Tender Perennials
are the non stop colour providers of summer. They are all pretty fast growing and fill tubs and hanging baskets in a few months. Begonias and Busy Lizzies for shade, many love the sun. They are all pretty easy and they are the best plants to start gardening with.
Shrubs
have a lot of uses. Ever present like good friends, they cheer you up in winter, dazzle you with flower in the summer. Choose from glossy evergreens which you can clip into living sculpture, hydrangeas with big and blousy flowers, tiny scented flowers on winter box, non stop flowers on quick growing.......... mallow. mallow
Climbers
are mostly fast growing. Plant in the spring and you often have cover up the fence 6ft tall by the autumns. Scented flowers of Jasmine and Honeysuckle or huge sumptuous flowers of hybrid Clematis, these are plants with quick impact. Wisterias and vines are fabulous over pergolas.
Vegetables
from your garden are something special. You don't get that wonderful tomato smell in the supermarket, nor potato skins that fall off in a little water when dug fresh from the garden. A row of leeks keeps you in winter veg, courgettes go your ratatouille. Get planting.
These are non woody plants that are mostly able to survive frost. Most of them are pretty easy and fast to establish. Even those planted as late as July can grow into a decent sized plant by the time that growth stops in the autumn. A succession of flower
Catalogues
I produced one for more than 15 years. By the time it was printed, some of the plants listed had already been sold out and so after a few months it began to loose its usefulness.
My suppliers use availability lists which are now standard within the nursery industry. If you haven't got it, why list it?
My availability lists will be broken down into categories of plant so that you only need download or view online the plants your interested in.
