This Dahlia Lubega collection is the perfect way to add a bright selection of colour to your garden. Blooming earlier than the standard types of Dahlia, they are versatile, all-round garden performers, making them a great choice for anyone to grow. With uniformly large, bright, and bold blooms which contrast magically with the glossy leaves - it's little wonder that these dahlias are proving to be a hit as indoor plants too as they remain naturally compact. Great in borders, but also perfectly suited to pots thanks to their compact nature. The huge, colourful blooms will dazzle you, and their early flowering period means that you will have dahlias to pick before anyone else. Vigorous and self-branching, these gorgeous flowers are very easy to grow, this is because no pinching is necessary and the large, double blooms cover the plant all season giving you great results with no effort. 2 x 'Lubega Burgundy' plugs 2 x 'Lubega Purple White' plugs 2 x 'Lubega Special White' plugs 2 x 'Lubega Power Red' plugs 2 x 'Lubega Power Rose' plugs 2 x 'Lubega Power Yellow' plugs Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready for potting up and growing on before planting out when all risk of frost has passed.
A colourful collection of the best varieties of Columbine. These easy to grow hardy perennials will quickly establish themselves in beds, borders and containers for a full display of colour and fantastic, exotic looking blooms.
Description for Nemesia Needlepoint Collection 12 Premium Large Plants not available
Growing your own fruit and veg couldn't be easier and you can Enjoy an abundance of tasty and tangy tomatoes all summer long with this collection. These tasty fruits can be picked and eaten straight from the plant or used in your cooking. A fantastic source of vitamin C and antioxidants, what is better that home-grown, healthy tomatoes? Tomato Shirley: A cordon variety, they are a home-grower's favourite and a fantastic, versatile all-rounder, that will see you get bountiful crops of medium-sized, bright red, juicy fruits. Produced on large trusses, tomato Shirley will fruit most prolifically when side shoots are pinched out as this will encourage them to have an upright central stem. Whether grown in an unheated greenhouse or outdoors, your fruits will ripen from July onwards to give a continuous crop. Easy to grow and with excellent disease resistance, 'Shirley' has a lovely sweet, rich flavour perfect for salads, sandwiches, and sauces. Tomato Gardeners Delight: A cropping, super-sweet, large cherry tomato is a top choice for both the beginner and experienced vegetable grower. An indeterminate variety (needs support), it can be reliably grown in a greenhouse or outdoors, producing and abundance of long trailing vines that will be ready for cropping from early summer right into October. 'Gardener's Delight' will reward with super-sweet, richly flavoured fruits with red, glossy skins - perfect for salads and sandwiches as well as for cooking. Easy to grow, all they need is a sturdy support and some pinching out of sets to encourage a tall, upright central stem. Tomato Moneymaker: An extremely popular variety of tomato, 'Money Maker' is a favourite amongst home-grower's, producing heavy crops delicious, bright red, medium-sized fruits. Another cordon variety, they will also grow at their best when side shoots are pinched out. Each plant will then produce a succession of fruit-laden trusses that ripen from July to October providing a continuous crop. Easy to grow and with excellent disease resistance, they can be grown in either an unheated greenhouse or outdoors. 'Money Maker' is a great variety to grow and is very popular thanks to its heavy cropping, delicious flavour and uniformed fruits, a great choice for adding to your favourite dishes. Supplied as 12 x Plug Plants (4 of each variety), ready to grow on before planting out, reaching a height of 2m.
Try dotting our Ultimate Spring Bulb Collection around your garden borders ? you?ll love the way they pop up to surprise you from February right through to May!
Rhubarb ?Taster?s Collection? will keep you supplied with rhubarb crumble, pies, and jams throughout the rhubarb season.
Fancy a grow-your-own cuppa? Then this should be your cup of tea! Botanical Infusions Plants is a collection of four exotic herbs for home-brewing your own herbal and medicinal teas.
This is a great little collection to fill those awkward spots most gardens have. Tolerating quite a bit of shade (or full sun), as well as most types of soils, these fab new little groundcover roses really are so versatile and easy to grow. From the newest of breeding, they are classified as 'Multiflora', meaning they produce hundreds of smaller flowers in summer and autumn, filling up gaps in beds and borders with a floriferous displays. Tried and tested in commercial landscape plantings where they get almost no maintenance or help, they form neat mounds of flowers, and have good disease resistance, so really are easy care. One trim back hard each spring before they start growing really is all they need, plus a couple of feeds a year. Simple! Supplied as established plants in 9cm pots, well-branched, they can be planted out any week of the year you can get a spade in the ground! In this Classic Collection, you get one each of: - 'Teeny Weeny Pink' - small mid pink flowers, with darker edge on cool nights -'Teeny Weeny White' - sister of the above, white flowers that have pink tinged edges on cool nights - 'Perle d'Alcanade' - a deep cerise red
Never has there been a better time to Grow Your Own and reap the benefits of producing your own fresh, healthy food. Making use of home gardens has always been a sensible thing to do, but now more than ever, produce picked and eaten from your own plot has never been a better idea! Growing Herbs is an easy way to introduce your family to the benefits of gardening. They're easy to grow and harvest, take up very little space and give you almost instant results - no hanging about for months while they mature! It's also a great way to get the kids involved - especially if you're struggling to find things to keep them occupied. For adults, growing herbs can lead to other interests such as cooking, herbalism and of course gardening. A herb garden is one of the simplest ways to grow and enjoy a whole range of fragrant herbs and a collection of herbs in a decorative container is an ideal solution when placed in a sunny spot near your house. This mixed collection of 12 plug plants will give you a great introduction to the fantastic world of herbs and contains a mixture of the following: Garden Mint Mentha x piperita Oregano Origanum vulgare 'Diabolo'Sage Salvia officinalis 'Fortado' (R)Thyme Thymus vulgaris 'Faustini'
You can now enjoy true year-round interest with vibrant flower colour and year-long foliage interest in this superb, all-in-one hardy evergreen collection! Six tried and tested garden winners will fill any gaps you might have in your existing beds and borders or allow you to plant a new one from scratch. Once planted and established, they will rapidly get going and look tremendous from this year onwards, providing a stunning visual display and a degree of privacy and security for you, as well. As an added bonus, they'll act as a natural safe haven for a wide variety of wildlife. Each plant is easy to grow and needs very little maintenance. In a mixture of colours, this collection of hardy shrubs is guaranteed to brighten up pots, patios, beds and borders - in fact, they're fabulous wherever you fancy planting them! Supplied as a collection of 8 plugs in 6 named varieties, plant together for a vibrant, year-round mix of colour, or plant separately and frame beds, borders and patios. Please note that the varieties received may differ from those listed. Ceanothus thyrsiflorus repens AGM x 1The 'creeping blue blossom' is a small spreading evergreen that can be grown against a wall for optimum effect! Glossy dark green leaves are highlighted by the pale blue flowers in spring. H1m x 2.5m, Flowers May - July. Cistus corbariensis x 1This hybrid Rock Rose is a bushy shrub with wavy leaves and crisp white flowers, each with a yellow centre. The red buds emerge from June. H0.5m x 1m. Cotoneaster dammeri x 2The Bearberry is a low growing evergreen with small rounded leaves. Perfect for supressing weeds as it forms a dense groundcover. The white flowers appear in summer and are followed by bright red berries. H0.1m x 1.5m. Flowers May - June. Euonymus fortunii 'Emerald Gaiety' AGM x 1Also known as the Spindle, this variegated evergreen will look spectacular when planted against a wall. The rounded leaves have a variegated white margin that will flush pink in winter. Flowers, although rarely produced, will appear in summer. H0.5m x 1m. Lonicera nitida 'Baggesen's Gold' AGM x 1A popular, golden evergreen that produces arching branches of light golden-green leaves. Easy to trim, it will form a dense plant that can also be used for topiary. It may produce tiny cream flowers in the spring followed by purple berries. H1.5m x W1.5M Lonicera ligustrina var. pileata x 2The box-leaved honeysuckle is a type of shrub with leaves similar to common box. Its long, glossy leaves are evergreen and form a low growing, ground-cover shrub. H1m x W2.5m. Grows up to 60cm/year with small white inconspicuous flowers in April - May.
As pretty as a picture, these delightfully compact flowering shrubs will bring you months of colour with the most beautiful foliage and flowers. Our collection of weigelas with their lush leaves and clusters of trumpet-shaped flowers are ideal plants for gardeners with little time for fussy maintenance. Naturally compact and perfect to bring your patio, balcony or terrace to life, they're the perfect low maintenance for mixed borders, pots and containers and will flower its head off from spring through the summer and often with a second flush of bloom into autumn. Weigelas are fully winter hardy, really easy to grow and always give good results so makes the perfect plant for new gardeners or those who prefer to spend less time maintaining and more time enjoying.Supplied as a collection of 3 established plants in 9cm pots, 1 each of: Weigela 'All Summer Peach' is a compact new introduction with lush leaves lightly toned with red and clusters of peachy-pink trumpet-shaped blooms. H70cm x W70cm. Fl April - October. Weigela 'All Summer Red' is delightful, compact flowering shrub with the most beautiful dark green leaves flushed reddish when young and bright red flowers.. H70cm x W70cm Fl April - October. Weigela 'Monet' is a delightful new plant with varigated foliage, green in the centre and edged in cream with a touch of pink. Flowers are hot pink and trumpet-shaped. H90cm x W90cm. Fl May - July.
Finding year-round foliage colour for mixed planters and baskets, especially for autumn and winter colour, is a significant challenge - but ivies are the perfect foil to many plants. This duo - one a more solid green variety and the other variegated with gold edges - offers the perfect ingredients for hanging baskets, planters and tubs, for foliage interest that will cascade over the sides, providing a contrasting backdrop to any planting scheme. Varieties include: Hedera helix 'Yellow Ripple' (Gold) x 6 - a slow-growing, variegated variety, its grey-green leaves having creamy yellow margins. Hedera hibernica (Green) x 6 - a more vigorous variety with broad, 5-lobed leaves, shiny green leaves veined with paler green or cream. Slow growing, trim to shape; they can become the permanent features in tubs year after year, as you change the seasonal colour with them.