Mother's Day Gifts All Wrapped Up - With Love

Camellia With Love
With Mother’s Day just around the corner Camellia With Love is an attractive gift, early flowering and sun hardy. With Love’s slender upright growth habit, it makes a great choice for containers and narrow planting areas as a screen, espalier or hedge. With Love flowers for months and will perform well in full sun or semi shade and would prune well to most topiary shapes. At an established height of 2-3m, it would make a statement in Mum's garden.

Mother and Baby Echidnas
Sweet garden art and water bowls just in time for Mother’s Day! Get in quick as they won’t last long.

This is an interesting alternative to the classic peace lily with its exciting white variegation, and a lovely combination with this white footed pot. Peace lilies are a great indicator or reminder plant to determine when to water all your indoors since its leaves droop when it needs water. Place in a bright spot indoors away from direct sun. The plant will variegate more in brighter positions sometimes having completely white areas on the leaf instead of little white streaks. 

Big Beautiful Bromeliads
Bromeliad 'philippo-coburgii' has a stunning large pink/red/yellow flower bracts growing over a metre tall on top of graceful lime green foliage. Bromeliads like spare watering (particularly through the cooler months) and a bright spot indoors out of direct sunlight.
A beautiful easy-care bromeliad, they are sure to make a stunning statement piece.

A popular, evergreen climber with large, glossy, green leaves. Masses of sweetly-scented, white flowers are produced in summer.

Jasmine sambac flowers have been used to flavour tea for many centuries by the Chinese. Jasmine tea is most commonly consumed with or after meals as a digestive aid. Some people like to drink it after rich or fatty meals to help cleanse the blood. Others use it to cleanse/ freshen their breath after eating strong tasting foods, but it is a nice all round tea. The flowers are also edible and have a sweet taste.

If you’d like to try making a nice relaxing and rejuvenating tea fill ¼ of a cup with fresh leaves and flowers from your garden and add to one cup of boiling water. Let it stand for 5 minutes then strain off the plant materials. Drink warm or cold if you prefer.

Jasmine sambac requires a warm frost free location and a light pruning after flowering will enchance the plant shape. Full sun to part shade.

New-Season Veg Seeds

Seeds for Autumn and Winter planting are in store now! Leafy greens, root vegetables, brassicas and peas are perfect to sow into pots to get started on a sunny windowsill, or direct into the garden (though cold nights now mean you may need an old 2L soft drink bottle as a diy 'seed greenhouse')