Illustrated List of T&M Seeds of Choice - 3 for 2 - D

Dahlia variabilis Bambino Mixed

Charming, miniature semi-double flowers. Recommended for bedding, pots and containers. Height: 30-45cm (12-18in).

Dahlia variabilis Redskin

Very double, compact free-flowering with maroon to bronze-green foliage. A particularly good combination with marigolds. Height: 30-38cm (12-15in).

Daisy : Chocolate Daisy

Perfect for chocoholics everywhere! Dwarf plants with an airy habit produce vibrant yellow daisy-like flowers with striking red stripes on the undersides, and chocolate coloured, and scented stamens. Plants bloom during the evenings and show off their flowers each morning, then drop their petals as the temperature rises.

Best planted in small groups to achieve the most intense chocolate fragrance.

Height: 30-45cm (12-18in).

Datura metel La Fleur Lilac

Flowering in just 3½ months. Particularly good for patio, cool greenhouse or conservatory where the evocative sweet fragrance of the bluey-lilac, 10cm (4 inch) trumpet blooms fills the air. Height: 30-45cm (12-18in)

Datura meteloides Evening Fragrance

Huge and heavily fragrant pure white trumpet flowers, with a soft lavender picotee edge, 20cm (8in) long and 10-15cm (4-6in) across, hang from tree-like plants, with soft, slate-blue foliage. Perfect for growing in tubs, containers, on patios or sheltered corners close to the house where the evening perfume can be appreciated. Despite their exotic appearance they are relatively tough under windy and rainy conditions, adapting to many soil types.

Height: 90-120cm (36-48in), spread 90-95cm (36-38in).

Day Flower

A very rare plant indeed. This is one of the few plants with such intense blue flowers and that will also perform well in the garden. Flowering in its first year with 2.5cm (1in) gentian blue flowers, it then produces tubers and springs back to life the following year with an unceasing display of blooms. Wonderful in containers, rock gardens and the border (regardless of soil conditions). Hardy down to -8/-10C. Flowers summer. Height 15-30cm (6-12in.)

Delphinium hybridum Pagan Purples

Outstanding quality spikes of double, multilayered blooms, in a tasteful blend of blue-mauve glisten in the sunshine. Over 90% true from seed. Height 120-150cm (4-5ft).

Desert Pea

Attractive semi-evergreen shrub that makes an impressive scrambling climber, producing clusters of brilliant red, lobster claw-like flowers in mid summer to autumn.

Dianthus amurensis Siberian Blues

Compact, bushy mounds of bluish evergreen foliage erupt into a sea of mauve-blue flowers in late spring and are the closest yet to a true blue Dianthus. Ideal planted in borders, rockeries and containers, flowering over a long period each summer for many, many years.

Culinary note: Some parts of these flowers are edible. For more details about edible flowers click here.

Dianthus chinensis heddewigii Black And White Minstrels

Showy plants for bedding, border, rockery and containers producing an abundance of quite unique, showy black and white flowers throughout summer. The dainty, fully double blooms are heavily laced, over an inch in diameter and sweetly scented. They make excellent cut flowers lasting a long time in water. Flowers summer. Height 30-38cm (12-15in).

Culinary note: Some parts of these flowers are edible. For more details about edible flowers click here.

Dianthus plumarius Ipswich Pinks Mixed

Ipswich Pinks were made famous by Joseph Sangster, the breeder and proprietor of T&M from 1913-52. They create a solid mass of colour in pinks, reds, bicolours and white, above blue foliage that is close and tightly knit. Ground smothering weed suppressors, they remain evergreen (blue). Floriferous and fragrant, they are welcome cut flowers and a necessity for the cottage garden, border or rock garden, being also suitable for edging or walls. A hardy perennial, they grow to a height of 23cm (9in) and can spread 60-70cm (24-30in). Flowering extends from late spring till the end of summer.

Culinary note: Some parts of these flowers are edible. For more details about edible flowers click here.

Dierama T&M Species Mixed

An attractive blend of species, bringing together a wide choice of colourful fishing rods to add colour and interest to borders or by the waterside. Height: 50-60cm (20-24 inches).

Digitalis parviflora Milk Chocolate

A delightful species originating from Spain and Portugal. Produces elegant flower spikes covered in small chocolate trumpets circling each stem and attracting beneficial insects.

Dolichos lablab Ruby Moon

A fascinating combination of fragrant, sweet pea-like bicoloured pink flowers and dark purple to brown large seed pods, against deep green and purple/brown foliage. Wonderful summer annual for obelisks, trellis and arches.