Tropaeolum tricolor

Now is the best time to buy these - before they start to grow and get tangled up and are impossible to separate.


Like a shoal of tropical fish swimming among the pond weed...
A delicately built herbaceous climber, and definitely one for the greenhouse as it grows and flowers through the winter. The tubers need a dry rest in the summer.

It needs almost no heat though - just frost free is enough, and given that it's as easy as anything.
Sold out this year - sorry

Ugni molinae PAB 1347

Previously identified as U.candollei - this taller more open form is perhaps less hardy but more elegant. Provide shelter and/or grow among other shrubs. Very choice. Thanks to Gary Firth for this.

£15

Commelina dianthifolia

A very pretty little plant, making a succession of intense gentian-blue flowers in early summer. Easy in a sunny spot and well drained soil. Quite hardy but mulch it just to be on the safe side.
10cm pots ~ £5