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Help with using my Order Code

This page provides guidance on using your order code on the www.thompson-morgan.com website. Why can't I use my order code in conjunction with my promotional code...

Cultural Instructions

Read our comprehensive cultural instructions designed to accompany plants supplied by us including plugs, young plants, bare roots and fruit trees.

Autumn Cottage Garden Bedding Plants from just 5p per plant

If you're looking for winter and spring plants and bulbs for colour or you just want some long-lasting perennials and shrubs or clematis, then now's the time to do it! Pansies, Primroses and Polyanthus come as plug plants and Jumbo plugs. Perennials arrive potted and will quickly establish.

Facebook Questions 14th June 2013

Horticultural questions and answers 14th June 2013 - topics include: Mandevilla not flowering, aphids on apple trees, Oleander toxicity, sweet rocket changing colour, ground cover lilies height, controlling lily beetle, yellowing leaves on sweet peas, how to grow lavender from seed, how to prune…

Auriculas

Auriculas have come a long way from the simple Primula auricula from which they take their name. Find out more about the classifcation of auriculas.

How to Grow Basil

Basil is a useful herb to have in the kitchen and it's really easy to grow. Learn how to grow your own Basil plants from seed.

How to grow bulbs, corms and tubers

Planting bulbs, corms and tubers is an easy way to ensure colourful displays in your garden, particularly in spring before the rest of the garden has woken from its winter dormancy. Bulbs can be planted in containers or borders, and look particularly effective when naturalised in grass. There are…

Clubs and Societies Discount Scheme | Existing Customers

Great discounts offered to members of horticultural and gardening clubs, societies and associations! Download bulk order forms here and start saving now.

Sweet Peas Autumn Sown | Seeds | Plants

For the very finest sweet pea blooms for cut flowers and exhibiting we are always recommended to sow in the autumn. Bernard Jones explains why and describes the ideal technique.

Dahlias from Seed

An increasing number of dwarf bedding dahlias are being grown from seed. In this article, Graham Rice recommends the best dahlia varieties.

Recipes | Broad Bean and Mint Salad

Use up your glut of broad beans to make this fresh, summery salad! Clare says "I have lots of braod beans this year which is great. I always freeze them and they freeze really nicely."

What to sow and grow in May

What to sow in May: biennials, foxglove, sweet william, perennials, primula, aquilegia, godetia, sunflower, nasturtium, runner and French beans, melon, herbs€¦

Hassle Free Gardening

Buy garden-ready plants, pre-planted hanging baskets and plug plants from TandM. Just plant, water, and enjoy! Bred and selected for best garden performance.

How To Sow Wild Flower Seeds

Learn how to sow wild flower seeds. Cultivating annual or perennial wildflowers from seed in your garden is easy with TandM’s guide.

What to sow and grow in January

What to sow in January: pelargonium, begonia, carnations, pinks, pansies, sweet peas, celery, herbs, exhibition onions, chit first early potatoes, broad beans€¦

Thompson and Morgan Facebook horticultural question and answer session

The answers to questions posted on the Thompson and Morgan Facebook page - written by Sue Foster the horticultural advisor for Thompson and Morgan. Topics include: Japanese Maple disease, soil pH testing, collecting and storing sunflower seeds, maintaining asparagus plants, which plants suit dry…

What to sow and grow in October

What to sow in October: crepis, hollyhock, oriental poppies, hellebore, wildflowers, winter salad leaves, carrots, windowsill herbs, hardy annuals€¦

Michael Perry's Top 5 Bedding Plants

Bedding plants don't have to be all limp, lacklustre marigolds and petunias. There's a wealth of newer, strong-growing varieties to transform your beds and borders into a reliable carnival of colour, from summer and beyond.

What to sow and grow in June

What to sow in June: nigella, sunflower, calendula, candytuft, winter cabbage, salad vegetables, courgette, carrots, broccoli, swede, sweet corn€¦

Planting and growing plug plants video

Learn what to do with your plug plants once they're delivered to your home. Watch our video for planting and growing on tips.

How to Grow your Plants

Whether your plants are delivered as bareroots, bulbs or plugs, you can follow our step by step guides to get your plants off to the best possible start.

Growing onions from seed

How to grow onions from seed

Facebook questions Dec 22nd

Horticultural questions and answers 22nd Decmber - Topics include: Horticultural lighting, rejuvenating camellia plants, winter protection for tree ferns.

Hedge Planting Guide

How do you choose between buying potted hedge plants and bare root hedging? Hedges provide a living boundary, screens from neighbours or the road. Factors to consider when buying hedge plants include speed of growth, budget, size required.

Help with using my Promotional Voucher Code(s)

This page provides guidance on using your promotional code on the www.thompson-morgan.com website. Why can't I use my promotianal code in conjunction with my order code...

Greenhouse Article Index

An overview of all our greenhouse articles to help choose and get the most from your greenhouse.

Russian Vine Weed | Weed Control | Gardening Information

This page provides advice on how to get rid of Russian vine weed in your garden. As you have probably found, Russian Vine (Fallopia baldschuanica) can be very invasive€¦its other common name is Mile-a-Minute plant! Firstly, cut the plant back hard to just a few feet above ground level.

Thompson and Morgan Facebook Question and Session 22nd July 2011

Horticultural questions and answers 22nd July - Topics include: Controlling Bay Suckers on Bay trees, Treating Peach Leaf Curl disease, Evergreen trees for exposed sites, Mutated Zinnia flowers, Treating Red Spider Mite infestations, Growing Egret Orchids.

Facebook questions December 12th

Horticultural questions and answers 12th December - Topics include: blackleg on pelargonium cuttings, pinching out coleus plants, heeling in bareroot magnolia plants, propagating hyacinths, collecting seeds.

Instant Impact Range of Outdoor Potted Plants

Looking for instant impact? Here are our suggestions the best shrubs, trees, perennials and evergreen plants to get your garden off to a flying start.

Daisies | Bellis Perennis

Many delightful daisy varieties have been developed from the humble lawn daisy. Jean Andrews describes some of the daisies in her National Collection.

Euonymus Scale | Garden Pests and Diseases | Gardening Tips

Euonymus scale can damage leaves by sucking sap from the plant. Find out how to control infestation and limit damage to your garden here.

Beat the Broccoli Shortage

Growing your own may be the only way to have crops of purple sprouting broccoli in 2011. Find out more in our news article - Beat the Broccoli Shortage

How to grow parsley

Because it takes so long to germinate many gardeners have trouble raising parsley. David Batty explains how to get round the problem. The cultivation of parsley goes back at least to the Ancient Greeks who used it to crown their athletes, and also wore it to fend off drunkenness! It has long been…

Salad Leaves - a lot to be desired

In his final article on salad vegetables Harry Smith looks at some of the unusual alternatives to lettuce. For most of us, lettuce still forms the major part of the salads we eat, yet there are many highly palatable alternatives with which to ring the changes. They can not only add the spice of…

Duchess of Cambridge's charity gets a boost

Thompson and Morgan is proudly supporting The Treehouse, a brand new hospice in Ipswich built by EACH (East Anglia's Childrens' Hospice) and officially opened in March this year by its Royal Patron, HRH The Duchess of Cambridge.

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