As summer makes way for autumn our gardens often need a little bit of a lift, pots and tubs filled with lilies and other exotic flowers have gone over and need to be replanted, and that is where the fabulous, bright and colourful Chrysanthemum comes into it own. We have a great range in our…
This very pretty Dianthus is one of a series called Super Parfait. This bee friendly plant is perfect for growing in borders and on containers. Often grown as an annual, it can overwinter and regrow a second or third year, (even with our Brighouse climate) it has the prettiest pink flowers with dark red eyes…
Willow Vale is one of the best French Lavenders, which look wonderful with their exotic flowers, which have a little tuft of colour at the ends. These are easy to grow, they love a sunny spot and can be very lightly pruned after flowering. They make wonderful informal hedges…
Just look at these bright golden yellow flowers, which are held up above the green mound of foliage. They will continue to flower right the way through until the autumn when they will fall asleep for the winter and then wake up when the spring sunshine starts. An advantage at the moment is that they…
We have just taken delivery of some stunning herbaceous perennials including the rather lovely Gaura Pink. Gaura is a superb plant with its delicate flowers which add colour and movement to the herbaceous border. It also looks stunning on a pot with other perennials…
The Shasta Daisy, or Leucanthemum x superbum “Real Galaxy” is the perfect addition to any sunny garden border. White petals surround a golden centre in the flowers which just keep coming. They are great for use in the house as a cut flower, and continue flowering for as long as the summer lasts and of…
“Summer Nights” is one of our favourites at the moment, it is very different from the traditional tall Delphiniums with their huge spikes of flowers which resemble rockets going off. “Summer Nights” grows as a wonderful low, bushy mound of lacy green leaves, from these loose sprays of sky-blue to deep midnight-blue flowers develop throughout the summer.…
Dahlia Amazone is one of those stunning plants that stops you in your tracks. With masses of stunning pink, through to red flowers he’d high above its compact foliage it is a real show stopper. The flowers just keep on coming from summer right through to the autumn frosts. Dahlia Amazone grows to about 2…