Orchid

By admin | June 24, 2015

Great Value £9.99 each Orchid 2 Stem

Grow your own soft fruit

By admin | June 5, 2015

Grow your own soft fruit Raspberry Fruiting Raspberries are ideal for pies, jam or eating fresh. They require free-draining soil and do not like wet soils. Blackberry and Hybrid Berry Fruiting Blackberries and Hybrid Berries are great for cooking, making jam or eating fresh. Modern varieties are thorn-free too! Blackcurrant Fruiting Blackcurrants have intense flavour…

Hellebores

By admin | June 3, 2015

Also known as the Lenten Rose, Hellebores offer elegant flowers during the winter months. Coming back year after year, Hellebores are perfect for brightening up shady areas, especially in winter gardens. The Christmas flowering varieties tend to be white, with the purple, lime green and speckled flowering varieties flowering from the New Year into spring.…

Winter Flowering Heathers

By admin | June 2, 2015

Add colour to your garden this season. These small, compact plants will flower all season long, adding colour to your garden through the winter. Ideal in pots or in the ground, they require very little care. Water plants regularly during dry weather and remove any leaves that fall onto the plants in autumn. Lightly prune…

Skimmia

By admin | June 1, 2015

Evergreen shrub providing winter colour. Skimmia are compact evergreen shrubs, grown for their foliage, flowers and red fruits. Skimmia thrive in semi shade conditions in either containers or open ground and prefer slightly acidic soil, although they can also grow in neutral soil with a little help. They are best in well-drained soil and can…

Dahlietta

By admin | May 6, 2015

Great Value £2.99 each Dahlietta

Hello and welcome

By Alasdair Urquhart | April 17, 2015

With the clocks going forward and the evenings drawing out, it’s safe to say that spring has finally arrived. Certainly, if you’ve recently visited us in-store then you would have seen that our outdoor plant departments have been swelling with new season perennials, shrubs and starter vegetables. But before we go on, let me introduce…

Winter Vegetable Harvest

By admin | July 22, 2014

Winter vegetable harvest As well as Potatoes, there are still varieties of vegetables that can be planted now and harvested this autumn. Plant lettuces, spinach and rocket and get a fresh crop in roughly six weeks. To enjoy healthy salads throughout the summer why not plant a small batch every two weeks. Other vegetables that…