A striking evergreen shrub, Cordyline australis 'Torbay Red' will add spectacular Mediterranean style to your garden in summer. With its long, arching, sword-like foliage that typically grows on a single stem, it has a distinctive palmlike appearance and compact growth - a great choice for planting in containers to add character to patios and sunny balconies. Also known as the cabbage palm, Cordyline australis 'Torbay Red' has deep bronze-red leaves, making it a perfect plant to add contrast of form and colour in a mixed border. Mature plants produce clusters of sweetly scented, ivory-white blossom in the summer and berries in the autumn, so the bees and birds will love it too! Fully deserving of its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, this is a proven performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can plant this with confidence to achieve stunning displays for many years to come. Hardy to around -5C, we recommend that 'Torbay Red' is grown in a large pot where it can be moved under cover in the winter to protect it from the worst of the cold weather. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, it will reach approximately 2.5m x 1m in 10 years.
Calathea ‘Freddie’ is known for its beautiful striped green foliage. Calatheas in the wild are found on tropical forest floors. Light and Water They can tolerate living in partial shade and make the perfect plant for filling in some of the shadier parts of your plant room! Too much direct sun burns the leaves and causes the beautiful leaf colors to fade. For best results, maintain a regular watering schedule and keep the soil damp, but never wet or saturated. This is not a drought tolerant indoor plant, however, the top of the soil should be allowed to dry out a little between waterings. Extended periods of dryness can result in brown leaf tips or edges. Overwatering will cause the plant to wilt and it will recover slowly. Like many tropical indoor plants, this plant prefers a spot with ample humidity. Brown edges on the leaves indicate the air is too dry. Mist the leaves twice per week with room temperature water.
Calathea 'Freddy' is an eye-catching tropical plant that brings a touch of the tropics to a warm, bright room. The long, lush leaves are decorated with contrasting, feather-like markings, and arch gently at the leaf tips to create an elegant display. This exotic looking house plant enjoys good humiity, making it perfect for a bright bathroom or kitchen. Height and spread: 60cm (24).
These unusual Slipper Flowers will certainly attract attention in spring. Their vibrant, orchid-like blooms are borne above a neat mound of evergreen foliage April right through to mid-summer.
These unusual Slipper Flowers will certainly attract attention in spring. Their vibrant, orchid-like blooms are borne above a neat mound of evergreen foliage April right through to mid-summer.
Calibrachoa ?Million Bells Series? remain as popular as ever, thanks to their superb garden performance. With superior vigour, Calibrachoa 'Million Bells Red' produce well branched plants with an abundance of trumpet-shaped, scarlet flowers throughout the summer.
For quick and easy colour this summer choose these new Calibrachoa Can-Can Double Red plants. The unique and highly colourful double-flowering blooms make this one showy plant for hanging baskets and container displays this summer. They offer a long season of interest from June to October and they are also drought-resistant making a good choice for any sunny position.
For quick and easy colour this summer choose these new Calibrachoa Can-Can Double Red plants. The unique and highly colourful double-flowering blooms make this one showy plant for hanging baskets and container displays this summer. They offer a long season of interest from June to October and they are also drought-resistant making a good choice for any sunny position.
The best and truest red Californian poppy, 'Red Chief' performs well in all weathers and is easy to sow and grow in borders, where it'll flower all summer.
An outstanding variety and one of the best red Eschscholzias we?ve seen, Californian Poppy 'Red Chief' consistently performs well and maintained its velvety red colouring over several years in our trails. Blooming all summer long above a neat mound of silver, ferny foliage, this really is an eye-catching plant to display all around the garden, in pots, borders, gravel garden and rockeries.
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 red-flowered plant, 20-40cm tall and in bud.
Easy-to-grow and vigorous, these plants bear large clusters of sweetly scented, white blooms, throughout summer. Ideally suited to sunny positions. Height: 40cm (16). Spread: 20cm (8).