New products at Unwins Seeds and Plants
by Sarah - January 13th, 2011.Filed under: New Products, Unwins.
New products today at Unwins Seeds & Plants
Orchard Collection £40.85
Orchard Collection Plum Victoria – Still the Nation’s Favourite Fruit Tree A very popular and well-known variety with large fruits and an excellent taste. The flesh is green to yellow and very juicy. Luscious eaten ripe from the tree and superb for jam and stewing. Self-fertile and a good pollinator for other varieties. A heavy cropper pick from late August. Apple Braeburn – An Improved Superior Selection of Braeburn With better colour and flavour the aromatic fruit is sweet crisp and juicy with excellent all round quality. Keeps its super crisp texture in storage and eats well into March and April. Self-fertile too! Pear Conference – Surely the Country’s Most Popular Pear Produces a heavy crop of longish khaki-green fruits. Delicious and juicy and sweet enough to eat straight from the tree. Pick early September for long storage or early October for using fresh.
Lavender Collection* BUY 2 GET 1 FREE £17.90
With this special offer you’ll get 15 Plants for the price of 10! Bring Your Garden to Life with these Unusual ‘French’ Lavenders This collection of five unusual ‘French’ Lavenders will make your garden come alive with scent and colour. These hardy plants will thrive in a sunny well-drained position and with their scented blossom will attract wildlife to your garden flowering all season if deadheaded regularly. Includes: Purple Wings a free-flowering compact variety; Pretty Polly with its vibrant blue heads; the dark purple Regal Splendour; plus the exquisite Tiara with its large white flags on blue heads and Madrid Purple a delightful variety perfect for pots and containers. Flowers May – August. Height 40cm/16in except for Tiara and Regal Splendour which can both grow to 70cm/27in.
Verbena Seabrook’s Lavender* BUY 2 GET 1 FREE £15.90
Seabrook’s Lavender – Long Flowering Variety Produces a Mass of Flowers Well known horticulturalist Peter Seabrook found the original plant by chance. It will flower freely from May to December. Plus it will still be in full flower long after the tender summer plants have gone. Ht 20-25cm/10-12in. Flowers June – October.
Gaura Rosy Jane* BUY 2 GET 1 FREE £14.90
With this special offer you’ll get 15 Plants for the price of 10! The first Bi-Coloured Gaura! It has a striking white flower with a pink picotee edge and produces clouds of beautiful blooms. A superb perennial ideal as either a border or container plant.
Tumbelina Petunias* BUY 2 GET 1 FREE £14.90
Tumbelina Petunias – The Best of British! British bred Tumbelinas set the standard others aspire to match but cannot even come close! And this year we have added the newest variety from the Tumbelina breeder. ‘Inga’ has fully double delicately perfumed rich red flowers on tumbling and cascading plants. Spectacular for baskets and containers to give a brilliant show all summer long. Trails to 50cm/20in. Flowers June – October. Collection consists of 3 of each of the following: Susanna Priscilla Victoria Inga Raspberry Ripple
Scented Nemesias* BUY 2 GET 1 FREE £13.90
With this special offer you’ll get 15 Plants for the price of 10! Delight the Senses with these Exquisitely Perfumed Nemesia These popular tender perennials produce a profusion of attractive highly scented flowers throughout the summer. They can be planted early and with frost protection will produce compact plants with masses of flower buds. The plants prefer moist but loose sandy soil. Plant at the front of borders where a mass of scented flowers will create real impact. The Collection consists of 5 Young Plants 1 each of: -Blueberry Ripple -Blue Lagoon -Sweet Lady -Berries and Cream -Lemon Drops.
Nemesias Sunsatia Collection* BUY 2 GET 1 FREE £13.90
With this special offer you’ll get 15 Plants for the price of 10! Sunsatias continue to be one of our customer favourites and it’s easy to see why. The colours are vibrant the individual blooms are very beautiful and they just seem to flower forever! Mango are upright in habit Carambola is semi-upright so are perfect for pots and borders. Saffron Cassis and Tamarillo are semi-trailing varieties ideal for baskets and containers. The collection consists of one plant each of: Carambola Cassis Mango Saffron Tamarillo.
Cornish Salvias* BUY 2 GET 1 FREE £13.90
Cornish Salvias – Superb Spikes of Flowers and Aromatic Foliage. This collection was introduced to commemorate the eclipse over Cornwall and parts of Devon a few years ago. The varieties have stood the test of time producing spikes of flowers on long stems over aromatic green foliage. They have a beautiful range of colours and they get even better in their second and third year! Height 45cm /18in. Flowers June – October. Collection consists of 3 of each of the following: Trenance Lilac Pink Trelawney Rose Pink Trelissick Creamy Yellow
Verbena Aztec Blue Velvet* BUY 2 GET 1 FREE £13.90
Aztec Blue Velvet – Add Some Aztec Pizzazz to Your Containers! Early-flowering Blue Velvet flowers all along the stem and at the centre for maximum impact. The mounded trailing plants stand up to heat humidity and cool weather and have excellent powdery mildew tolerance assuring that they stay lush and healthy right through to autumn. Highly attractive to Bees and Butterflies. Ht 20-25cm/10-12in. Flowers June – October.