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Plants

We are almost unique in selling not only a very wide range of young trees but in supplying mature trees which give a newly established garden instant maturity.

Our lovely acers, from deep plum purple to gold, whether with finely cut leaves or as mature trees would suite any garden as would our many birches, whether single or multi-stemmed. The Indian bean tree, Catalpa bignoniodes &#39;Aurea&#39; has large, heart-shaped golden leaves and white and purple panicles of flowers followed by slender pods whilst the delightful little katsura tree, Cercidiphyllum japonicum bears small heart-shaped leaves that unfurl as copper before turning green and in autumn pink and pale yellow that scent the air with the aroma of toffee. Nothing is lovelier than a flowering cherry in spring and Prunus &#39;Okame&#39; with its masses of carmine rose flowers is just one of many that we stock.

&nbsp;See our plant list for the full range.

Almond blossom

Cercis Siliquastrum

Laburnum 'Vossii'

Magnolia Soulangiana

Acer platanoides 'Drummondii'

Betula nigra

Prunus 'Okame'

Malus 'Golden Hornet'

Sorbus aucuparia

Ornamental Trees

Sorbus 'Joseph Rock'

Acer griseum

Crataegus persimilis 'Prunifolia'

Pyrus salicifolia 'Pendula'

Cercis canadensis 'Forest Pansy'

Arbutus unedo

Amelanchier lamarkii&nbsp;&#39;Ballerina&#39; : A bushy tree with a fabulous display of white flowers in the Spring. Good Autumn colour.

Sorbus &#39;Joseph Rock&#39; : Upright at first, broadenning with age. Produces fabulous yellow berries in the Autumn.&nbsp;

Acer griseum : Commonly known as the &#39;Paperbark Maple&#39;. A beautiful small tree with flaky bark revealing cinnamon coloured bark beneath.&nbsp;

Prunus &#39;Amanagowa&#39; : A columnar narrow tree with masses of slightly scented soft white blossoms smothering the branches in Spring.&nbsp;

See our plant list for the full range.&nbsp;

Prunus 'Yamadai'

Amelanchier lamarkii 'Ballerina'

Prunus 'Kiku Shidare Sakura'

Prunus 'Yedonensis'

Trees for small gardens

Parrotia persica : A spreading, layered, multi stemmed tree with small crimson flowers in late winter and early spring. fantastic shades of red, orange and yellow in autumn.

Liquidamber styraciflua : A fabulous tree with maple like leaves and corky bark. Shades of red, purple amber and gold in the autumn.

Sorbus commixta : A broadly conical tree with small white flowers in the spring followed by ornage berries. Lovely shades of yellow, orange or red in the autumn.&nbsp;

Rhus typhina : Offer a blaze of autumn colour. There&#39;s one called &#39;Red Autumn Lace&#39; too. They are wide spreading rather than upright and grow to about 5metres.&nbsp;

See our plant list for the full range.

Acer pseudoplatanus

Acer rubrum 'Somerset'

Parrotia persica

Liquidamber styraciflua

Trees for Autumn colour

Every garden should have a tree: they&#39;re not only beautiful plants in their own right, they also cast soothing&nbsp;shade, provide valuable privacy and often give you flowers, fruit and spectacular autumn leaf colour too.

Choose trees and shrubs from the range in our garden centre to build the architectural backbone of your&nbsp;garden. In summer when other plants are showing off, trees and shrubs melt into the background, but they&nbsp;all have a moment when it&#39;s their turn to shine &ndash; often in the depths of winter when there&#39;s little else around.

Start your garden&#39;s design off on the right foot with specimen trees from the range in our garden&nbsp;centre. In small gardens, trees with year-round interest like the autumn-flowering cherry (Prunus x&nbsp;subhirtella &#39;Autumnalis&#39;) really earn their keep, and evergreen conifers are a sturdy, reliable presence&nbsp;throughout the seasons.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre&nbsp;for more information and advice about choosing and growing trees&nbsp;and shrubs.

<a href="https://www.derwenwholesale.co.uk/ornamental-trees">Click here for a full tree list&nbsp;</a>

We have our own nursery from which we grow very many different varieties and sizes of trees, and we are able to offer them at prices that are hard to beat!

Trees

Shrubs with brilliantly-coloured berries are a real asset to the winter garden. They&#39;ll shine from the border&nbsp;when there&#39;s little else around, and their generous loads of fruit bring in birds from miles around.

Here are our top five berrying shrubs from the range in our garden centre:

Beauty bush (Callicarpa bodinieri): clusters of downy lilac flowers in mid-summer are followed by dense&nbsp;clusters of jewel-like violet blue berries. Grows to about 2m.

Skimmia japonica: sprays of frothy white flowers in late spring are only followed by 8mm bright red berries if you&#39;ve got both female and male plants. 50cm x 50cm

Firethorn (Pyracantha): comes with red, orange or yellow berries and much-loved by birds, pyracantha can&nbsp;be trained in tiers against a wall for a colourful and architectural winter feature. To 1.5m tall.

Pheasant berry (Leycesteria formosa): bamboo-like green canes and tassels of claret-coloured blooms&nbsp;give way to glossy purple berries ripening in late autumn. Height is 1.8m.

Spindle (Euonymus alatus): one of our most spectacular native shrubs, the curious corky winged bark&nbsp;carries reddish-purple four-lobed fruits, opening to reveal brilliant orange seeds. Grows to about 2m.

Please ask the staff in our garden centre&nbsp;for more information and advice about choosing shrubs which have&nbsp;berries.

See our plant list for the full range.

Hippophae rhamnoides

Pyracantha 'Golden Charmer

Cotoneaster 'Coral Beauty

Ilex aquifolium

Pyracantha 'Orange Glow'

Berrying shrubs

Any colour in the depths of winter is doubly valuable. But with scented flowers and jewel-like berries to enjoy&nbsp;too, you&#39;ll want to spend as much time outside during the colder months of the year as you do in summer.

We&#39;ve picked five of the best shrubs to plant in your winter garden from the range in our garden centre.

Viburnum x bodnantense &#39;Dawn&#39;: Clusters of sweetly-scented pink-tinged flowers open from early winter to&nbsp;early spring. Grows to about 2m.

Daphne mezereum: Incredibly sweet-scented reddish-pink flowers are borne in small clusters along bare&nbsp;stems in late winter, followed by sumptuous shiny red berries. Height 1.2m.

Winter-flowering honeysuckle (Lonicera fragrantissima): The powerfully fragrant creamy-yellow blooms&nbsp;of this loose-growing shrub fill the air with perfume through winter. Reaches about 2m tall.

Christmas box (Sarcococca confusa): The creamy flowers of shiny evergreen Christmas box are tiny, but&nbsp;they pack a huge punch in the perfume department in midwinter. Grows to 1m tall.

Mahonia x media &#39;Charity&#39;: Sculptural evergreen leaves like giant holly are topped with sweetly-fragrant&nbsp;yellow flower spikes, at their best in late autumn to winter. Grows to around 3m.

Please ask the staff in our garden centre&nbsp;for more information and advice about choosing shrubs which look&nbsp;good in winter.

See our plant list for the full range.

Hamamelis mollis

Cornus 'Midwinter FIre'

Skimmia rubella

Nandina domestica

Sarcococca confusa

Leucothae 'Scarletta'

Best winter shrubs

Pachysandra terminalis : A good, fast growing&nbsp;ground cover plant which will grow in sun or partial shade. Produces small white flowers from February to April.&nbsp;

Vinca minor &#39;Atropurpurea&#39;: A creeping low growing ground cover plant with plum puple flowers from May to October.&nbsp;

Ceanothus thyrsiflorus repens : Forms a low mound of evergreen foliage. Produces masses of powder blue flowers in the spring.&nbsp;

See our plant list for the full range.

Vinca major 'Atropurpurea'

Pachysandra terminalis

Cotoneaster 'Coral Beauty'

Potentilla 'Elizabeth'

Shrubs for ground cover

There is a shrub for every season and of a size to fit every garden and border and since many, like Rhododendrons and Camellias are evergreen they will furnish the garden in winter before bursting into glorious flower in spring. The creeping form of the Californian Lilac, Ceanothus thyrsiflorus &#39;Repens&#39; forms a metre high evergreen mound with powder blue flowers in spring whilst Garrya elliptica is a superb wall shrub with long, silky catkins in the depths of winter.

Hebes are splendid, medium sized evergreen shrubs and none more so than Hebe &#39;Red Edge&#39; with lilac-blue flowers all summer. In autumn shrubs such as Cotoneaster Rothschildianus with its evergreen, weeping branches are decorated with masses of red berries whilst the smoke bush Cotinus coggygria &#39;Grace&#39; opens scarlet leaves in spring that deepen to plum purple before ending the year in a scarlet blaze.

See our plant list for the full range, stock may vary.

We have an extensive range of shrubs in all sizes. We also offer expert advice, so please call us for help.&nbsp;

Shrubs

Bamboo, being evergreen, is&nbsp;ideal for screening, but it also makes a statement when displayed in a pot. Black stemmed bamboo such as Phyllostachys &#39;Nigra&#39; or golden stemmed bamboo such as Phyllostachys aureosuculata&nbsp; are particularly striking with the lower leaves removed, and Fargesia are good in pots. Sasa palmata are broader leaved and fast growing.&nbsp;

See our plant list for the full range.

Phyllostachys bissettii

Phyllostachys aureocaulis

Pseudosasa japonica

Bamboos

Grasses are a primary component in prairie planting along with perennials such as Achillea and Centranthus, softenning the look of the border. Many ornamental grasses such as Cortaderia selloana &#39;Pumila&#39; and the smaller, dome shaped Carex oshimensis &#39;Evergold&#39; can also look great in pots. Grasses such as Festuca glauca are great to add colour to the perennial border.

See our complete plant list for our full range.

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Miscanthus zebrinus

Carex oshimensis 'Evergold'

Imperata cylindrica 'Red Baron'

Grasses

Nearly all ferns do better in some shade, and prefer quite damp conditions. We stock many different varieties, some of which are evergreen.&nbsp;

See our plant list for the full range.

Dryopteris affinis 'Pinderi'

Athyrium niponicum var. pictum

Osmunda regalis

Ferns

Bamboos, being evergreen, are excellent at screening and because they are happy in pots they also make good statement plants. Some, like the Fargesia murieliae are tall and graceful, others such as Sasa tsuboiana with its large, showy leaves are good ground cover. Our extensive collection of grasses reflects the popularity of prairie planting, all are happy in sun and some like the golden oat grass, Stipa gigantea bear architectural fountains of golden seed heads whilst others like Festuca glauca form low hummocks of blue grass.

We have a shaded area dedicated to ferns many of which are evergreen and all of which will bring a dark corner to life. The new fronds of the sunset fern, Dryopteris lepidopoda unfold in tender pinks and coppers as their name suggests or pick Asplenium scolopendium a pretty little native with small, glossy evergreen fronds. See below for a further selection from our range of bamboos, grasses and ferns.

Bamboos, Grasses & Ferns

Evergreen and reliable, conifers are elegant trees with sculptural foliage, beautiful cones and sometimes&nbsp;autumn colour, too. Several are compact enough to fit into a smaller garden: here are five of our favourites&nbsp;from the range available in our garden centre. See our plant list for the full range.

Korean fir (Abies koreana): Startling steel-blue needles make this fir stand out: it&#39;s a low, wide-spreading&nbsp;tree, and the cones are purplish blue too. Grows, slowly, to about 3m.

Cryptomeria japonica: Very handsome upright tree with sweeping blue-green branches (&#39;Elegans Aurea&#39; is&nbsp;yellow-green) which flush bronze in late autumn. Grows between five and 10m tall depending on variety.

Picea pungens &#39;Globosa&#39;: Low-growing spruce which gradually forms a spreading dome of sharp, stiff grey-&nbsp;green needles. The height and spread are just one metre.

Columnar yew (Taxus baccata &#39;Standishii&#39;): Evergreen yews are great in small gardens as they&#39;re easily&nbsp;clipped into shape. &#39;Standishii&#39; does it all by itself, forming a golden column 1m tall and just 18cm wide.

Maidenhair tree (Ginkgo biloba): The conifer that doesn&#39;t look like a conifer: ginkgos are airy trees with&nbsp;delicate-looking fan-shaped leaves which turn butter-yellow before falling in autumn. Reaches 5-10m tall.

Please ask the staff in our garden centre for more information and advice about choosing conifers suitable&nbsp;for small gardens.

See our plant list for the full range, stock may vary.

Picea omorika 'Nana'

Chamaecyparis pisifera 'Sungold'

Chamaecyparis obtusa 'Draht'

Conifers for small gardens

There are several conifers that make good dense hedges, and we stock most in all sizes up to 5 metres. See our plant list or our website &#39;hedging from the wholesaler&#39; for our full range &nbsp;

Cupressocyparis&nbsp;&#39;Leylandii&#39; : The fastest growing evergreen of all! Ideal for an instant hedge.&nbsp;

Thuja plicata : A large evergreen with a pyrimical habit, with aromatic glossy, scale like leaves on drooping branches.&nbsp;

Taxus baccata : A medium sized evrgreen with narrow leathery dark green leaves. It has tiny white flowers in summer followed by fleshy red fruits.&nbsp;

See our plant list for the full range, stock may vary.

Cupressocyparis x leylandii

Thuja plicata

Cupressocyparis 'Castlewellan Gold'

Conifers for screening

Thuja 4 Ever Goldy : Stunning bright gold foliage on a broadly pyramidical plant. The foliage is held in upright sprays.&nbsp;

Chamaecyparis lawsoniana columnaris &#39;Glauca&#39; : An elegant, narrow conifer with striking blue foliage. Will grow to 3 metres or more.&nbsp;

Cryptomeria japonica &#39;Sekkan Sugi&#39; : An elegant conifer with bushy arching branches and a prominent leading shoot. Light golden cream foliage. Only grows to about 1.5 metres.&nbsp;

See our plant list for the full range, stock may vary.

Picea pungens 'Koster'

Chamaecyparis pisisfera 'Boulevard'

Chamaecyparris pisifera 'Sungold'

Thuja 'Forever Goldy'

Conifers for winter colour

Conifers are invaluable in any garden because they will define the garden in winter when other trees and shrubs are bare and when all the lovely flowers of summer have perished.

We have an extremely wide range of conifers from wonderful pines like the large, umbrella shaped Pinus nigra to the dwarf Pinus mugo &#39;Ophir&#39;. You will find the dwarf Chamaecyparis lawsoniana &#39;Elwoods Pillar&#39; for a rock garden and even smaller Juniperus communis &#39;Compressa&#39; a miniature cigar-shaped conifer for a trough to the grand Cedrus atlantica &#39;Glaucas&#39; which is one of the most spectacular of all blue conifers to Abies procera &#39;Glauca&#39; with lovely blue foliage in a low, spreading bush.

Juniperus squamata &#39;Blue Carpet&#39; gives a splendid steel blue ground cover.

Conifers

A froth of roses scrambling over an arbour or smothering a wall, filling the air with a heavenly rich scent, turn&nbsp;a garden into a romantic paradise. Among the many climbing rose varieties in our garden centre, though,&nbsp;you&#39;ll find both climbers and ramblers &ndash; so what&#39;s the difference?

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	<li>rambling roses usually flower just the once, in a huge and spectacular display, with clusters of&nbsp;smaller flowers</li>
	<li>climbers are a little more restrained, but they&#39;ll flower throughout summer producing larger individual&nbsp;flowers</li>
	<li>ramblers tend to produce lots of whippy young growth from the base: they&#39;re generally&nbsp;more &#39;tangled&#39; looking.</li>
	<li>climbers are more sculptural, with stiff main branches&nbsp;often forming brown bark, like trunks - and&nbsp;secondary younger green branches</li>
	<li>ramblers are pruned by cutting out around a third of the oldest stems each year after flowering right&nbsp;to the base, to encourage plenty of healthy young growth: train horizontally for more flowers</li>
	<li>climbers are pruned into an arching horizontal framework of permanent mature branches in winter,cutting back sideshoots to two or three buds to encourage plenty of blossoms next year.</li>
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Please ask the staff at our garden centre in %locations%&nbsp;for more information and advice about climbing and rambling roses.

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Climber or rambler?

Imagine filling every vase in the house to overflowing with blowsy roses dripping with colour and scent. Well,&nbsp;if you grow your own roses for cutting, you can have that luxury every day.

Almost any roses look lovely in a vase, but for truly show-stopping displays look for varieties with long, sturdy&nbsp;stems, scent and long-lasting flowers. Here are five of our favourites from the range in our garden centre.

&#39;William Shakespeare 2000&#39;: such a dark crimson it looks almost black, and strongly scented, this modern&nbsp;rose is disease resistant and long lasting in the vase.

&#39;Princess Alexandra&#39;: one of the best cutting roses, with single headed magenta flowers on very long&nbsp;stems. It lasts over a week indoors.

&#39;Charles de Mills&#39;: vibrant and intensely-coloured in rich purple, this old-fashioned rose lasts ages once cut&nbsp;and has a rich perfume.

&#39;Souvenir du Docteur Jamain&#39;: this sumptuous old-fashioned rose is still a favourite today for its crumpled&nbsp;double blooms in rich velvety claret and exquisite scent.

&#39;Iceberg&#39;: among the most reliable roses you can grow, with pure white flowers that just keep coming: the&nbsp;more you pick, the more it produces.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre in %locations%&nbsp;for more information and advice about growing roses as cut&nbsp;flowers.

Roses for cutting

The irresistibly sweet, sultry scent of the rose has inspired Shakespearean sonnets, films, songs and stories&nbsp;like no other. Growing roses goes hand in hand with filling your garden with perfume, and there are dozens&nbsp;of richly fragrant roses to choose from in our garden centre. We&#39;ve picked five of our favourites:

&#39;Z&eacute;phyrine Drouhin&#39; is a wonderful deep pink climbing rose, smothering walls and fences in a waterfall of&nbsp;sumptuous double flowers with a lovely, heady scent.

&#39;Graham Thomas&#39; is a striking butterscotch-yellow rose with generous flowers and a deliciously fresh&nbsp;perfume. It was voted the world&#39;s most popular rose in 2003.

&#39;Mme Isaac Perreire&#39; is one of the most romantic of old-fashioned cottage garden roses, with big, blowsy&nbsp;double pink flowers and a superbly sweet, rich fragrance.

&#39;Roseraie de l&#39;Hay&#39; is nothing if not dramatic: deep wine-red, with masses of flowers with a spicy, clove-like&nbsp;scent followed by big red hips in autumn.

&#39;Gertrude Jekyll&#39; has an intoxicating old-rose perfume but it&#39;s a modern rose, bred to combine the old-&nbsp;fashioned scent of traditional roses with the strong, disease-free growth of today&#39;s plants.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre in %locations% for more information and advice about scented roses for your&nbsp;garden.

Roses for scent

The freshest, purest roses you can grow are those which are closest to nature. Their delicate, natural flowers&nbsp;disguise a tough constitution: they grow almost anywhere and shrug off pests and diseases. And it doesn&#39;t&nbsp;stop there: spectacularly beautiful brilliant red hips carry on the display well into autumn and winter.

Here are some of our favourite wild roses from the range in our garden centre:

Winged thorn rose (Rosa pteracantha): famous for its blood-red sharks&#39; fin thorns glowing like stained&nbsp;glass in sunshine. The flowers are delicate white, appearing in late spring.

Sweetbriar (Rosa eglanteria): possibly the most romantic name in the rose world, sweetbriar is an English&nbsp;native hedgerow rose with cheery pale-pink flowers followed by orange hips.

Rosa moschata: very late to flower, beginning its display of simple white flowers in September and at its&nbsp;best in mid-October when most other plants are going to sleep.

Geraniuim rose (Rosa moyesii): brilliant scarlet single flowers followed by extraordinary hips like elongated&nbsp;goblets in sealing wax red

Burnet rose (Rosa spinosissima): a low-growing rose smothered in simple white flowers all summer,&nbsp;followed by marble-sized gleaming round near-black hips through autumn.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre in %locations%&nbsp;for more information and advice about growing wild &#39;species&#39; roses.

Wild roses

A rose in full bloom stops you in your tracks. It steals your heart with its paper-delicate petals and lures you&nbsp;in with its heady, romantic scent. Once you&#39;re truly captivated it&#39;s hard to resist filling your garden with the&nbsp;sumptuous butter yellows, sugar-spun pink, graceful white and blood red petals of this queen of flowers.

We&#39;re in love with roses too, so we&#39;ve got a variety in our garden centre to grace every spot in your garden.

Climbers and ramblers like &#39;New Dawn&#39; and cream &#39;Alberic Barbier&#39; scramble boisterously up trellises and&nbsp;wire supports to clothe walls in swathes of colour.

Shrub roses make striking centrepieces to a border: free-flowering and highly perfumed, they&#39;ll bloom from&nbsp;June till September. Apricot &#39;Buff Beauty&#39; or deep pink &#39;Comte de Chambord&#39; are good choices.

Patio roses like pale pink &#39;Gentle Touch&#39; or pure white &#39;Diamond&#39; are dainty, smaller shrubs bred for their&nbsp;ability to thrive in containers. Smothered in blooms, they&#39;re long-flowering and brilliantly colourful.

Ground cover roses spread out in low, graceful arches to cover the ground in dense foliage and flowers.&nbsp;The &#39;Flower Carpet&#39; series come in gold, pink, white and scarlet.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre in for more information and advice about growing roses.

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We have a fantastic range of David Austen Roses.

Roses

The ultimate in warp-speed gardening, annual climbers shoot up fences and walls like rockets, smothering&nbsp;them in brilliantly-coloured flowers. They&#39;re easy to grow from seed &ndash; choose from the wide selection at our&nbsp;garden centre in %locations%&nbsp;&ndash; and let you create a new display every year, each one more colourful than the last. Here are&nbsp;our favourites:

<div>Spanish flag (Ipomoea lobata): brilliantly tropical-looking relative of morning glory, but with pennants of&nbsp;tubular flowers in flaming shades from red through orange to yellow.</div>

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<div>Sweet pea (Lathyrus odoratus): the easiest of all the annual climbers, sow pretty, fragrant sweet peas&nbsp;direct at the foot of a wigwam or in pots in October to overwinter for earlier flowers next season.</div>

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<div>Purple bell vine (Rhodochiton atrosanguineus): heart shaped green leaves covered with large deep red-purple flowers all summer.</div>

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<div>Black-eyed Susan (Thunbergia alata): masses of simple, open flowers in all sorts of colours from brick red&nbsp;to bright orange, all with a perky black eye.</div>

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<div>Cup and saucer vine (Cobaea scandens): large inky purple flowers like bells with a frill of green behind are&nbsp;held on stems long enough to cut for flower arranging</div>

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<div>Please ask the staff at our garden centre in %locations%&nbsp;for more information and advice about growing annual climbers in&nbsp;your garden.</div>

Annual climbers

One of our best-loved climbers is the deliciously frothy clematis, at its best scrambling through roses or&nbsp;smothering a fence with an ocean of flowers. You&#39;ll find a clematis for every month of the year in our garden&nbsp;centre ,&nbsp;but there&#39;s often confusion over when to prune them.

Don&#39;t worry: it&#39;s actually quite simple. All you need to know is roughly when your clematis flowers, and then&nbsp;you can follow our straightforward guide.

Don&#39;t prune:early-flowering clematis like C. alpina, C. armandii, C. cirrhosa, C. montana

If they&#39;re getting too big and need trimming back, do it just after they finish flowering in late spring:&nbsp;otherwise, don&#39;t touch

Prune in February: 
large-flowered clematis flowering in May and June, like &#39;Barbara Jackman&#39; and &#39;Nelly Moser&#39;&nbsp;light pruning to remove dead or weak stems down to a strong pair of healthy buds. If your plants are&nbsp;getting too big, cut them back harder late summer, after they&#39;ve finished flowering&nbsp;and clematis that flower late, such as &#39;Etoile Violette&#39;, &#39;Gravetye Beauty&#39; and C. viticella&nbsp;cut hard back to about 15cm above ground level, always cutting to just above a healthy bud.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre&nbsp;for more information and advice about how to prune clematis.

Clematis pruning made simple

When space is tight, you&#39;ll want to use every inch you can to grow crops. And when you&#39;ve run out of room&nbsp;on the ground, sometimes the only way is up.

Edible climbers do everything ornamental plants do - lush foliage, spectacular flowers, and often good&nbsp;autumn colour &ndash; but with the added bonus of a generous harvest. Here&#39;s a selection of the best from the&nbsp;range in our garden centre in %locations%.

Runner beans are straightforward to grow and incredibly generous, producing several pounds of long beans&nbsp;from every plant. &#39;Painted Lady&#39; has bicoloured red-and-white flowers.

Loganberries are loose-stemmed shrubs, easily trained against a fence. The sweet, juicy berries look like&nbsp;oversized raspberries.

Grapevines drip with fruit when trained over arches: &#39;Boskoop Glory&#39; has sweet, smoky purple dessert&nbsp;grapes, and its leaves turn brilliant scarlet in autumn.

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Please ask the staff at our garden centre in %locations%&nbsp;for more information and advice about growing edible climbers.

Edible climbers

Grapevines make wonderful climbers to scramble over a wall or clothe a shed in green. In our garden centre&nbsp;you&#39;ll find varieties for sweet dessert grapes straight off the vine, and others for making deliciously fruity&nbsp;wine. Growing a grapevine outside in the garden isn&#39;t difficult: here&#39;s how.

Planting: dig plenty of organic matter into the soil, as grapevines are vigorous plants. Plant 15cm from the&nbsp;wall, to avoid the dry area at the base, and tie in loosely to a stake. Backfill, adding a handful of slow-release&nbsp;fertiliser, and water in well.

Pruning: grapes are pruned in December, when they&#39;re dormant, as they &#39;bleed&#39; sap if pruned in summer.&nbsp;Leave your vine to grow for a year or two, then choose one shoot to train as the leader and snip back&nbsp;sideshoots to five or six leaves to encourage plenty of fruit.

Problems: powdery mildew covers leaves and fruit with a white, dusty coating and is most common when&nbsp;grapes go short of water. Prevent it by keeping your grape well watered and mulching the ground thickly to&nbsp;lock water into the soil, and look out for resistant varieties like &#39;Phoenix&#39;.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre in %locations%&nbsp;for more information and advice about growing grapevines.

Growing grapevines

When you&#39;ve crammed every inch of space on the ground with plants, the only way is up. Clothe your walls&nbsp;in greenery and smother your sheds in flowers to double your planting space and turn your garden into a&nbsp;green sanctuary from the outside world in sunny Guilsfield.

<div>Climbers are one of the most versatile groups of plants in our garden centre and we&#39;ve got a great selection&nbsp;for you to choose from. Here are our favourites:</div>

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<div>Clematis come in all shapes and sizes, from the tiny starry flowers of &#39;Pixie&#39; to big, blowsy &#39;Rouge Cardinal&#39;.&nbsp;Winter-flowering clematis have pretty seedheads while Clematis montana is a froth of flowers in April.</div>

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<div>Wisteria is the ultimate in show-off climbers with its head-turning racemes of headily scented flowers in early&nbsp;summer.</div>

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<div>Star jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) covers the uprights of pergolas and arches with glossy&nbsp;evergreen leaves and scented white flowers and never outstays its welcome.</div>

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<div>Honeysuckles are the perfect backdrop to a cottage garden, smothered in tubular flowers all summer and&nbsp;filling the garden with scent and punch-drunk bumblebees.</div>

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<div>Passionflowers are far hardier than they look, especially the stop-you-in-your-tracks purple fringed&nbsp;whirligigs of Passiflora caerulea.</div>

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<div>Please ask the staff at our garden centre for more information and advice about growing climbers.</div>

Clematis 'Ruby Wedding'

Clematis 'Piilu'

Clematis 'The President'

Clematis 'Mrs George Jackman'

Wisteria Arch

Parthenocissus tricuspidata 'Veitchii'

Climbers

Keeping a display going from May to September is usually a tricky juggling act involving a&nbsp;careful choice of&nbsp;plants to flower one after the other, and luck.

You can make things easier by simply controlling when your Perennials flower, using a trick known as&nbsp;the &#39;Chelsea chop&#39; &ndash; because you do it when the Chelsea Flower Show is on, around the end of May.

This works well with lots of Perennials, and you&#39;ll find most of them in our garden centre. They include Daisies: Dyer&#39;s Chamomile (Anthemis Tinctoria), Echinacea and Helenium; and many cottage garden&nbsp;favourites like Phlox Paniculata, Sedums and Goldenrod (Solidago).

At the end of May, use secateurs (found in our garden centre) to cut back every stem by a third to a half. It&nbsp;seems brutal, but all you&#39;re doing is delaying flowering for a while. Cut back some clumps and not others,&nbsp;and some flower at the normal time with a second display arriving a few weeks later.

You&#39;ll find plants grow sturdier and less leggy &ndash; so you don&#39;t need to stake them: you get double the flower&nbsp;power, too. So get chopping!

Please ask the staff in our garden centre for more information and advice about using the Chelsea chop to&nbsp;delay flowering.

The Chelsea Chop

If a garden were a picture, trees and shrubs would make the frame, but the paint would be perennials,&nbsp;bringing the whole thing to life with colour and movement.

Here are our top tips for picking combinations from the fantastic choice of perennials in our garden centre in %locations%&nbsp;to&nbsp;make your garden a work of art.

Design in triangles to avoid a &#39;blobby&#39; effect. Combine tall verticals &ndash; say, foxgloves - with hummocky&nbsp;shapes like geraniums and low-growing horizontal ground cover.

Contrast shapes to bring out the best in your plants. Look for opposites: strappy-leaved daylilies with broad-&nbsp;leaved heucheras, or upright, airy grasses with daisy flowered rudbeckia.

Use repetition to pull your design together. Several bold clumps of the same variety of helenium at strategic&nbsp;points, for example, make the garden feel whole.

Manage colour to create the mood you want. Zingy reds and oranges with clashing blues and purples are&nbsp;exciting, whereas similar shades together calm things down.

Plant in groups or drifts for real impact. Odd numbers work best: three is a minimum but you can go up to&nbsp;nine, eleven or fifteen plants at a time for real wow factor.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre in %locations% for more information and advice about designing with perennials.

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Designing with perennials

There&#39;s a spell in late August when the garden can hit the doldrums. Late summer is a tricky time, when the&nbsp;main razzmatazz is over and plants start to tire.

Get the show going again with some of the many perennials you&#39;ll find in our garden centre which are at their&nbsp;best in late summer. Here are our top ten:

Helenium &#39;Moorheim Beauty&#39; starts in July: its coppery-red daisy like flowers go on for months

Phlox paniculata &#39;Mount Fuji&#39; froths with fragrant white flowers into autumn

Aconitum &#39;Sparks Variety&#39; flowers till late September with spires of midnight blue

Plume poppy (Macleaya microcarpa) is a dramatic, towering perennial with handsome foliage

Red hot poker (Kniphofia uvaria) has spires of tubular flowers from red to pale yellow

Aster &#39;Little Carlow&#39; is one of many Michaelmas daisies, with cheerful lilac flowers

Anemone x hybrida &#39;Honorine Jobert&#39; carries pure white flowers on dancing stems till autumn

Penstemon &#39;Garnet&#39; has deep wine red foxglove-like spires till October

Sedum &#39;Ruby Glow&#39; tops succulent purple leaves with flat ruby-red flowerheads

Crocosmia &#39;Lucifer&#39; produces fiery red sprays of tubular flowers from August

Please ask the staff at our garden centre in %locations% for more information and advice about perennials that look good in&nbsp;late summer.

Late summer perennials

Perennials play an exuberant starring role in vibrant summer displays – but you may be surprised to know&nbsp;there are many which perform well into winter.
In our garden centre we've got plenty of perennials to bring colour to the garden through even the coldest&nbsp;months: here are five of our favourites.
Bergenia are also known as elephants' ears: big, broad, leathery leaves turn shades of red and purple in&nbsp;autumn and stay evergreen all winter. Fat flower spires top the display in spring.
Heuchera foliage comes in every colour from lime green to deep purple: they have pretty flower spires in&nbsp;summer but in winter make bright splash of welcome colour.
Hellebores are among our best-loved winter flowers: Christmas rose (Helleborus niger) flowers in December&nbsp;while H. orientalis starts in early spring. The handsome leaves are evergreen, too.
Cuckoo pint (Arum italicum) reverses the seasons, dying down in summer but returning in autumn with&nbsp;handsome marbled leaves and spikes of red berries.
Phlomis russeliana is one of many perennials which holds architectural seedheads into winter, contrasting&nbsp;well with the equally sculptural winter remains of grass flowerheads.
Please ask the staff in our garden centre for more information and advice about perennials that look good in&nbsp;winter.
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Winter perennials

We have probably got one of the best ranges of herbaceous plants in Britain, and we offer truly expert advice! Speak to Camilla to get the best.

These are the flowers that fill our borders, decorate our rockeries, troughs and pots although some, like the dark green, deeply cut leaves of Acanthus spinosus or the large, deeply ribbed gun metal grey leaves of Hosta glauca are grown more for their beautiful leaves than flowers. From stately delphiniums to blowzy poppies, glorious irises and sumptuous peonies, this is summer at its bountiful best.

We have a large collection of hardy geraniums that will flower throughout the summer as will geums and penstemons before handing the torch to heleniums and all the daisy flowers of autumn. Hellebores and heathers carry on through winter into spring.

The real heart-stopping, breathtaking beauty of a garden comes from that most easy-going of all the plant&nbsp;groups: the perennials, generous, free-flowering plants which die down each winter only to bubble up again&nbsp;from spring, peaking in midsummer with a fireworks display of flowers.

Pack your garden&nbsp;with perennials from the huge selection in our garden centre and you&#39;ll have something in&nbsp;flower for every week of the year. Here are a few tips to help you choose:

Visit the garden centre often as we have different perennials in stock according to the season. Choose whatever takes your fancy each month for really long-lasting display.

Cut perennials back after flowering and they&#39;ll often give you a second flush of flowers. You&#39;ll find&nbsp;secateurs for the job in our garden centre.

Plant the right plant in the right place: there are perennials for every spot in your garden, whether it&#39;s&nbsp;shady, sunny, dry or damp. Ask our garden centre staff for help if you&#39;re not sure which to choose.

Plant in threes or fives for greatest impact: drifts or groups of the same plant really catch your eye and&nbsp;demand to be noticed.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre&nbsp;for more information and advice about growing perennials.

See our plant list for the full range, stock may vary.

Rudbeckia 'Goldstrum'

Echinacea 'White Swan'

Aquiligea chrysantha

Helleborus orientalis

Hesperantha coccinea 'Jennifer'

Iris germanica 'Kent Pride'

Eryngium tricuspidatum

Herbaceous & Perennials

Spirals

Cloud Trees

Box Balls

Cone Trees

Whether it is a box spiral, a tree pruned to look as though green clouds have been caught in its branches, or a simple evergreen ball, topiary in all its many forms is as popular today as it was in Roman times where the villas of the rich were lined with avenues of animals clipped out of box and yew. The Italians revived topiary during the Renaissance and have kept this garden craft alive ever since. They give us spirals and fanciful shapes but it is the Japanese who have given us the beautiful cloud pruned evergreens that we admire today. Although these large specimens can take some years to grow and train even the most intricate, once trained, is easily clipped.

From cloud pruned trees of the tiny-leaved Japanese Holly, Ilex Crenata to balls of box, Buxus Sempervirens, and spirals of Yew, Taxus baccata we have some of the finest specimens that you can find. Whether you want cones, to stand either side of a doorway, or cylinders of Yew, to add structure to a border, you will find them here. You can, of course, go to our hedging website&nbsp;<a href="http://www.hedgingfromthewholesaler.co.uk/">www.hedgingfromthewholesaler.com</a>&nbsp;for a selection of simple shapes but to see our fine cloud-pruned topiary we urge you to visit and picture one of these beauties in your own garden.

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Topiary

In many ways, gardening in containers is no different to any other kind: to keep that spectacular display&nbsp;going you need a few tricks up your sleeve. Follow our top tips to keep your containers fresh and inspiring all&nbsp;year round:

Plant for every season: pots of spring bulbs are over by May, so have fresh containers in the wings ready&nbsp;to take over. Dazzling summer bedding plants, on offer in our garden centre, take you into autumn, when&nbsp;brilliantly-coloured acers followed by winter pansies and red dogwood stems see the season out.

Plant successionally: veg in containers are best sown in threes. One container ready to pick, one growing&nbsp;up ready to take over, and the third just sown keep you picking without pause: this technique works for baby&nbsp;salad leaves, carrots, peas and beetroot.

Look after your plants: plants grown in pots need watering every day in summer &ndash; automatic dripper&nbsp;systems, available in our garden centre, do the job for you. Add slow-release fertiliser such as Osmocote&nbsp;granules to the compost or liquid feed weekly, and remove dead blooms to keep the flowers coming.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre&nbsp;for more information and advice about keeping your container&nbsp;displays lasting for longer.

Container displays to last

Growing your plants in containers opens up a whole new world in which you can experiment with different&nbsp;combinations, ring the changes or totally overhaul your planting at the drop of a hat. A huge variety of plants&nbsp;from our garden centre grow happily in containers, giving you potted colour from January to December.

Spring: Tulips arrive in our garden centre from autumn: pack shoulder-to-shoulder into large containers for a&nbsp;cracking display. Other spring bulbs to try in pots include crocuses, daffodils and snowdrops.

Summer: Fill your containers to overflowing with dazzling bedding plants - in our garden centre from spring&nbsp;onwards. Container-grown veg are a great option when space is limited: we stock plug plants to make&nbsp;planting even more straightforward.

Autumn: Many shrubs look beautiful framed in a large container and many have spectacular autumn&nbsp;displays. In our garden centre look out for graceful deep purple acers, brilliantly berried skimmia and pretty&nbsp;variegated hollies.

Winter: Combine heathers chosen from the range in our garden centre with white-berried gaultherias or red-twigged dogwood and the large, leathery evergreen leaves of bergenia for winter cheer just outside your&nbsp;door.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre &nbsp;for more information and advice about plants for containers.

Container plants

Erigeron karvinkianus : A beautiful spreading plant with a succession of tiny white and pink daisy like flowers over a long period from late spring and into the autumn. Flowers deepen as the season goes on. Ideal for in walls or inbetween steps on paths.&nbsp;

Aubretia x cultorum : Very popular fast growing perennial creating mounds of colour. Ideal for planting in walls or on paths. They come in all shades of mauve, pink, blue and white in single or semi double form.&nbsp;

Helianthemum nummularium : known as the &#39;rock rose&#39;. Spreading plants which will grow over rocks or in walls. Flowers are rose like, and colours include whites, reds, salmon, pink, and yellow.&nbsp;

Cerastium tomentosum : Fast growing, mat forming perennial with pointed leaves and star shaped white flowers in summer. Ideal for planting in walls or in amongst rocks.&nbsp;

See our plant list for the full range, stock may vary.

Anemone nemorosa 'Vestal'

Erigeron karvinkianus

Primula 'Catchfly'

Alpines for walls or paths

Sedum &#39;Origanum&#39; : A low spreading plant with succulent green leaves which darken to a crimson colour in the autumn. Starry bright yellow flowers in summer. &nbsp;Ideal for troughs, or for roof gardens.

Sempervivum : commonly known as &#39;house leek&#39;. Evergreen succulent with pointed leaves, staying close to the ground. Flowers on long stems.

Delosperma : A spreading succulent with daisy like flowers changing shade as they mature. They come in many different shades of white, yellow, red and purple.

Aeonium arboreum : A succulent with a more vertical habit, resembling a tiny tree. Almost black, and quite unusual.&nbsp;

See our plant list for the full range, stock may vary.

Sedum 'Coca Cola'

Sedum 'Origanum'

Sedum reflexum

Roof gardens

Pulsatilla vulgaris : A small plant with frilly leaves and woolly stems. Large purple flowers with a yellow centre produced in the spring.&nbsp;

Dianthus carthusianorum : A mounded plant with grassy green foliage and clusters of&nbsp;magenta pink flowers on tall stems in summer.&nbsp;

Campanula persicifolia : Forms a slow growing mound of green leaves, and masses of bell shaped, delicate blue flowers June to August.&nbsp;

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Sempervivens

Ipheion uniflorum 'Tessa'

Iberis (Candytuft)

Rock gardens

The most popular way to plant alpine&nbsp;plants is in a rockery. These are constructed with rocks and&nbsp;located in a sunny open site on a slope, clear from shade cast from trees and sheltered from the wind. Where possible it is good to include a source of water such as a pond or a stream to enhance the design. Most rock plants will grow in stony soil, but it will need to be free draining and contain some substance too. The plants can grow around the rocks in pockets between them, and some will grow over them. &nbsp;

The other places they will flourish are in crevices in stone walls, in gaps on steps, in gravel or in paving, providing they have some soil !&nbsp;

See our plant list for the full range, stock may vary.

Rockery & alpine

Bulbs are so versatile you can grow them anywhere &ndash; even if you&#39;re gardening on a balcony. In our garden&nbsp;centre in %locations%&nbsp;we&#39;ve got everything you need to pack containers with spring colour: follow our top tips for a dazzling&nbsp;display.

Layering: choose a deep container from the range in our garden centre and pack bulbs in by planting in&nbsp;layers. Put tall daffodils at the bottom, cover with compost, then tulips followed by crocuses at the top.

Keeping it simple: cram the biggest container you can find with a really special tulip like &#39;Abu Hassan&#39; for a&nbsp;single blitz of brilliant colour with maximum impact.

Get the timing right: combine two bulbs with the same flowering time for twice the wow factor: try partnering&nbsp;dark blue hyacinths with pillarbox red early tulip Tulipa praestans.

Perfect partners: plant pretty violas at the feet of tulips for a partnership made in heaven: lilac-coloured&nbsp;violas with smokey purple tulips are stunning.

Dropping in: have pots of lilies or tulips ready to drop in to your borders just as they&#39;re about to flower for&nbsp;instant garden colour. Just lift them out again once they&#39;re finished.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre&nbsp;in %locations%&nbsp;for more information and advice about growing bulbs in containers.

Pots of pleasure

Daffodils aren&#39;t just for March. You can enjoy their cheerful yellow trumpets in your garden from January until&nbsp;May if you plan cleverly: we&#39;ve got a fantastic choice in our %locations%&nbsp;garden centre to help you do just that.

Early to rise:

&#39;Rijnveld&#39;s Early Sensation&#39;: in flower by Christmas some years. Brilliant yellow&nbsp;and 35cm tall 
&#39;February Gold&#39;: does what it says on the tin: this pure yellow gem reaches just&nbsp;15cm in late February 
&#39;Tete a Tete&#39;: one of the best miniatures, flowering prolifically with golden swept-back petals. About 15cm

Mid-season marvels: 
 
Tenby daffodil (Narcissus obvallaris): Wordsworth&#39;s golden daffodil: small and&nbsp;dainty at 25cm 
&#39;Rip Van Winkle&#39;: miniature double with a spiky mane of green-tinged, spiky petals.&nbsp;To 15cm 
&#39;Jenny&#39; is a mid-sized daffodil at 25cm, with a pale butterscotch trumpet and swept-back, creamy petals

Late and lovely:

&#39;Dutch Master&#39;: brilliant golden trumpets and a delicate scent, growing to 45cm tall 
&#39;Cheerfulness&#39; is a double with three or four scented blooms on each stem: 45cm 
Pheasant&#39;s eye daffodil (Narcissus poeticus var. recurvus): among the last to&nbsp;flower, these delicate white daffs are also scented: 40cm tall

Please ask the staff at our garden centre&nbsp;in %locations%&nbsp;Please ask the staff in our garden centre in %locations%&nbsp;for more information and advice about choosing daffodils for a long&nbsp;display.

Small but perfectly formed

Tulips left in the ground will sometimes re-flower, but more often they&#39;ll dwindle and disappear. You can&nbsp;replant with new combinations &ndash; but if you&#39;ve got a really good display going, it&#39;s also possible to persuade&nbsp;the same tulips to come back next season. Here&#39;s how:

<ul>
	<li>remove dead flowers and wait till foliage turns yellow, about six weeks after flowering</li>
	<li>dig up your bulbs, brush off excess soil and discard any which are diseased or damaged</li>
	<li>dry under cover for a couple of weeks &ndash; the greenhouse or a conservatory is perfect</li>
	<li>store your bulbs in net bags for winter in a well-ventilated place at room temperature (about 20&ordm;C).</li>
</ul>

In our garden centre you&#39;ll also find species tulips &ndash; smaller, wilder-looking tulips which come back year after&nbsp;year so you won&#39;t need to lift them.

Good ones to try are Tulipa turkestanica, appearing in early spring with up to nine flowers per spike; Tulipa&nbsp;greigii &#39;Red Riding Hood&#39;, 20cm high and scarlet in April; and Tulipa sprengeri, the last of the tulips to flower&nbsp;in late May, again bright scarlet.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre&nbsp;in %locations% for more information and advice about how to make your tulips last&nbsp;for years.

Tulips that last

Those first optimistic green shoots peeking through are a sure sign that winter is on the wane: with a&nbsp;selection of spring bulbs from our garden centre in %locations%&nbsp;you can cheer yourself up from January to early summer.

Just after New Year the first snowdrops appear: tall &#39;Atkinsii&#39;, or &#39;John Gray&#39; carrying large flowers on arching&nbsp;stems. Scatter other January jewels at their feet for contrast: bright yellow winter aconites, or pretty pink&nbsp;Cyclamen coum.

February is the time for crocuses &ndash; &#39;Snow Bunting&#39; is pure white, while purple Crocus tommasinianus&nbsp;spreads happily through rough grass. Grow them with exquisite dwarf irises, just 10cm tall: &#39;Katharine&nbsp;Hodgkin&#39; has curious greyish-purple petals, &#39;Harmony&#39; is a slatey blue, while &#39;J.S. Dijt&#39; is vibrant purple.

In March the show really gets going. Brilliant yellow daffodils, blue perfumed hyacinths, a sprinkling of bright&nbsp;pink Anemone coronaria and perhaps some white Chionodoxa (Glory of the Snow) make a riot of vibrant&nbsp;colour.

Plant spring bulbs in September or October in well-drained soil in sun or dappled shade, about three times&nbsp;as deep as the bulb itself. Adding a handful of grit helps drainage in heavy soil.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre&nbsp;in %locations% for more information and advice about bulbs for a springtime&nbsp;display.

Spring fever

The spectacular bulb display you&#39;ve been enjoying all spring need not stop with the last tulip. Hundreds of&nbsp;beautiful summer-flowering bulbs, available in our garden centre in %locations%, keep flowers coming till autumn.

Alliums: the firework-like spheres of showy purple alliums light up the border from May to July. Choose from&nbsp;tall drumsticks of &#39;Purple Sensation&#39;, the huge 20cm-across spheres of &#39;Globemaster&#39;, or low-growing Allium&nbsp;karataviense with pale pink heads and broad purple leaves. Nectaroscordum siculum is closely related, with&nbsp;umbrellas of dangling bell-shaped creamy flowers flushed lilac.

Dahlias: in flower from June to autumn, the choice is as dazzling as the flowers. Single-flowered dahlias mix&nbsp;most easily into borders: try scarlet &#39;Bishop of Llandaff&#39; or white &#39;Twyning&#39;s After Eight&#39;.

Lilies: heady mid- to late-summer fragrance is the hallmark of stately Oriental lilies like white Lilium regale.&nbsp;Brightly-coloured Asiatics like the yellow &#39;Grand Cru&#39; are non scented but don&#39;t need staking: and elegant&nbsp;Martagon lilies have over 20 blooms to a stem.

Crocosmia: super-easy to grow with handsome strappy foliage, flame-coloured crocosmia lights up borders&nbsp;from July to September. Choose from vivid scarlet &#39;Lucifer&#39;, crimson-splashed orange &#39;Emily McKenzie&#39; or&nbsp;buttery &#39;Warburton&#39;s Yellow&#39;.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre&nbsp;in %locations%&nbsp;for more information and advice about choosing bulbs for summer&nbsp;displays.

Summer stars

Bulbs aren&#39;t just for spring: you can have flowering bulbs in your garden all year round with a little planning.&nbsp;In our garden centre we stock bulbs seasonally, so you&#39;ll find spring and summer bulbs on sale in autumn,&nbsp;and late-season bulbs on our shelves in %locations%&nbsp;from spring. Choose bulbs for every season to enjoy colour from&nbsp;January till December:

Spring: bulbs are first on the scene with a splash of colour so don&#39;t stint on quantity: fill your garden with&nbsp;crocuses, daffodils, hyacinths and tulips from the fantastic range in our garden centre, and double your&nbsp;display by packing them into pots, too.

Summer: it&#39;s the turn of the real showstoppers in summer, and in our garden centre you&#39;ll find brilliantly-coloured dahlias, flamboyant lilies, sophisticated bearded irises and easy-going pompom allium bulbs.

Autumn: plant lipstick-pink nerines for a brilliant splash of colour in September: other autumn bulbs we stock&nbsp;include autumn-flowering saffron crocus, exotic-looking Gladiolus murielae and brilliant yellow Sternbergia.

Winter: tiny pink Cyclamen coum nod among the earliest snowdrops, while winter aconites and tiny, delicate&nbsp;winter-flowering irises like Iris danfordiae provide a cheery December splash of yellow.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre&nbsp;for more information and advice about using bulbs in your garden.

Bulbs

Before you reach for the spray bottle, try flower power for tackling pests and diseases. Many common ailments from aphids to carrot fly can be kept at bay by planting annual flowers and herbs, readily available in our garden centre, alongside your veg in your %locations% garden. Here are a few to try:

Carrots and spring onions: carrot fly find their prey by smell, detecting carrot foliage a mile off. Plant pungent spring onions alongside, though, and their smell confuses the flies completely.

Roses and garlic: a forest of garlic planted with roses produces essential oils the rose draws up into its system, making it taste revolting to aphids.

Broad beans and nasturtiums: blackflies enjoy nasturtiums even more than broad bean shoots &ndash; so plant these annual flowers with beans and the flies abandon your veg for them.

Tomatoes and French marigolds (Tagetes): Another strongly-scented plant, whitefly hate the smell of French marigolds, so plant with tomatoes to keep them whitefly-free.

Lettuce and chervil: you&#39;ll have lettuce minus the aphids if you grow them alongside a generous row of leafy chervil: some say slugs dislike it, too. Both make great salad ingredients.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre&nbsp;in %locations%&nbsp;for more information and advice about using herbs and annuals as companion plants.

Good companions

Just imagine a meadow full of flowers outside your back door. It&#39;s a dream many gardeners share: and it can&nbsp;come true if you plant one of the popular annual meadow mixes, available in our garden centre. Here&#39;s how:

Preparing the ground: annual meadows need good garden soil, unlike traditional hay meadows (wild&nbsp;meadows grow best on poor land, which is why they&#39;re so hard to establish in gardens). So weed the site,&nbsp;add organic matter and rake it into a fine tilth just like you would for sowing any seed.

Choosing your mix: Cornfield annual mixes include poppies, corn marigolds and corncockle; or choose a&nbsp;blend for short stems (around 40cm tall) or perhaps combining particular colours: red flax, black-eyed Susan&nbsp;and Californian poppies, for example, for a hot-coloured meadow.

Sowing and aftercare: mix seed with silver sand so it&#39;s easier to distribute evenly, then broadcast at about&nbsp;3g &ndash; a small-ish handful &ndash; per square metre. Rake in afterwards and water, then watch it grow. After you&#39;ve&nbsp;enjoyed the display, clear the ground in autumn: some will re-seed but to get your special mix back again re-sow next spring.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre&nbsp;in %locations%&nbsp;for more information and advice about planting annual meadows.

Annual meadows

Annual flowers are among the easiest plants you can grow. They&#39;re ideal for filling gaps, or simply producing&nbsp;a dazzling display of colour from summer to the first frosts. There&#39;s a great choice of annuals in our garden&nbsp;centre in %locations%: here&#39;s how to get perfect results every time.

Under cover: half-hardy annuals can&#39;t cope with frost: sow into pots in spring to plant out later 
1: Fill trays with seed compost: you&#39;ll find the equipment you need in our garden centre 
2: Place in a shallow bowl of water to soak up moisture from the bottom 
3: Sow seeds sparingly, and cover lightly with vermiculite or more compost 
4: Pot on seedlings as they grow, then plant out after the last frost.

Direct outside: hardy annuals can be sown straight into the garden from March 
1: Weed the bed and rake the whole site level. Water if necessary. 
2: Mark areas for each type of seed, dividing the bed into irregular sections 
3: Make drills 1/2cm deep within each section to identify your seedlings as they come up in lines 
4: Sow sparingly into each drill, cover lightly with soil and water

Please ask the staff at our garden centre&nbsp;in %locations%&nbsp;for more information and advice about growing annuals from seed.

Sowing annuals

One of the great luxuries of gardening is collecting armfuls of cheerful flowers for filling vases to overflowing&nbsp;with colour and scent for the house. Some of the best flowers for picking are easy-going annuals, and we've&nbsp;picked our top ten from the wide range available in our %locations%&nbsp;garden centre.
Bupleurum: lime-green flowers and foliage, contrasting perfectly with brighter colours
Cosmos: graceful daisy-like flowers on 90cm tall stems: 'Purity' is exquisite white, and 'Dazzler' is vivid pink
Ammi majus: frothing umbels of pure white flowers, like an elegant cowparsley
Tobacco plant (Nicotiana): tall, airy flowers in colours from white to pink to lime green
Snapdragons (Antirrhinum): pretty cottage-garden flowers with generous blooms
Cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus): blue is the classic colour, but they come in white, pink or darkest purple
Sweetpeas (Lathyrus odoratus): choose Spencer types for scent, and Grandifloras for big, blowsy flowers
Love-in-a-mist (Nigella): exquisite starry blue or white flowers are followed by architectural seedheads
Larkspur (Consolida): a rich royal blue flower with tall spikes produced till the first frosts
Bells of Ireland (Molucella laevis): curious curving spikes of vivid green bell-like flowers veined with cream
Please ask the staff in our garden centre for more information and advice about annual flowers you can pick&nbsp;for the house.

Annuals for picking

One of the best things about having a garden packed with annual flowers is that it&#39;s also full of wildlife.&nbsp;Butterflies, bees and other pollinating insects like hoverflies adore open annual flowers: birds will be hot on&nbsp;their heels after the big, generous seedheads.

Here&#39;s our pick of the five best varieties from the range in our garden centre to attract insects into your %locations% garden.

For butterflies:

Marigolds (Calendula officinalis): cheery orange flowers which are adored by butterflies 
Honesty (Lunaria annua): lots of simple, open pink or white flowers butterflies can reach easily 
Stocks (Matthiola): the scent of these cottage-garden favourites attracts butterflies in from miles around

For bees:

Phacelia tanacetifolia: fuzzy smoke-blue flowers on dense foliage which bees find irresistible 
Cornflowers (Centaurea cyanus): choose native blue types and they&#39;ll be smothered in bees 
Forget-me-not (Myosotis): these late-spring arrivals provide much-needed early nectar for emerging bees

For birds:

Sunflowers (Helianthus annuus): leave old sunflower heads in place for upside-down bluetits to feast on 
Love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena): architectural seedheads provide valuable food for birds 
Teasels (Dipsacus fullonum): biennial, flowering in its second year, goldfinches adore spiky teasel heads

Please ask the staff at our garden centre&nbsp;in %locations%&nbsp;for more information and advice about choosing annuals to attract&nbsp;wildlife.

Annuals for wildlife

Annual plants are here-today, gone-tomorrow party girls. They may have just one season in the sun, but what a season: they flower for an incredibly long time and are invariably so spectacularly beautiful you'll lose your heart to them.
We stock two kinds of annual in our garden centre in %locations%: hardy annuals to sow direct from March onwards, and half-hardies to sow under cover as they don't like frost. Here are just some you'll find in our garden centre.
Hardy annuals: 
Ammi majus: lacy white flowers over feathery foliage 
Poached egg plant (Limnanthes douglasii): cheery yellow-and-white flowers 
Love-in-a-mist (Nigella damascena): starry blue or white flowers followed by architectural seedpods 
Ladybird poppies (Papaver communtatum 'Ladybird'): scarlet papery petals each with a black blotch 
Nasturtiums: abundant red, orange or creamy flowers over rounded leaves
Half-hardy annuals: 
Cosmos 'Purity': clear white daisies with yellow centres on long stems 
Zinnias: pompom flowers in brilliant scarlets, yellows and purples 
Swan river daisy: profuse mauve daisies tumbling over pots and baskets 
Nemesia: another perfect container plant with pretty, delicate blooms 
Tobacco plant (Nicotiana): charming open flowers in pink, cream and green over big leafy rosettes
Please ask the staff in our %locations%&nbsp;garden centre for more information and advice about choosing and growing annuals.

Annuals

All the beauty products in your bathroom cabinet, from soaps to moisturiser, have their origins in plants, and&nbsp;many are easy to reproduce at home using herbs you can find in our garden centre in %locations%. Here are just some of&nbsp;the ways you can garden yourself beautiful:

Lavender bath water: put one part lavender flowers with two parts bay leaves, four parts fine oatmeal and four parts bran in a saucepan with water and simmer for an hour. Strain and add a cupful to your bath to&nbsp;guarantee a good night&#39;s sleep.

Marigold moisturiser: you&#39;ll find easy-to-grow pot marigold seed in our garden centre. Melt 150g&nbsp;emulsifying cream over a pan of boiling water, then add 70g glycerol and 80ml water and stir. Stir in 30g&nbsp;dried marigold petals, and simmer for three hours: strain and store in the fridge.

Herbal foot bath: pick a large handful of mixed fresh herbs: sage, thyme, sweet marjoram and bay work&nbsp;wonders. Put in a large bowl of boiling water with a tablespoon of salt and when it&#39;s cooled a little, sink your&nbsp;feet in. The ultimate reviver after a tiring day.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre in %locations% for more information and advice about growing herbs to use as&nbsp;cosmetics.

Herbs for beauty

Bouquet garni is a traditional French method for using herbs in bunches to infuse a dish with flavour. The&nbsp;combinations help solve the problem of which herbs to grow for flavouring your cooking: simply divide your&nbsp;herb garden into separate areas for meat, fish and poultry, choose the right herbs from the selection in our&nbsp;garden centre, and you&#39;ll have a perfect selection for every dish.

Poultry dishes: lemony flavours contrast well with chicken, turkey or duck, so grow lemon thyme or lemon&nbsp;grass mixed with hyssop, thyme, tarragon and parsley.

Fish dishes: Aniseed-flavoured herbs produce classic fish dishes. Fennel and tarragon taste gorgeous with&nbsp;plaice; try lovage, dill, and bay with other fish such as bass, perch and salmon.

Meat dishes: rich meat casseroles come alive infused with flavoursome Mediterranean herbs. Oregano,&nbsp;thyme, sage, rosemary and bay can cope with slow cooking and taste wonderful together.

Make the bouquet garni by picking a sprig of each herb, with stalk attached, and tie together securely with&nbsp;string. Tie the whole bunch to the casserole handle and allow to drop into the dish during cooking. Remove&nbsp;just before serving.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre in %locations% for more information and advice about herbs you can grow for&nbsp;cooking.

Grow your own bouquet garni

Herbs are really successful in containers, as most come from shallow, stony Mediterranean soils and relish&nbsp;drier conditions in pots. Group several together for a fragrant herb patch outside your door. Here&#39;s how to&nbsp;grow five of our favourite herbs in containers:

Rosemary: give this hefty shrub plenty of room and a soil-based compost such as John Innes no. 3&nbsp;(available in our garden centre) to provide it with nutrients for longer.

Mint: mint is best in containers as it can be invasive outdoors. There are dozens of varieties in our garden&nbsp;centre: apple mint has fuzzy leaves while purple-stemmed chocolate peppermint looks sumptuous.

Coriander: sow fresh into generous troughs every month for a constant supply of fragrant flavour: as you&nbsp;use up one trough, the next is ready to pick.

Chives: generous potfuls of chives are perfect for snipping with scissors to add an oniony tang to salads.&nbsp;Their pretty pink pompom flowers are edible, too.

Basil: purple or green varieties look gorgeous in containers and they&#39;re happier there, too, as their tender&nbsp;leaves are out of reach of slugs. Keep well watered and pick regularly to keep it productive.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre in %locations% for more information and advice about growing herbs in containers.

Herbs for containers

Set aside a corner of your garden for a traditional herb patch and you&#39;ll be hooked on these gorgeous little&nbsp;plants forever. Whether it&#39;s leafy parsley or fragrant thyme for cooking, or pot marigolds and echinacea for&nbsp;cosmetics or home-grown medicine, herb gardens are productive, useful and beautiful.

Herb wheels: in our garden centre you&#39;ll find ready-made wooden herb wheels made of six compartments&nbsp;for an instant herb garden. Simply place it on a cleared patch of ground and plant a different herb in each&nbsp;section for a pretty feature.

Formal herb gardens: traditionally, herb gardens were laid out in formal geometrical patterns, easy to&nbsp;recreate at home. Mark out a circle or square, then divide into symmetrical beds: L-shapes or diamonds work&nbsp;well. Add a central focal point, like an elegant container, and paved paths for a neat, satisfying design.

Herb spirals: another great way to grow herbs is to build a rising spiral of stones, bricks or vertical wooden&nbsp;boards to about 80cm high, then back-fill with soil. Herbs love the sunny, well-drained conditions and create&nbsp;a lovely cascade effect as they grow over the edges.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre in %locations% for more information and advice about making a herb garden.

Making a herb garden

Herbs have been grown in gardens for hundreds of years: most have a long history, handed down from&nbsp;generation to generation, with uses from medicine to cosmetics and beauty products to flavouring cooking.

They&#39;re easy-going plants which can be tucked into almost any corner of the garden, but to plunge yourself&nbsp;into their fascinating world dedicate a sunny spot to a herb garden. You&#39;ll find it&#39;s full of fragrance and flowers&nbsp;all summer: and best of all, it&#39;ll quickly become part of your daily routine to pick peppermint for your tea,&nbsp;marigolds to brew up some face cream, or a bay leaf or two for the evening meal.

To start you off, here are some essential herbs for your herb garden from the wide selection in our garden&nbsp;centre in&nbsp;%locations%:

Culinary: Mediterranean herbs to give your cooking flavour and colour, these include rosemary, bay, thyme,&nbsp;marjoram and parsley.

Medicinal: make teas and tisanes to boost your health and well-being with peppermint, chamomile,&nbsp;echinacea and lemon balm.

Cosmetic: moisturising cream, hair dye and face packs are all possible from herbs grown in your garden: try&nbsp;marigolds, soapwort (Saponaria), catmint and witch hazel.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre&nbsp;for more information and advice about growing herbs.

Herbs

Cacti are gorgeous, low-maintenance plants for the indoor gardener, so show them off to the max grouped in&nbsp;attractive displays to enhance your home in %locations%.

A cactus garden makes the most of smaller specimens. Choose a selection of different shapes,sizes and&nbsp;colours from the wide range available in our garden centre, looking for contrasts: purple-tinged Euphorbia&nbsp;trigona &#39;Rubra&#39; sets off green columns of Haageocereus beautifully, while tall cacti have more impact when&nbsp;set against squat, sculptural barrel cacti. Broad leaved succulents like Aeoniums also look fabulous paired&nbsp;with spidery stems like those of the pencil cactus (Euphorbia tirucalli).

Wide, shallow bowls or boxes give most scope for letting loose your creativity. Paint trays in bright colours,&nbsp;Mexican style, and create natural-looking scenes by setting your groups of cacti among rocks, grit and sand&nbsp;to mimic a natural landscape.

Place your cactus garden where you can see it, on a windowsill or shelf at least a metre off the ground.&nbsp;You could even place it against a fabulous backdrop of a spectacular Arizona desert, or colourful abstract&nbsp;materials or textiles.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre in %locations% for more information and advice about how to collect and display&nbsp;cacti so they look at their best.

Colourful cacti

Growing your houseplants in something as beautiful as they are is the perfect finishing touch to your display&nbsp;and shows them off at their very best.

Containers are often an afterthought but they can make or break a good display, and you&#39;ll find pots to set off&nbsp;colourful foliage or emphasise an architectural shape in our garden centre in %locations%.

Themed or matching containers right through the house give a sense of continuity. Warm textured terracotta&nbsp;gives a rustic look, while coloured ceramic tones in easily with your home decor. Metallic finishes lend&nbsp;modernist style while bamboo or wooden containers are suitably jungly for ferns, palms and bananas. If it&#39;s&nbsp;shabby-chic you like, paint wooden containers or salvage items from bric-a-brac stores.

The shape of your container should also complement the plant growing in it. Low growing, trailing plants like&nbsp;ivy look lovely cascading over a tall container; fountain-shaped plants are complemented by vase-shaped&nbsp;pots. For real wow factor pick out the colours of a plant&#39;s leaves or flowers in the colours of the container or&nbsp;choose complementary colours: white, for example, sets off darker greens and purples beautifully.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre in %locations% for more information and advice about choosing the right containers&nbsp;for your plants.

Cracking good containers

There&#39;s nothing that gladdens the heart in the chilly depths of January quite as much as cheery spring bulbs,&nbsp;forced to flower ahead of time. Super-early hyacinths on a kitchen windowsill fill the house with winter scent,&nbsp;while paperwhite daffodils bring a delicate beauty to a Christmas scene.

Pots of forced bulbs make wonderful Christmas presents - you can buy prepared pre-chilled bulbs in our&nbsp;garden centre from autumn. Don&#39;t forget to treat yourself too!

Start in September, planting into bowls of bulb fibre or multipurpose compost, available in our garden centre in %locations%.&nbsp;Place the bulbs on compost in the bottom of the bowl so they&#39;re close, but not touching. Fill with more&nbsp;compost so that the tops of the bulbs are just showing.

Place your pot of bulbs in a dark, cool place - ideally, about 9&deg;C. Keep watered, and when shoots reach&nbsp;5cm long bring them out into a cool room to let the leaves green up. Finally, move to a warm windowsill&nbsp;to continue growing. Then all you have to do is clear a space among your Christmas decorations for their&nbsp;moment in the festive spotlight.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre in %locations% for more information about forcing bulbs for early spring colour.

Forcing the issue

Create a garden inside your house with the lush greenery and flowers of houseplants, and you&#39;ll not only&nbsp;make your house look beautiful, you&#39;ll improve your quality of life. Research has shown that in an average&nbsp;room, just two or three houseplants picked from the range in our %locations%&nbsp;garden centre improve air quality, pump&nbsp;feel-good oxygen back into the air and reduce stress.

<div>In our garden centre you&#39;ll find handsome architectural palms and ferns for a modern, minimalist look; or&nbsp;pretty African violets, delicate paperwhite daffodils and fragrant stephanotis if shabby chic is more your&nbsp;style.</div>

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<div>Pick out a good-looking container for your houseplants from the range in our garden centre to really show&nbsp;off their beauty: in the right setting, the impossibly exotic flowers of orchids or the strange, waxy bloom of an&nbsp;anthurium can stop you in your tracks.</div>

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<div>Houseplants like a bright spot out of direct sunlight and away from radiators. Mist regularly with water to keep&nbsp;humidity high - you&#39;ll find hand misters in our garden centre, along with liquid feed to keep them at their best&nbsp;all season long.</div>

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<div>Please ask the staff at our garden centre&nbsp;for more information and advice about our range of houseplants.</div>

Houseplants

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