As the days grow cooler it’s important to think about our feathered friends. They benefit from year round feeding but it’s vital to help our native birds through the winter to put some food out. Don’t forget clean water!
Thompson & Morgan has these new products today

Crab Apple Collection 3 trees – 1 of each £44.99
Collection comprises 1 tree each of John Downie Golden Hornet Red Sentinel Crab Apples make attractive trees with their pink or white blossom, followed by colourful autumn fruits that make delicious preserves. Any unpicked fruits will soften after a few frosts and will create a sumptuous food source for wild birds from late January until March. All varieties are self fertile. Crab apples planted near fruiting apple trees make excellent pollinators, and will help pollinating bees to increase your crop.

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Foxgloves at Thompson & Morgan – Prefers any well-drained soil in part shade so ideal for shadier corners. They are a biennial plant and can be grown from seed or you can buy plug plants ready to go out.

They will often self seed and become established in your garden. Although you do not have to feed them they do well if you do.

They grow up to 140cm tall but some plants are shorter, check each plant for details of growing height. They are very attractive plants for humans and bees!

Foxglove Foxtrot 6 jumbo plants £14.99
Known as the orchid-flowered foxglove, this stunning digitalis produces a mass of imposing flower spikes, each one smothered in beautiful red-freckled, pink fluted flowers. Digitalis Foxtrot gives height and structure to borders or try some in large patio pots for dramatic impact!

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Green Manure today at Thompson & Morgan!

What is a green manure? It’s a plant grown as soil cover that is intended to be dug into the soil and allowed to rot down. No crop is harvested from it and it is designed to grow and be dug in to enrich the soil.
There are two main types – spring sowing and autumn sowing.
If you are clearing land on your vegetable plot now you can sow a green manure. It also helps keep the soil in good shape and prevents it being subject to wind and water erosion more than leaving the soil bare.
Follow the instructions and dig in before the plants flower!

Green Manure : Fast Growing Soil Conditioner 1 packet £3.99
For Organic Gardening.An easy way to add nutrients and bulky, organic matter (humus) to your soil, helping to maintain or improve fertility and soil structure. Quick growing, lush carpet of growth. Sow spring to autumn; this mix is ideal for spring sowing. Mixture contains: Mustard, Phacelia, Buckwheat and Clover. Contents: 150g (5oz) sufficient to sow 5 sq.m (approx 5.5 sq. yd) at 30g per sq. m/1oz per sq. yd.Please note: Seed has not been organically grown.

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Pansys at Thompson & Morgan. They have some lovely autumn flowering pansies that will flower right through until spring!

Viola Universal F1 Mixed 120 mini-plugs + 30 FREE £15.99
A Pansy for every season! Best-selling Pansy ‘Universal’ can be used for displays in spring, summer, autumn or winter! It will flower and flower through anything the weather will throw at it. A bright mix of blotched and pure colours makes this Viola Pansy perfect for bedding, borders and every type of container. Plants are Hardy Perennial plants, although often seen as Annuals in bedding schemes. They prefer a moist, well-drained soil in full sun or semi-shade. Plants planted in spring will flower early summer onwards, or winter to spring if planted from late summer to autumn. Height 15-23cm (6-9in).

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Thompson & Morgan reduced the price on these products today

Strawberry : Sonata 12 runners was £11.99 now £1.00
High quality, mid-season variety with uniform shaped fruits produced in abundance. Deliciously sweet and juicy and lasts well once picked without darkening in colour. Able to stand very hot spells and periods of heavy rain, with far fewer mis-shapen berries during the first and second pickings, making the crop easier and quicker to pick from mid June to late July.

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Thompson & Morgan just added this new item

Bat Plant (Tacca chantrierei) 1 packet £3.69
In Malaya they call it the Devil’s Flower and strange, fascinating stories surround it. Originating, no doubt, from the malevolent way the eyes in the bloom seem to be following your every move! It grows to about 2ft. in height with flowers complete with filaments or whiskers 12in. long forming a flowing forked tail.

WORLD EXCLUSIVE NEW CASCADING PANSY ‘BALCONITA’ -
ONLY £1 WITH THIS SPECIAL OFFER CODE

The very best large-flowered trailing pansy performance we’ve ever seen, over the spring and summer months.

Cascading Pansy ‘Balconita’ produces a super abundance of large, showy blooms in a rainbow of colours. Trailing up to 24 inches, and often much more, plants are perfect in Flower Pouches™, baskets and window boxes.

TERMS: Simply purchase any other product from our online plants range and enter the below code in to your shopping basket to qualify. Only one £1 line per order.

‘AF10872′

Receive 8 ‘jumbo’ plants for just £1!!!

pansy cascading balconita

START DATE: Now
END DATE: Sunday 19th September 2010 – Subject to availability

Thompson & Morgan reduced the price on these items today

Pansy Cascading Balconita 8 jumbo plants was £9.99 now £4.98
This plant will do what Surfinias did for petunias! The very best large-flowered pansy trailing performance we’ve ever seen, over the spring and summer months. Cascading Pansy Balconita produces a super abundance of large, showy blooms in a rainbow of colours. Trailing up to 24 inches, and often much more. Plants are perfect in Flower Pouches™, baskets and window boxes. Create the display illustrated with only 16 plants! Order Early – Limited Stocks.

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Thompson & Morgan has hundreds of new items today

Family Fruit Tree Collection 3 fruit trees £89.99
Perfect for the Patio! Contains one tree each of Family Apple, Family Pear and Family Treeo of Delights. Each tree has three varieties grafted onto one tree and will crop at different times, so extending the picking season.

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New lines added today at Thompson & Morgan

Primrose Petticoat Mixed 42 plug plants £7.99
Primroses are essential ingredients of spring displays, with a superb ability to bloom through frost and snow, adding cheer to your garden or patio. These ones are particularly special, with tightly double blooms – like dainty roses, and in a rainbow of colours. Use these hardy Primroses in bedding, borders, pots and windowboxes.

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