Category Archives: Garden
Morning Glory ‘Milky Way’ – Seeds
A glorious climber which is free flowering and self clinging. Spreading pure elegance wherever it should wander. Milky Way features the purest white blooms flanked by rich maroon striping. Vigorous and ideal for quick effect. Height: 120-180cm (4-6ft)CAUTION: : Seeds are very poisonous
Marigold ‘Moon’ – Seeds
Gorgeous large, fully double primrose-yellow flower heads bob atop tall, bushy stems, ‘shining’ out from your summer displays. Equal in quality and garden performance to an F1 Hybrid, but at half the price.
Morning Glory ‘Kniolas Black Night’ – Seeds
An abundance of very attractive purple – black flowers with cerise throats, covering this very vigorous climber. Ideal planted in a sunny situation, up trellis or left to ramble amongst other climbers or shrubs. Climbs to 180-240cm (6-8ft)
Butterfly Pea – Seeds
A fast-growing tropical climber producing a wonderful display of 5cm (2in) blue flowers from mid to late summer. Ideal for covering trellis in a sheltered part of the garden where it will attract bees and butterflies, or as a perennial grown in a conservatory. Climbs 18m-24m (6-8 feet)
Celosia argentea var. cristata ‘Century Mixed’ – Seeds
All America Selections Bronze Medal winner for 1985. Extremely large flowers often 12in long, produced in abundance. Colours are scarlet, yellow, cream, rose and deep red. Attractive and unusual pot plants also suitable for bedding in a warm sunny sheltered border. They are very uniform and make good cut flowers. Flowers late summer. Height: 60cm
Aster ‘Pompon Splendid Mixed’ – Seeds
Distinctive close-knit 5-6cm (2-2 1/2in) blooms in possibly the best colour range. Very weather proof and long-lasting cut flower. Height: 38-45cm (15-18in)
Hollyhock ‘Chater’s Double Icicle’ – Seeds
A classic cottage hollyhock. Spectacular, large, crystal white, fully double, powder-puff blooms grace tall strong stems from mid summer until autumn. Adds height and a touch of style to the back of perennial or cottage garden borders.
Calendula officinalis ‘Fiesta Gitana Mixed’ – Seeds
A Fleuroselect Bronze Medal winner, Calendula ‘Fiesta Gitana Mixed’ is an easy to raise hardy annual that will flower virtually all summer long. With a wide colour range of fully double blooms and a compact habit, this is a superb bedding mixture. The plants are tolerant of even the poorest soils and are good subjects
Antirrhinum majus nanum ‘Rembrandt’ – Seeds
Attractive, free-flowering, bushy plants with stunning bicoloured blooms in vibrant orange and golden yellow. Will paint your borders and containers with colour all summer
Amaranthus paniculatus ‘Marvel Bronze’ – Seeds
Add almost instant impact to your summer bedding schemes, with eye to catching colour. This statuesque annual makes the perfect dot plant for borders, or why not be brave and plant it en masse for explosive results!
Ageratum houstonianum ‘Blue Danube’ F1 Hybrid – Seeds
A large-flowered, vigorous variety of annual ageratum with powder-puff flower heads of soft, lavender blue. The fluffy, weather resistant blooms are particularly attractive to butterflies. With a dense, compact habit, Ageratum houstonianum ‘Blue Danube’ is perfect for adding texture and colour to bedding, borders and containers. Height: 20cm (8). Spread: 25cm (10)
Zinnia elegans ‘Candy Mixed’ – Seeds
Excellent quality, scabious-flowered zinnia in a wide range of vivid colours including reds, pinks and oranges. Zinnia elegans Candy Cane Mixed will flowers freely all summer. Ideal for cutting and will attract beneficial insects and butterflies to the garden
Hollyhock ‘Halo White’ – Seeds
Large, bright white single flowers with an attractive bright yellow ‘haloin the centre of each bloom. Hollyhock Halo White produces tall flower spikes on strong bushy plants with plenty of eye-catching flowers on each spike to add dramatic height to your borders in late summer.
Golden Feverfew – Seeds
This hardy, semi evergreen medicinal herb bears attractive, lobed, golden foliage and pretty white daisy flowers throughout summer. The flowers of Golden Feverfew can be dried and added to pot pourri for an aromatic fragrance. With its bright golden foliage and compact habit, this short-lived perennial makes an attractive ornamental plant too. Height and Spread:
Herb Salad Burnet – Seeds
Salad Burnet can be used in salads and added to cooling drinks in a similar way to Borage. The leaves of this unusual hardy perennial herb have a delicate cucumber flavour and in many recipes are interchangeable with mint.
Turnip ‘Sweetbell’ F1 Hybrid – Seeds
Turning the idea of the traditionally dull root vegetable on its head, here’s a truly outstanding tasting ‘salad turnip’! The attractive purple-topped roots have a succulent white flesh and are delicious cooked or simply grated raw in salads. There’s no bitter aftertaste however you eat it. And you can eat the leaves too as they
Thunbergia alata ‘Superstar Orange’ – Seeds
A stunning bright orange Black-Eyed Susan with the largest flowers we have ever seen on a seed raised Thunbergia. Vigorous plants quickly cover a trellis against a sunny fence, or look spectacular growing up an obelisk in a container
Pennisetum macrourum ‘Tail Feathers’ – Seeds
Robust green foliage is enhanced by tall erect pinky-beige spikelets in late summer to autumn, gracefully moving in the slightest of breezes. Height: 180cm (6ft)
Laurentia ‘Avant-Garde Blue’ F1 Hybrid – Seeds
T&M’s flower breeders have struck gold with the first ever F1 Hybrid Laurentia to be entered into the Fleuroselect trials. Both ‘Avant-Garde Blueand ‘Pinkhave the same uniform, vigorous plant habit and have earlier scented, star shaped blooms which are produced in abundance over a long flowering season. Your garden will be filled with colour all
