by Thompson & Morgan | Jan 19, 2024 | Competitions, Gardening Posts
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Win The Ultimate Bird Feeding Bundle Worth Over £80!
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The Prize
We’ve teamed up with our friends at Happy Beaks to offer the ultimate bird feeding bundle worth over £80. The prize includes:
The winner will be contacted via email from blog@thompson-morgan.com just after the closing date. Whether you’re taking part in this year’s Big Garden Birdwatch (26-28 January 2024) or just love to fill your garden with feathered friends, here are some helpful tips…
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by Lee Burkhill | Nov 17, 2023 | Expert Update, Gardening Posts
Image: Lee Burkhill is also known as Garden Ninja
Lee Burkhill, aka Garden Ninja, is an award-winning garden designer, horticultural expert, presenter on BBC1’s ‘Garden Rescue’ and the owner of a hugely popular gardening YouTube channel. Having studied Horticulture with the RHS at Edinburgh Botanical gardens, he has 35 years of hands-on experience and has designed hundreds of urban gardens. Lee’s excellent videos are a great way to pick up practical tips and his passion for his subject makes them a joy to watch.
Shortlisted for the Garden Media Guild’s Individual Social Media Influencer of the Year Award 2023, we caught up with Lee to learn a bit about his professional journey and the highlights of his career so far. Here’s what he told us…
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by Thompson & Morgan | Oct 13, 2023 | Competitions, Gardening Posts
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Win A Bumper Prize Bundle worth £100 from Thompson & Morgan
Your Chance To Win
- 12 packets of new flower and vegetable seeds from our 2024 range – worth £40!
- A £50 Thompson & Morgan voucher to spend across our range of plants, bulbs, seeds and garden equipment
- 1 Year Free Thompson & Morgan Gardening Club Membership
This trio of prizes includes a fantastic bundle of new flower and vegetable seeds handpicked from our 2024 range. In addition, we’re throwing in a £50 voucher to spend online and 1 Year Free Thompson & Morgan Gardening Club Membership which unlocks 10% OFF EVERY order placed online plus £20 worth of vouchers and much more.
Thanks for entering and good luck. The winner will receive an email from blog@thompson-morgan.com just after the closing date.
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by Jen Rudd | Sep 4, 2023 | Gardening Posts
Vivacious new varieties to fill your garden with colour in 2024
T&M is proud to launch its fantastic new flower seed range for 2024, including sensational sunflowers and snapdragons, fiery zinnias, exquisite nasturtiums and giant-flowered rudbeckia.
New range highlights 2024
Salt-resistant sunflowers!
Sunflower ‘Beaches Mix’
Helianthus deblis
Hardy Annual
Sunflower ‘Beaches Mix’ is ideal for growing in coastal gardens and other challenging locations. Unlike other sunflowers, these bushy plants are fast-growing, spreading by runners to anchor themselves in the ground, with flexible stems help prevent snapping.
This hardy annual helianthus boasts great drought-tolerance, coupled with resistance to salt spray, sea winds and poor, dry soils.
Impressively long flowering season
Tough but graceful, ‘Beaches Mix’ will produce an abundance of showy yellow flowers with dark centres from July to October, with each sunny bloom measuring approximately 7cm in diameter.
Great for wildlife or cutting gardens
A magnet for beneficial pollinators and with elegant, elongated stems, ‘Beaches Mix’ is a wonderful choice for wildlife gardens and makes a superb cut flower for indoor displays.
Sow: March to June
Flowers: July to October
Height: 1.5m (5ft)
Spread: 60cm (24in)
Zinnias with marvellous Mexican colour!
Zinnia ‘Macarenia’
Zinnia elegans
Half-hardy Annual
Scarlet petals dipped in gold
Zinnias were a favourite flower of the Aztecs and ‘Macarenia’ is a variety that simply sizzles with bold Mexican colour and make fabulously long-lasting cut flowers for the home.
Big, bold blooms!
This Fleuroselect award winner boasts big, fully double blooms measuring up to 7cm across. Its scarlet petals appear dipped in gold, offering a dazzling display from July to October.
Sow: April to June
Plant: May to June
Flowers: July to October
Height: 50-75cm (20-29in)
Spread: 50cm (20in)
Up the ante with an improved double Antirrhinum!
Antirrhinum ‘Sweet Duet’ F1
Snapdragon
Half-hardy Annual
Antirrhinum ‘Sweet Duet’ boasts improved double blooms and flower size compared to other varieties, coupled with a delicate fragrance to delight the senses.
A pretty palette & petite plants
Blooming in a pretty palette of colours, you’ll love the fruity peach, salmon, deep-red and apple blossom-pink flowers borne on vigorous, strongly-branched plants.
Suitable for autumn and spring sowing, grow in borders or patio containers where you can fully appreciate their fragrance and cut some stems for a scented display indoors.
Sow: January to March
Flowers: May to August
Height: 40cm (15in)
Spread: To 35cm (14in)
Soft salmon-coloured flowers on compact plants
Nasturtium ‘Alaska Salmon’
Tropaeolum majus
Indian Cress
Half-hardy Annual
Nasturtium ‘Alaska Salmon‘ produces soft salmon-coloured flowers on compact plants, with attractive marbled foliage that offers an eye-catching display even before the flowers emerge.
Dwarf variety perfect for borders or containers
Awarded an RHS Award of Garden Merit for its garden performance, this pretty plant will grow happily in beds, borders and even containers with a non-trailing habit.
Sow: March to May
Flowers: June to September
Height and spread: 40cm (16in)
A giant-flowered rudbeckia from seed!
Rudbeckia ‘Kokardas’
Rudbeckia hirta
Coneflower, Black-eyed Susan
Half-hardy Annual
Ravishing Rudbeckia ‘Kokardas‘ forms short plants reaching just 40cm high, each producing over 20 huge flowers measuring up to 14cm across.
Big, bicolour blooms!
Highly praised in recent RHS garden trials, ‘Kokardas’ produces beautiful bicolour blooms of golden yellow with a brown halo surrounding each dark eye.
Brilliant for beds, borders and containers, this rudbeckia flowers right up until the first frosts and shows excellent weather-tolerance.
Sow: February to May
Flowers: June to October
Height and spread: 40cm (16in)
T&M’s new flower seeds 2024
Check out our ‘new in’ flower seeds for all the recent arrivals to our range.
by Thompson & Morgan | Jun 15, 2023 | Gardening Masterclasses, Gardening Posts
Edible flowers offer the double benefit of bright colours and delicious flavours. Whether you want to whip up a peppery batch of nasturtium butter, crystallise delicate primrose flowers or drizzle pink chive flower vinegar over your summer salads, we’ve collected some helpful independent content to get you off to a good start. Here’s your expert guide to growing edible flowers for use in the kitchen.
In the meantime, take inspiration from our full range of quality edible flower seeds.
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