Climbing plants can be used up tressis to hide areas of your garden. Drape them onto arches or pagodas for structural effect. Any climbing plant will need proper support, so ensure all trellis is well secured.

Clematis Mazowsze 1 Plant 7cm Pot £8.49
A burst of Claret Red Clematis for fences and trellisThis variety of Clematis Plant was raised and introduced in Poland in 2006. It is a self clinging variety, which is particularly good for growing over fences, arbours and trellis.

Wisteria Purple Falls 1 Plant 9cm Pot £9.49
Produces a fantastic floral display.This Wisteria is great for trellis, arches and walls and produces a fantastic floral display

Clematis Jackmanii 1 Plant 7cm Pot £8.49
A beautiful proliferation of Purple blooms all summer longEvision™ and Poulsen™ have developed a range of Clematis which flower throughout the summer and which are resistant to withering disease. This Clematis has been bred to perform and will fill your garden with glorious colour throughout the summer.This beautiful and deciduous Clematis is the oldest large-flowered cultivar, first raised in England in 1858. It has a vigorous habit with a proliferation of blooms throughout the summer.

Clematis Flora Picardy™ Evision™ & Poulsen® 1 Plant 7cm Pot £9.99
Dwarf variety of Clematis with large flowersEvision™ and Poulsen™ have developed a range of Clematis which flower throughout the summer, which are resistant to withering disease and which can be planted indoors in pots or outdoors in either pots or trained up a wall or trellis. This variety is a dwarf variant, producing single to semi double, medium sized flowers of 7-10cm. It can stand in a light room or conservatory and when it has finished flowering can be planted in the garden.This variety of clematis is a dwarf variant with striking dusky red medium sized flowers. It can stand in a light room or conservatory and when it has finished flowering it can be planted in the garden.

Antirrhinum are also known as snapdragons – they’re delightly cute flowers that have a ‘mouth’ opening like a little dragon. The bees find their way in to the pollen just fine!

Polyanthus High Seas Plants 50 Plants + 20 FREE £14.49
Bright cheerful traditional English PolyanthusThese bedding plants are a traditional English Polyanthus in a bright cheerful range of colours.

Antirrhinum Rainbow Patchwork 50 Plants + 20 FREE £11.99
Beautiful colour all summer longThese early order Patchwork Collections are made up of 6 separately sown and labelled colours giving you the opportunity to create your own uniquely designed planting scheme. Limited AvailabilityAntirrhinums, sometimes called Snapdragons, are a very popular Bedding Plant. Antirrhinum Rainbow is a dwarf variety that are frost hardy and come in an attractive bicolour mix. They will bring colour to your garden all summer long. A cottage garden favourite. Orders must arrive by Saturday 31st December

Antirrhinum Rainbow
Colour Yellow, White, Red, Orange and Pink
Height 25-30cm
Spread 20-25cm
Flowering May to First Frost
Planting Position Full sun to partial shade
Sold As Plugs
Despatch Period Autumn to Spring

Polyanthus High Seas
Colour Blue, Cream, Yellow, Rose Shades, Scarlet and White
Height 20-25cm
Spread Approximately 15cm
Flowering Late Winter to Spring
Planting Position Full sun to partial shade
Sold As Plugs
Despatch Period August to September

Sold as Plug Plants which are grown in individual cells and measure approximately
4-8cm in height from the root of the plant to the top of the stem. These plants
will need to be grown on before planting.

Fantastic leaflet here about which plants are good for your bees.
So before you buy a new plant check that the bees will love it too!

Use comfrey plants around trees in an orchard and it’ll smother weeds. If you strim it’ll fertilise the tree too!

Question:

It’s July and I’ve just spent a couple of weeks clearing a new allotment site. I’ve got a couple of small beds ready to plant. Should I cover them or is it worth trying to grow something?

Answer:
Get on and plant something! If you don’t plant in it, then nature will!
There are tons of things you can be planting now! If you have a garden centre nearby you could go and get some plug plants to go out – if they’re selling it then it can be planted out now!
Seeds are cheap and you can get crops from lettuces, radishes, spring onions, salad leaves, spinach, beetroot and much more! Even peas can be planted now!

Don’t leave the soil empty – get growing! Once you see shoots coming up you’ll be so glad you did! Once you eat crops you’ve grown you’ll be hooked too!

If you don’t plant then what will you do with the space? Just cover it? It’s easier to let crops cover it – a densely sown patch of lettuce leaves or radishes will suppress weeds too and they’re edible! Consider a green manure if you’re still not convinced anything will grow in time.
It will though! July is a good time to be planting lots of things!

Super collection of garlic

Despatch: Early Sep 2012 To Early Dec 2012

Collection comprises 1 bulb each of the following autumn planting varieities:
Garlic ‘Albigensian Wight’ – A hardneck variety with excellent keeping
qualities storing well into the New Year.
Garlic ‘Chesnok Red’ – Hardneck variety from Shvelisi in Georgia with
attractive purple striping and a lovely, full-bodied flavour.
Garlic ‘Early Purple Wight’ – The earliest hardneck variety currently
available from autumn planting.
Garlic ‘Edenrose’ – This hardneck variety produces attractive pink cloves, the
colour showing when the outer white skins are peeled back. Delicate flavour, renowned
throughout France.
Garlic ‘Germidour’ – This softneck variety produces large, white bulbs
with a mild but still rich flavour.
Garlic ‘Iberian Wight’ – Large flat, white-skinned softneck bulbs
which grow almost on the soil surface.
Garlic ‘Lautrec Wight’ – France’s finest hardneck garlic producing
very pretty bulbs with white outer skins and deep pink cloves.
Garlic ‘Messidrome’ – A softneck variety producing large white bulbs
with excellent flavour for all culinary uses.
Garlic ‘Wight Cristo’ – A softneck variety producing pure white bulbs
with an elegant bouquet.
Garlic ‘Solent Wight’ – A reliable softneck variety which is one of
the best for its overall eating and keeping qualities.
Garlic ‘Carcassonne Wight’ – Produces pink cloves, similar to Lautrec,
but are possibly of a superior bouquet and character.
Garlic ‘Bella Italiano’ – Good-looking Italian hardneck garlic variety
which deliver a hard-hitting and deliciously aromatic flavour.

PLUS 5 cloves of Elephant Garlic!

Buy now for your autumn planting – shallots and onions.

Shallot ‘Jermor’ (Autumn Planting) – 1 pack £6.99
Autumn Planting. Often referred to as ‘banana’ shallots by chefs and foodies, Jermor is from French production of Jersey ‘half long’ type shallots with long, rather than round bulbs. Highly rated for their flavour and increasingly sought after for gourmet recipes due to their superb sweet taste. The shiny copper-skinned bulbs with crisp, pink-tinged flesh make Jermor a favourite with exhibitors. Good storage potential.

Shallot ‘Eschalote Grise’ (Autumn Planting) – 1 pack £5.99
Autumn Planting.A khaki coloured shallot originating in Kazakhstan, and rarely seen in Britain. This gourmet Shallot ‘Eschalote Grise’ is prized in French cuisine for its intense and concentrated flavour. Pack size: Approx. 500g. Approx. 20 sets. Height 35cm (14”). Spread: 15cm (6”).

Onion ‘Tornado’ (Autumn Planting) – 2 packs £5.99
Autumn Planting.New and Exclusive Onion Tornado comes from the same breeding programme at HRI Wellesbourne as the hugely popular, Shakespeare. We foresee Tornado quickly becoming a competitor as the best overwintering onion variety. Maturity is from late June when Tornado can be harvested and stored for up to 8 weeks until the spring-planted varieties start cropping, so maintaining your onion supplies. With good resistance to bolting, Tornado produces a slightly deeper round bulb than Shakespeare and much rounder than the Japanese ‘Senshyu’ types. More tolerant of drought and shown to successfully produce crops in heavier soils, you should plant Tornado in October for optimum results, although a September to November planting will also produce good yields.

Onion ‘Tornado’ (Autumn Planting) – 1 pack £4.99
Autumn Planting.New and Exclusive Onion Tornado comes from the same breeding programme at HRI Wellesbourne as the hugely popular, Shakespeare. We foresee Tornado quickly becoming a competitor as the best overwintering onion variety. Maturity is from late June when Tornado can be harvested and stored for up to 8 weeks until the spring-planted varieties start cropping, so maintaining your onion supplies. With good resistance to bolting, Tornado produces a slightly deeper round bulb than Shakespeare and much rounder than the Japanese ‘Senshyu’ types. More tolerant of drought and shown to successfully produce crops in heavier soils, you should plant Tornado in October for optimum results, although a September to November planting will also produce good yields.

Onion ‘T&M’s First Early’ (Autumn Planting) – 2 packs £5.99
Autumn Planting.A reintroduction of a top customer favourite of recent years. An overwintering onion, ‘T&M’s First Early’ produces attractive yellow skinned bulbs that will give you your first crop of the season. Height: 45cm (18”). Spread: 15cm (6”).Pack size: 250g when packed, sets size between 17-21mm (approx 50 sets), or 14-21mm (approx 75 sets), dependent on weather, harvesting and grading issues.

Onion ‘T&M’s First Early’ (Autumn Planting) – 1 pack £4.49
Autumn Planting.A reintroduction of a top customer favourite of recent years. An overwintering onion, ‘T&M’s First Early’ produces attractive yellow skinned bulbs that will give you your first crop of the season. Height: 45cm (18”). Spread: 15cm (6”).Pack size: 250g when packed, sets size between 17-21mm (approx 50 sets), or 14-21mm (approx 75 sets), dependent on weather, harvesting and grading issues.

Onion ‘Shakespeare’ (Autumn Planting) – 2 packs £5.99
Autumn Planting.A british bred variety with superb over wintering qualities and producing darker brown-skinned bulbs than most varieties. Onion ‘Shakespeare’ forms good sized bulbs, with excellent skin quality and storage potential. Height: 45cm (18”). Spread: 15cm (6”).Pack size: 250g when packed, sets size between 17-21mm (approx 50 sets), or 14-21mm (approx 75 sets), dependent on weather, harvesting and grading issues.

Onion ‘Shakespeare’ (Autumn Planting) – 1 pack £4.49
Autumn Planting.A british bred variety with superb over wintering qualities and producing darker brown-skinned bulbs than most varieties. Onion ‘Shakespeare’ forms good sized bulbs, with excellent skin quality and storage potential. Height: 45cm (18”). Spread: 15cm (6”).Pack size: 250g when packed, sets size between 17-21mm (approx 50 sets), or 14-21mm (approx 75 sets), dependent on weather, harvesting and grading issues.

Onion ‘Senshyu’ (Autumn Planting) – 2 packs £5.99
Autumn Planting.Onion ‘Senshyu’ is one of the original Japanese overwintering varieties, which has proven successful for many years. This reliable main crop produces good yields of semi-flat bulbs with straw yellow skins. Height: 45cm (18”). Spread: 15cm (6”).Pack size: 250g when packed, sets size between 17-21mm (approx 50 sets), or 14-21mm (approx 75 sets), dependent on weather, harvesting and grading issues.

Onion ‘Senshyu’ (Autumn Planting) – 1 pack £4.49
Autumn Planting.Onion ‘Senshyu’ is one of the original Japanese overwintering varieties, which has proven successful for many years. This reliable main crop produces good yields of semi-flat bulbs with straw yellow skins. Height: 45cm (18”). Spread: 15cm (6”).Pack size: 250g when packed, sets size between 17-21mm (approx 50 sets), or 14-21mm (approx 75 sets), dependent on weather, harvesting and grading issues.

Onion ‘Electric’ (Autumn Planting) – 2 packs £5.99
Autumn planting.An overwintering variety producing shiny red skinned, semi globe shaped bulbs with crisp, pink-tinged flesh. Onion ‘Electric’ makes a lovely addition to salads and stir fries. Height: 45cm (18”). Spread: 15cm (6”).Pack size: 250g when packed, sets size between 17-21mm (approx 50 sets), or 14-21mm (approx 75 sets), dependent on weather, harvesting and grading issues.

Onion ‘Electric’ (Autumn Planting) – 1 pack £4.49
Autumn planting.An overwintering variety producing shiny red skinned, semi globe shaped bulbs with crisp, pink-tinged flesh. Onion ‘Electric’ makes a lovely addition to salads and stir fries. Height: 45cm (18”). Spread: 15cm (6”).Pack size: 250g when packed, sets size between 17-21mm (approx 50 sets), or 14-21mm (approx 75 sets), dependent on weather, harvesting and grading issues.

Bound to be good as it’s by John Harrison!

Easy Jams, Chutneys and Preserves

This book explains all you need to know to make your own delicious jams, jellies, marmalades, fruit butters, fruit cheeses, chutneys and pickles, including details of all the necessary equipment, how to choose the best fruit and vegetables to use, and how to make sure the jam sets properly to produce the best results. In these straitened times, more and more people are keen to save money by making jams, jellies and chutneys from the surplus of their own homegrown fruit and vegetables or from free fruit, such as blackberries, available in nearby hedgerows. Val and John Harrison show how easy it is to collect together the required ingredients and start making your own produce.

It’s easy and good for you! Grow your own fruit!
Once you have you can eat it fresh, freeze it for later, or turn it into pies or jams!
There are loads of jam recipes out there and it’s mostly just adding sugar and cooking keeping stiring!

Pinkcurrant Rosa Sport – 5 Litre Pot £21.99
You’ll rarely find these large, sweet, rose-coloured berries in the shops, so why not grow your own! They’re delicious in puddings and pies, jams and jellies. Crops start to ripen at the beginning of July. Ideal for gardens or container growing. Supplied in a 5 litre pot.Lubera varieties – Lubera is a Swiss nursery owned by Markus Kobelt. This man is passionate about fruit, and he has continually strived to create new and improved varieties, always with the goal of producing plants that are easier to cultivate (all will thrive in the UK climate), more resistant to disease and always better tasting too. His breeding programmes have resulted in many exceptional new varieties of raspberries, blackberries, currants and apples, amongst others.. 1 Plant

Fourberry Black Gem £16.99
Ideal for flower or fruit garden, the magnificent Fourberry is outstanding in four important ways:- Pretty yellow flowers- Delicate scent- Bumper crops of sweet, juicy berries- Spectacular autumn foliageThis variety has been selected by Lubera from several thousand ribes aureum (golden currant) seedlings, for the superior quality of its flowers, fragrance, fruit and autumn colour. It puts on an attractive display of flowers in April and early May, followed by a mouth-watering harvest from July to mid August. Enjoy the large, sweet berries fresh or in jams and juices. The plants are very hardy and drought-tolerant too! Height 1.2-1.5m (4-5′). Supplied in 13cm pot.. 1 Plant

Tayberry Buckingham Plant (Rubus) £17.99
Tayberry is a cross between blackberry and raspberry. Provides an abundant crop of large, purple and deliciously sweet fruit from mid July until late August. A super dessert fruit, but also good for freezing and jam making. Supplied as 1-year-old pot grown plants.. 1 Plant

Strawberry Tree (Arbutus unedo) £24.99
Superb, slow-growing, shrubby trees with glossy bright green leaves, which take on attractive colours in autumn. The pretty, bell-shaped white flowers are produced September-November, at the same time that the fruit from last year are turning red. The fruit look very much like strawberries (hence the name) but sadly don’t taste like them, however they can be used in jams and liqueurs. Height up to 8m (26′). Supplied in a 3 litre pot.. 1 Potted Plant

Rhubarb Raspberry Red £12.99
Rhubarb is fast becoming one of the most sought after ingredients in the kitchen – and so easy to grow too. Rhubarb Raspberry red produces early crops of deep red stalks that are perfect for jam-making. A relatively early cropper.. 1 Plant

Redcurrant Lisette (Ribes rubrum) £14.99
Large yet compact bunches of currants that are big and fleshy with smaller seeds, and a delicious flavour – a delight for summer desserts & jams! Plants are upright in habit and show strong disease resistance. Pick from early July. Supplied in a 13cm pot.Lubera varieties – Lubera is a Swiss nursery owned by Markus Kobelt. This man is passionate about fruit, and he has continually strived to create new and improved varieties, always with the goal of producing plants that are easier to cultivate (all will thrive in the UK climate), more resistant to disease and always better tasting too. His breeding programmes have resulted in many exceptional new varieties of raspberries, blackberries, currants and apples, amongst others.. 1 Plant – 13cm pot

Plum Victoria (Prunus domestica) – Bare Root Tree £19.99
Probably known by all, Victoria is excellent for pie and jam-making and also delicious eaten fresh from the tree. Self fertile and a good pollen provider for other plum varieties, it crops in late August. Grown on St Julien A rootstock, which is semi-dwarfing, providing a medium-sized tree of 2-2.5m (7-8′). Supplied as a bare root tree.. 1 Tree

Pinkberry Pink Lemonade Plant £14.99
If you like blueberries, you will love this fantastic, deliciously sweet berry, which is taking America by storm. The sweetest, most spectacular looking berries you have ever tasted or seen! This stunning ornamental plant has a bushy upright growing habit with fine pointed leaves which turn bright orange in the autumn. The pinky white bell-shaped flowers in the spring give way to heavy crops of translucent white berries which turn green and then a bright pink when they mature in August and September. Superb eaten straight from the plant or cooked in puddings, pies muffins or even jam – in fact, anything you would do with a blueberry you can do with a pinkberry!Why grow Pinkberry Pink Lemonade?heavy cropping plant2x as sweet as blueberriesYou can grow it anywhere in pots or tubs Eat straight from the plant or use in cookingin our opinion, the most spectacular, sweetest fruit we’ve ever seen! Get the WOW factor and astonish friends and family as well as children who will love the bright colour and delicious sweet flavour. 1 potted plant

Blackberry Helen (Rubus hybrid) £19.99
Large, firm, superbly flavoured blackberries produced in abundance from early July. Excellent eaten fresh, frozen or made into jam. Supplied as 1 year old pot grown plants.. 1 Plant

Amelanchier Tree – (Canadensis) Prince William £19.99
A beautiful little tree/shrub that will put on a dazzling spring show of star-shaped white flowers, followed by a tasty crop that’s ready to pick from early July, and then by glorious autumn foliage. The small, dark, reddish-purple berries are packed with vitamins and antioxidants, and have a unique sweet-and-sour taste which makes them delicious straight from the tree and ideal for mixing with other fruit for juices, jams and puddings. Plants are very hardy and will grow in most soils. Supplied in a 5 litre pot. Mature height can grow up to 9m (30′).. 1 Plant