New products at Thompson & Morgan
by John - May 6th, 2009.Filed under: New Products, Thompson and Morgan.
New items at Thompson & Morgan
Super Poppy Mixed 10 mixed plants £17.99
Breeding breakthrough: introducing the Super Poppy! NEW After 30 years of painstaking breeding, we’re thrilled to introduce a new strain of oriental poppy to grace your garden with sumptuous blooms in spring AND summer! When early spring flowers begin to fade, Super Poppies will fill the gaps in your borders with an impressive show that lasts for 4-6 weeks. Then, just when you think it’s all over, they’ll rejuvenate your garden with a second flush of flowers from July until September. Plant together in clumps for the best effect.
Echinacea Tiki Torch 5 plants + 4 FREE £17.99
Set your garden ablaze with this hot coloured coneflower. Superb, pumpkin-orange flowers that have an unusual spicy fragrance. The long lasting flowers attract butterflies and are great in cut flower arrangements!
Clematis – 'Freckles' 6 young plants £15.99
Evergreen plants with decorative foliage and graceful, hanging blooms offer an injection of colour into spring displays. They are also delicately scented.
Echinacea Coconut Lime 2 bareroot plants £15.99
This fascinating new coneflower is actually an improvement over last season's sensation Razzmatazz. Coconut Lime has the same pincushion-type centre, but in an extraordinary lime green with coconut white ray petals ringing the outer edge. Echinaceas should be grown in sunny gardens with well drained soil. Height: 18-24 inches.
Bamboo – Phyllostachys 'Aureocaulis' – Gold Bamboo 1 plants in 9cm pot £14.99
Light up shady corners with the vivid canes of this golden bamboo. A tall, coloured-stemmed bamboo with rich yellow canes and a few green stripes at the base. Perfect as a specimen plant and also great for hedging too!
Super Poppy Mixed 5 mixed plants £13.99
Breeding breakthrough: introducing the Super Poppy! NEW After 30 years of painstaking breeding, we’re thrilled to introduce a new strain of oriental poppy to grace your garden with sumptuous blooms in spring AND summer! When early spring flowers begin to fade, Super Poppies will fill the gaps in your borders with an impressive show that lasts for 4-6 weeks. Then, just when you think it’s all over, they’ll rejuvenate your garden with a second flush of flowers from July until September. Plant together in clumps for the best effect.
Clematis – 'Freckles' 3 young plants £8.99
Evergreen plants with decorative foliage and graceful, hanging blooms offer an injection of colour into spring displays. They are also delicately scented.
Zucchini : Coloured Collection 3 packets – 1 of each £6.09
The Courgette Coloured Collection comprises one packet each of Cavili, Defender & Parador. Courgette Cavili F1 (top right) Extra early crops of pale green skinned 15cm (6 inch) fruits with a creamier flesh texture than usual green courgettes. Unique parthenocarpic habit (ability to set fruit without pollination), therefore adverse weather, poor light levels and a lack of pollinating insects does not affect cropping performance! Courgette Defender F1 (bottom right) One of heaviest yielding courgette varieties with virus resistance. Open plants for easy picking. Produces lots of mid-green, flavoursome fruits throughout the season. Courgette Parador F1 (left) Attractive, shiny, golden yellow, cylindrical fruits of excellent flavour. Early maturing and prolific cropping throughout the summer. Adds colour to both the kitchen garden or the mixed flower and vegetable border.