Piquancy in salad leaves

To add add a splash of welcome colour and a hint of piquancy to your salad leaf mix try growing giant red mustard leaves.

Pick the leaves when small and the plant will continue to produce,

it is also capable of standing through a mild winter before going to

seed in late spring. Save the seed for more salad leaves.

Photina - Pretty as a picture!

Photina Red Robin is looking its best at the moment the exuberance of that glossy red foliage is complemented by the delicate sprays of its white flowers. Older leaves turn bright green but the plant will continue to sprout young red foliage if lightly pruned to shape.

Over planting of the Photina in municipal displays led to a fall in popularity in some quarters , though it seems to be an ever present in the garden nursery. Either as a specimen or as part of a shrubbery  if you have the space and the conditions then the Photina will light up your garden.