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Half Hardy and Summer Patio

Bring a taste of the exotic to your garden with half-hardy plants. If you can provide some winter protection it is amazing how many more interesting and plants you can grow, to the envy of your friends and family. You can grow these plants in pots and enjoy them in the garden between June and September when there is no risk of frost (UK). All they need is a greenhouse, porch or conservatory over winter kept above freezing.

Many plants will relish a spell outdoors, the local birds can get at any pests, and the sun and wind helps to strengthen the plants. September is a good time to start thinking about bringing plants undercover, as the nights will be rapidly getting longer and colder, and excess moisture can build up. Some plants will be happy tucked up against the house wall, with a bit of fleece to hand for very cold nights. 

We only show you the plants we hope to have for sale in 2024, if not available now they will progressively become so through the spring.

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Hardenbergia violacea
£6.00
£7.50
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Native Sarsaparilla, Coral Pea

Climber with dainty purple pea-like flowers from late winter-early summer. Hardy in frost free areas otherwise grow in a heated conservatory.

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Haworthia cymbiformis
Haworthia cymbiformis
£5.20
£6.50
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Cathedral Window Haworthia

A neat speices forming clusters of fresh green rosettes of very fleshy translucent leaves. From South Africa.

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Impatiens sodenii ssp. sodenii v. ugandense
Impatiens sodenii ssp. sodenii v. ugandense
£5.20
£6.50
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Shrub Balsam

Strong-growing plant with succulent red stems, fresh green leaves and white 'Busy Lizzie' flowers

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Impatiens walleriana
Impatiens walleriana
£5.20
£6.50
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Busy Lizzie

The original old fashioned houseplant, a tender perennial with fleshy stems, making an upright or sprawling plant. Large bright pink flowers over a long period. Can be bedded out in the summer, indoors it makes a nice house plant.

Ipomoea batatas 'Sweet Caroline Purple'
£4.00
£6.50
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Sweet Potato

Trailing foliage plant with striking black leaves. Can be used in summer hanging baskets or grown as a houseplant but does die back in winter. 3 plug plants

Jasminum angulare
£5.20
£6.50
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Jasmine

Tender evergreen climber from South Africa with very sweetly scented white flowers from summer to autumn. This is not hardy although it can happily be grown in a pot and put outsside for the summer.

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Justicia carnea
Justicia carnea
£5.20
£6.50
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Brazilian Plume Flower

Tender shrub of open habit with green leaves and spectacular, large plumes of bright pink tubular flowers from mid summer-autumn.

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Kalanchoe marmorata
Kalanchoe marmorata
£5.20
£6.50
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Kalanchoe pinnata
£5.20
£6.50
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Cathedral Bells, Life Plant, Miracle Leaf

Capable of making a tall plant, with the ability to produce baby plants along the edges. Clusters of large pink pendant flowers Keep frost free and out of direct sun under glass.

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Lampranthus  'Purple'
Lampranthus 'Purple'
£5.20
£6.50
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Spreading succulent with grey-green leaves and bright mauve dasies from late spring-summer. Grow in loam based compost with added grit in full sun. Should take a touch of frost but won't like winter wet.

Lobelia tupa
Lobelia tupa
£6.50
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Large perennial with greyish felty leaves and spikes of tubular brick red flowers on red stems from mid-late summer. Hardy in a sheltered site, in moisture retentive soil and a winter mulch.

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Lophospermum  'White'
Lophospermum 'White'
£5.20
£6.50
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A frost-tender climber or trailing plant with lovely white , trumpet-shaped flowers in summer. Can be used in hanging baskets or trained up a short obelisk

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Lophospermum  'Wine Red'
Lophospermum 'Wine Red'
£5.20
£6.50
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Creeping Gloxinia

A frost-tender climber or trailing plant with lovely deep wine-red, trumpet-shaped flowers in summer. Can be used in hanging baskets or trained up a short obelisk

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Lycianthes (Solanum) rantonnetii 'Album'
Lycianthes (Solanum) rantonnetii 'Album'
£5.20
£6.50
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The rare white form of S. rantonettii. Makes an arching shrub, needing support against a wall, for a cool conservatory or sheltered city garden. Long flowering. Can be pruned hard in spring.

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Maurandya barclayana
Maurandya barclayana
£5.20
£6.50
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A dainty tender climber with a twining habit and a plentiful supply of purple snapdragon like flowers all summer. Will also trail, so ideal for baskets is sun to part shade

Mimulus aurantiacus
£5.20
£6.50
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Orange Bush Monkey Flower

Half-hardy shrub sporting masses of beautiful large orange flowers all summer. For sun and well drained soil and is ideal in a container.

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Muehlenbeckia astonii
Muehlenbeckia astonii
£5.20
£6.50
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Wiggy-Wig Bush, Zig-Zag Bush

A shrub from New Zealand with distinctive wiry zig-zag stems and small semi-evergreen leaves. Hardy to minus 5 in well-drained soil. Can be trimmed into curious shapes if desired

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Osteospermum   'Nairobi Purple'
Osteospermum 'Nairobi Purple'
£5.20
£6.50
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(Tresco Purple.) Borderline hardy, this should survive in sheltered gardens in free-draining soil, otherwise it can be grown in pots, or bedded out for the summer. Vivid purple flowers appear continuously from summer to autumn, and are great for Bees

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