After the long dark winter months, the arrival of spring is a welcome time in the garden, with many bulbs, trees and shrubs bursting into life, bringing a welcome spash of colour.
Make the most of the autumn-planting season so you can settle into winter, safe in the knowledge that your borders and pots are brimming with bulbs, ready to fill your garden with glorious colour next spring.
These hardy and robust blooms offer a stunning display throughout the colder months, with a crescendo of rich orange marking the beginning of spring. Best of all, they’re wonderfully versatile, making them perfect for filling baskets and planters, or edging beds and borders.
This compact forsythia will bring sunshine to your garden in spring, when its bare stems become smothered with an explosion of vibrant butter-yellow blooms that release a subtle fragrance.
Filling your garden with a vibrant celebration of colour, this collection of spring- and summer-flowering bulbs combines traditional favourites and not-so-common varieties to bring a long season of interest to borders and containers.
Bring a burst of colour and fragrance to your garden next year with our easy-to-grow rose collection. These expertly bred roses are a joy to grow and will reward you with exquisite double blooms from late spring right through to autumn – and that means you get up to six months of continuous flowering!
Cercidiphyllum japonicum is known as the Katsura tree or toffee apple tree due to the scent of its autumn leaves. In spring, leaves are flushed pink, then turn green in summer, before changing to shades of yellow, purple, and red in autumn, releasing a sweet, toffee-like fragrance as they fall.
Unlike many of the usual winter-flowering plants, Camellia 'Yuletide' will flower through Christmas and into early spring, with brilliantly coloured, red blooms, each with a glowing cluster of golden yellow stamens at the centre - really eye-catching and very distinctive.
Also known as Heavenly or Sacred Bamboo, Nandina will bring a bright flash of dazzling colour to your borders or patio pots, making it invaluable in winter when there's little colour around.
As feisty as a Spanish dancer the flowers on these double primula frill, twist and flare like the beautiful dresses from whence they get their name. They will certainly make a statement when they burst open to celebrate the arrival of Spring.
If you’re after something truly special, Acer ’Taylor’ is an absolute showstopper. This compact Japanese Maple has been bred to impress, and it does just that, with colour-changing leaves across the seasons.
This variety bursts open from narrow, dark grey-green stems, and are known as one of the most wonderful sights in the winter months. They love dappled shade under trees and look even better when planted in drifts through grass, where they will naturalise easily and return in a denser spread the following year.