Amazing orange calla lilies are mixed in this wooden basket with Karl Rosenfeld peonie, yellow roses and Italian foliage to create an uplifting floral tribute. A delightful sympathy arrangement for your loved one.
'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.
Callaloo is a Caribbean spinach which not only tastes fabulous but looks good too.
This is a great table flower arrangement that comes with a FREE glass vase. The flowers include white roses, mango calla lilies and 3 to 4 types of luxury flower foliage.
Just imagine, glistening, snow-white berries in your garden at Christmas - looking like tiny, sparkling decorations. Callicarpa, also known as the Beauty Berry, is a fabulously decorative shrub, characterized by bunches of berries which brighten the autumn garden with a sparkling hue. Something a little different to the usually seen purple plant - 'Magical Snowstar' is covered in snow-white berries from October to November which contrast beautifully with the autumn colour changes of its leaves. Callicarpa also works well as a decorative addition to Christmas displays, and adds a touch of winter magic to flower arrangements in your home. Growing to around 2.5m (8ft) Callicarpa bodinieri 'Magical Snowstar' is a tightly branching shrub which colours up in the autumn, when the leaves turn yellow before they fall, revealing the perfect snowball berries. If you're keen to cut the stems for indoor displays, then it's best to wait until December for the best colour. If you're keen to incorporate white accents into your garden, then callicarpa is an ideal choice. With a high tolerance for most soil types, it's very easy to grow - Magical Snowstar needs very little in the way of maintenance, just plant it in partial shade and prune out any dead or damaged branches in the spring. The bright berries provide your home with a colourful accent - although wait until the berries are fully grown and have their full colour. Once in a vase, it is important that they are in a cool and not too sunny place to retain the best colour. They're long lasting too, keeping for more than a month once cut as long as you don't drown the stems - they're fine in just 4in of water with a drop of bleach in the vase. You will receive an established plant in a 3L pot, ready for planting out.
The Beauty Berry is a wonderful deciduous shrub for providing year-round interest, the culmination of which is a grand display of violet-purple berries and rosy pink foliage in autumn. The purple-tinted leaves that appear in spring are followed by small pink flowers by midsummer, attracting bees and other pollinating insects. Callicarpa bodinieri var. giraldii 'Profusion' has a prestigious RHS AGM and is both exotic and hardy, an eye-catching choice for both borders and low maintenance gardens. Its berried stems make a lovely addition to autumn flower arrangements. Height: 3m (10?). Spread: 2.5 (8?).
Sometimes it's hard for a plant to live up to its name, but Beauty Berry doesn't fail and certainly will not let you down! An absolute knock-out, Callicarpa is grown for its long-lasting display of metallic-purple, almost jewel-like berries that cling in dense clusters to bare branches between autumn and late winter. An award-winning plant, this desirable shrub has received both the RHS Award of Garden Merit, and the RHS accolade of a Plant for Pollinators, making it a reliable and wildlife-friendly plant for the garden. In spring its young foliage is tinged a lovely shade of bronze before turning dark green, while summer interest is provided by a mass of delicate pink flowers. Then, before the berries come into their own, the dark green foliage puts on a fiery show in the autumn, turning golden and red Excellent grown alongside other shrubs in a sunny or slightly shaded position, this bushy deciduous plant grows to around 3m, but can be kept more compact by pruning. An absolute garden must-have, plant a few callicarpas together to get a bumper crop of berries!. Supplied as an established plant in a 3L Pot, plants will grow to approx. 1.8m.
Introducing - Callistemon - A lemon scented Bottlebrush tree in breath-taking 'Lollipop' Form Callistemon is a simply beautiful evergreen tree that will explode with incredible firework-like bottle brush blooms in early summer each year - the flowers are larger than many other varieties. Available here in eye-catching 'standard' form so the flowering head is held on a strong stem, well above your other plants, thereby making an incredible visual statement and making your garden really stand out from the crowd! They are perfect for growing in pots on your patio and to make them even more attractive, the foliage has a refreshing lemon-citrus scent that will fill the air when you brush past or crush the leaves. Friendly insects and essential pollinators will flock to the nectar-laden blooms, ensuring that your fruits and vegetables get the essential 'pollination service' they require! So even if you are a Grow Your Own gardener with little need for flowering plants - there is no excuse here! Originally raised in Kings Park in Perth, Australia and very commonly grown across the Mediterranean, these complete beauties have incredibly pretty pink foliage when it is young. They love a sun drenched position and will reward you with more spectacular blooms when you site them well. Supplied as a 80-100cm (incl pot) tall standard lollipop-form tree in bud in spring. Prune to keep to size. Will reach up to 3m if allowed free growth.
Ideal for a sheltered corner outdoors, Callistemon viminalis 'Hot Pink' produces fascinating bottle-brush-like flowers in early summer in an eye-catching shade of bright pink. Brilliant as a specimen plant on the patio, this small evergreen shrub also makes a striking feature grown against a sheltered sunny wall, where it is hardy to -5°C (23°F). Once established, Callistemon viminalis requires little maintenance. Height: 1.5m (5'). Spread: 1m (3'). Supplied in a 9cm pot.