Alyssum – White
A low-maintenance, mounding plant with stout spikes of tiny pure white flowers on fine, filigreed foliage. Scented and soon forms an attractive mat of colour. These little annuals are a…
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Alyssum – White
Viburnum Tinus Spirit
An undemanding evergreen shrub with glossy oval leaves and clusters of scented pinky white flowers over winter. These are followed by black berries. Makes a great hedge or specimen shrub…
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Viburnum Tinus Spirit
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Photo: Annie Spratt April is a Good Time to… Grow Your Own Herbs There are a few rules to growing herbs, but they're not tricky. Many of the herbs we…
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Clematis Montana Fragrant Spring
If its flowers you’re after, then the Montana is the Clematis for you. A vigorous climber (reaching up to 10m high) this large deciduous climber is packed full of delightfully…
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Clematis Montana Fragrant Spring
Pittosporum Tenuifolium Irish Luck
Pittosporum Tenuifolium ‘Irish Luck’ is a more unusual variety of this popular evergreen ‘upright’ shrub. With olive-green leaves tinged with white detail they’re pleasing on the eye; their striking dark…
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Pittosporum Tenuifolium Irish Luck
Magnolia George Henry Kern
First created in Ohio in the 1930s, the George Henry Kern is a stunning hybrid of Magnolia Stellata and a Liliiflora – bringing together the best of both; in particular,…
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Magnolia George Henry Kern
Marguerite Pink
Growing to knee height, these bushy annuals produce copious pink daisy-like flowers with a bold yellow-brown centre. Long-lasting, they’ll flower from early summer until autumn or even beyond. Evergreen, they…
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Marguerite Pink
Helleborus Orientalis
Also known as ‘winter roses’ Hellebores are a great way to inject some floral colour into your garden (or home) at wintertime and early spring. Evergreen, and hardy, these perennials…
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Helleborus Orientalis