This delicious pear produces excellent crops of large, aromatic, rounded fruit with delicious, soft white flesh and a mild flavour that literally melts in your mouth, ready to pick from October each year. Each one is wonderfully sweet and juicy. With its lovely rustic looking, green pears tinged in reddish brown, 'Beurre Alexander Lucas' is great variety to grow, heavy cropping and fantastic eaten raw and also in cooking. Supplied as an established tree, 150cm (5ft) tall grown on an M9 dwarfing rootstock in a 24cm pot, growing to a height and spread of 2.5m (8ft).
Offering a mixture of bright colours on this variety of Viola and one of our favourites. This is a true Viola and it has great tolerance to both heat and cold making it a reliable performer for the whole season. Plant some of these beauties into containers and ensure there is still loads of vibrant colour in your outside spaces whatever the weather.
A cottage garden favourite, Calendula, also know as the English or pot marigold is a hardy annual that will flower from late spring and all summer long. 'Fiesta' explodes into colour with double flowers in hot oranges and yellows from May until the first autumn frosts. They look spectacular planted en masse in beds, borders and planters and they make great cut flowers. Calendulas like a sunny location and fertile soil, and once established they will cope very well with wet or dry weather, giving you dazzling colour, month after month, and pollinators and other insects find them extremely attractive too. Sometimes referred to as 'poor man's saffron', the petals are edible and make a colourful salad garnish with a peppery taste, and they can be used to colour and flavour rice too. Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for a stunning summer display. Supplied as 20 garden ready plants, ready to plant in your garden and growing to a height and spread of 25 cm (10 in).
From the fabulous British breeding programme of huge, ruffle-flowered Belarina Double Primroses comes 'Valentine Red' - a sumptuous velvet burgundy-red that is 100% hardy and perennial - so will come back year after year, giving better displays every year. The brilliant red blooms contrast beautifully with the crisp green leaves, and form perfect buttonhole flowers that herald the return of spring as they burst into a spectacular show of colour throughout the season. These fabulous, compact plants are smothered in with blousy blooms that create a dazzling burst of cheerful colour in borders, pots and baskets in sun or semi shade - they really are an ideal, easy-to-grow garden plant. In addition, because the magnificent flowers don't set seed, their energy goes into making more blooms and they will flower their socks off for months. Perfectly hardy in the garden, the clusters of double flowers look fabulous wherever you plant them and are even better when added to your favourite container as a specimen plant, where you can get up close and personal with their fabulous flowers, which perfectly complement their lush, ridged, bright-green leaves. Supplied as 3 plug plants ready for potting up and growing on before planting out into their final flowering positions, you can grow some love in your garden this season and enjoy Valentine Red Double Primroses for years to come.
Calendula 'Art Shades', otherwise known as English or pot marigold, is an enduring cottage garden favourite that looks equally at home in traditional or contemporary planting schemes, where the richly coloured flowers will add cheerful character to your beds, borders or pots. They make a great cut flower for your vase, too, and the dried flowers are also excellent added to pot pourri. This easy-to-grow hardy annual produces masses of frilly petalled, fully double blooms in shades of creamy peach, orange, gold and yellow. They are hugely attractive to many beneficial insects, so make a great companion plant for your kitchen garden. In fact, the petals are edible, with a slightly peppery taste, and make a colourful garnish or addition to salads. They can also be used instead of saffron for colouring rice dishes, or in soups, stews or curries - or even as a substitute for nutmeg, sprinkled over rice pudding. The ancient Egyptians used calendula as a rejuvenating herb and the flowers have been used for centuries in cosmetics and creams for their therapeutic properties. The seeds can be sown directly into their flowering position or started off in seed trays indoors. Either way, they will flower in the same year as sowing. Calendulas thrive in a sunny spot in well-prepared, fertile soil or compost. Once established, these robust little beauties will do equally well through a wet or dry season, and with regular watering and dead-heading will flower all summer long, well into the first frosts of autumn. Supplied as a packet of 200 (approx.) seeds ready to sow outdoors in their flowering position or indoors into trays of compost. Growing to a height of 60cm (24in) and spread of 30cm (12in), sow or transplant outdoors from March to June and again from August to October, directly where they are to flower. Late summer and autumn sowings will flower the following year. Spring sowings will take 10-12 weeks to flower.
An eccentric, eclectic mix of white campanula and lily, this arrangement is ideal for anyone looking to mix up their floral options and try something completely different. Order online today for fast delivery across the UK.
An elegant, simple and a sophisticated flower gift, perfectly presented to your loved one.