Easier to grow than you may think, cannas are one of those exotic beauties that swiftly helps to create a bright, zingy summer garden. Their fiery hot colour combinations of yellow, orange and red will erupt throughout your beds and borders, adding great height and impact too. Each pack of 5 is a mix of colours, and also a mix of the green-leaves and lovely purple-leaved types, selected from taller flowering cultivars, so all will flower at 1m or more. Renowned for their tall flower spikes, grow them in large pots, or at the back of borders, in hot, sunny spots, in well-drained areas. Feed well when in growth - they will not start growing much until May, they grow away quickly as the summer warms. They will over-winter if they do not get too wet, and will benefit from a mulch - or the tubers can be dug up and stored in a cool, frost-free place over the winter for use again next year.
Make Christmas more fun by growing your own non-needle drop Nordmann Christmas tree from these cute starter plants. This 3 year old tree has been nurtured from seed, trimmed twice already to get that all important shape started, and grown in its pot for a year, so is now bursting to romp away in its new home. Perfect for planting into a larger pot such as a 20-25cm (8-10in) diameter pot for 2 years or so, or popping straight into the garden soil and growing it outside for a few years, you can watch this tree grow year after year. Tough, evergreen, very hardy and easy to grow. Perfect for celebrating a new home, a new member of the family, or just so the children can learn a lot growing fun trees.
A wonderful gift idea, anybody would be overjoyed to receive 'Special Anniversary', or make this magnificent, decadent and desirable rose a treat for yourself! The large, richly coloured and abundant deep pink blooms are set off perfectly by a background of lush and glossy dark green foliage. Not only do they look incredible, but they are wonderfully heavily scented with a fragrance that will fill the air all around them, and your home too, as they make perfect cut flowers. A naturally neat and bushy rose, 'Special Anniversary' is perfectly suited to container growing, making a wonderful addition to your terrace or balcony, although it also looks spectacular in borders growing amongst other flowers in harmonising shades of pink. 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 freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot.
An easy to grow mixture of 10 colourful annuals, which includes species found in our countryside during the Middle Ages such as borage, cornflowers and flax. This mixture has a blue tone base of cornflowers and echium, with added red-orange contrast provided by flax and marigolds, and lastly a touch of antique pink provided by mallow. Height 50-60cm (20-24in).
Add an exotic centrepiece to your border or patio with this stunning canna ?Ambassador?, whose striking red blooms are offset by large, tropical-looking bronze leaves.
Description for Canna x generalis 'Cannova Yellow' not available
Tulip 'Ice Stick' is one of the earliest of the Kaufmanniana types, flowering from March to April. This intriguing variety has its own unique look that will certainly stand out from the crowd!
Ideal for sowing during the autumn months, this mixture will have no problem surviving the cold months of winter, and will spring to action by April, producing blooms through to July. The first colours to appear are the Siberian wallflower and Californian poppy. Silene then adds a touch of pink and forget-me-nots later add a touch of blue, finishing with the warmer tones of coreopsis, dianthus, delphiniums, echinacea and rudbeckia. Height 30-100cm (12-39in).
Create a mini wildflower meadow in your garden with the Wildflowers 'Cornfield Annuals Mix', Simply scatter the seed in the desired location, and a few months later it will become a blaze of colour.
Description for Nurserymans Choice Annual Summer Bedding Mix not available
Description for Canna x generalis 'Cannova Bronze' not available