Towering spires of fully double blooms make a sensational display, rising up to 180cm (6')! These hardy perennials are guaranteed to bring the wow facter to your garden - they make phenomenal cut flowers for summer bouquets too.
Towering spires of fully double blooms make a sensational display, rising up to 180cm (6')! These hardy perennials are guaranteed to bring the wow facter to your garden - they make phenomenal cut flowers for summer bouquets too.
Five fantastic varieties in our 300 Spring Flowering Bulb collection. With colours ranging from bright yellow to rich purples and striking blues you are sure to add cheer to your beds, borders and patio containers alike.
A delightful hardy perennial that is easy to keep and makes a great groundcover too, Epimedium ?Lilafee? happily grows in partial shade where it will produce eye-catching sprays of purple flowers, each bloom has an unusual long ?spurs? on them to add extra interest to any planting scheme! Planted en-masse, these fantastic plants will produce masses of colour!
Make your spring display effortless with our pre-planted hanging baskets. Delivered to your door with your favourite spring bedding variety already planted up and growing well. All you need to do is hang them up, water and enjoy! Primrose 'Bonneli' are bright and cheerful, forming neat, uniform plants.
An excellent resistance to bolting from an early sowing with the colour and the flesh as good as Detroit. Beetroot Boltardy has a sweet fresh flavour.
This exciting RHS AGM leaf beet, produces a rainbow of coloured stems that are crowned with large leaves of green or bronze. The flavour is deliciously mild and packed with nutritional content. Leaf Beet 'Bright Lights' can be harvested from mid-summer to late autumn, and after a normal winter, it will re-emerge to give an unbelievably early spring crop! Guaranteed lo brighten the vegetable patch, or why not grow this colourful swiss chard cultivar in ornamental borders. Height: 50cm (20). Spread: 40cm (16)
Create a masterpiece with this fine mixture of the most delicate shades which has been an unqualified success wherever T&M have shown it. The colours work together in a way that brings raptuous comments wherever it is seen and it has performed well under adverse weather conditions both for colour, winter/ spring and summer flowering, for colour harmony and usefulness whether in containers, hanging baskets or bedding. Height: 15-20cm (6-8in).
Ideal for early sowings in frames and for successional sowing outside, Kahira is a flatter-rooted beet with smooth skin and a deep red, tender and flavoursome flesh. Roots grow mainly above the surface of the soil in a well-drained and sunny position and once harvested, will store well for use through the winter monthsBeet can be stored by lifting the roots from later sowings, twist off the tops and store in boxes of slightly damp sand in frost-free conditionsHelp to retain bio diversity by growing these traditional varieties with the taste and garden performance well regarded by previous generations
Smooth, round, dark red skinned roots with a superb dark flesh colour and increased sugar levels. Beetroot Kestrel is delicious cooked or eaten raw, used as 'baby beetsor when mature. Good resistance to bolting. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection
An improved Detroit with rich maroon colouring. Beetroot Detroit 2 Crimson Globe produces globe-shaped beet which are ideal for successional sowing
A true beetroot but white in colour. It means no smudging or bleeding. Beetroot Albina Vereduna is much more acceptable as a vegetable with fish or poultry and adds variety and flavour far exceeding red beetroot available today. The curved and wavy top leaf is a vegetable delicacy like spinach and high in vitamins
Bolting is almost a thing of the past with this excellent globe beetroot! Detroit 6 : Rubidus will be ready to harvest over a week earlier than 'Boltardy', which it supersedes in all respects. Firm, smooth, deep red flesh without a hint of fibre, even when 125cm (5in) in diameter. Vigorous, high yields which are synonymous with F1 Hybrids
A rainbow mix of vibrant stem and leaf colours maintained as an Australian heirloom. An excellent value crop as the juicy, mild flavoured broad stems (chards), and the leaves (as spinach) can be eaten. Both are best steamed, but as baby leaves the stems and leaves can be added to salads. Decorative vegetable perfect for borders and containers
A much more prolific form, Swiss Chard Lucullus produces an abundance of large, tasty leaves and wide, white mid-ribs. Cook the succulent mid-rib like asparagus and serve with melted butter. Easier, and some consider tastier, than spinach. If the plants of Swiss Chard Lucullus are left to flower, the flower stalks can be cooked and eaten like sprouting broccoli. Cropping from mid-summer to late autumn. After a normal winter, it will re-emerge to give an unbelievably early spring crop
High quality, round, bright red fleshed roots which do not go woody. Beetroot Wodan has wonderful flavour when freshly cooked, either as 'babybeet or as larger roots. Ideal for pickling. The young leaves can be used as an alternative to spinach. Seeds are in the RHS Vegetable Collection
Widely used as an attractive baby leaf salad, adding an almost crimson colour to salads. Beet Bull's Blood also makes a decorative addition to the flower garden.
A main crop variety with round to oval, high quality roots with a dark red colour. The hybrid vigour of Beetroot Red Ace makes it a very strong grower which will do well in most sites and soils; good in dry seasons. Excellent for exhibition. Andrew Tokely says: I find Beetroot Red Ace quick to germinate and it produces good size roots for use in the kitchen or for exhibiting at the local shows and has won many prizes for me. I sow in succession from April-end of June for a continuous supply
The beautiful, broad golden stalks of Swiss Chard Bright Yellow are a striking and colourful addition to the vegetable garden and the flower border or containers. The sweet stalks can be steamed as a vegetable or, when young, eaten raw in salads. Swiss Chard Bright Yellow is slow to bolting and has good winter hardiness. Cropping from mid-summer to late autumn. After a normal winter, it will re-emerge to give an unbelievably early spring crop