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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 'Aurea' 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 'Okame' with its masses of carmine rose flowers is just one of many that we stock.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.derwenwholesale.co.uk/trees-ornamental-trees">Click here to see more of our ornamental trees.&nbsp;</a>

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!

Healthy and supremely tasty, fresh-picked fruit from the garden is one of the real luxuries of growing your&nbsp;own. A British climate is perfect for growing so many different types from tart rhubarb in early spring to sweet&nbsp;summer strawberries and crunchy autumn apples.

We stock a huge fruit range at our garden centre. Look out for container-grown bushes and trees to buy all&nbsp;year round, or in winter bare-root plants which establish in double-quick time.

Fruit trees to enjoy in your garden include traditional apples, pears and plums &ndash; we stock many traditional&nbsp;heritage varieties with outstanding flavour and fascinating histories. Look out for unusual fruits, too, like&nbsp;mulberries, quinces and medlars in our garden centre.

Berries and currants are superb value, producing years of plentiful harvests from just a few plants.&nbsp;Gooseberries are first, fruiting from May, while currants (black, white and red) take over in summer.

Bare-root stock gives you a great choice of varieties. In our garden centre from November-March, you&#39;ll&nbsp;find bundles of raspberry canes, fruit trees and strawberry crowns sold this way to plant as soon as you get&nbsp;them home.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre for more information and advice about growing fruit.

Fruit

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>

Climbers

Of all the fruit you can grow in the garden, a grapevine is among the most productive and beautiful. All you need is a sunny wall, fence or pergola for it to scramble up and it'll cheerfully cover the whole thing with big elegant leaves turning brilliant colours in autumn, and of course fat clusters of fruit dripping with sweetness.
There are dozens of varieties of grapevine and we've got a great selection in our %locations% garden centre. For sweet fruit for the table, go for a dessert variety: 'Brandt' has small but very sweet dark-skinned grapes (and spectacular autumn colour) while 'Phoenix' is a reliable modern variety good for both eating and winemaking.
If it's a vineyard you're after, there's an even wider choice. 'Seyval' makes a light, fruity wine; while 'Pinot Noir' ripens well in a good summer for a classic deep red claret.
Here are our top tips for growing successful grapevines:
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<li>Choose a sunny site, ideally a south- or southwest facing wall and sheltered from the wind. Vines do best in free-draining soil like sand or chalk: if you're gardening on clay dig in a barrowload of grit before planting.</li>
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Add well-rotted farmyard manure (found in our garden centre) to improve soil before planting, as grapevines are in the ground a long time.
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<li>Add a handful of slow-release fertiliser like pelleted chicken manure or bonemeal to keep your plant happy all season.</li>
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Plant when vines are dormant – from late autumn till early spring, as long as the ground isn't waterlogged or frozen.
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<li>Put up a sturdy training system before you plant: stretch wires 30cm apart up a fence, or attach trellis. You'll find all you need in our garden centre.</li>
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Water thoroughly in dry weather: if grapevines get parched at the roots they're more likely to suffer from mildew, ruining your crop.
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<li>Prune each winter once the vine has dropped all its leaves and is completely dormant to remove some of the year's vigorous growth and keep the plant productive and healthy.</li>
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Please ask the staff in our garden centre in %locations%&nbsp;for more information and advice about growing grapevines.

Growing grapevines

'One generation plants the tree, another gets the shade' – so goes the Chinese proverb. The fruit trees you plant today will grow for many decades into the future, though luckily you don't have to wait till your kids take over to enjoy the fruit.
Once you've selected your tree – traditional apples and pears, or perhaps cherries, apricots or a fig, all available from our %locations%&nbsp;garden centre – give it the best possible start to its long life by getting the planting right. Here's how:
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<li>Choose the site carefully: some fruit trees, such as cherries, will fruit in partial shade but most need a sunny spot that's reasonably sheltered. 
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<li>Dig your hole: the size is important so your tree grows at the right height in the soil. Make your hole a third wider than the rootball, and the same depth as the container the tree is growing in (if your tree is bare-root, look for the 'soil mark' just where the roots meet the stem). 
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<li>Use a garden fork to lightly loosen the soil at the bottom of the hole to let the roots get through easily. 
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<li>Bang a sturdy tree stake, available in our garden centre, into the bottom of the hole at 45° to vertical, pointing into the prevailing wind. It should cross the trunk about halfway up. 
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<li>Now place the tree in the hole next to the stake, spreading out the roots evenly if it's bare-root. 
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<li>Back-fill the hole with soil, treading it in gently as you go so the tree is well anchored in the soil. 
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<li>Water thoroughly, so the moisture sinks right down into the root zone, and top with a nice deep mulch of well-rotted farmyard manure, pulled back from the trunk so it doesn't encourage rotting. 
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<li>Finish by tying the tree to the stake with a specialist rubber tree tie. You'll find these in our garden centre: they work in a figure-eight between tree and stake to prevent rubbing and allow the tree trunk to expand.</li>
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Please ask the staff in our garden centre in %locations%&nbsp;for more information and advice about planting fruit trees.

Planting a fruit tree

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

We have probably got one of the best ranges of herbaceous plants in Britain, and we offer truly expert advice!&nbsp;

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&nbsp;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.

Herbaceous & Perennials

Natural planting using swathes of gently-swaying grasses shot through with drifts of tall, open perennials to mimic the wild look of the American prairie lands caught the imagination of gardeners across Europe in the 1990s, and it's been going strong ever since - you can see some fabulous examples at public gardens like Trentham in Staffordshire. It's a look you can adapt easily at home in %locations%&nbsp;for a gorgeous, contemporary design that's also very low maintenance.
You'll find all the plants you need in our garden centre: here's how to create your own back-garden prairie.
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<li>Choose the right spot: prairies need sunshine, so pick an open, bright area of your garden, preferably not too damp as most prairie-style plants prefer free-draining conditions. 
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<li>Restrict your varieties: prairie planting relies on repetition for its effect, so limit your range of plants to a handful of grass varieties and a few perennials or annuals - just plant lots of them. 
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<li>Start with the grasses: these form the backbone of your design, so choose carefully. Tall grasses move gracefully in the wind: good choices are Calamagrostis x acutiflora 'Karl Foerster', Molinia caerulea 'Transparent' or evergreen Stipa gigantea. All have spectacular flowers which sparkle in the frosts of winter. 
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<li>Mix in the flowers: flat-headed or spherical flowers work best with grasses as contrasts in texture and shape. They often flower at the same height, too, giving that level prairie-like look. Go for achilleas, autumn-flowering asters, and other daisies: both echinacea and rudbeckias were made for prairie settings. 
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<li>Plant in drifts: design your planting not in blobby groups, but in drifts of the same plant meandering naturally in waves through the design. Plant seven, nine or eleven of the same plant together: be generous for maximum impact. 
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<li>Don't be too tidy: part of the charm of a prairie planting is the effect of frosty winter weather on seedheads and dead stems, so leave clearing up until February, when you can just chop everything back down to the ground and let it do it all over again.</li>
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Please ask the staff in our %locations%&nbsp;garden centre for more information and advice about designing prairie planting.

Prairie planting

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

Most gardens have a shady spot: a north-facing wall, perhaps, or under a tree, or in the shadow of a nearby building. Learn to love your shade: you'll find a world of new plants opens up, and you get a cool, pleasant nook to sit out of the heat of the day: perfect for enjoying an iced drink after a hot session gardening.
The range of plants you'll find in our garden centre in %locations%&nbsp;to grow in shade is extensive and includes delicate woodlanders, broad-leaved foliage plants and pretty spring flowers. We've picked our top ten shade-loving plants to turn your shady bits into garden highlights.
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<li>Hostas: there's an ever-wider choice of bold, broad-leaved hostas, from beefy ribbed 'Sum and Substance' to white-splashed 'Fire and Ice'. 
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<li>Ferns: damp shady spots cry out for graceful Osmunda regalis or silver-and-purple Japanese painted ferns.&nbsp; If your shady spot is dry, grow Dryopteris felix-mas: 'Cristata' has curly-ended fronds. 
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<li>Rodgersia: massive leaves like a bronzed horse-chestnut 30cm across erupt from the ground, followed by stately plumes of white or pink flowers 
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<li>Foxgloves: living wild in woodland, foxgloves love dappled shade. Grow common foxglove in purple or white, or an eyecatching modern multicoloured hybrid. 
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<li>Epimediums: among the prettiest spring woodlanders, the young emerging leaves in shades of copper are almost as lovely as the dancing flowers. 
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<li>Pachysandra terminalis: a really useful ground-cover plant with a dense covering of evergreen leaves that grow even in the deepest shade. 
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<li>Euonymus: choose from silver-and-green 'Silver Queen' or gold-and-green 'Emerald 'n' Gold' for an easy, evergreen, low-maintenance shrub that sings out from a shady spot. 
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<li>Brunnera: with broad, ground-smothering leaves (in 'Jack Frost' they're silvery-green), it's the flowers which really steal the show, powder-blue and prolific throughout spring. 
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<li>Hardy geraniums: among the easiest plants to grow, geraniums flower profusely in shade: choose pale-coloured varieties like Geranium sanguineum 'Album' to glow in low light. 
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<li>Heucheras: heuchera leaves are every bit as colourful as flowers, from rich plum 'Palace Purple' to 'Amber Waves', the colour of butterscotch. They're evergreen, too.</li>
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Please ask the staff in our %locations%&nbsp;garden centre for more information and advice about choosing plants for shade.

Plants for shade

Flowers and foliage are often the first thing gardeners think about when choosing plants for the garden, but many plants have another explosion of colour that's every bit as spectacular as blossom or elegant leaves. Berries can smother a tree or shrub in a good year, often in late autumn and early winter when there's not much in the way of other colour around.
Visit our garden centre in %locations%&nbsp;in autumn and you'll find dozens of plants in full berry, and it's quite a sight. Here are our top picks for a spectacular autumn display.
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<li>Barberry (Berberis thunbergii) is a really easy to grow shrub that just keeps on giving. Covered in pale straw-coloured flowers in spring, it follows with brilliant red berries and orange foliage in autumn. 
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<li>Cotoneaster come in all shapes and sizes, from horizontalis, with herringbone branches which can be trained against a wall, to serotinus, an arching shrub to 1.5m tall. All are smothered in berries in autumn. 
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<li>Firethorn (Pyracantha) comes with red, orange or yellow berries: plant all three for a firework display of densely-clustered berries in autumn, and train against a wall for a sculptural garden feature. 
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<li>Holly (Ilex aquifolium) only has berries if you plant a male and a female plant: if you haven't room, there's a self-fertile variety called 'JC Van Tol'. 
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<li>Rowans (Sorbus) are small trees whose berries are much loved by birds. Sorbus cashmiriana has pearly white berries, while 'Joseph Rock' fruits buttery yellow. 
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<li>Beauty berry (Callicarpa bodinieri) has perhaps the most extraordinary autumn berries of them all: in an iridescent, jewel-like violet purple there's nothing else quite like them in the plant world. 
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<li>Elder (Sambucus nigra) follows its frothy dinner-plate flowerheads with striking sprays of black berries: pick them as soon as they're ripe and you can make elderberry wine. 
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<li>Species roses are the ones which produce ornamental hips in autumn to follow a riot of summer flowers. The hips of Rosa moyesii are sealing-wax red and waisted, like flagons of wine, while R. spinosissima has fat, spherical black hips.</li>
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Please ask the staff in our %locations%&nbsp;garden centre for more information and advice about plants with good autumn berries.

Autumn berries

No garden should be without a tree: they add height, structure and a feeling of permanence and timelessness. But if you have a small garden in %locations%, it's hard to imagine shoehorning in a tree as well.
Well: that depends on what kind of tree it is. Of course if you plant large trees in small gardens they swamp the space and make it difficult to grow anything else – but there are dozens of smaller trees which never get much more than 7m (25ft) high and behave themselves perfectly.
You'll find a superb selection of smaller trees in our garden centre: to help you choose, here are our top ten favourites.
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<li>Japanese maples are all fabulous choices. Acer griseum has curling cinnamon bark, A.&nbsp; palmatum var. dissectum has filigree leaves that turn scarlet in autumn, and low-growing A. shirasawanum 'Aureum' has broad, graceful leaves in brilliant yellow. 
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<li>Silver birch (Betula utilis var jacquemontii) has pure white bark that shines out in a winter border: grow a multistemmed specimen for maximum impact. 
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<li>Crabapple (Malus x robusta) has the bonus of a heavy crop of edible fruit in autumn for making delicious crabapple jelly. 'Sentinel' is brilliant red, while M. x zumi 'Golden Hornet' has yellow fruit. 
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<li>Star magnolia (Magnolia stellata) is the one to choose if you don't have enough room for the big magnolias: it stays to a compact 1.5m tall and still has big, pure white whirligig flowers in spring. 
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<li>Strawberry tree (Arbutus unedo) gets its name from the fat red fruits it produces in autumn. It's great value, with glossy evergreen foliage and small bell-like white or pink flowers in spring. 
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<li>Rowan (Sorbus aucuparia) is an easy-to-grow small tree about 5m (16ft) tall. It looks good most of the year, with white blossom in spring, good autumn colour and vibrant red berries. 
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<li>Snowy mespilus (Amelanchier lamarckii) is another hard-working tree, with delicate white blossoms arriving at the same time as the coppery young foliage in spring, followed by spectacular autumn colour.</li>
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Please ask the staff in our garden centre for more information and advice about choosing trees for small gardens.

Small garden trees

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.

Clematis 'Ruby Wedding'

Clematis 'Piilu'

Clematis 'The President'

Clematis 'Mrs George Jackman'

Wisteria Arch

Parthenocissus tricuspidata 'Veitchii'

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

Watching a seed germinate and grow is a hugely exciting part of your gardening year: you hardly dare&nbsp;believe it&#39;s going to work, yet invariably that tiny kernel sends up a sturdy green sprout. The plants you raise&nbsp;from seed are always a bit special, so this year try raising something new from the hundreds of varieties from&nbsp;our garden centre.

Annuals: hardy annuals like love-in-a-mist, marigolds and nasturtiums are easiest of all and provide&nbsp;incredibly long seasons of colour from a few seeds scattered direct into the ground in spring.

Half-hardy annuals include all the bedding plants: in our garden centre you&#39;ll find seed to sow under cover&nbsp;in spring for colourful containers all summer long including pelargoniums, petunias, surfinias and nemesia.

Perennials: several perennials are very easy from seed, flowering in their first year and coming back again&nbsp;and again. Try echinacea, rudbeckia, grasses like deschampsia and hardy geraniums from our range.

Vegetable seeds: our largest selection of seeds is reserved for the grow-your-own enthusiast, with every&nbsp;veg from cucumbers to swede. Our heritage ranges boast superb flavour, or for something completely&nbsp;different try exotic veg like tamarilloes.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre&nbsp;for more information and advice about the seeds in our range.

Seeds

Harvesting vegetables from your garden is hugely satisfying, and you&#39;ll revolutionise your tastebuds:&nbsp;food picked just minutes before it&#39;s on your plate has a colour, flavour and crunchiness that have to be&nbsp;experienced to be believed.

We have everything in our garden centre to turn your garden into a haven of productivity: here&#39;s a selection&nbsp;to get you started.

Seeds: most veg are grown from seeds, from tomatoes to carrots and lettuces. Take your pick from the huge&nbsp;range in our garden centre; we&#39;ve also got ready-spaced seed tapes and delicious heritage vegetables for&nbsp;you to try.

Sets and seed potatoes: from early spring we stock seed potatoes, plus onions, shallots and garlic from&nbsp;sets &ndash; easy-to-handle baby bulbs to plant straight into the ground.

Perennial vegetables: great value for money, these include some real delicacies: in our garden centre you&#39;ll&nbsp;find asparagus crowns, able to crop for 20 years, and stately globe artichokes looking as good as they taste.

Please ask the staff at our garden centre for more information and advice about growing vegetables.

Vegetables

Filling your house with the colour and fragrance of fresh flowers cut from the garden is one of the great pleasures of gardening. The trouble is, though, if you take all the flowers from the garden, there's nothing left to look at outside.
The answer is to create yourself a cutting garden – an area of your garden dedicated to raising flowers to enjoy indoors. The whole purpose of such a garden is to be harvested regularly, rather like a vegetable garden, so you don't mind if it's sometimes got a few bare patches.
You'll find all you need to create your cutting garden in our garden centre in %locations%. Here's how to go about it:
<ol>
<li>Find the right spot: you'll need somewhere in full sun, as your plants will only flower to their full potential with plenty of light. Planting densely also demands a lot from your soil, so choose the best-quality patch you've got.</li>
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Get ready: before you start, dig over the area, removing weeds and large stones, and work in plenty of well-rotted farmyard manure. Then put in hedging and edging: you'll find plants for low hedging in our garden centre, and materials to lay a smart path.
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<li>Choose your plants: select 'hardy annual' seeds from the range in our garden centre. Great choices are white, frothy Ammi majus, Cosmos bipinnatus with lovely daisy-like flowers and of course sweetpeas to train up a wigwam in the centre.</li>
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Start sowing: Sow your flowers from March onwards just like vegetables, in straight lines to make picking them easier. Make shallow drills and sprinkle the seed sparingly along the bottom. Cover with a little soil, label and leave.
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<li>Keep the display going: sow little and often so you've got some plants to pick, some coming up to flowering and some just sown. Support taller varieties like larkspur by sticking canes in each corner of the row and threading round string at intervals up the height of the plants.</li>
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Please ask the staff in our %locations%&nbsp;garden centre for more information and advice about planting an annual cutting garden.

Annual cutting gardens

Dahlias are among the loveliest of late-summer bulbs, flowering their socks off for weeks on end (especially if you dead-head them regularly to keep the blooms coming).
You can choose a dahlia to suit your garden whatever your style: spidery cactus varieties like 'Black Narcissus' for an exotic look, or pretty pompom 'David Howard' for a classic herbaceous border. Single-flowered dahlias suit natural planting styles: in our garden centre in %locations%&nbsp;you'll find delicate pure white 'Twynings After Eight' and what are popularly known as 'The Bishops' – 'Bishop of Llandaff' in scarlet, yellow 'Bishop of York' or lilac 'Bishop of Leicester'.
All, however, are frost-tender, so need special care over winter.
In a well-drained soil in a warmer area of the country, you may be able to leave your dahlias in the ground: insure against hard frosts by covering the ground around the plant with a mulch up to 15cm thick of dry autumn leaves or coarse bark chips. Hold it in place with a double layer of fleece, pegged down to stop it blowing away. In spring remove the mulch to allow the plant to shoot up again.
If you're reluctant to risk losing your tubers in a hard winter, though, lift and store them in autumn under cover. Here's how:
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<li>Once the foliage has been blackened by frost, dig up the tubers and let them dry for a day or so. Then brush off excess soil and trim back the stems to about 15cm above the roots. 
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<li>Line a shallow tray with newspaper and place your tubers on top with the stalks uppermost. Pack loosely with dry compost or sand, so the tubers are just covered. 
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<li>Store somewhere dry, cool and frost-free: a garden shed won't be reliably frost-free unless it's heated, so cover your dahlias with sheets of newspaper if a frost is forecast. 
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<li>Inspect your tubers regularly through the winter and get rid of any showing signs of rotting or disease, as otherwise it'll spread quickly to other healthy tubers in storage.</li>
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Please ask the staff in our %locations%&nbsp;garden centre for more information and advice about storing dahlias over winter.

Getting dahlias through winter

Rudbeckia 'Goldstrum'

Echinacea 'White Swan'

Aquiligea chrysantha

Helleborus orientalis

Hesperantha coccinea 'Jennifer'

Iris germanica 'Kent Pride'

Eryngium tricuspidatum

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 <a href="https://www.derwenwholesale.co.uk/topiary">https://www.derwenwholesale.co.uk/topiary</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.

Most plants will grow quite happily in containers and you can make just as fabulous a display using plants in&nbsp;containers as you can in the garden - great news if you&#39;re short on outdoor space. In our garden centre in %locations%&nbsp;you&#39;ll&nbsp;find a container for every plant: just match your plants to the pot that suits it best for instant success.

Pots come in a huge range of styles and materials from ceramic to terracotta, stainless steel and stone. Let&nbsp;your imagination run riot creating mixed displays of perennials and shrubs in larger pots for instant impact.

Troughs and grow spaces work brilliantly for growing vegetables on the patio. Place troughs against a wall&nbsp;to grow climbing beans, or divide a grow space as small as 1m x 1m into squares for planting a surprisingly&nbsp;wide variety of fruit and veg.

Hanging baskets brighten up the dingiest of entrance ways with brilliant scarlet pelargoniums or, for&nbsp;something different, tumbling tomatoes or chillies. In our garden centre you&#39;ll find not only the baskets but&nbsp;also liners and water-retaining gel to mix into the compost to hold on to moisture for longer.

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Containers

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

When space is really limited, gardening needs ingenuity. With a few clever tricks and some innovative gadgets, though, you can turn even a balcony into a productive garden overflowing with fruit, vegetables and herbs.
You'll find plenty of useful gear to help you build your balcony garden in our %locations%&nbsp;garden centre, from planters to dwarf apple trees specially bred to grow in restricted spaces. Here are our top tips for balcony success.
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<li>Use large planters wherever possible, so they act more like raised beds than containers and give your veg a longer root run. Generally, the larger the container you give your veg, the happier they'll be: if your balcony is high-rise, though, get a structural engineer in first to check it can take the weight of containers full of damp compost and plants. 
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<li>Use successional sowing to keep your pots working hard all year. As soon as you harvest a crop, re-sow the container or replant with vegetable plug plants for a really quick replacement. That way you'll always have new crops growing up as you eat your way through the ones you sowed earlier. 
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<li>Grow container veg varieties which are better suited to growing with their roots restricted. Good choices are Courgette 'Patio Star', Aubergine 'Ophelia', Broad Bean 'The Sutton' and Pea 'Bingo' – all grow small but have bumper crops for their size. 
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<li>Don't forget the fruit as there are plenty of long-cropping varieties which grow quite happily in containers including gooseberries, blueberries and blackcurrants. Strawberries do better in pots, as they're off the ground away from slugs; and you can even grow 'Minarette' apple and pear trees, trained on a single stem. 
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<li>Take care over feeding and watering as your plants depend entirely on you for their every need. Automatic watering systems share the load: you'll find timers, hoses and dripper systems in our garden centre. Add a weekly liquid feed when you water: liquid seaweed acts as a general-purpose tonic, but when plants are flowering a high-potash tomato feed encourages plenty of fruit.</li>
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Please ask the staff in our garden centre in %locations%&nbsp;for more information and advice about growing fruit and vegetables on a balcony.

Growing fruit and veg on balconies

Hanging baskets make a bright splash of colour against a wall or fence, filled with brilliant scarlet pelargoniums or tumbling begonias. But don't just stick to bedding plants this year: try planting baskets which are productive as well as beautiful.
Edible hanging baskets are a great way to squeeze a little more produce out of your garden. Several types of fruit and veg do better raised off the ground: strawberries, for example, are kept well away from slugs, so you get to pick your crop unmunched and perfect.
Mix several different types of edible in the same basket to create a vibrant display of contrasting foliage and fruits: you can even create an 'instant dish' by planting complementary veg together, like tomato and basil for all the ingredients you need to make a flavoursome Mediterranean sauce.
You'll find everything you need to create an edible hanging basket in our garden centre in %locations%, from the baskets themselves to liners, compost, water-retaining gel to cut down on the watering workload, and of course plants and seeds. Here are some great varieties to try growing up in the air this year:
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<li>Tumbling tomatoes cascade fetchingly in jewels of red and yellow. Choose a container variety like 'Gartenperle' or 'Hundreds and Thousands'. Keep well-watered and feed with liquid fertiliser once a week.</li>
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Chillies are Mexican firecrackers which love a hot, dry spot and don't mind restricted roots. Try multicoloured 'Numex Twilight' or tumbling 'Basket of Fire'.
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<li>Peas: mangetout peas ('Shiraz' is a purple-podded variety) and dwarf types like 'Bingo' or 'Little Marvel' do exceptionally well in hanging baskets and don't need any support. Choose a larger basket and water well.</li>
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Strawberries: fill a hanging basket with two or three strawberry plants and they'll froth joyously over the edge. Prolific varieties include 'Cambridge Favourite' or intensely-flavoured alpine 'Mara des Bois'.
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<li>Herbs: Mediterranean herbs love conditions in hanging baskets. Hang your basket right by the back door for easy picking. Herbs that do well in hanging baskets include thyme, marjoram, basil and summer savory.</li>
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Please ask the staff in our %locations%&nbsp;garden centre for more information and advice about creating edible hanging baskets.

Edible hanging baskets

Few plants are as easy-going as herbs. You can pop them in any spare corner and they'll settle in without fuss. Many of the herbs you'll find in our %locations%&nbsp;garden centre are evergreen, too, so they'll perform all year without demanding much in return.
But to encourage your herbs to produce plenty of fresh growth for you to pick, it's worth paying them a little extra attention. Follow our top tips to enjoy heavenly herbs all year round.
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<li>Improve drainage: shrubby herbs like rosemary, sage and thyme hail from the poor, stony soils of the Mediterranean – and that's what they'll enjoy in your garden. If your soil is slow-draining clay, dig in bagged grit, available from our garden centre, before planting. 
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<li>Sun or shade? Most herbs like to bake and prefer a spot in full sun, but there are exceptions. Parsley bolts if it's too hot, and chervil too prefers shade. Other herbs for shady spots include lemon balm, sorrel and sweet woodruff. 
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<li>Sow annual herbs little and often: coriander, dill and chervil are quick-growing, leafy herbs, ready within a couple of months of sowing. Make sure you don't run out by sowing a new batch every month, ready to take over once your first harvest is finished. 
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<li>Give flowering herbs a haircut: mint, marjoram and thyme flower profusely in early summer, and bees adore the blossoms. After the flowers are over, though, trim back the plants by about a quarter to encourage a new flush of leafy growth. 
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<li>Repot mint every year: always grow mint in containers, as it's incredibly invasive (sink the pot among your other herbs for a more natural look). To keep it healthy, knock the plant out of the pot each spring, divide and replant in fresh compost. 
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<li>Bring in frost-tender herbs: lemongrass, French tarragon and stevia don't tolerate temperatures below zero, so each year before the first frost dig them up and pot up in compost with added grit for drainage.&nbsp; Overwinter in a frost-free greenhouse or on a windowsill till late spring.</li>
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Please ask the staff in our garden centre in %locations%&nbsp;for more information and advice about growing herbs.

Keeping herbs happy

You may be short of outdoor space, but that doesn't mean you have to do without home-grown vegetables. There are lots of veg which do brilliantly in containers, whether windowboxes, grow bags, pretty terracotta pots or just tin cans nailed to a fence.
Growing in containers has many advantages: perfect soil, easy planting and your crops are kept well out of reach of slugs. These days, there are lots of innovative new ideas around to help you get started: look out for wall-hung vertical planters, automatic watering systems and even special varieties of veg bred for growing in pots, all available from your favourite garden centre in %locations%.
There's a huge range of veg you can try in containers, from herbs and salad leaves to tomatoes, chard, beetroot and even climbing French beans trained up against a wall. Just follow our five golden rules for a summer of plenty from your patio.
1.Use the largest containers you can 
The more room veg roots have, the happier they'll be (you can pack more veg in to larger pots, too!) So always buy the biggest containers you have room for.
2.Water, water, water 
Plants in pots are completely reliant on you for water supplies. Water container-grown veg every day – twice a day in hot spells.
3.Feed, feed, feed 
After the first six to eight weeks compost runs out of nutrients, so add weekly liquid feeds to your watering routine.
4.Re-sow fast-growing crops every month 
Keep picking continuously by sowing new containers of fast-growing salads, herbs, and quick crops like beetroot and turnips once a month.
5.Choose the right varieties 
Look for the words 'container veg' or 'patio veg' on seed packets: special varieties like Courgette 'Patio Star' and Aubergine 'Ophelia' will crop brilliantly in pots.&nbsp;
Please ask the staff in our %locations%&nbsp;garden centre for more information and advice about a container vegetable garden.

A container vegetable garden

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

Superb plants of all description. 
 
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