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Camassia ‘Esculenta Quamash’ is a wonderfully graceful bulb for late spring, sending up refined spires of star-shaped violet-blue flowers above fresh, strap-like green foliage. It lends an effortless, natural air to meadow-style planting, relaxed borders, and lightly wild corners—particularly lovely woven through ornamental grasses and other naturalising favourites.

Dependable, fully hardy, and easy to grow, it settles in quickly and returns year after year, forming neat clumps that look increasingly assured with each season.

Why you’ll love it

• Starry violet-blue blooms held on elegant, upright stems
• Ideal for naturalising, informal drifts, and airy border planting
• Pollinator friendly, with flowers that are welcome in spring gardens
• Excellent structure for cutting gardens, with a poised, long-stemmed look

Planting notes

Plant in autumn for spring flowering. Choose a position in full sun or partial sun, in moist but well-drained loam. For a relaxed, meadow-like effect, plant in generous groups and allow the clumps to build over time.

Arum italicum is a quietly striking woodland perennial, treasured as much for its foliage as for its flowers. In autumn and winter it unfurls handsome, silver-marbled leaves that lend a refined, architectural note to shaded corners. Come April, curious greenish spathes appear, followed by bright red berries that bring a welcome dash of colour to naturalistic planting.

Superb beneath shrubs and between perennials, Italian arum settles in gracefully and looks particularly composed when allowed to weave through a lightly shaded border or woodland edge.

• Best for: woodland planting, underplanting and softly shaded borders
• Interest: marbled foliage, spring spathes, red berries
• Style: naturalising, understated, architectural

Ranunculus ‘Elegance Pastello Mix’ is a beautifully judged pastel blend from the refined Italian Elegance® series. Expect generous, exquisitely double blooms in softly contrasting tones—ideal for bringing a calm, romantic note to spring pots, borders, and the cutting garden.

Best grown in a sheltered position with moist but well-drained soil, these corms reward a little care with armfuls of handsome flowers from early to late spring.

• Colour: pastel mix (Multi-Color)
• Flowering: March–June
• Height: 25–40cm
• Perfect for: pots & containers, borders, cut flower garden

Tulipa 'Exotic Emperor' is a beautifully refined Fosteriana tulip, prized for its softly sumptuous, semi-double blooms. Creamy petals are warmed with a gentle yellow flush and elegantly brushed with green, creating a poised, painterly effect that sits just as handsomely in a smart pot as it does threaded through spring borders.

With sturdy, upright stems to around 45cm and grey-green foliage, it’s a dependable choice for early-season colour and a particularly graceful cut flower for the house.

• Flower style: Semi-double, creamy-yellow with subtle green streaking
• Where it excels: Borders, containers and spring cutting
• Type: Fully hardy, perennial bulb
• Easy to grow: An unfussy favourite for beginners and experienced gardeners alike

Tulipa 'Darwin Hybrid Mix' is a dependable, beautifully balanced blend of classic Darwin Hybrid tulips, chosen for generous goblet-shaped blooms in a bright medley of spring tones. Planted in sweeping drifts, it brings a confident, well-composed look to borders and beds; tucked into pots, it creates an instant, polished display by the doorstep.

With sturdy, upright stems and mid-green foliage, this mix performs reliably and makes a handsome cut flower too—ideal for those who like their spring arrangements to look effortlessly considered.

Tulipa ‘Blue Parrot’ is a wonderfully theatrical parrot tulip, prized for its richly violet-purple colouring and extravagantly ruffled, feathered petals. In late spring it brings a confident, couture flourish to borders and generous pots, and it cuts beautifully for opulent, characterful arrangements.

Plant in autumn and give it a sheltered position for the finest stems and blooms. A simple way to add drama to classic spring planting schemes—especially alongside soft creams, inky purples, or fresh spring greens.

Why you’ll love it

• Striking parrot-form flowers with ruffled, fringed detail
• Rich violet-purple tones for a sophisticated spring palette
• Ideal for borders, containers, and cutting
• Fully hardy and refreshingly easy to grow

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Narcissus 'Campernellen Double' is an old-fashioned delight: richly layered, double blooms in bright, buttercup yellow, carried on sturdy stems for a polished spring display. Ideal for weaving through borders, dressing pots by the door, or naturalising in grass for a relaxed, meadow-like look—this is a daffodil with real charm and presence.

Flowering in April, it sits beautifully with early tulips, muscari and primroses, and returns year after year once settled.

• Flower form: Double
• Colour: Yellow
• Best for: Borders, containers, naturalising
• Hardiness: Fully hardy
• Pollinator friendly: Yes
• Deer resistant: Yes

Allium caeruleum azureum is a most refined choice for late spring into early summer, sending up slim, upright stems topped with perfectly rounded, sapphire-blue flower heads. Each globe is composed of neat, starry florets—wonderfully crisp in modern gravel schemes, yet equally at home threaded through a softly planted border.

Particularly useful where winter soils can sit wet: plant in pots or raised pockets of free-draining compost and let the colour float above emerging perennials. A quietly architectural allium, and a fine companion for roses and shrubs where its cool blue reads as an elegant foil.

• Colour with poise: vivid blue globes for a clean, contemporary lift
• Border and container friendly: excellent in pots where heavy ground can be troublesome
• Wildlife-wise planting: pollinator friendly, with deer resistance

Camassia leichtlinii 'Alba Plena' brings a calm, creamy-white elegance to the garden just as spring begins to hand over to summer. Upright spires of starry, semi-double blooms rise neatly above fresh green foliage, lending height and lightness without ever feeling showy.

Particularly handsome threaded through meadow-style grass or allowed to drift through the back of a border, this is a refined choice for naturalising—returning with increasing presence over time. The stems also cut beautifully for simple, architectural arrangements.

• Flower colour: Creamy white
• Flowering period: May–June
• Height: 80–100cm
• Spread: 20–30cm
• Bulb size supplied: 12/+ cm
• Position: Borders, meadow-style grass, naturalised drifts
• Pollinator friendly: Yes

Tulipa ‘White Parrot’ is an exquisitely theatrical tulip, opening in crisp white with beautifully feathered, sculptural petals. The form has a natural sense of movement—refined yet delightfully characterful—bringing a luminous, contemporary finish to spring pots and borders.

Plant in generous drifts for a clean, gallery-like effect, or tuck through darker partners to let the white sing. The long stems also make a most elegant cut flower, particularly when the blooms are gathered just as they begin to unfurl.

• Colour: White
• Flowering: April–May
• Height: 45–55cm
• Bulb size: 11/12
• Perfect for: pots, borders and cutting

Leucojum aestivum 'Gravetye Giant' is a beautifully mannered naturaliser, particularly at home where the soil stays reliably moist. From glossy, strap-like foliage rise tall stems carrying nodding white bells, each one finished with a precise green tip—quietly distinctive, and wonderfully elegant in spring.

Use it to stitch refinement through grass, drift it along woodland margins, or place it beside water where the ground never fully dries. Left undisturbed, it settles into generous clumps over time and returns with pleasing regularity.

• Flower: White bells with green tips
• Best for: Naturalising in grass, woodland edge, damp borders and waterside planting
• Character: Clump-forming, perennial, fully hardy

Ranunculus asiaticus ‘Elegance Bianco Striato’ brings a clean, tailored note to the spring garden: crisp white blooms neatly striped for a softly decorative, almost porcelain finish. Part of the refined Elegance Series, it sits beautifully in pots by the door, edges a border with quiet charm, and is a particularly smart choice for cutting.

Expect a compact, clump-forming habit with mid-green foliage and bowl-shaped flowers held at a pleasing height—ideal for mixing through cottage-style planting, or for a more formal palette of whites and creams.

• Colour: White with striped markings
• Flower form: Bowl-shaped
• Height: 30–40cm
• Spread: 15–20cm
• Position: Sheltered
• Best for: Borders, Containers, Cutting Garden

Tulipa 'Picking Garden Mix Deluxe' is a refined, deluxe mixture designed for the simple pleasure of a well-stocked cutting patch. Expect a lively, mixed palette through mid to late spring, with sturdy stems that move effortlessly from garden to vase—handsome in borders, and equally poised in pots.

Plant in autumn and let the bulbs settle quietly through winter. Come April and May, you’ll have a ready-made ‘pick-your-own’ moment: generous, bright, and wonderfully easy to live with.

• Flowers: April–May
• Height: 40–60cm
• Style: Mixed colours with classic cup-shaped blooms
• Best for: Cutting gardens, borders and containers

Camassia leichtlinii 'Silk River' is a quietly striking camas, sending up poised spires of creamy-white, star-shaped flowers that unfurl from fresh lime-green buds in late spring and early summer. The effect is light, elegant and effortlessly natural—particularly when allowed to drift through grass, at the woodland edge, or threaded between perennials.

It’s a refined choice for gardeners who favour a softer, more meadow-like finish, yet it holds its own in a well-dressed border. Plant in groups for a calm, architectural rhythm, and enjoy stems that also lend themselves beautifully to a simple vase indoors.

• Flower colour: Creamy white with lime-green buds
• Flowering: May–June
• Height: 80cm
• Bulb size: 12/14cm
• Position: Borders, naturalised grass, woodland edge

Fritillaria persica 'Adiyaman' is a wonderfully architectural spring bulb, sending up poised, upright stems lined with slender green foliage and finished with a refined spire of nodding, bell-shaped blooms. The colouring sits in the deepest purple-brown, reading almost black in certain light—quietly dramatic, and effortlessly sophisticated.

Plant through autumn for a statement in mixed borders, gravelly schemes, and naturalistic planting where its vertical form brings a sense of intention. Equally handsome in large containers in a sheltered courtyard position, where the flowers can be admired up close.

• Colour: Deep purple (near-black)
• Flower shape: Bell-shaped, nodding
• Height: 50–100cm
• Ideal for: Borders, containers, courtyard gardens, naturalising

Fritillaria 'Garland Star Imperialis' brings a note of theatre to the spring border: tall, architectural stems crowned with elegantly pendulous, bell-shaped flowers. It is a wonderfully naturalistic choice for planting in drifts through borders and light woodland edges, where its stately form reads beautifully amongst tulips, early perennials and fresh spring foliage.

• Refined spring structure with distinctive, hanging bells for an assured, botanical look
• Excellent for naturalising in a sheltered position with reliable drainage
• Deer resistant and pollinator friendly for considered, wildlife-aware planting
• Superb in borders and useful for cutting when you want something a little out of the ordinary

Delivery: Order today for delivery in September, perfectly timed for autumn planting.

Fritillaria imperialis 'Orange Beauty' is a crown imperial of real presence: tiers of rich orange, bell-shaped flowers held beneath a jaunty tuft of glossy green foliage. It brings a composed, architectural note to spring borders and looks particularly handsome threaded through naturalistic planting where its strong vertical line can be appreciated.

Plant in autumn while the soil is still workable, choosing a sunny, well-drained spot. With a little patience as the bulbs settle, it will reward you with a reliably distinctive spring display.

• Colour: Orange with yellow accents
• Flower form: Bell-shaped
• Position: Borders, beds, rock gardens; also excellent in containers
• Habit: Clump-forming, upright
• Pollinator friendly: Yes
• Deer resistant: Yes

Iris reticulata is one of those small, early pleasures that makes late winter feel positively promising. This mixed selection offers jewel-like flowers in rich blues, violets and purples—each bloom a neat, refined accent above slender green foliage.

Ideal for tucking into the front of borders, threading through gravel gardens, or planting in generous drifts to naturalise in a sheltered, well-drained spot. It is equally handsome in pots and troughs by the door, where you can enjoy the detail at close quarters as the season turns.

• Colour palette: blue, violet and purple tones (mixed)
• Flowering: February–March
• Height: 25cm
• Perfect for: pots & containers, naturalising

Iris reticulata ‘Harmony’ is a small treasure for the earliest weeks of spring, bringing jewel-toned blooms when the garden is still politely waking up. Neat, clump-forming and wonderfully well-suited to close viewing, it is particularly handsome threaded through gravel, tucked into alpine pockets, or arranged in pots by the door for a refined seasonal welcome.

Plant in autumn and allow these diminutive bulbs to settle in; come late winter into early spring, ‘Harmony’ rewards with crisp violet-blue flowers, lifted and brightened by yellow and white accents. The effect is quietly dramatic, yet entirely elegant—especially when planted in generous drifts.

• Colour: Violet-blue with yellow and white accents
• Flowering: February–April
• Height: 10–15cm
• Ideal for: Pots & containers, rock gardens & alpines, naturalising, front of borders
• Helpful features: Pollinator friendly, deer resistant

Tulipa 'Double Mixed' is a late-season blend of sumptuous, peony-like double tulips, selected for an elegant spread of colour—soft pastels alongside brighter notes for a naturally varied planting. With sturdy stems and generously filled blooms, it lends itself beautifully to smart pots by the door, neat drifts at the front of the border, and a few stems brought indoors for spring arrangements.

Plant in autumn and allow the bulbs a well-drained position; come April and May, this mixed selection delivers a richly layered finish to the tulip season.

Why you’ll love it

• Double, peony-style flowers for a refined, full-bodied look
• Late tulip season interest, flowering April–May
• Excellent in containers and equally poised in borders
• Cut-flower worthy stems for the vase

Crocus chrysanthus 'Blue Bird' is a quietly exquisite early-spring crocus: pristine white, goblet-shaped flowers with confident violet streaking to the outer petals, finished with a neat yellow eye. It slips beautifully through lawns and gravel, and is just as poised at the very front of a border or in small pots by the door.

Compact and clump-forming, it returns year after year and is especially charming when planted generously for a natural, painterly effect.

• Flower colour: White with pale purple and yellow accents
• Form: Goblet
• Best for: Lawns & naturalising, rockeries & gravel, borders & beds, pots & containers
• Pollinator friendly: Yes
• Growing skill: Easy

Tulipa 'Fosteriana Mix' brings a composed, early-spring flourish to beds, borders and containers. Chosen for bold colour in a curated blend, this Fosteriana selection stands well on strong stems and settles naturally into generous drifts—equally at home in a formal scheme or a more relaxed planting.

Plant in autumn and look forward to a confident show from March to May. The cup-shaped blooms are also a fine choice for cutting, lending fresh, clean lines to spring arrangements.

• Bulb size: 11/12
• Height: 40–60cm
• Spread: 10–15cm
• Position: Borders, pots and containers
• Aspect: Full sun or partial sun
• Soil: Moist but well-drained
• Hardiness: Fully Hardy

Paeonia 'Red Sarah Bernhardt' is a handsome, traditional peony with indulgently full, double blooms in rich deep pink-red tones. It brings a wonderfully composed grandeur to the border, with lush mid-green foliage and a generous, clump-forming habit that looks elegant from spring onwards.

Planted in autumn as a bare root, this perennial settles in quietly and rewards patience—taking a couple of seasons to reach its best. In May through July, the flowers are superb for cutting: generous, romantic heads that sit beautifully in a vase and lend a classic note to arrangements.

• Ideal for: borders and the cutting garden
• Flowering: May–July
• Height: 80–100cm (with a spread of 60–90cm)
• Position: sheltered; full sun or partial sun
• Soil: moist but well-drained loam; any pH
• Hardiness: fully hardy

Anemone blanda 'Blue Shades' is a quietly enchanting little anemone, sending up clear violet-blue, daisy-like flowers just above neat, dark green foliage in early spring. Low-growing and beautifully natural in character, it is particularly lovely in informal drifts beneath deciduous shrubs, along woodland margins, or nestled into pots by the front door where the first colour of the year is most appreciated.

Plant the corms in autumn into humus-rich, well-drained soil and allow them to settle in; in their first season they establish quickly and then return each spring with increasing charm. An excellent choice for underplanting and gentle, pollinator-friendly planting schemes.

• Colour: Violet-blue
• Flowering: March–April
• Height: 15cm
• Planting time: September–December
• Where to plant: Borders, woodland margins, under deciduous shrubs, containers

Tulipa 'Kaufmanniana Mixed' brings a beautifully composed blend of early, waterlily-style tulips—each bulb selected to deliver crisp spring colour with an elegant, natural air. Compact and refined, this mix is especially well-suited to pots by the door, the front of borders, and informal drifts where you’d like a cheerful flourish without any fuss.

Expect a pleasing variety of tones across the planting, with each flower held neatly above fresh green foliage. Plant in autumn and enjoy a polished display from early spring, returning reliably year after year in the right conditions.

• Ideal for: pots & containers, borders
• Style note: a varied, curated mix for a softly natural look
• Flowering: March–April
• Bulb size: 10/11