Unlike many of its larger cousins, Weigela florida 'Minor Black' won?t ever outgrow its welcome in your garden! This neat and compact variety reaches just 75cm tall, making it ideal for even the smallest spaces.
Blueberries are always more productive when you grow several plants together. This superb collection offers three different varieties for maximum cross pollination and the very best crops. Delicious, firm fruits, which are packed full with healthy vitamins and antioxidants, are produced in summer on attractive, maneagable bushes.
This new Clematis stands out for its unusual, fully double, apple-green flowers. The intriguing flowers make a fabulous display in late spring and early summer. A second flush of blooms are produced in late summer ? this time with fewer petals and a more white tone.
Masses of charming tubular pink flowers crowd the stem tips of Escallonia laevis 'Pink Elle' from early summer onwards. Perfect for borders or even for creating an ornamental hedge too! A low maintenance shrub that will give huge rewards for very little effort!
Golden cupped blooms sit above bright green collars of leaves to add cheer to your spring garden. Easy to establish, these undemanding aconite bulbs will return year after year with virtually no maintenance, to create a carpet of colour. Perfect for naturalising in informal areas of grass or planting in the dappled shade of deciduous trees.
This ia an early variety and is ideal for forcing, which will produce long, slender, pink-tinged stalks. For deeper, red-coloured stems, leave them unforced - they will still be just as sweet and delicious! Rhubarb 'Champagne' is an old variety which is particularly reliable and easy to grow. Height: 60cm (24). Spread: 120cm (48).Supplied as budded pieces, taken from established crowns, which will mature quickly, giving crowns big enough to harvest from 2 years after planting.
Clematis 'Shirayukihime' is a large-flowered variety that bears wide, grey-white flowers with superbly contrasting yellow anthers. It is early to flower, with blooms appearing in May/June and a second flush in September that continues into autumn, providing an extended season of interest. This Japanese-bred cultivar has a neat and compact habit, making it the ideal choice for containers. Height: 2.5m (8'). Spread: 1m(3'). Pruning group: 2.
Chlorophytum saundersiae 'Starlight' is a striking grass-like perennial, that is a relative of the well known house plant, the Spider Plant. However, this Hardy Spider Plant is suitable for outdoors, and can survive in temperatures as low as -5C (41F).
Clematis 'Varenne' boasts stunning dark purple 14cm (6) flowers, each with a focal point of cream coloured anthers in the centre. This variety flowers between June and August and by planting alongside a late spring flowering and a late summer flowering clematis you can create a gorgeous, colourful display from the end of May right through until September. Clematis 'Varenne' is perfect for both cottage style or contemporary gardens and can be planted in patio containers with trellis, or up the sides of garden fences and walls. Height: 2m (6'). Spread: 1m (3'). Pruning group: 2.
This pretty little Allium is a real delight in late spring and early summer. Starry, white flowers are delicately blushed with a hint of pink, forming elegant rounded flower heads. The blooms rise to around 30cm tall upon upright stems, creating strong vertical structure at the front of borders.
Herbaceous Peonies will last a lifetime in your garden; giving late spring displays of show-stopping, ruffled blooms each year for the minimum of effort! Plant them into the middle of herbaceous borders, where they will add structure and of course, rich colours.
Clematis viticella 'Polish Spirit' is a late-flowering Clematis, in bloom from mid-summer through to the autumn. Awarded an RHS AGM for its excellent garden performance, Clematis viticella 'Polish Spirit' produces an abundant array of rich purple flowers with green-white stamens. For a truly stunning display, give this Clematis space to scramble up pergolas, walls and fences. Height: 5m (16'). Spread: 2m (6.5'). Pruning group: 3.
Most Old Man's Beard plants boast impressive flowers, but Clematis 'Asao' offers unique, two-tone, pink blooms of up to 13cm (5) wide. Their petals unfurl in May, revealing contrasting, yellow stamens. Provided the hardy shrub is grown in sunlight or partial shade up a wall, on a trellis or in a patio container, it will produce a second flush of flowers in the early autumn. The plant is therefore sure to brighten up any cottage garden throughout the season. Height: 2m (6'7). Spread: 1m (3'3). Pruning group 2.
A Clematis from the Viticella group, which are deciduous and have medium sized flowers, Clematis viticella 'Royal Velours' flowers from July to September, and produces a mass of 4 sepal, red-violet flowers. It can be planted to scramble amongst other shrubs or up tree trunks, or grown up a trellis on a wall, or attached to a planter. This Clematis thrives in a sunny or partial shade location. It has an Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society. Height: 4m (12'). Spread: 1.5m (5'). Pruning group: 3.
Calibrachoa ?Million Bells Series? remain as popular as ever, thanks to their superb garden performance. With superior vigour, Calibrachoa 'Million Bells Blue' produce well branched plants with an abundance of trumpet-shaped, purple flowers throughout the summer.
Clematis 'Elsa Spath' will be in bloom from June to September giving you plenty of time to enjoy the strong violet-blue flowers that have a centre of contrasting red anthers. Clematis viticella 'Xerxes', often called 'Elsa Spath' will grow to approx 3m or 10' each season making it suitable for growing amongst mature shrubs, or up against a wall, pergola, trellis or fence. The rich colouring of 'Elsa Spath' lends itself to be placed close to blooms in various shades of pink so that they will complement each other perfectly. Height: 3m (10'). Spread: 1m (3') Pruning group: 2.
Integrifolia Clemitases are hybrids that, instead of climbing up fences and trellises, spread horizontally in borders to give dense, weed-proof ground cover. Alternatively, Clematis 'Arabella' can be planted on top of a wall or steep slope, where it will cascade downwards. This spectacle will look particularly impressive in the summer and early autumn, when the hardy perennial's exotic, purple and white flowers are in bloom. Old Man's Beard plants need plenty of light, so are best suited to sunny or partially shady areas of the garden. Height: 2m (6'7). Spread: 1m (3'3). Pruning group 3.