Category Archives: Garden
Lavender ‘Devonshire Compact’
Its all in the name – this French Lavender has been bred for a neat, compact habit! Lavender ‘Devonshire Compact’ boasts a summer display of fat flower heads, topped with showy purple bracts. The silvery green foliage is deeply aromatic making this a great choice for a sensory garden.
Fuchsia ‘Shrimp Cocktail’ (Hardy)
Bold cerise sepals and marbled pink petals swing delicately from the stems of this hardy upright fuchsia. A compact variety, producing a succession of supremely weather resistant blooms throughout summer and autumn.
Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum ‘Kilimanjaro Sunrise’
This wonderfully-shaped shrub rises up like Mount Kilimanjaro with a glorious pyramidal habit, upon which, tiers of branches bear clusters of pure white lacecap flowers in early summer. Autumn sees the leaves turn shades of orange and red with the added bonus of red berries for winter colour. Supplied in 19cm pots.
Sarcococca hookeriana var. digyna
Sarcococca hookeriana var. digyna is a winter flowering shrub that is very shade tolerant. Sweet Box, also known as Christmas Box, has exotic looking flowers in the coldest months, that are highly fragrant, which are followed by shiny black berries. The evergreen leaves are shiny and leathery and contrast well with the stems that have a
Rudbeckia fulgida ‘Early Bird Gold’
A breakthrough in Rudbeckia breeding, Rudbeckia fulgida ‘Early Bird Gold’ flowers from June all the way through to October! Most Black-eyed Susans flower as the days shorten but this fabulous new variety flowers independently, allowing a full season of colour. The rich yellow blooms have contrasting dark brown centres and will be buzzing with bees
Azalea ‘Geisha Orange’
A highly unique, dwarf Rhododendron with bright orange flowers, which will virtually cover the evergreen foliage throughout May, and often into June. Japanese Azaleas makes a lovely feature in the rockery or a grown in a container on the patio.
Poppy ‘Beauty of Livermere’
Poppy ‘Beauty of Livermere’ is a wonderful plant for cottage garden style borders
Pinus mugo ‘Pumilio Group’
With its architectural form and dense green needles, this miniature tree makes a fine evergreen feature in the rockery, at the edge of the patio, or in a container. Neat and slow growing, the Dwarf Mountain Pine will remain compact for many years. With maturity, it will form a mound of spreading branches and will
Penstemon ‘Pensham Czar’
Sophisticated elegance with real staying power! Bursting into bloom in summer, this semi evergreen perennial produces masses of tubular lilac flowers with broad satiny white throats. Blooming all summer long and well into autumn, Penstemon Czar perseveres through rain or drought, and is slug resistant too. A classic cottage garden plant for well drained borders
Penstemon ‘Pensham Laura’
Showy and bright, Penstemon ?Pensham Laura? will keep your borders looking lively for months and months, starting in June and continuing all the way to late autumn
Penstemon ‘Pensham Wedding Day’
Penstemon ‘Pensham Wedding Day’ forms upright stems, crowded with ivory white bells, above a neat clump of narrow, semi-evergreen foliage
Penstemon ‘Pensham Amelia Jayne’
With radiant red flowers with satiny white centres tinged with pink, Penstemon ?Pensham Amelia Jayne’ is an amazing performer, blooming for five months of the year
Monarda ‘Fireball’
This architectural herbaceous perennial bears whorls of tightly packed, crimson flowers atop upright, leafy stems
Lysimachia ephemerum
Lysimachia ephemerum produces ghostly white flower spikes of starry blooms rising above clumps of silvery green foliage
Lithodora diffusa ‘Heavenly Blue’
This small, low-growing shrub makes an excellent container plant, as its star-like bright blue flowers keep on coming for weeks and weeks from late spring right through the summer months. Lithodora diffusa ‘Heavenly Blue’ is also a fine performer in the rockery with evergreen leaves providing ground cover all year. Also known as Purple Gromwell,
Lupin ‘The Governor’
Bicolour pea-like flowers are tightly packed on tall architectural spires. Carefully bred for a long flowering period with unbeatable garden performance. This traditional cottage garden perennial creates a strong impression in borders or planted in groups at the edge of woodlands.
Lupin ‘The Page’
Lupins have long been favourite plants for cottage garden planting schemes and with specimens like Lupin ‘The Page’ it’s easy to see why. The tall spires hold dozens of pea-like blooms in a rich shades of scarlet red. This variety has been bred to provide a long flowering period which will bring great satisfaction to
Hypericum ‘Hidcote’
Hypericum ‘Hidcote’, more commonly known as St John’s Wort, a plant used traditionally to lift mild depression, has bright yellow flowers, with orange anthers in the centre, from summer through to autumn. Its evergreen foliage provides greenery all year round. It’s a nice shrub for small and medium sized gardens and makes a colourful low
Cercidiphyllum japonicum
Enjoy its attractive and sweet smelling foliage! It’s a tree for all seasons whose leaves turn from shades of purple in spring, to citrus green in summer and golden yellow in autumn. Just mix a few bags of ericaceous compost into the soil on planting and it’ll establish nicely. Ht. 5-10m. Supplied in 9cm pot.
