Supreme? boasts spectacular fully double flowers which are three times larger than those of other similar papaver rhoeas varieties, and its exquisite crinkly petals with picotee edging in pink, cherry and orange tones contrast beautifully with its white centre.
The first late blight-resistant cherry tomato for UK gardeners to grow outdoors, Primabella produces large, pale green ripening to red fruits. In our 3 years of trialling under inconsistent weather and soil conditions, this cordon variety has performed superbly.
This heavy weight tomato has performed superbly in RHS Wisley growing trials, coming out tops against 31 other varieties. We were amazed at the heavy crops at the end of the trial period. Each plant produced an average of 69 fruits under greenhouse conditions each weighing an average 109g (3¾oz). For the longest cropping season from your greenhouse tomatoes look no further than Akron F1.
You get twice the display with this fantastic hanging-basket nasturtium - its flowers boast a spectacular colour range and its unusual variegated foliage is stunning too. Naturally trailing and easy to grow, 'Firebird' will ignite your hanging baskets, containers and window boxes with its long-flowering and colourful blooms.
Transform your patio this summer with pots of beautiful, deep blue agastache. The imposing and long-lasting flower spikes are wonderfully mint-scented and will prove irresistible to butterflies and bees in borders or containers
Cosmos are always popular for their cheery, laid-back informality. These ?easy to grow? beauties produce vibrant daisy blooms above a mist of delicate, airy foliage.