Category Archives: Garden
Sweet Pea ‘Snoopea’ – Seeds
A superb dwarf sweet pea that carpets the ground with a kaleidoscope of colour and fragrance! These bushy plants make superb groundcover and unlike other non-climbing varieties, the plants of Sweet Pea ‘Snoopea’ have reduced tendrils so the plant remains neat and compact. This versatile variety is equally useful for basket, containers and window boxes.
Poppy ‘Angels Choir Mixed’ – Seeds
Glorious poppies of exquisite beauty – that’s ‘Poppy Angels Choir’. This wonderful mixture of double flowered poppies, with silky texture, in soft colours from whites to apricots and oranges, is the result of almost ten years work. Now the magic of breeders art has transformed the poppy to give you magical garden flowers that leave
Scabious ‘Dwarf Double Mixed’ – Seeds
Fragrant, fully double and relatively compact. These are lovely ‘cushionflowers in maroon, carmine, scarlet, pink, rose and white. Ideal in groups for border or as cut flowers when they last well in water
Poppy ‘Black Peony’ – Kew Flowerhouse Seed Collection
The fascination of black or dark flowers continues with this stunning, large, fully double flowered poppy in deepest red to black, with lovely crinkled petals. Easy to grow and superb in the border where it is best left to naturalise. Flowers summer. Height 91cm (36in).
Salvia splendens ‘Blaze of Fire’ – Seeds
One of the most famous summer annual bedding plants, long flowering, early flowering, compact and neat. It is a frost tender annual. Ideal for bedding and edging. Other excellent sites are windowboxes and tubs. Flowers summer. Height 30cm (12in)
Lunaria annua – Seeds
It blooms from March to April in rich, purples, pinks and starry bi-coloured combinations with white. It’s a vital nectar plant and therefore popular with butterflies, very easy to grow, normally self-seeding itself in sunny or shady positions. Over a long season it produces masses of silvery pods
Geranium ‘Border Supreme’ F2 Hybrid – Seeds
An exclusive blend of high quality bedding Geraniums at a very low price! Robust, free-flowering plants, with many large flower heads in shades of red, rose, pink, salmon and white. An inexpensive way of filling your borders and containers
Brachycome iberidifolia ‘Bravo’ – Seeds
An exciting mixture of the "Swan River Daisy" in three distinct bright colours: white, blue and violet, each with a striking black centre – plus a few surprise colour combinations too. A valuable bedding and container plant. Awarded a Fleuroselect Quality Mark. Flowers summer. Height: 20-25cm (8-10in)
Nasturtium ‘Jewel of Africa’ – Seeds
At last! Variegated climbing Nasturtiums. Available in a balanced mixture of yellows, reds, creams and peach/pinks with foliage which is attractively marbled and striped with cream, against a light green background. They make fantastic, dramatic container and basket plants or simply use them for effective ground cover. They also look good trailing and climbing over
Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Gazebo Mixed’ – Seeds
A mid-height, easy to grow annual with well branched plants which come into flower earlier than most varieties. The attractive fern-like foliage is crowned with many large blooms of velvet red, rose-pink and pure white. An ideal border filler, or simply use in a large container or as a bedding plant. Flowers summer. Height: 60cm
Dianthus barbatus nigrescens ‘Sooty’ – Seeds
Supremely different to other Sweet Williams with 7cm (2 1/2in) fragrant blooms of deepest maroon-chocolate on red stems and mid green foliage which matures to metallic mahogany. Stunning cut flower and border plant. Height: 30-38cm (12-15in).
Lychnis flos-cuculi – Seeds
An attractive wild flower with bright pink flowers with raggedy petals. Hence it is often known as Ragged Robin, because, just like the bird, it stands out brightly at the start of summer. Plant in damp areas of the garden. Height 25-100cm (10-40in)
Marigold ‘Boy O’ Boy Yellow’ – Seeds
A counterpart to Boy OBoy Orange with large bright yellow, double crested flowers which are produced prolifically from early June until frosts. A petite bright and cheerful variety very suited for windowboxes and the front of the border as well as bedding, tubs etc. Flowers all summer.
Marigold ‘Boy O’ Boy Orange’ – Seeds
The large, deep orange, double crested flowers are produced prolifically from early June until frosts. A petite bright and cheerful variety very suited for windowboxes and the front of the border as well as bedding, tubs etc. Flowers all summer.
Sweet Pea ‘Winston Churchill’ – Seeds
A very handsome red sweet pea that produces a profusion of magnificent, strongly scented, wavy blooms. The large flowers of Sweet Pea ‘Winston Churchill’ are carried on strong stems of a good length, that are ideal for cutting. This colourful variety is superb for climbing through arches, trellis, and obelisks. Height: 180cm (71). Spread: 30cm
Sweet Pea ‘Early Mammoth Mixed’ – Seeds
Extra long stems bear 5 to 6 large blooms each and have a superb colour range. Though not well suited to training as a cordon, Sweet Pea ‘Early Mammoth Mixed’ is an excellent variety for growing in the greenhouse, producing masses of early blooms for cut flower arrangements. Height: 150cm (59). Spread: 30cm (12).
Stock ‘Night Scented’ – Seeds
Deliciously scented flowers which open in the evening. Sow anywhere that is close enough to the house to get the benefit of such a beautiful fragrance. Below windows, patio tubs, window boxes, even a small sowing in hanging baskets. Try mixing with Virginian Stock before sowing to provide a mixture of attractive flower and fragrance.
Sweet Pea ‘Antique Fantasy Mixed’ – Seeds
These colourful old varieties laid the foundations for today’s modern cultivars, with their intoxicating sweet fragrance and superb colours. Their vigorous growth is best trained as bush plants instead of cordons, for a mass of strong stemmed blooms that will provide an endless supply of cut flowers. Sweet Pea ‘Antique Fantasy Mix’ is ideal for
Sweet Pea ‘Bijou Mixed’ – Seeds
This dwarf sweet pea has a compact, bushy habit making it ideal for growing in patio containers, hanging baskets and window boxes. Sweet Pea ‘Bijou Mixed’ produces large, deeply fragrant flowers, in a cheery mix of colours with up to up to five blooms per stem. Height and spread: 30cm (12).
Sweet Pea ‘Pink Cupid’ – Seeds
Grow this delightful dwarf sweet pea in baskets and containers and bring its captivating fragrance closer to home. The attractive pink and white bicoloured blooms of Sweet Pea ‘Pink Cupid’ are produced on naturally compact, bushy plants that grow less and 30cm (12) tall. Despite its small proportions this RHS AGM variety still packs a
