An unusual, but easy to grow compact shrub, producing stunning winter flower displays just as the days start to lengthen to spring. The branches are covered with gorgeously fragrant pink flowers - each one with a yellow centre - which appear on bare stems before the leaves re-emerge. Reaching a compact 1.5m height and spread over 10 years, it is perfect for smaller gardens, and can be grown in large pots for patio use too. It prefers sunny, sheltered locations, and is hardy to -6C or more. Very little pruning or maintenance required.
A new introduction and a worthy plant for your borders and pots this year, these bedding plants have been bred to perform really well in your garden and are ideal when grown in containers. With two different flower colours on the same plant, each one is smothered in both pastel pink and also yellow flowers, this Marguerite Daisy will flower its little heart out all summer and into autumn, filling your garden with dazzling, colour-changing blooms. Really easy to grow and ideal for beginner gardeners, the compact plants are well branched, meaning that you'll get plenty of flowers. Good for wildlife too as each daisy is held above the finely divided, feathery leaves, making them stand out even more, creating a mecca for butterflies and other pollinators. Supplied as 6 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Petunias are, quite rightly, one of the mainstays of summer planting. With so many varieties in such an incredible range of colours and patterns, there's still room for more. 'Pink Joy' is strikingly unusual, with its abundant, fascinating flowers making it a real statement plant that's impossible to ignore! 'Pink Joy' produces masses of stunning flowers in the deepest magenta-pink splashed with pure white spots, and every single flower is different. Not only does it have unique, show-stopping blooms, but its gently trailing habit and freely growing stems are also perfect for pots and hanging baskets where the blooms will spill over the edges to create a waterfall of colour. Incredibly free-flowering from May right to the end of summer, it'll fill your planters to overflowing for a long lasting, vivid display. Plant on their own where they'll make fabulous features of bright colour, or mix up with other bedding such as Lobelia or Geraniums where the colour contrast will really stand out. Regular deadheading will produce more and more flowers. Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out. Growing to a height and spread of 50cm (20in).
Also known as 'Summersweet' Clethra alnifolia is lovely medium-sized shrub is perfect for bringing late summer colour to the garden. 'Pink Spire' produces an abundance of 'spires' of pale pink, bottlebrush flowers in late summer and autumn. Not only do the towers of flowers look incredible bursting from the glossy deep-green foliage, but they also bear a mesmerising sweet fragrance that is highly attractive to butterflies, bees and other beneficial pollinators and garden visitors. Your garden will be buzzing with life throughout summer! A slow grower, 'Pink Spire' is ever so easy to grow and maintain and is both happy in full sun but will also tolerate full shade so it's a great choice for those awkward shady corners. It prefers acidic soil so we recommend incorporating plenty of peat or ericaceous compost for best results, especially when growing in a container. Supplied as an established plant in a 3L Pot and easy to care for - needing just an occasional light trim to shape, 'Pink Spire' is trouble free but has big rewards!
Rosebud Geranium 'Sybil Pink' will transform your baskets and gardens with a summer long show of enchanting double flowers in a beautiful shade of pale pink. Renowned for their tolerance of drought and heat in summer, yet they perform really well in our more normal rainy Summers too! In our view, one of the very best choices for summer bedding and reliability you can buy. As they are about to burst into flower in summer, you will notice gorgeous buds in clusters, each one looking just like a tightly budded rose waiting to burst open, to create a simply incredible show of colourful, double flowers. Plant them in baskets, window boxes and containers anywhere where they can trail spectacularly, and you will not be disappointed. Supplied as 3 jumbo plugs, they can either be potted on into 9cm pots for a few weeks in a frost free environment, or planted out into baskets and tubs directly once frost risk has passed. Let Rosebud Geraniums delight you this year.
One of the nation's favourite early spring plants, Camellias are, when given the right conditions, very straightforward and problem free. Providing fabulous displays of flowers when almost every other plant is still asleep for winter, they're ideal for giving a bold splash of colour when the garden is quite drab - plus they're fabulous in pots where they can be moved to any part of your garden. The key to success with Camellias is they need acidic soils - like Rhododendrons. This means they can easily be grown in pots in ericaceous composts, and provided they are fed with specialist ericaceous feed, will provide many years of colour and interest. They are evergreen, and their neat, shiny tough leaves will provide a backdrop to other plants all year. Flower buds start swelling late the previous summer, and keep getting bigger all autumn and winter, until they burst open in early spring. The flowers can be caught by frosts when they are opening, but the buds are generally fine, and the plant is 100% hardy and tough. Supplied as one pink-flowered plant, 20-40cm tall and in bud.
Otherwise known as 'Glory Flower', 'Pink Diamond' is an easy-care choice for summer interest in your garden borders or in pots on your patio. Large clusters of deep-pink flowers emerge in high summer from dark red buds, set off against large, heart-shaped, soft green leaves, each with a subtle cream variegation. Flowering from August to September, the fragrant blooms are a magnet for bees and butterflies. Compact at about 1.2m (4ft) height and spread, it is tailor-made for larger pots as well as smaller garden borders and shrubberies, in sun or partial shade. This half-hardy, deciduous shrub is easy to care for, requiring only a little trimming in the autumn to keep it tidy. It will require protection from the worst of the winter weather, so mulch around the base of the plant if in the ground, or move container-grown plants to a conservatory or greenhouse during the winter. Supplied as an established plant in a 3L pot, ready to plant.
The perfect solution for those of you who may have fallen behind with your plans as we've done all the work for you so you can just sit back and relax. If you want a truly impressive display this year with a torrent of flowers cascading from your hanging baskets, then these baskets are a must for every summer-flowering display. Hanging baskets are incomplete without at least some fuchsias, and you'll certainly love these giants! They always look best when planted up where they can trail and you can look up into the blooms, as they cascade over the sides. A regular best-seller with gardeners, fuchsias perform year in year out, whatever our summer weather throws at us, with layer upon layer of delicate petals. Breathtakingly beautiful and always drawing admiring glances, each flower is up to 10cm (4in) across! Quick and easy, this fabulously colourful selection of big, bold, and blousy fuchsias has been pre-planted into a green basket, ready for you to hang up - safe in the knowledge that it'll romp away happily. These 5 varieties have been selected for their huge flower size, summer-long performance, and beautiful colour combinations. Giving you superb colour in your garden all summer long, our ready-made basket is perfectly matched and balanced with fashion to give you outstanding results in as little as 6 weeks - plus you'll have the basket to use again next year! Planted up by our expert growers, your basket will contain a terrific, hand-picked selection of healthy, top quality plants. As well as incredible flowering prowess, they're also vigorous and low maintenance, disease resistant and will cope with the worst of the British weather. In this collection you will receive 2 baskets containing one each of: Fuchsia 'Snowcap' - White centres with gorgeous pink sepals. Fucshia 'Manrika' - A classic combination of pink and purple blooms. Fucshia 'Dark Eyes' - Frilly purple blooms with dark pink sepals. Fucshia 'Blue Angel' - Eye catching purple blooms with stunning white sepals. Fuschia 'El camino' - Delicate cream blooms with a hint of pink that contrast effortlessly against the green foliage. Delivered in specially developed packaging to ensure it arrives in perfect, nursery-fresh condition when you get it. Supplied as 2 x ready planted durable green plastic hanging basket.
Rose 'Pink' beautifully demonstrates how the perfect rose should look. Its single, perfect buds are held over glossy green leaves from May to October. This standard rose is superb value for money and will produce summer-long displays of beautifully fragrant, elegant blooms. Also known as Tree Roses, they are the perfect way to add height and elegance to your patio - where a single bush will make a dramatic fragrant feature - or as a pair of potted specimens to dress a door or gateway. By 'top grafting' the flowering variety onto the straight stem of the rootstock, thereby giving the height, it takes expert growers a full three years to produce these gems. Supplied as 1 x bare root, standard tree with a well-formed head, approx. 60-70cm tall ready to plant out.
Also known as New Zealand Flax, Phormium 'Pink Panther' is a robust, fully hardy evergreen which forms a dense clump of sword-like leaves - a really great plant for adding a bit of a statement to your garden. Stunning in a border and stylish in a container, this recently introduced phormium plant has particularly striking, bright pink, red-edged leaves, and is a compact form - meaning that it won't overshadow everything in your garden plus you can grow it in a pot! Phormiums prefer a hot dry site (although will tolerate partial shade) and make a great candidate for a Mediterranean garden or a gravel garden where their upright leaves make a great foil for many other coloured plants. Easy to grow, phormium 'Pink Panther' is a compact form, and needs virtually no maintenance - it may even reward you with spikes of red flowers in late summer. Ultimately growing to around 120cm, we supply an established plant in a 9cm pot ready for immediate planting.
A beautiful dwarf lilac with an incredibly long flowering period, easily out-flowering most other lilacs that only bloom for a short time in spring. 'Flowerfesta® Pink' starts to flower with a first flush in spring and into summer, then continuing intermittently well into autumn, when it finishes blooming with one final flourish, and the clusters of tiny pale pink, nectar rich, fragrant flowers will attract bees and other pollinators into your garden. Being a dwarf variety reaching only 1.25m (4ft) and with a compact nature, it'll look great in patio pots where its scent will drift and delight. Easy to care for and slow growing, with little pruning required, just deadhead regularly to keep it tidy and to encourage more flowers. Supplied in a 9cm pot, ready to plant out.
A stunning Rhododendron grown in standard form, the beautiful, red throated pink flowers of 'Cosmopolitan' appear in large, extravagant clusters in May and June. Beautifully glossy, dark green leaves form a dense, compact evergreen shrub. The perfect backdrop for showing off the fabulous flowers. A great choice for an exotic planting scheme on acid soils, or for adding colour and structure to mixed borders, 'Cosmopolitan' is great as a specimen in a large pot where you can get up close to it. The soil should be on the acidic side and rich in humus and always moist which will allow established plants to withstand direct mid-day and afternoon sun. Use ericaceous compost if growing in a pot, or add it to the planting hole in the border.Rhododendrons are low-maintenance shrubs that prefer bright to dappled shade or partial shade, avoiding morning sunlight which can damage buds. Keep well watered. Supplied as an established standard plant in a 19cm pot.