Plants for Autumn Colour

We’ve just had a delivery come in of some really gorgeous plants for autumn colour. They will really brighten up your garden. We all love them, and I’m sure you will do too……

In the main image you can see two evergreens:

• •  Pieris japonica Little Frosty, which is a fairly new introduction. This is a compact and bushy form, suitable for planting in small spaces or in tubs and containers, and has silver and green evergreen foliage and white bell shaped flowers in spring.
  • Leucothoe Curly Red, another low growing evergreen shrub. This one has unique curly leaves which open as red on the new growth, turning to green in the summer, then back to red in the autumn right through winter, making it a lovely warm colour to enjoy in the very coldest of days.

We also have in stock autumn flowering Callunas (Heathers) which are full of buds and flowers and ready for planting outside now.

Sarcoccoca, also known as Winter Box is one of my favourite plants. It has lovely glossy green foliage all year round and masses of tiny white flowers in the winter, which smell strongly of honey. We have three varieties available – Winter Gem, Purple Stem and Dragon Gate. All of them are smothered in flower buds and looking really tempting!

We have a superb batch of Hardy Cyclamen available too. These are the truly hardy ones, which can be planted out in the garden under deciduous trees and shrubs and come back year after year. This winter mix we currently have in stock has unusual silver foliage topped with dainty flowers in shades of pink. We also have more Patio Cyclamen ready  – these can be grown either as bedding plants, or as house plants for a cool room, and come in shades of white, pink, and red.

Two new varieties of Daphne have also just arrived – Daphne Perfume Princess (pink) and Daphne Eternal Fragrance (white). These evergreens have stunning highly perfumed flowers in late winter into early spring, and we often have real trouble getting hold of them, so we’re especially pleased to be able to offer such strong looking plants.

We’ve lots more plants looking really good at this time of year, so if your garden is looking a bit drab and lacking in colour, perhaps it just needs a freshen up. Don’t forget that we also have an excellent range of bulbs to underplant your garden with, so you can also be sure of a bright and cheerful spring garden.

As usual, if you’d like any of these plants reserving, just call on 01835 830315.

Hardy cyclamen for a display year after year.

Brightly coloured callunas in deep pink or white with Sarcoccoco behind