Crocus has this comfrey plant available. It’s a garden and allotment essential that you can make your own fertiliser from! Pick the leaves from established plants and soak in water to make a smelly but powerful brew! Dilute and water on plants. Use whole leaves in the bottom of the planting hole for potatoes.

Symphytum ‘Hidcote Blue’ (Comfrey) £6.99
Position: full sun or partial shade Soil: moist, fertile soil Rate of growth: fast-growing Flowering period: April and May Flower colour: pale blue and white Other features: contact with the foliage may cause skin irritation; the roots and leaves may cause severe discomfort if ingested Hardiness: fully hardy Pendent clusters of pale blue and white tubular flowers in April and May above mounds of mid-green leaves. This pretty pink form of comfrey is best planted in bold drifts in a moist, partially shady site. It makes excellent groundcover for semi-wild areas of the garden and a good companion for ferns and shade-loving woodland plants. Garden care: Mulch with well-rotted manure in spring and dead-head after flowering to encourage the growth of young foliage.

Eventual Height: 0.45m and
Eventual Spread: 0.45m

Pineberry at Crocus
Position: full sun
Soil: any soil
Rate of growth: fast-growing
Other features: tasty white fruit
Hardiness: fully hardy

During the last summer, a well-known supermarket was selling these delicious and unusual fruits for around 25-30p per berry – and they were still in big demand! Now that the plants are available (they have only recently been released onto the market) you can grow your own. The juicy and sweet fruits are a taste sensation – just like strawberries but with the flavour of pineapple. It is the result of a cross between two different strawberry plants, one from South America and the other from North America. It flowers in May, and then the fruits appear, green at first but then ripening to white with deep red seeds. Ready to harvest in June, the fruits are rarely eaten by the birds as they do not think they look ripe, so you usually will not need to net them.

Garden care: It prefers a sunny spot. In winter, protect the crowns with straw or glass.

euonymus plants online at Crocus – Euonymus plants

Euonymus alatus
winged spindle / fire bush…
Provides wonderful autumn colour
£15.49 for a 3 litre pot

Position: full sun or partial shade

Soil: any well-drained soil

Rate of growth: slow-growing

Flowering period: May and June

Flower colour: green

Other features: the flowers are followed by spherical, reddish-purple fruit,
which split to reveal bright orange seeds; all parts of the plant may cause
a mild stomach upset if ingested

Hardiness: fully hardy

Euonymus europaeus ‘Red Cascade’
spindle tree
Fantastic autumn colour and gorgeous berries
NOW £35.99 for a 12lt pot (1.25-1.5m) * Also available for£12.99
in a 2 litre pot

Position: full sun

Soil: any well-drained soil

Rate of growth: average

Flowering period: May and June

Hardiness: fully hardy

Euonymus fortunei ‘Emerald ‘n’ Gold’
evergreen bittersweet
A tough evergreen shrub with yellow, variegated leaves
£7.99 for 1.5 litre pot

Position: full sun or partial shade

Soil: any well-drained soil

Rate of growth: fast-growing

Flowering period: May and June

Hardiness: fully hardy

Euonymus fortunei ‘Emerald Gaiety’
evergreen bittersweet
A tough plant that makes excellent groundcover
£7.99 for a 1.5 litre pot
Position: full sun or partial shade

Soil: any well-drained soil

Rate of growth: fast-growing

Flowering period: May and June

Hardiness: fully hardy

Euonymus planipes
euonymus
Red autumn foliage attractive red fruits
£17.99 for a 3 litre pot

Position: full sun or partial shade

Soil: any well-drained soil

Rate of growth: fast-growing

Flowering period: May and June

Other features: the flowers are followed by spherical, pink-tinged, white fruit;
all parts of the plant may cause a mild stomach upset if ingested

Hardiness: fully hardy

The image is soya beans under a microscope – taken against a ruler so you can see they’re less than a cm in size!
soya bean seeds available at Crocus

Growing Instructions:
Sow outside – May
Sow 3cm deep
Thin plants to 7cm apart

It’s been suggested to start them inside and then treat as you would do peas. Only two beans per pod so you have to grow a lot but they are utterly delicious steamed!

Crocus has these varieties of lobelia available. bigger plant packs are available on a couple of them.

Lobelia ‘Fountain Mixed’ (42 large plug plants) £8.99
Position: full sun or partial shade Soil: moderately fertile, humus-rich, well-drained soil Rate of growth: average to fast-growing Flowering period: May to the first frosts Flowering colour: mixed, including mid and light blue, white, carmine, purple and lilac Hardiness: tender (needs frost protection) Essential for tumbling over the edges of a hanging basket, patio pot or window box, this is a gorgeous mix of trailing lobelias in some wonderful colours that will go with everything. Grown in individual plug cells, each plant measures about 5 – 7 cm tall (from the base of the root to the top of the plant). They can be grown on or planted straight out into the garden. Please note that as we grow these for especially for you, we need to take full payment when you place your order so as to reserve stock for you. See above for despatch dates for this particular plant. To ensure that your plants arrive in the best possible condition each pack will be despatched individually. Our Plug Plants – Three sizes are available – Click for information about sizes

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Cephalaria gigantea

Bees love this plant!
It thrives on root division so don’t move it! It grows tall so best placed at the back of a sunny border so it doesn’t shade anything.

Position: full sun or partial shade
Soil: fertile, moist but well-drained
Rate of growth: average
Flowering period: June to August
Hardiness: fully hardy

A close relative of Scabiosa, this tall, clump-forming perennial produces primrose-yellow flowerheads throughout the summer on stout, upright stems.The flowers are loved by bees and other beneficial insects, and the plants have a tendancy to self-seed if not dead-headed regularly. Plant it at the back of a mixed or herbaceous border, or combine it with taller ornamental grasses in a prairie-style style setting.

Garden care: Deadhead regularly throughout the summer to prolong flowering. In autumn cut the plant back down to the ground and compost the dead stems.

Crocus has these new products today

Japanese apricot £37.99
Compact tree for small gardens

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Reduced products at Crocus

Hammock Chair ‘Hanging Fixing Kit’ was £10.49 now £9.99
A set for attaching your hammock chair

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Crocus has these new items today

herbaceous clematis £12.99
Much admired at Cheslea 2011

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New product at Crocus

rose (shrub) £13.49
An excellent rose, lovely soft apricot, pale cream outer petals