Category Archives: Garden
Microbiota decussata
Good ground cover doesn’t always have to mean creating a high maintenance border or flowerbed. Low-growing plants such as Microbiota decussata, an easy-to-maintain, evergreen conifer, provide excellent, year-round coverage and require little effort. What’s more, Siberian Carpet Cypress can be grown on steep slopes and in other problematic but sunny areas. Wherever it’s planted, Russian
Euonymus fortunei ‘Emerald Gaiety’
Euonymus fortunei ‘Emerald Gaiety’ is valued for its attractive variegated leaves, with white edging. It has a dense, compact habit and is a shrub suitable for a range of settings, from patio planters to borders and raised beds. This Spindle plant can even be trained up the sides of walls and fences. It is extremely
Euonymus fortunei ‘Harlequin’
Spindles are renowned for their attractive, evergreen foliage and vigorous spreading habit, making them a great choice when it comes to providing year-round ground cover. Euonymus fortunei ‘Harlequin’ offers interest as well as coverage: in Spring, it sprouts pure white shoots, which gradually unfurl to become variegated green leaves, flecked with splashes of silver. At
Cornus canadensis
Cornus canadensis or Creeping Dogwood can be planted in woodland gardens to prevent weeds from growing at the base of other, larger shrubs. It provides equally good ground cover in sunny borders, where its small, white flowers will stand out against rosettes of green, oval leaves in the late spring and early summer. These cross-shaped
Helenium ‘Moerheim Beauty’
Pretty coppery-red petals form an elegant skirt around spherical brown centres. Helenium ‘Moerheim Beauty’, also known as Sneezeweed, is an upright herbaceous perennial which blooms throughout summer and is great for bringing late season colour to the garden. This RHS AGM variety looks stunning grown with Asters, Rudbeckia and ornamental grasses for a prairie style
Foxglove ‘Camelot Lavender’
Foxglove ‘Camelot Lavender’ bears stunning flower spikes all around the stem and is guaranteed to bloom in its first year of planting, maintaining a colourful appearance in your garden over many years. This delightful F1 hybrid Digitalis is the perfect choice for brightening up your cottage garden border. Height: 120cm (48). Spread: 45cm (18).
Scabiosa ‘Blue’
Create a buzz in your garden with beautiful, nectar-rich Scabious ?Blue?. A wildlife garden essential loved for its ethereal, airy looks and also for being hugely popular with butterflies and bees.
Hosta sieboldiana var. elegans
Another RHS Award of Golden Merit holder, this Hosta has grand blue-green foliage which spreads widely over the ground.
Geum ‘Mrs J. Bradshaw’
A worthy cottage garden stalwart and RHS AGM winning perennial, Geum ‘Mrs J. Bradshaw’ has eye-catching semi-double scarlet blooms throughout summer. The attractive open-faced flowers are produced on slender stems above clumps of scalloped foliage and the plants are well suited to be placed at the front of herbaceous borders. Height and Spread: 60cm (24).
Fuchsia ‘Genii’ (Hardy)
Fuchsia ‘Genii’ is a traditional, distinctive variety of Fuchsia with red sepals and deep purple petals, which bloom throughout the summer and early autumn months. Meanwhile, its foliage has a contrasting, golden tone, making this plant a colourful addition to borders and patio containers. It grows best in sunlight or dappled shade, where it will
Lavender ‘Fathead’
Aptly named, this gorgeous French Lavender produces large deep purple flower heads topped with frilly lavender petal-like bracts. The silver-green foliage emits a spicy fragrance when brushed past and is the perfect way to bring a touch of the Mediterranean to your garden. A neat compact habit makes Lavender ‘Fathead’ ideal as border edging or
Euphorbia characias ‘Glacier Blue’
Plants with architectural interest are often quite large but Euphorbia ‘Glacier Blue’ is just 60cm wide and 60cm tall so everyone can find a space for it. The blue-green leaves are highlighted with cream edges so will give a silver effect that will be very welcome in winter gardens. From March to June tall stems
Eupatorium dubium ‘Baby Joe’
Eupatorium dubium ‘Baby Joe’ is a beautiful hardy perennial with large clusters of pink-purple florets that appear from June to September and attract butterflies in abundance. Perfect for areas where the soil is moist. Leave the seed heads to create an interesting display over autumn and winter. Height and spread. 75cm (2 ½ ft).
Ajuga reptans ‘Catlins Giant’
Ajuga reptans ‘Catlins Giant’ is grown for its foliage as much as its flowers, slowly spreading to form a carpet of glossy, purple-green leaves. This semi-evergreen perennial flowers from late spring through to midsummer, producing masses of upright spikes of blue-purple flowers that are highly attractive to bees. ‘Catlins Giant’ is a popular Bugle selection,
Acer palmatum
The japanese maple is a highly popular choice for gardens large or small. Slow-growing, and wind sensitive, this pretty variety of deciduous tree makes an ideal feature in a border or patio container, with an open habit and foliage that blends from green to deep red. Eventual height may reach 6-8m.
Camellia rosthorniana ‘Cupido’
Treat your garden to an exhilarating spring display of blooms with this superb new compact camellia. Growing in a pyramidal shape it makes an ideal specimen for a large container upon a patio, terrace or balcony. Fresh spring growth is tinged in red and the buds are blushed pink, opening to pretty white pendulous flowers
Chempak® Vegetable Fertiliser
All Chempak Soluble Plant Foods and Fertilisers contain a range of specially formulated essential trace elements which are absolutely necessary for plant growth,providing the right nutrition at the right time. Chempak Vegetable Fertiliser is an all-purpose base and top dressing with four distinct phases of release of the most important plant food; nitrogen, released in
Holly ‘Golden King’ (Standard)
Contrary to its name, Golden King is an outstanding female Holly. A fantastic specimen for year round interest, this handsome shrub bears white flowers in spring and spherical red berries in winter, which are loved by birds.
