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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…

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.

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…

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.

Cultural Instructions

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

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.

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 January

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

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€¦

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.

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…

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.

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.

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...

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…

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€¦

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€¦

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.

Thompson and Morgan | Facebook Question and Answer Session

Horticultural questions and answers 23rd August 2013 - topics include: Runner beans not setting, how to use liquid fertiliser, organic cabbage white butterfly control, growing Rhododendrons from cuttings, powdery mildew on Lupins, Gardenia not flowering.

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.

Thompson and Morgan Question and Answer Session 15th October 2010

horticultural questions and anwers 15th October - topics include: Planting hanging baskets, bedding plants for a south facing garden, storing begonias over winter, why onions bolt, how to kill invasive bamboo, growing globe artichokes in containers.

Facebook questions Jan 13th 2012

Horticultural questions and answers 13th January 2012 - Topics include: Slowing tomato ripening, Lilies sprouting early, Rabbit friendly plants, Reducing clematis rootballs, Pruning rambling roses, Planting patio fruit trees.

Thompson and Morgan Facebook Question and Answer Session 16th September

Horticultural questions and answers 16th September - Topics include: How to prune Rhododendrons, Growing Butternut Squash, Underplanting a Beech Hedge, Harvesting Seeds, Overwintering Peach Trees

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.

Thompson and Morgan facebook question and answer session March 4th

horticultural questions and answers 4th March - topics include: Planting hardy orchids, Wildlife shrubs for a north facing position, Growing Phalenopsis orchids, Moving shrubs and climbers, Grafting tomato plants, Fungal diseases on pansies.

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What to sow and grow in December

What to sow in December: begonia, geranium, antirrhinum, laurentia, cyclamen, windowsill herbs, winter salad leaves, hardy broad beans, exhibition onions€¦

How to Grow Onions and Shallots

Onions sets and shallot sets are easy to grow and make a low maintenance crop for beginner gardeners. Find out how to grow your own onions and shallots.

What to sow and grow in February

What to sow in February: sweet peas, antirrhinum, chrysanthemum, geranium, basil, brassica, cucumber, tomato, beetroot, carrot, radish, peas, spring onions€¦

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…

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