Polyanthus - Windowsill Colour

Description: Polyanthus is a flowering annual that thrive through the cooler weather. Perfect for a sunny window ledge. Hard to beat for concentrated colour, polyanthus will flower throughout winter if you dead-head spent flowers. Care: Give them filtered sunshine and water once a week with Harvest or Thrive for Flowering Plants...

Coral Bark Maple

Coral Barked Maple or 'Senkaki'Description: A handsome small tree for small gardens. The most conspicuous feature of  'Senkaki' is its bright red bark during winter, which is especially striking on the younger wood.  Foliage colour is gold/lime green in spring and gold/red in autumn. Spring leaves are b...

Weeping Camellia

Description: A beautiful cascading shrub with glossy dark green evergreen leaves and flowers autumn and winter. Uses: May be grafted as a standard where it is lovely in a tall pot where the slender branches, 1.5m long, can cascade to give a winter floral display. Or use the groundcover to spill over a pot. Position: Filtered ...

Star Magnolia

Description: This improved variety of the Star Magnolia (Magnolia kobus var Stellata) has blooms so white they glow in the dark.This medium-large shrub grows into a multi-stemmed habit with branching close to the ground and hundreds of starry flowers adorn the branches. It has a unrivalled spherical shape when mature.  Flow...

Growing Cymbidium Orchids

Cymbidium orchids cannot be grown in the ground, they'll grow but they'll never flower. So they must be grown in pots. These long stemmed orchids are one of the most common gifts during the colder weather. Flower spikes usually stay in flower about six or seven weeks if left on the plant, and if cut for a vase it&rsq...