If you're looking for an interesting new horticultural hobby, then you'll find the ancient and fascinating art of bonsai intriguing and immensely satisfying! This Chinese Sweet Plum - Sageretia has been trained by skilful cultivation into perfect miniature form. Already fully established in its own decorative ceramic pot this beautiful little tree will provide an instant focal point to any well-lit room. It may even treat you to pale yellow flowers in summer, followed by blue fruits in the autumn! Sageretia are native to southern China and are exceptionally well suited to bonsai culture, readily branching with beautiful flaky bark and foliage tinged with red. They're easy to care for needing only a light trim each autumn to encourage branching. Water well as the compost becomes dry but avoid the tree standing in water. Feed occasionally with bonsai feed and your tree should thrive and last a lifetime or more! During summer your tree can be moved outdoors but be careful to keep it watered and don't let it get cold overnight as bonsai love a constant unchanging temperature. Supplied ready planted, 30-40cm tall including a 20cm ceramic bonsai pot with tray.
Also known as the Japanese Grey Bark Elm, Zelkova serrata is a wonderful starting point as you enter the magical world of bonsai. It is a delightful deciduous tree with a naturally upright growing habit, peeling grey bark and serrated glossy dark green leaves. Years of highly skilled training and pruning have resulted in an elegantly shaped miniature tree, grown in a special ceramic bonsai pot and already well established. A native of Japan and China, Zelkova is happy in a cool, bright room away from heat sources, and it will also thrive outdoors from early summer, where it will soon acclimatise to cooler nights and warmer days. As a deciduous tree, it will lose its leaves in the autumn, and it's at this time that you should bring it back indoors for the winter, gradually reacclimatising. Trees that have been kept indoors year-round may retain some of their foliage over winter. Bonsai need regular watering as they can easily dry out. This is especially important if your Zelkova is growing outdoors, when the small amount of compost in the pot can dry out amazingly quickly on a warm, sunny day. Also, regular feeding between March and September is necessary to keep it growing healthily. Pruning will be required to maintain the shape of your tree, so give it a light trim each autumn. Also, during the growing season any long shoots or crossing branches should be trimmed back. Supplied ready planted, 22-25cm tall including a 12cm ceramic bonsai pot with tray.
Here's the perfect place to start if you want to cultivate your own bonsai and enjoy this ancient and fascinating horticultural art form. This Brush Cherry - Syzygium has been trained by skilful cultivation into perfect miniature form. Already fully established in its own decorative plasticplanter this beautiful little tree will provide an instant focal point to any well lit room. It may even treat you to white flowers in spring, followed by red fruits in the autumn! Syzygium are native to Australia and New Zealand and are particularly well suited to bonsai culture, readily branching and forming impressive gnarled trunks as they age. They're easy to care for needing only a light trim each autumn to encourage branching. Water well as the compost becomes dry but avoid the tree standing in water. Feed occasionally with bonsai feed and your tree should thrive and last a lifetime or more! Your tree will enjoy a summer holiday on a table outdoors, but be careful to keep it watered.
With its fabulous golden yellow, maroon edged flowers, Ranunculus 'Elegance Giallo Striato' is wonderfully striking with hundreds of petals packed into its blooms. As they fade, the flowers fade to almost white. These lovely long stemmed, upright blooms are excellent cut flowers, and quite prolific as long as you deadhead them regularly. Grown in pots or borders, they'll look gorgeous in late spring and summer, especially if planted in groups. Although hardy perennials, the corms require a mulch to survive the harshest winter. Alternatively you can dig them up and store them in a cool, dark, dry location until the following spring. Supplied as a pack of 10 corms, ready for planting.
A cottage garden staple, the perfumed bell-flowers of Lily of the valley open in April and May and are a welcome addition to any border or patio pot. Ideal in light or even full shade, lily-of-the-valley is blessed with masses of tiny white bell-shaped flowers that possess a sweet, intoxicating scent in late spring. Growing up to 20cm on arching stems, which contrast beautifully with its clumps of dark green foliage, this hardy perennial is native to alpine meadows and does best in moist soil where it will happily naturalise and gradually spread. A great cutflower to bring into your home and ideal for brightening up a shady border and making a perfumed carpet of colour under trees and shrubs. Spreading via a network of underground roots, the spring shoots are referred to as 'pips' and sit just beneath the surface of the soil before bursting into bloom. 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 stunning displays for many years to come. Supplied as a pack of 10 pips.
Houseplants are definitely at the top of everyone's wish list at the moment, and as we spend more time in our homes it's vital that we can still get up close and personal with plants which have been proved to improve our mental health and wellbeing. Nurturing an indoor garden is a great way to reconnect with nature and the range of plants that are suitable for your home is ever-increasing and we're delighted to be able to bring the latest must-haves to you. Easy to grow, and supplied ready grown for instant impact, Calathea 'Medallion' takes its name from the unique roundness of its large, stunning leaves which have a feather-like pattern in two-tone green on the top and are rich purple underneath. It looks truly exotic! A popular house plant, Calathea is also referred to as the prayer plant as the leaves move upwards when light levels fall as if in prayer, making a fascinating addition to your home decor. This stunning tropical beauty will make an instant impact as a focal point where its lush leaves and vibrant colours will brighten up a shaded spot to perfection. Supplied as a potted plant in a 17cm pot, growing to a height and spread of 60cm (2ft).
Look forward to a stunning display of alliums in spring with this perfect pairing of Allium 'Purple Sensation' and Allium roseum - a dramatic contrast of size, form and colour. Seven huge, spherical, deep-purple heads of 'Purple Sensation' will rise tall amid a profusion of delicate pink Allium roseum flower heads, with their characteristic open clusters of star-shaped flowers - all on elegant stems with an attractive foliage base to complete the picture. Achieve satisfying results with the minimum of effort with this ingenious system comprising a ready-planted, circular tray with bulbs in their ideal spacing. Simply dig a planting hole in your garden or container, drop the entire 'bulb pod' in, cover with compost or soil - then water and wait for great results! The totally biodegradable, drop-in 'bulb pods' will disappear within a few weeks of planting, leaving the bulbs in the perfect planting design - the quickest and easiest way to plant combinations of bulbs. This duo of alliums will produce a fabulous display in beds and borders, or in pots on your patio or decking. Being fully hardy, they will flower for years to come and large clumps can be separated to make new plants. The flowers will also look beautiful in a vase - if you can bear to disturb the eye-catching composition in your garden! Supplied as a 36cm diameter, round tray of 45 bulbs: 7 x 'Purple Sensation' and 38 x Allium roseum, ready for planting the whole pack in your garden or pot.
A great mixture of taller tulips approx. 50-60cm tall to give you a kaleidoscope of spring colour. They are incredibly versatile, very strong and sturdy and show off the classic, much loved tulip shape. These 'Triumph' tulips are perfect for growing in beds and borders, this mix is an all-in-one solution to adding vibrant spring colour to your garden next year - maximum impact with minimum effort! We've put together a stunning mix of colour to create a real rainbow of tulips to stand loud and proud in your beds, borders or containers next year without you having to do anything other than plant and water. Tulips are one of the most popular bulbs, as they are are great planted with many different colour variations to give a fresh, vibrant spring colour to your garden, patio or decking but they also make great cut flowers to brighten up the house. Supplied as a pack of 50 bulbs, size 10/11 ready for planting in autumn.
A terrific, award-winning variety of Allium which will flower year after year with globes of eye-catching violet! Allium 'Violet Beauty' produces round heads of dazzling violet stars which mix easily with other shades of blue and purple in the garden. The large, rich purple blooms can reach around 10cm in diameter, and unlike many alliums, have a subtle, sweet fragrance. Perfect for patio pots or planted in drifts in borders, they'll provide real spring delight! What's more, the flowers are loved by bees and butterflies so are perfect if you're looking to bring wildlife into your garden or help to encourage pollination. The blooms are long lasting and the seed heads that follow are equally lovely. Both are superb in floral arrangements and with so many bulbs included here, you will have a good supply for cut blooms AND garden decoration! 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 stunning displays for many years to come, and it's also recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators'. Supplied as a pack of 50 bulbs, size 7+ ready to plant out in autumn.
'Picasso' is a rare, unusual and simply beautiful Calla lily variety, producing stunning bicolour flowers each summer. Newly formed blooms are creamy-white to begin with, then open up magically to reveal their deep-purple hearts. A real showstopper! Grow singly in pots about 10-15cm diameter, or all 3 in a 20cm diameter pot. For best results, they should be kept very warm and well watered once planted for 2 weeks to kick-start their dormancy - on a heater or an airing cupboard is fine, then once the green shoots appear, they can be placed outside. The corms are shallow, and need to be planted saucer shape up, just with a shallow 1-2cm covering of compost only. You will be rewarded with tremendous displays of sumptuous calla flowers that last for 5-6 weeks, and appear again year after year.
Bulbs such as Daffodils herald the arrival of spring and these bright bloomers are a must for everyone, with flowers from February until April. With their distinctive trumpets, there are few flowers which are as instantly recognisable. Perfect for pots, planters, beds and borders, and also make wonderful cut flower displays allowing you to enjoy them in your home too - especially as some are delightfully fragrant. Reliable and hardy, they're possibly the easiest plant to grow - you basically dig a hole, add the bulbs, cover them up and leave them alone! They'll grow almost anywhere too, even happy in light shade and prefer a free-draining soil. Leave the bulbs in the ground after the flowers have died back, and they'll reward you with bigger, better displays, each year for many years to come. Supplied as a pack of 50 bulbs, size 12/14 ready to plant out in autumn.
Ideal in light or even full shade, lily-of-the-valley is blessed with masses of tiny white bell-shaped flowers that possess a sweet, intoxicating scent in late spring. Rising up to 20cm on arching stems, which contrast spectacularly with its clumps of dark green foliage, this hardy perennial is native to alpine meadows and does best in moist soil A cottage garden staple, the perfumed bell-flowers of Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis) open in April and May and are a welcome addition to any border or patio pot. Spreading via a network of underground roots, the spring shoots are referred to as 'pips' and sit just beneath the surface of the soil before bursting into bloom. Perfect for dappled shade, Lily of the Valley makes a good groundcover plant, naturalising happily and brightening gloomy gardens, and even better, it makes a great cutflower to bring into your home. It's ideal for brightening up a shady border or will spread happily to make a perfumed carpet of colour under trees and shrubs. 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 stunning displays for many years to come. Did you know that in France on 1st May, bunches of Lily of the Valley are sold as a good luck charm or love token - so why not grow it in your garden for year-round good fortune! Supplied as 3 x plants in 9cm pots, ready for immediate planting. Plants are dormant from September to March and are sent out without leaves.