For those who adore gin! This gift set includes 4 slate coasters, each one printed with a different gin cocktail recipe, including: 'Girls' Night In', 'Mediterranean Breeze', 'Fuzzy Orchard' and 'Ginger Zinger'. The slates can also be used as a chopping surface for slicing limes, lemons or grapefruit to put in your cocktails. They all store away in the handy tin, which also contains a recipe sheet for another 30+ popular gin cocktails.
This variety of Echinacea will flower in its first year and has a colour range like no other. From rich purple, red, scarlet and orange tones to lighter yellows, creams and white, this variety are perfect for adding a kaleidoscope of colour and will attract bees and other pollinating insects to your garden.
A popular cottage garden perennial, Physalis alkekengi is a hardy perennial that produces small creamy-white, nodding flowers in summer, followed by light green fruit cases in August which add to the appeal of the plant and turn to a very attractive deep orange in September. These papery, orange-red husks resemble the popular lanterns and housing bright orange-scarlet berries.Perfect for providing autumn interest to your garden, they can be grown in well-drained beds and borders and are ideal in pots where they can be fully appreciated. As well as great garden colour, the delicate lanterns also make superb dried flowers in arrangements and bouquets and can be easily dried for Christmas arrangements. 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 an established plant in a 9cm pot ready to plant out, Chinese lanterns are very easy to grow and care for, thriving in a sunny or shady position in preferably moist, well-draining soil.
Echinacea, also known as the Coneflower, are hardy perennials that flower at the height of summer and continue until the first autumn frosts. The name refers to the cone-shaped centre of the large, brightly coloured flowers. Not only are they beautifully, they're also one of the best plants you can grow for attracting all manner of wildlife into your garden. In this collection: Echinacea Hybrida Papallo Lemon - Produces classic daisy-like single Echinacea flowers, with vibrant yellow petals packed around a green-yellow central cone. Echinacea Hybrida 'Papallo Orange' - With its spectacular, daisy-like single flowers with fiery orange, backward swept petals around a darker orange central cone. They are perfect for late season colour and flowering from July until September. Carried on long, straight, and sturdy stems, they are wonderful cut flowers and are adored by bees and butterflies and once they fade, birds will feast on the seeds, so try to resist the temptation to deadhead the later season blooms. Popular in cottage garden planting, they're perfectly at home in borders and pots, and look spectacular planted in groups, returning year after year to give you a stunning display. Supplied as 2 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting, reaching a height of 70cm (2½ft) and a spread of 50cm (20in).
The unique, bicolour blooms of Echinacea 'Parrot' bring to mind the colourful plumage of exotic birds. Echinacea ?Parrot? is a most unusual coneflower with vibrant colours that stand out beautifully in hot, sunny borders.
A bright mix of these large-flowered Dianthus that provide fabulous summer colour. Dianthus chinensis 'Coronet Mixed' is one of the best bedding Dianthus you?ll find with multiple blooms per plants and wide, open flowers that smother the dark foliage.
The Chinese Money Plant, also known as the Missionary Plant, is a great houseplant for shelves and window ledges. It has rounded, glossy leaves, that surround a central, upright stem, with a neat and compact habit.
Astilbe chinensis 'Mojito' is relatively new on the scene, but certainly makes its presence known! The feathery plumes of white flowers open from pale green buds above a neat clump of dark green foliage - the overall effect is both elegant and refined.
Grown for the intriguing papery lanterns which enclose its bright orange autumn fruits. The stems of vibrant lanterns can be cut for dried flower arrangements, or left on the plant where they add winter interest; slowly becoming ornate skeletons.
With beetroot purple centres, and lime green petals, Echinacea 'Green Twister' is a striking plant, that is a great addition to any herbaceous border, in a range of styles, including, priarie, cottage, and informal.
This spreading, deciduous shrub brings welcome colour to the garden in late summer and early autumn when many other flowers have gone over. Masses of disc-shaped, vivid blue flowers appear from August to October, complimenting the green stems and leaves with their purple margins. These leaves turn russet-red and orange and look spectacular with each fiery shoot ending in a bunch of these cobalt-blue blooms. The Chinese plumbago is a sub-shrub and is partway between a shrub and a perennial where in some years it dies right down to the ground while in others, the top growth stays all winter, making a framework for the following year. Originally a Chinese native, the flowers have the same round form as plumbago - hence Chinese plumbago - and it's best planted towards the front of a sheltered, sunny border in soil that does not get too dry. 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 an established plant in a 2L pot, Chinese Plumbago will reach approximately 1m (3ft 3in) tall x 1.5m (5ft) wide.