shrubs

Here’s a selection of our favourite shrubs and climbers, see our website for more.

A brilliant garden plant and cut flower. The colours deepen as they age, with the tips turning a delicate pink to a rich red in autumn. Aspect: Part shade. a July-November. H.1.8m S.1.8m

200508 2L pot £27.95

Good in a large pot a June-September. H.2.1m

Very reliable, long-flowering, and fantastic with climbing roses or, as you’ll see it in my favourite garden at Great Dixter, growing up through shrubs. Aspect: Part shade.

520072 2L pot £25.95

Despatched from late October

A ruby-flowered, deliciously scented honeysuckle with an extended flowering season.

It’s quick growing but not unruly. I love to pick this for a vase by my bed.

Aspect: Part shade.

a June-September. H.2.1m

200609 3L pot £36.50

Aspect: Part shade. a July-November. H.1.5m S.1.8m

200448 2L pot £23.50

Hydrangea arborescens ‘Incrediball’

An offspring of the classic ‘Annabelle’, loved for its larger heads and stronger necks, to keep its vast pompoms looking perky and upstanding.

Aspect: Part shade. a July-November. H.1.5m S.1.8m

200836 5L pot £35.95

Hydrangea paniculata ‘Limelight’

This is my all-round favourite hydrangea, which opens the cleanest, brightest acid green. Then the flowers fully flatten and turn pure ivory before being washed with rich pink. Fantastically long garden value. Aspect: Part shade. a July-November. H.1.8m S.1.8m 200200 2L pot £24.95

You’ll sniff this out even before you’ve seen it, with a beautiful jasmine scent that wafts around the garden in midwinter. Thrives in shade.

Aspect: Shade. a January-February.

H.60cm S.60cm

200362 2L pot £20.95

Truly irresistible with its clusters of soft blue, bellshaped flowers and edible berries that follow. Fabulous trained over trellis, pergolas, and arches. Aspect: Full sun.

a June-September. H.1.5m

201304 2L pot £26.95

Despatched from late October

These plants will be despatched from early September unless stated otherwise

This evergreen climber is excellent if you have an area of the garden you want to screen off. One of the strongest perfumed flowers in my garden. Aspect: Full sun. a July-August. H.6m

200366 2L pot £24.95

A crème de la crème selection of roses, sent out as bare root plants, the best way to grow them. Plant them out straight away. Great results even in their first season. Aspect: Full sun.

Josie, our Head Gardener’s favourite rose in a beautiful copper brown which flowers until October. Remarkable! a June-October.

H.90cm S.60cm

520077 1 bare root £19.95

Three of my all-time favourite garden roses, pretty, healthy, and lovely for picking. a June-September. H.1.5m

520069 3 x bare roots (1 of each) £55.95

I adore this rose which we first planted in our Colour Cutting Garden at RHS Chelsea Flower Show in 2017. It flowers prolifically in early summer, with the most delicious scent and variation in colour from peach to apricot. It’s healthy and vigorous, the perfect medium-sized rose for training on a wall. a June-July. H.4.5m S.4.5m 520199 1 bare root £20.95

Large mauve blooms with a deep, inky-purple blotched centre. Deadhead for continuous flowers throughout summer. a June-September.

H.90cm S.60cm 520126 1 bare root £24.95

Opening pink and fading to apricot – this classic China rose flowers on and off for six months. A top border filler favourite at Perch Hill. a June-September. H.2.1m S.2.4m

520079 1 bare root £27.95

2L pot £34.95

2L despatched from early September

A fresh and colourful homegrown harvest that changes with the seasons - what’s not to love!

A truly the-best-of-the-kales collection, with little and large of both the ‘Redbor’ (compact ‘Curly Scarlet’ and giant ‘Redbor’ F1) and Tuscan Kale types (compact ‘Black Magic’ F1 and giant ‘Nero di Toscana’), with ‘Peacock White’ F1 there for contrast and can be picked as a baby leaf for a salad bowl too.

Harvest: September-April.

200888 15 seedlings (3 of each) £14.50

Inspired by a winter Mediterranean veg market, why not create a stylish and beautiful rainbow of cauliflowers rather than just going for white? As with many brassicas, the time to plant cauliflower seedlings is late summer to early autumn. They will then give you a good winter crop.

Harvest: September-December.

201239 20 seedlings (5 of each) £19.95

Broccoli

A sprouting broccoli is a must-have vegetable in any productive spring patch. They are very hardy, and crop over a long and lean period, late winter and early spring.

Harvest: March-May.

201090

10 seedlings £9.95

Flower Sprouts (Kalette) HA

Bred from crossing Brussels sprouts and kale, these tasty flower sprouts are dense with minerals and antioxidants and unlike Brussels are cut and come again.

Harvest: SeptemberNovember.

201078

10 seedlings £9.95

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Chard ‘Bright Lights’ HA

Harvest: All year around.

200745

10 seedlings

£9.95

080097

100 seeds £3.95

Kale ‘Nero di Toscana’ HA

Harvest: All year around.

200746

10 seedlings

£9.95

110039

100 seeds £1.95

Our selection from the good performers in our autumn into winter hardy lettuce trial last autumn. These make a handsome bunch with the right combination and contrast of colour and leaf shape as well as crunch and sweetness of taste.

Harvest: October-May.

201224 20 seedlings

(5 of each) £19.95

These items will be despatched from early September unless stated otherwise

Blueberry ‘Top Hat’ is a beautiful compact shrub that produces an abundance of delicious berries, and delicate white flowers in springtime. The perfect plant for a pot or container, this is a total musthave for patios and terraces.

Harvest: July-August. H.60cm S.60cm

201392 5L pot £24.50

A naturally compact fig, ‘Miss Figgy’ is ideal for smaller spaces, patios and container gardens. It’s very droughtresistant and it’s foliage looks incredibly architectural and usually produces fruit after the long hot summer.

Harvest: August-September.

H.1.8m S.1.2m

201299 2L pot £24.95

Despatched from late October

Perennial rhubarb is an invaluable crop. Grow different varieties in succession to pick from March until August. Includes two-year-old crowns of ‘Timperley Early’ (early), ‘Raspberry Red’ (mid) and ‘Victoria’ (late). Harvest: March-August.

400051 3 crowns (1 of each) £18.50

6 crowns (2 of each) £34.95

Despatched from mid-October

With a mild taste and huge succulent cloves, it’s perfect for roasting and eating raw, grated into a salad. If you garden on heavy soil like mine, this is the garlic to grow.

Harvest: June-July

400033 3 cloves £8.95

Despatched from mid-October

The best British garlic variety, which forms plump cloves in our colder, greyer climes.

Harvest: July-August.

110219 2 bulbs £8.95

Despatched from mid-October

The absolute best collection of strawberry plants for tasty strawberries from June until July. These are the absolute best for performance and with just a few pots you can get a bumper harvest. Includes ‘Honeoye’ (early), ‘Cambridge Favourite’ (mid) and ‘Florence’ (late). Harvest: June-July.

400052 18 bare roots (6 of each) £20.95

Despatched from mid-October

9 x 9cm pots (3 of each) £29.95

Wonderfully scented varieties to brighten your kitchen and sitting room. These bulbs are easy to grow and definitely worth it for the cheer factor. a December-January. H.45cm

Prepared Hyacinths are treated differently to garden bulbs. They are lifted early and given six to eight weeks at different temperatures to encourage them to flower soon after you plant them. H.30cm

260887 15 bulbs (5 of each)

£19.95

Despatched from mid-October

Hyacinth for Forcing Collection in a Gift Box

261551 15 bulbs £25.95

Amaryllis ‘Nymph’

We are crazy for this double amaryllis. Its gentle markings remind me of apple blossom which flowers from late January to mid-April in our trials.

261791 1 bulb £21.95

These highly fragrant narcissi are the quickest and easiest bulbs to have in flower indoors, adding winter cheer and impressive scent.

260305 10 bulbs (5 of each) £22.95

30 bulbs (15 of each) £57.50

Narcissus papyraceus ‘Ziva’ (Forcing)

This pure white, highly fragrant, multi-headed narcissus makes a classic winter houseplant.

260135 15 bulbs £29.95

30 bulbs £49.95

If I was only allowed two amaryllis to keep me going from the end of Chrysanths in November until the start of spring, it would be these two. ‘Mandela’ is the most majestic I’ve ever seen, and ‘Green Magic’ provides a lovely limey contrast. 261662 3 bulbs (2 x bulbs of ‘Mandela’ and 1 x bulb of ‘Green Magic’.) £34.95