Category Archives: Garden

Enkianthus campanulatus

This large, deciduous shrub features clusters of pretty, bell-shaped cream flowers, with red veins and tips to the petals throughout May and June. The foliage blends from green to gold and then on to red during autumn. Hardy to -15°C. Height and spread 4m.

Nerine bowdenii ‘Pink’

With dramatic recurved petals and a beautiful shade of pink, Nerine bowdenii ‘Pink’ are guaranteed to brighten up any autumn flower border when other blooms are fading away.

Raspberry Full Season Collection

Enjoy fresh raspberries from late June all the way through to mid October with these British-Bred, superbly flavoured, heavy cropping varieties. Height: 150cm (59”). Spread: 50cm (20”).Collection comprises:Raspberry ‘Glen Prosen’ (Summer fruiting) – Summer fruiting cultivar with medium-large sized fruit, which is firm and with excellent flavour. Canes are thornless and upright, with moderate vigour.

Cirsium ‘Pink Blush’

Bees and butterflies will adore this cultivated thistle and so will you when the striking fluffy thistle blooms, unusual in white with their intriguing purple tips, appear throughout summer on tall stems above low growing rosettes of spiky-looking foliage.

Cherry plum (Hedging)

Wild Cherry (Hedging)

Wild Cherry is a great option for creating a hedge that offers seasonal interest. In spring the hedge becomes full of white blossom, then followed by lush green foliage and red cherries in summer. 

Scarlet Willow (Hedging)

Holly (Hedging)

Holly has just about every quality you need to make an effective secure boundary. The evergreen leaves will form a permanent dense screen for privacy, the spiky edges to them will also make a good deterrent. Berries in the winter add a touch of colour and give all year interest, and the birds will appreciate

Burnet rose (Hedging)

Burnet Roses make a perfect low hedge as a decorative boundary to parts of your garden. ideal for front gardens where often height restrictions are in place but you still want to deter unwanted visitors.

Bumper Spring Bulb Collection

This superb value for money collection of 425 spring bulbs will give you a wonderfully colourful display in your garden to mark the end of winter.

Penstemon pinifolius ‘Mersea Yellow’

Unlike the ubiquitous border hybrid penstemons, Penstemon pinifolius ‘Mersea Yellow’ is an altogether different plant that is better suited to gravel gardens, rockeries and containers.

Penstemon smallii

This lovely species penstemon is ideal for naturalistic planting. Flowering earlier than border hybrid penstemons, Penstemon smallii has larger, broader leaves and showy purple blooms.

Poppy ‘Checkers’

First year flowering from an early sowing

Penstemon ‘Pensham Just Jayne’

Dainty bells of rose-pink hang from curving rose-red stems, making this a delightful Penstemon for pride of place in the border

Nepeta racemosa

Nepeta racemosa produces a mass of violet-purple flower spikes that cover the mid-green leaves from June to September

Poppy ‘Allegro’

Non-sprawling upright completely weather resistant, very hardy plant that makes vivid splashes of scarlet

Red Hot Poker ‘Traffic Lights’

Red Hot Poker ‘Traffic Lights’ is aptly named, producing unique red, amber and green upright flower spikes on tough stems, held above evergreen strappy foliage

Koeleria Glauca

Koeleria glauca makes a lovely edging plant in gravel or rock gardens where it forms neat, weed-supressing tussocks of attractive, semi-evergreen, blue-green leaves.

Lamium galeobdolon ‘Hermann’s Pride’

Forming a nice clump without taking over, Lamium galeobdolon ‘Hermann’s Pride’ boasts sharply toothed leaves with a striking snakeskin-like silver variegation that intensifies in shade.

Lamium maculatum Ghost

Taller and larger-leafed than other varieties such as ‘Beacon Silver’, Lamium maculatum ‘Ghost’ is a vigorous cultivar forming a shimmering carpet of silver foliage ideal for ground cover.