Tender Plants
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Verbena speciosa 'Imagination'
Trailing Verbena, Clump Verbena€2.95“Imagination’ is a verbena cultivar that is noted for its profuse bloom of violet-blue flowers, its spreading-trailing stems and its deeply cut foliage. A heat and drought tolerant plant, easily grown it performs well in hanging baskets and containers in full sun.
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Trachelium caeruleum 'Lake Michigan Wine-Red' produces beautiful dome shaped flower heads that are crowded with tiny, tubular flowers. Very useful for filing gaps in herbaceous borders, the flowers have a light fragrance, make an excellent cut flower and are highly attractive to both bees and butterflies. -
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Trachelium ‘Lake Michigan’ is a cultivated variety, bred to give earlier flowerin, the long stems are a popular choice for cut flower production. It can be sown either in early spring for flowering in late summer, or sown in autumn and overwintered to give earlier flowering plants the following year. -
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Trachelium caeruleum is used extensively in the cut flower trade. 'Lake Michigan Purple' produces beautiful dome-shaped flower heads that are crowded with tiny, tubular deep purple flowers.The plants have dark green foliage and stems and provide both texture and colour to an arrangement. -
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Trachelium caeruleum is a lesser known genus that is gaining in popularity. Beginning in early summer they are in bloom right through to late autumn. The flowers have a light fragrance and are highly attractive to both bees and butterflies. They are a boon for building up bees’ honey reserves before winter. -
Strelitzia reginae
The Bird of Paradise€2.70 The unusually beautiful shape and brilliant colors of Birds of Paradise have made these flowers not just a designer's favorite, but also a popular symbol of paradise. The plant bears a unique flower that resembles a brightly coloured bird in flight, the fascinating blooms make wonderful, long lasting cut flowers. -
Spilanthes acmella
Syn. Acmella oleracea
Toothache Plant, Peek-A-Boo, Electric Daisy€1.75Spilanthes acmella is a unique and versatile plant that will add texture and interest to your garden. Used by herbalists, the pretty yellow and red cone-shaped flowers and leaves have properties similar to Echinacea and has numbing properties when the leaves and flowers are chewed.
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Salvia patens 'Blue Angel'
Gentian Sage€3.55Salvia patens is undoubtedly one of the very best blue flowering plants, the large, double-lipped blossoms are one of the truest blues found in nature. 'Blue Angel' is one of the smallest of the 'Gentian Sages', there is little else that can compete with the richness of its colour.
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Salvia farinacea 'Fairy Queen'
Bi Colour Sage, Flowering Sage€2.10Salvia farinacea ‘Fairy Queen’ is an attractive new variety that bears multiple spikes of bicolour blue and white flowers on dark distinctive flower stems from June to October. With a bushy, compact habit and thick stems. A small white spot on each sapphire blue flower creates the illusion of fairy dust.
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Ricinus communis 'Carmencita'
Castor Oil Plant€2.65Ricinus communis 'Carmencita' is an outstanding new variety with shiny dark brown foliage. The palmate leaves have deeply incised lobes and grow 30 to 75cm (12 to 30in) across. The plants have red stems and in late summer clusters of bright red blooms are followed by stunning scarlet seeds pods.
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Petunia x hybrida 'F1 Celebrity Pastel Mix'
Multiflora Petunia€3.95Like favorite guests at a party, Celebrity Petunias come early and stay late. They are unrivaled for long-lasting colour, have great resistance to adverse weather and bounce back quickly after rain. The 'Pastel Mix' is lovely blend of complementary colours, salmon, chiffon morn, rose, pink and lilac.
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Petunia x hybrida 'F1 Celebrity Niagara Mix'
Multiflora Petunia€3.95Petunia 'Celebrity' is an impressive and dependable series that has been wowing gardeners for more than a decade. They have the fastest average bloom time, beginning just 43 days after sowing, when the plants are no more than 10cm tall. Unrivalled for long-lasting colour the 'Niagara Mix' is lovely blended mix of blues.
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Passiflora edulis 'Purple Giant'
Passionflower, Passionfruit, Granadilla€2.10A Passiflora that produces very fragrant, unusual flowers. The flowers are white, except the base of the corona which is purple; the filaments are curly, as long as the petals, 5 to 7cm across. The edible fruits possess pleasant flavour, kind of sweet and a little tart.
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Nicotiana sylvestris 'Only the Lonely'
Woodland or South American Tobacco Plant€2.10Out of stock
With elegant, pure white, large clusters of glistening white blooms that are intensely fragrant, Nicotiana sylvestris 'Only the Lonely' makes an aristocratic statement. When in full flower, each head resembles a graceful explosion. -
Nicotiana alata var. grandiflora 'Lime Green'
Jasmine Tobacco, Flowering Tobacco
Nicotiana affinis var. grandiflora€1.60 Nicotiana alata 'Lime Green' is a sought after variety which produces a mass of bright green flowers which open fully in the afternoon. It provides a new and refreshing alternative to the usual shade annuals: the unusual colouring lifts the summer border and act as a foil to hotter colours. -
Nicotiana alata var. grandiflora 'Crimson Bedder'
Jasmine Tobacco, Flowering Tobacco€1.25The pure bloom power of Nicotiana Crimson Bedder makes it a winner for every garden. The well branched and bushy plants grow to around 50cm tall. These free-flowering little gems will bloom from early summer to autumn, every inch packed with crimson blooms.
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Nicotiana alata 'Dwarf Tinkerbells F2 Mixture'
Flowering Tobacco, Jasmine Tobacco€1.75Nicotiana alata 'Tinkerbells' is a stunningly colourful plant for borders and containers. The dwarf, bushy habit and the hybrid vigour combine to produce a carpet of colour. To get the most enjoyment from the sweet evening fragrance, plant near patios, decks, or under windows to best enjoy their sweet perfume.
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Nicotiana affinis var. grandiflora
Jasmine Tobacco, Flowering Tobacco
Also known as Nicotiana alata var. grandiflora€1.50Out of stock
Nicotiana affinis, also known as N. alata, is a classic tobacco plant with a delicious evening scent. It has been justly popular for over a century and a firm favourite with generations of gardeners: it is far lovelier than the modern improved forms of Nicotiana alata. -
Musa sikkimensis
Himalayan, Darjeeling or Sikkim Hardy Banana€3.25 Musa sikkimensis is still a relatively new plant introduction and is proving to be as hardy as the most popular banana species Basjoo, but I think more attractive and quite spectacular as a large plant. The leaves are a darker glossy green, with new leaves producing a lovely pink flush to the underside. -
Musa ornata
Purple Flowering or Ornamental Banana€2.75 Musa ornata is a very attractive ornamental banana plant with tropical flair. A small plant that produces long, glaucous-green, oblong leaves and a gorgeous purple inflorescence in summer. It makes a much more manageable plant than other species and is extremely suitable for containers and well suited for indoor use. -
Musa balbisiana
Japanese Fibre Banana€2.75Musa Balbisiana is a fruit bearing variety and one of the progenitors of the present-day commercial bananas. The clumps of lush, dark foliage make it ideal for creating a jungle landscape. It develops large colourful inflorescence of bright red and maroon.
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Musa acuminata
Dwarf Banana, Chinese Banana€2.55The development of bananas is a source of both pride and amazement to those unfamiliar with banana culture. Musa acuminata is a 'dwarf variety' with broad, long, graceful leaves, and is extremely suitable for containers or gardens.
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Mimosa pudica 'The Sensitive Plant'
Touch-me-not€1.95Mimosa pudica, the 'sensitive plant', is a source of fascination to adults and children alike. When touched, the narrow fern-like leaflets they almost instantaneously fold together and the leaf stalk droops. This sometimes sets off a chain reaction, with several leaf stalks falling on top of one another. -
Luffa cylindrica
Vegetable Gourd. Aka Loofah or Loofa€2.35Luffa acutangula is a very versatile plant. As a vegetable, the leaves can be eaten in a salad, the very young gourds, known as Chinese Okra they taste like aubergine. The matured dried gourd develops into a fibrous netting. It is an excellent sponge and makes a wonderful exfoliator.
