Notable for its rare flower colour, Nasturtium ‘Milkmaid’ produces blooms in a lovely soft, creamy hue. The top of the milk rather than full cream, and at around 2 metres in length it can be trained to ascend trellises, fences, or arches, or allowed to trail gracefully. An excellent choice for gardeners seeking a more understated palette.
‘Purple Emperor’ is an exciting new palette with a vintage colouration that is quite unique to nasturtiums. Initially opening a dusky, antique burgundy they fade in the most beautiful way to a vintage lavender-rose.
Tropaeolum ‘Salmon Baby’ is a very striking and attractive nasturtium that produces an abundance of semi-double salmon-pink flowers which contrast beautifully against the dark foliage. Extremely easy to cultivate, this neat and compact variety has edible flowers and is an excellent companion plant.
Celebrated for its striking, velvety deep-red to near-black flowers, which provide dramatic contrast, Tropaeolum ‘Black Velvet’ is a visually captivating and versatile plant that combines ornamental beauty with culinary and ecological benefits.
Glowing cherry-coral blooms give this variety a warm, tropical quality, and the versatile colour mixes well with so many things. Nasturtium ‘Jewel Cherry Rose’ has a more mounding growth habit than other trailing nasturtiums, but stem length is sufficient for arranging, and it won’t overtake the garden.
Celebrated for its striking, velvety deep-red to near-black flowers, which provide dramatic contrast, Tropaeolum ‘Black Velvet’ is a visually captivating and versatile plant that combines ornamental beauty with culinary and ecological benefits.
In multiple hues of apricot, the petals of Tropaeolum ‘Tip Top Apricot’ have a darker veining with a deeply shaded throat. This award winning, premium series produce 45 to 50cm mounded plants that are extremely floriferous and have a long flowering season.
‘Tip Top, Pink Blush’ is a premium series that provides uniquely coloured flowers that are a great addition to the nasturtium family. Vintage-cream flowers, finely veined with apricot-pink. The subtle palette gives a relaxed, modern look to borders and larger containers alike.
Valeriana officinalis is a graceful wildflower that is native to Europe and Western Asia. The tall, branched flower stalks are held atop a low mound of foliage, the densely clustered flowers are sweetly scented and usually white with a hint of pink.
Verbascum nigrum is one of the most reliable and long-flowering verbascum, it is also one of the truly perennial species. This European native bloom profusely with masses of golden-yellow flowers. First thing in the morning, the flowers are alive with bees getting on with their day’s work. Take time to stand and admire them for a few minutes. They will pay you no heed, they’re far too busy.
Verbascum nigrum is one of the most reliable and long-flowering verbascum, it is also one of the truly perennial species. The variety ‘Album’ bloom profusely in late spring with masses of white flowers with attractive violet filaments, held on candelabra like branches. They bloom throughout the summer, with a few sporadic flowers still in September to early October.
English gardeners are very familiar with this plant and consider it essential for a well-structured garden. Verbascum phoeniceum ‘Hybrids Mix’ flower freely, giving a glorious plethora of colours from delicate salmon to rich claret. A true perennial which can flower the first year given an early sowing.
Verbena bonariensis ‘Vanity’ is a new compact cultivar of a perennial favourite. This award-winning variety has an open habit with gorgeous, intense purple-blue clusters atop branching thin, wiry stems. Its garden friendly neat habit makes it sturdier and easier to maintain while you create a pollinator paradise in your garden.
Verbena ‘Obsession Apricot’ is a new pastel colour of this exquisite series. Bred to be earlier to flower, the evenly spread buds open to reveal showy clusters of star-shaped, peach-apricot flowers at from late spring to mid autumn. They bring an extremely fine and delicate texture to any garden composition.
A beautiful pastel mixture of this exquisite series, Verbena ‘Obsession’ plants are compact with a trailing habit of growth they eventually spill over the edges of hanging baskets and containers. This award winning variety is an excellent performer flowering over a long period throughout summer, regardless of the weather.
Named Verbena rigida after its upright habit, this front-of-the-border performer, although only a foot or two in height, can outshine almost everything else. Polaris is a dazzling, low-growing verbena that produces a candelabra of silver-blue flowers.Verbena venosa is a small and densely flowered version of Verbena with clusters of purple-pink fragrant flowers that are held in domed heads. A brilliant addition to the garden that will bloom from mid-spring right until the first cold of winter.
Gardeners are often looking for good solid perennials that will have attractive flowers, be easy to take care of, grow nicely but not take over the garden. One group of plants that should be considered is the Veronicas. They provide some of the clearest, truest blues in the perennial border.
Gardeners are often looking for good solid perennials that will have attractive flowers, be easy to take care of, grow nicely but not take over the garden. One group of plants that should be considered is the Veronicas.
Veronicastrum is one of the most fashionable plants around. It is an excellent genus, full of hardy, trouble-free plants. The multiple tapering, soft spikes of white flowers look like elegant, living candelabras.
Viola ‘Arkwright Ruby’ is an antique variety that is a favourite among gardeners for both its historical charm and ornamental beauty. The rich, velvety ruby-red blooms are incredibly versatile, perfect for almost anywhere in the garden or for the vase.
Viola cornuta ‘Back to Black’ is a striking cultivar of the horned violet, admired for its exceptionally dark, velvety flowers. The blooms are an intense black-purple, so deep that they often appear pure black. If you want to achieve long stems for the vase, plant them close, 5 to 10cm apart.
Renowned for its unique, hand painted, Viola ‘Brush Strokes’ is a captivating variety that has been carefully chosen from a cherished collection of historic strains. A harmonious blend of soft apricot, honey, plum, cream and lavender tones, often accented by intricate flecks and fine veining.
Viola ‘Chantreyland’ is a compact, cool-season charmer. Soft apricot petals with hints of cream, washed with a blush of sunset pink. She’s made for edging, containers, or nestling into cracks in old stone. Quite unforgettable once you’ve met her. no wonder she has been in cultivation since 1923.
A real gem from the mountains of Italy, Viola corsica ‘Bertolonii’ is a rare but easy-to-grow viola that deserves a spot in any sunny garden. It forms tidy clumps of dark green, lance-shaped leaves and puts on a gorgeous display of large, azure-blue flowers from April through June.
Viola ‘Sorbet F1 Honeybee’ is a real heartbreaker in a six-petal suit. They bloom with rich mahogany and warm golden yellow petals – rather like sunlit honey. Near the centre there’s a soft black whisker pattern. Perfect for use in beds or containers and for attracting pollinators to the garden.
A delicate lavender kissed with rosy pink undertones, the top petals of Viola ‘Sorbet F1 Lavender Pink’ lean a little more to lavender, the lower ones more pink, giving it a subtle watercolor fade. Refined, elegant and easy on the eye.
Viola hybida ‘Sorbet F1 Lemon Chiffon’ is pure joy in the form of a flower, with pale lemon-yellow upper petals with warm yellow lower petals. The compact, mound shaped plants grow 15cm high and up to 30cm wide. They are very tolerant of heat and cold, and in climates with mild weather they will flower all winter.
Well-regarded in horticultural circles, Viola Sorbet XP Neptune F1 is a premium cultivar, for its consistent performance across a wide range of climates and seasons. ‘Neptune’, displays striking blooms characterised by a soothing blend of soft blue and cream petals, often with a delicate yellow center and a faint blue picotee edge.
One of the most striking colour combinations of the series, Sorbet ‘Orchid Rose Beacon’ blooms with bicoloured flowers of bicoloured flowers of with rose and purple-pink face, with dark whiskers and a golden eye. Absolutely gorgeous, it can be slipped into almost any gaps where you need a little brightness.
The Sorbet series is the premier series of Violas. Bred to have more blooms and less stretching, it is a standout performer in both spring and autumn. Sorbet F1 ‘Pink Halo’ have petals that are a crisp white. At the centre there’s a raspberry-pink halo that fades outward and dark whiskers that radiate from the centre.
Sorbet ‘F1 Raspberry’ has tricolour patterns with cap, face, whiskers and eye colours, with luscious deep raspberry red upper and lower petals with dark whiskers and a golden eye. It is a stunning new colour pattern, with a bright face that seems to be basking in the spring or autumn sunshine
Cultivated in Switzerland in 2004 from the famous ‘Queen Charlotte’, One would think that ‘Reine de Neiges’, or ‘Snow Queen’ would be a white bloomer. The flowers are almost white, a clear crisp ice-blue. Long blooming and upward facing, their fragrance is intense.
Known for their vigorous growth and cascading blooms, Viola pansy ‘Freefall F1’ is perfect for spring and autumn baskets. It is day-length neutral, so will bloom well into winter and early spring. Super floriferous with a tidy habit, it attracts pollinators and adds charm to any outdoor space.
Viola ‘F1 Frizzle Sizzle Blue’ brings an air of cool elegance to the garden. The large blooms ripple and curl with the same extravagant ruffling as the rest of the series, but here the petals are a rich, velvety blue, shifting in tone from deep indigo at the centre to softer violet at the edges.
Richly ruffled and frilled, the blooms of Viola ‘F1 Frizzle Sizzle Burgundy’ resemble plush velvet. An excellent choice for cool season blooms, few plants are as accommodating, and fewer still manage to be so dramatic about it.
Viola x wittrockiana ‘Frizzle Sizzle F1’ has a unique flower, and is possibly quite unlike any pansy that you have seen before. Large flowers, completely ruffled along the edges. ‘Frizzle Sizzle Lemonberry’ produces ruffled lemon-yellow flowers with dark blotches and berry purple edges.
Viola x ‘Frizzle Sizzle’ F1 has a unique flower, and is possibly quite unlike any pansy that you have seen before. It produces large 2-3 inch wide flowers, each of which is completely ruffled along the edges. This mix from the series includes the most popular shades, each with the central dark blotch.
Viola x wittrockiana ‘Frizzle Sizzle F1’ has a unique flower, and is possibly quite unlike any pansy that you have seen before. Large flowers, completely ruffled along the edges. ‘Frizzle Sizzle Raspberry’ produces gorgeous ruffled red flowers with dark blotches and berry purple edges.
Viola x wittrockiana ‘Frizzle Sizzle F1’ has a unique flower, and is possibly quite unlike any pansy that you have seen before. Large flowers, completely ruffled along the edges. ‘Frizzle Sizzle Lemonberry’ produces ruffled lemon-yellow flowers with dark blotches and berry purple edges.
Viola ‘F1 Frizzle Sizzle Blue’ brings an air of cool elegance to the garden. The large blooms ripple and curl with the same extravagant ruffling as the rest of the series, but here the petals are a rich, velvety blue, shifting in tone from deep indigo at the centre to softer violet at the edges.
The Viola ‘Inspire’ series represents a modern group of highly efficient early pansies intended for production of flowering plants for either spring or for autumn. Large and attractive blooms in a range of soft lilac shades, but the greatest advantage of this group is that they have very compact growth and don´t overgrow in the container or flowerbed .
Viola wittrockiana ‘F1 Inspire Lilac Shades’ produce beautiful blooms in a range of soft lilac shades. Perfect for both autumn and spring plantings, the series creates bushy, very compact plants that don´t overgrow in the container or flowerbed and have a beautiful appearance all season long.
Highly efficient early pansies that can be grown for spring or for autumn. ‘Inspire Peach’ produce large flowers in beautiful shades with slight ruffling and occasional dramatic blotches. Rose pink, apricot, honey, and cream
Wisteria sinensis is surely the most distinctive of climbers and by far the most captivating when in bloom. This hardy climber will give stunning displays every year. Bearing large pendent clusters of fragrant violet-lavender flowers in late spring to early summer, the foliage appears once the flowers are over.
With papery, double-crested blooms that stand gracefully on wiry, branching stems Xeranthemum ‘Superbissimum Purpureum’ has been bred for its uniform deep rich purple, double-crested blooms that have a metallic silvery sheen that shimmers in sunlight and remain open even in dull weather.
Popular wonderful flowers, reminiscent of Dahlias on tall robust plants, Zinnia elegans ‘Miss Willmott’ are extremely easy to grow from seed. They provide soft pink to lavender pink blooms from mid-summer to autumn and with thick straight stems that are less likely to bend when being cut. They are perfect for cut flowers.
Popular wonderful flowers, reminiscent of Dahlias on tall robust plants, Zinnia elegans ‘Exquisite’ are extremely easy to grow from seed. Blooming from mid-summer to autumn, they open carmine red and age to a delicate soft pink tone. With thick straight stems that are less likely to bend when being cut, they are perfect for cut flowers.
Reminiscent of Dahlias on tall robust plants, Zinnia elegans ‘Miss Willmott’ is named for the Edwardian plantswoman and gardener Miss Ellen Willmott. Soft salmon to lavender pink blooms from mid-summer to autumn and with thick straight stems perfect for cutting. Bees and butterflies will be attracted to them too.
Popular wonderful flowers, reminiscent of Dahlias on tall robust plants, Zinnia elegans ‘Dahlia-Flowered Salmon Queen’ are extremely easy to grow from seed, they provide colour from mid-summer to autumn and with thick straight stems that are less likely to bend when being cut. They are perfect for cut flowers.
So named for their unique spiky appearance, Cactus Flowered Zinnias have semi double, large blooms each with re-curved, quilled and twisted petals, they bloom in a wide range of colours and form interesting textures in the garden or the vase.
A slightly eccentric variety of Zinnia, ‘Senorita’ produces wonderful peach, cherry and salmon-pink blooms each with ruffled, ribbon-like petals. These reliable plants produce a bumper crop and the more you harvest, providing colour from mid-summer to autumn.
‘Isabellina’ is a beautiful zinnia that has been recently re-introduced. Featuring large 10 to 12cm soft buttercream blooms that are densely-petaled it makes a long lasting cut flower and an elegant addition to borders, and they are extremely easy to grow from seed.
Producing perfectly formed salmon-pink pompoms, Zinnia ‘Lilliput Salmon’ begin blooming early and last until late autumn. Very easy to grow, they can be sown late spring until late summer directly where they are to flower. A second sowing in mid-summer ensures continued flowering into the autumn.
Zinnia ‘Lilliput’ is a superb early-flowering, medium height series which bloom in profusion all summer long. ‘Lilliput White’ produce perfectly formed white pompoms which grow 5cm wide. The plants reach around 45 to 50cm tall. Extremely easy to grow from seed, they are the perfect flower for beginners.
Zinnia ‘Queeny Lemon Peach’ is the latest award winning colour in the series. As the blooms age, they have a a reverse fading habit that presents beautiful colour shades, the colour starts a delicate creamy lemon and transition to a soft coral-peach.
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