Tomato
'Orange Plum' has medium-sized, rich orange fruit which are high in vitamin C and A. It produces high yielding tomatoes full of flavour and has good resistance to viruses. Soil type: Well-drained/light, Clay/heavy, Sandy Capsicum annuum Longum ... [... more]
BBC |
Lily
This dramatic looking lily is one of the last lilies to flower each summer, so place it somewhere that it will be seen and enjoyed. It flowers profusely, and its bold dark-pink speckled petals curl back on themselves as the buds open. These ... [... more]
BBC |
Runner Bean
A decorative runner bean, 'Sunset' is worth growing for its pale peach flowers as much as its beans. It's useful for covering arches and pillars, as well as traditional bamboo cane rows and wigwams. Crops can be used in rotation with other ... [... more]
BBC |
Verbascum
Verbascum chaixii 'album': known as the nettle-leaved Mullein, this perennial is half the height of the larger biennials, but is nevertheless a striking plant. The rosettes of delicate-felted, semi-evergreen foliage provides interest in winter, ... [... more]
BBC |
Chokeberry
'Autumn Magic' is a great plant for year round interest in the small garden. In spring, plants are covered with attractive clusters of small white blooms, set off perfectly by deep-green waxy foliage. These are followed in summer by black fruits, ... [... more]
BBC |
Marjoram, Oregano
An interesting ornamental-cum-herb which can be grown in herb gardens or to the front of the border, where it makes a short, tidy mound. The stems are purple, the leaves rounded and green, and there are domed heads of rosy purple flowers. It's a ... [... more]
BBC |
Dogwood
Don't be daunted by the array of different dogwood species as there are distinctive groups to fulfil your garden's needs. For smaller gardens the larger trees aren't an option; instead choose from the wide range of ... [... more]
BBC |
Astilbe
The elegant plumes of colourful feathery flowers make astilbes easily recognisable, but even before they flower the ferny foliage makes a good ground-cover under neighbouring plants. The striking shape of astilbe flowers and their variety of ... [... more]
BBC |
Geum
Geums are valuable for bringing bright colours to the spring border before the main flowering season gets under way. Varieties of the wild water avens have much more subtle shapes and colouring than the better known border varieties, such as ... [... more]
BBC |
Spruce
A relative of the best-selling American conifer P. glauca var. albertiana 'Conica' a bushy shrub which has been a major hit since it wasfound in 1904 in the Canadian Rockies but this 'Arneson's Blue' is even more striking. It's a dense, shaggy ... [... more]
BBC |
Japanese Cedar
A smallish, slow-growing, 1930 American version of the giant Crytomeria japonica, it makes a beautiful small conical evergreen. The new, creamy yellow spring foliage stands out against the dark old leaves; it's greenish-yellow in winter. ... [... more]
BBC |
Ornamental Cabbage
Flower beds and containers are often short of colour in the winter months, before spring bedding starts its main display, and the ornamental brassicas provide one way of filling the gap. Ornamental cabbages are actually edible when young, ... [... more]
BBC |
