| Description | Mentha
Peppermint, All types of mint are vigorous, fast growing, spreading perennials. You need to plant them where they have room to spread or plant them in pots. Mint plants send out runners just above and below the ground level, quickly forming large lush green patches. Planted in the right spot they make fantastic ground covers. Mint can grow anything up to 1m tall, but require regular trimming to ensure nice bushy, healthy plants. Although mint is hardy and will adapt to almost any spot in your garden, it prefers cool damp conditions in partial shade. Mints make good companion plants, repelling unwanted pests and attracting beneficial ones. This little herb is a probably one of the most commonly mint used in the kitchen, with its fresh peppermint flavour. It's leaves can be used to make apple mint jelly, as well as for flavouring cous cous, and rice dishes. You can make a fresh Mint tea, or use it as a garnish, or in salads. Use the leaves fresh or dried, or you can freeze them in ice cube trays.
4" pot size. | Rosa Hybrid tea
A Blooming Miracle produces masses of elegant, perfectly shaped yellow roses with pink edges from late spring.
- Multicoloured blooms
- High disease resistance
- Spicy fragrance
Bush form. | Viburnum plicatum tomentosum
Japanese Snowball tree is an absolutely stunning large deciduous shrub native to China and Japan with attractive foliage and flowers. It has horizontally branched stems, green foliage changing to red before falling over winter and showy-white clusters from late spring. Prefers a sunny to part shaded position in well drained soil. Mature growth 4x4m.
| Sempervivum calcareum 'Guillaumes' Succulent
Guillaumes is an evergreen perennial producing rosettes of spirally arranged, green leaves, with burgundy starting at the tip and spreading down the leaf as it ages.
It tends to spread rapidly in favourable conditions such as dry, sunny locations, so make sure you do not over water them!
3'' pot | Escallonia
Red Knight is a compact, free flowering shrub with glossy green foliage and deep reddish pink coloured flowers that are displayed from Spring to Autumn. This plant is excellent for hedging and looks wonderful in a decorative pot. Loves both full sunlight and partial shade. |
| Content | | Roses are easily one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants. Numerous different cultivars have been produced over the last two centuries, although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renowned for their flowers and beauty, they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit. The rose hip can be made into an old fashioned jam. Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses to climbers and weeping varieties. Amongst all their beautiful colours, varieties and fragrances there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. For more information on selecting and growing roses, visit our Rose Factsheet. | | | |
