| Description | Bronze Fennel
Bronze Fennel is a herbaceous Perennial plant that can grow up to 1.5m tall. It's a very easy to grow plant, however young plants are frost tender. To produce richer oils and seeds, this plant should be planted in full sun, in well drained soil. It easily self seeds, so deadhead after flowering to keep under control. With its soft bronze foliage and pretty little yellow flowers, this plant is also great as a decorative addition to any garden. Bronze fennel has the same sweet liquorice flavour as the traditional green variety, so can be used in its place in any recipe. The leaves are great with fish, and can be stuffed into the cavity of a whole fish or to wrap fillets. You can also use it to make a stuffing. Another herb that goes well with fennel, is French tarragon. Tarragon having a spicy aniseed kick and fennel a sweeter flavour. You can make a very nice tea from the leaves and seed of bronze fennel. Or milk steeped with this herb can make delicious ice cream, or be used in baking cakes or bread. To harvest the seeds, leave the flower stalks on the plant until the seeds turn from green to brown then hang the seed heads in a paper bag to finish drying out. The seeds are ready when the shake away from the main head easily. The store them in an air tight container away from sunlight.
4" pot size. | Rosa floribunda
Magic Fire produces a display of neat, classical salmon pink/apricot blooms, with a light fragrance.
- Excellent as cut flowers
- Multicoloured pink colours
- Vigorous growth
| Rosa Hybrid Tea
Gold Medal Rose has light yellow blooms with a flush of pink on it's edges that are beautifully fragrant.
8''/20cm pot - approx 3ft tall (90cm)
Available online ONLY - Not in store. | Mentha pulegium
Pennyroyal, or pennyrile, also called squaw mint, mosquito plant and pudding grass, is a species of flowering plant in the mint family.
It is a stunning creeping herb that releases a mint aroma when walked on and produces light lavender flowers in summer. This herb has a significant medicinal history but is now not recommended to ingest. It is also reputed to provide insect repelling qualities e.g. to keep away fleas and mosquitoes. Mature growth: 15cm x 30cm
4''/10cm pot | Azalea 'Alba Magnifica'
Azalea Alba Magnifica (Magnificent White) is a white flowering evergreen azalea which puts on a nice show in Spring. A great easy to grow flowering border or small flowering shrub, these Azaleas also look great mass planted in a bed.
Azalea Alba Magnifica likes full sun or part shade, so it's also good for underplanting trees. | Cornus kousa var Chinensis, Kousa Dogwood, Chinese Dogwood
This is arguably the world's most beautiful dogwood, with a fabulous show of white flowers in spring, and magnificent autumn colour. A beautiful small (up to 4m) deciduous feature tree and is extremely beautiful when in bloom. Flowering season is late spring, weeks after the tree puts on foliage again.
8" pot size | Chrysanthemum cinerariifolium
Pyrethrum Daisy or sometimes called Dalmation Daisy is a fragrant, perennial herb with perfect little white daisy flowers. It is a wonderful Cottage garden shrub, attracting many bees and butterflies as well as fending off predatory pests in the vegetable garden.
Pyrethrum is a hardy little plant, thriving in full sun positions, tolerating most soil types (except soggy soils) and requires moderate to low water once established. Prune after flowering to keep neat and to reduce spread as they can self sow their seeds after flowering.
4''/10cm pot |
| Content | | Roses are easily one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants. Numerous different cultivars have been produced over the last two centuries, although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renowned for their flowers and beauty, they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit. The rose hip can be made into an old fashioned jam. Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses to climbers and weeping varieties. Amongst all their beautiful colours, varieties and fragrances there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. For more information on selecting and growing roses, visit our Rose Factsheet. | Roses are easily one of the most popular and widely cultivated groups of flowering plants. Numerous different cultivars have been produced over the last two centuries although roses have been grown for millennia before their popularity bloomed. Renown for their flowers and beauty they are also loved for other reasons such as their fruit, the rose hip which can be made into an old fashioned jam or for garden uses such as ground covers and hedging.
Roses range in size and variety from your standard and bush roses right up there with your climbers and weeping varieties, amongst all their beautiful colour, variety and hardy nature there is bound to be the perfect rose out there for your garden. | | | | |
| Additional information |
| botanical name |
Foeniculum vulgare "purpureum"
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| botanical name |
Rhododendron indica 'Alba Magnifica'
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| height x width |
60cm-1.5m x 80cm-1.8m [Depending on the cultivar]
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| planting distance |
For border: 40-80cm
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| features |
Masses of flowers bunched together in reds, pinks, white, mauve, purple, apricot, yellow and multi-colors during winter and spring, they give a fantastic show of color
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| conditions |
Part shaded position protected from hot afternoon sun in an acidic soil
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| landscape use |
Shaded areas, features, borders, mixed garden planting
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| botanical name |
Cornus kousa
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| height x width |
4m x 3m
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| features |
Dense green foliage and tiered branches, the flower heads with large pure-white bracts appear, each bract ending in an acute point followed by red fruit
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| conditions |
Sun to part shade in rich well-drained soil
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| landscape use |
Specimen, group planting, general garden planting
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