Hardy Citrus tree

Even if you’re not planning on picking the fruit then the wildlife in your garden will eat it! Apples if left on the tree become a winter feast for blackbirds – and whilst they stay on the tree they look really nice too!

I’m not sure why you’d buy a tree just because it looked pretty, when you can buy a tree that looks nice and does something useful!
I’d recommend a real cherry tree rather than a ornamental one any day of the week! You’ll still get cherry blossom in the spring and the birds will save you the effort of picking the cherries by snaffling every last one of them! If you want to grow the cherries to eat you need to net the tree so the birds can’t eat the fruit!

Other pretty trees include Calamondin which is a Variegated hardy citrus! It has highly desirable glossy, dark green foliage and little white flowers as well as producing a lovely scent of citrus blossom throughout the year and bear fruit from late spring to late summer.

Don’t just buy an ornamental tree from dobies – buy an ornamental fruit tree!

New items today at Dobies

Raised Bed Veg Kit Pack of 69 Plug Plants (as listed), Raised Bed Kit + FREE seeds £29.95
Our new Raised Bed Veg Kit combines our popular Link-a-bord Raised Bed Kit with a selection of veg plants and seeds so you can enjoy a bountiful harvest from the smallest of spaces!The Link-a-bord Raised Bed Kit comprises 4 rigid double skinned, recycled UPVC boards, plus 4 corner links and 8 fastening dowels to create a 1m (39″) square, 15cm (6″) high raised bed that is free-draining, easily accessed, early warming and particularly useful to help you get better results on poor soils. The boards won’t fade or rot, and can be easily dismantled and moved if necessary.Includes 69 healthy Plug Plants that are ready to plant straight into the garden: 18 Mixed Beetroot White Detroit/Chioggia/ Boltardy, 18 Mixed Lettuce, 18 Leaf Beet Perpetual Spinach and 15 Pea Hurst Greenshaft.Plus 3 FREE packets of seeds: Broad Bean Aquadulce Claudia and Mixed Radish to sow after your veg plants have finished, and Mung Beans which can be grown indoors at any time of year!Your Raised Bed Kit, plants and seeds will all be delivered together. Full growing instructions included. END OF APRIL

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New item at Dobies

Pack of 20 Easiplants £11.90
Full growing instructions included. END OF APRIL Prefers full sun or partial shade.

Dobies has cut the price of these items

Terracotta Cascade Solar Water Feature was £79.95 now £49.95
This charming hand-crafted water feature will make a lovely gift that will soothe with the gentle sound of running water as it splashes and bubbles from the terracotta urn at its top down to the large terracotta bowl at the foot. Self contained, it requires no installation, and uses a safe solar powered low voltage pump and the latest technology remote solar panel – so you can position the feature itself wherever you like, in sun or shade! Optional AC mains adaptor for indoor use. Height 53cm (21″). Cobbles not included. ONLY 4 LEFT.

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Dobies just added this new product

Soft Plant Rings £2.25
An easy way to secure plants to canes and supporting wires. Designed to expand as the plant develops, so will never cause the damage to stems that less flexible constraints can do. Diameter approximately 2.5cm (1″). (Pack of 40)

New product today at Dobies

Snip ‘n’ Twist Garden Wire £2.25
With a built-in cutter on the reel, this durable green, plastic coated garden wire is always quick and easy to dispense and snip, and is the perfect colour to blend in with plant foliage. Length approximately 30m (98′).

New items today at Dobies

Potato Mashed and Baked Collection 1 kg Pack of Tubers £12.95
Whether you prefer perfect creamy mash or crisp baked potatoes, King Edward, Rooster, Picasso and Cara, all varieties chosen for their heavy crops, will feed the family for months! 1kg tubers of:King Edward – This old favourite needs good soil to do well and crops are more modest than some but it’s well worth growing as it is unsurpassed for roasting and the floury flesh makes fine mash too when steamed.Rooster – An excellent all-round potato combining delicious taste and floury texture with good yields. Rooster produces outstanding chips and it is perfect for mashing and roasting.Picasso – Maturing about a month earlier than the similar and well known Cara from which it was bred, this is a great garden potato! Picasso is easy to grow with good disease resistance and gives a huge crop of large baker sized potatoes which also mash very well.Cara – Known as the ‘king of the bakers’ for its large round part coloured tubers which so suit this purpose. Good for most other purposes too and easy to grow with high yields and excellent resistance to disease. Full growing instructions included. February/March

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Buying seed potatoes online at Dobies

Seed potatoes at Dobies

There are many types of potato that you can grow at home. You will find you have a much bigger choice of potatoes and is available in your local supermarket. Even if you have a specialised greengrocer near you you won’t get anywhere near as big a choice as you can buy growing your own potatoes.

Decide what sort of potatoes you want to grow. Do you want to grow your own baking potatoes, once the mashing or roasting, or once the salads. A good idea is to grow your own new potatoes. These are also known as first earlies. These potatoes are at their most delicious just out of the ground. They are usually quite small to which is ideal if you’re growing them in the limited amount of space. They are also quite quick to grow and will be ready soonest encouraging you to go on grow many other things during the year.

You can grow them in plastic bags, buckets, barrels, special potato planters, or old tyres. The old tyres method involves putting one tyre on the ground and filling it with compost for in your seed potatoes in this and then covering them up as the potatoes grow you put another tyre on top and filling with compost each time covering all the potatoes up .

The new style plastic bag kits are specially designed to be the right size for a certain number of seed potatoes. If you don’t have any garden space, and these can sit quite happily on a patio. Once you’ve tasted your own new potatoes you will want to grow them every year. The plastic bag kits are reusable and should last you for many years.

You shouldn’t really use potatoes from the supermarket, you should use special certified seed potatoes that come from virus free farms. If you use potatoes that you have just bought at the supermarket, then you may introduce problems into your garden.

Buy your Seed potatoes at Dobies

New item at Dobies

Bulb Bumper Collection £65.00
This great-value bumper collection contains £100 worth of summer-flowering bulbs including Begonias, Dahlias, Lillies, Hymenocallis, Gladioli and Calla. You can fill your beds, borders and pots for a fraction of the normal price. 1-2 Weeks

New products at Dobies

Saffron Crocus Pack of 35 Bulbs £9.95
Grow your own saffron – the most expensive spice in the world! – The Saffron Crocus is, as the name suggests, the plant from which we collect saffron, that most rare and expensive of spices, on a par in the culinary world with the likes of caviar or truffles. Saffron is an incredible way to perfume your dishes, one gram is enough to spice more than ten plates. It has a slightly sweet but earthy taste which can be used to flavour salty or sweet recipes. It is perfect for adding to basmati rice for that authentic Indian curry!Beautifully scented autumn blooms – You may be surprised to learn that it’s actually very easy to grow – you certainly don’t need to have green fingers! Just plant the bulbs in a sunny spot in your garden before the end of August and unlike their more well-known spring-blooming cousins, they’ll be putting on a display of beautiful and deliciously scented blooms in just 4-6 weeks! You don’t need a lot of space to grow them; they will thrive in a well drained border, but can easily be grown in a container on the patio. Plus originating from the foot of mountain ranges, they’re super-hardy (tolerant of summer heat and winter cold) and they’ll multiply rapidly from year to year.Harvest your own “red gold” – Give them a try and you too can look forward to the magical experience of picking your very own “red gold”. Look out for them each morning, dangling from the throats of the flowers: bright, alluring and full of promise. Once cut and dried, they can be stored in an airtight jar for several years. Order by end of June for delivery in August, and you’ll be picking your first crop in October! Full growing instructions included. August

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