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This season look out for the New and exclusive Unwins Tulip ‘Lucy Belle’. It’s a stunning double-fringed late flowering Tulip that will add a touch of the exotic to any bedding display. One lucky winner was delighted to learn that he had won a competition to name this new variety.

Introduce some real golden beauty into your garden next spring by planting miniature daffodils. New to Unwins Bulbs for this season are Narcissus ‘Lobularis’ a pretty February/March flowering variety with soft yellow starry petals and a deep yellow trumpet; Narcissus ‘Intrigue’ which flowers a little later in April with glowing yellow petals and a pale creamy yellow trumpet and the delightful Narcissus ‘February Gold’, a reliable star for the early spring border.

You can rely on Unwins Seeds to bring you great new varieties for the veg garden. New for 2008 are fifteen varieties of great vegetable seeds. Be among the very first to grow and taste some exclusive varieties exclusive to Unwins; Mustard ‘Ruby’s & Gold’ is a visual delight of golden and red mustard leaves.

It’s not just edible plants that make it into the new seed varieties list, Unwins have added more than ten new flower varieties to its extensive range. Many are reselected firm favourites, classic garden plants that will create drama and impact in the border. Look out for the delightful Aquilegia ‘Nora Barlow’; it’s easy to grow and has beautiful pink, green and red, fully double flowers.

Look out this summer for the magnificent Hummingbird Hawk moth. It is a migrant moth that cannot usually survive the British winter, but one, when seen that is so delightful it conjures the feel of a real Mediterranean garden. Many British gardeners have reported these visitors in their gardens over the last three summers, flitting between lavender and verbena bushes around the patio and greenhouse, looking and acting in a similar way to tiny exotic humming birds.