Like many things in America, it seems the bigger, bolder and brassier the better! And the same is true of Jumbo Flowered American Fuchsias - a must for every summer flowering display! So many keen gardeners consider any hanging basket incomplete without at least some fuchsias, so if you have grown fuchsia before and liked them, you will certainly love these giants too. With layer upon layer of delicate petals they are breathtakingly beautiful and always draw admiring glances. A regular best-seller with our customers, they simply perform year in year out, whatever our summer weather throws at us. Each collection contains 3 plants each of: 'Voodoo' - deepest ruffled purple centres, with bright red sepals. 'Swingtime' - bright red and white. 'Bella Rosella' - tousled deep pink petals. 'Deep Purple' - rich purple with a hint of magenta. These 4 varieties have been selected for their huge flower size and summer long performance and beautiful colour combinations. They always look best when planted up where they can trail and you can look up in to the blooms, as they cascade over the side of baskets. Follow the crowd, and see why Jumbo Flowered American Fuchsias are lighting up British gardens too! Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Blessed with strongly scented flowers from late spring into early summer, French lilacs are desirable deciduous shrubs that really make their presence felt. Appearing in great profusion at the end of branches clothed with heart shaped green leaves, the tiny, packed clusters of purple buds open to reveal a mass of brightly coloured tubular flowers that smell great and act as a magnet to wildlife. A real sun lover, lilacs can be grown in just about any soil or can be raised in large containers. For a sensational floral display, year after year, deadhead when two new shoots appear beneath faded blooms and remove any wayward branches to keep a compact shape. Supplied as 3 established plants in 9cm pots, 1 each of 3 colours; pink, white and lavender-blue.
Seen in some of the swankiest gardens across the country, lavender will easily create features that will delight all the senses for many years, such as hedges, specimen bushes and topiary. The silvery grey foliage and pure purple blooms are packed with a heady scent and will provide you a colourful spectacle from early to mid summer. Hidcote is one of the most aromatic varieites, grown widely in the fragrance market, yet is a great garden variety too. The purple flowers are also a magnet to bees, butterflies and other beneficial creatures, which will have your garden buzzing with wildlife - literally! Growing up to 60cm tall, a hedge of traditional English lavender can be used in many ways. Try planting it around beds, borders or paths, to divide up parts of your garden or to make an eye-catching parterre or knot garden. Space plants 30cm apart and once established, a lavender hedge is extremely drought tolerant. Keep it in great shape by pruning twice a year; trim lightly in mid to late summer, removing spent flower heads. Prune again in early spring, removing about 2.5cm of growth. Supplied as a pack of 12 plug plants. Pot on for 4-5 week before planting out.
These dazzling mini petunias are a must for any garden giving a sumptuous display of trailing 'mini bells' throughout the summer, bringing colour and style to your garden, balcony or patio You'll be absolutely amazed with the depth of tone that these super petunias exhibit and the exceptional colours will be an absolute WOW when planted up in baskets and containers. Versatile and striking, they can be used as fillers or spillers, creating a subtle palette of rustic tones which will compliment your existing displays magically. Daintier than regular petunias, these neat mini rosebud-like, double blooms are produced in far greater numbers meaning your baskets and patio containers will be smothered with colour from late spring to autumn. Known botanically as Calibrachoas, a close relative of petunias, they are vigorous growers and are very easy to care for, these floral beauties are remarkably weather resistant, bouncing back much more quickly from wind and rain and withstanding midday heat much more successfully - the perfect plant for UK gardens. Why not enjoy Calibrachoa 'Calitas' this year in your garden! Perfect for baskets, window boxes and patio pots, use them wherever non-stop colour is needed. The collection features three spectacular colours, 4 plug plants of each: Supplied as a collection of 12 plug plants in a random mix of colours.
Incredible value, our patio standard rose collection will give you beautifully fragrant, premium quality, elegant blooms to enjoy all summer long. This Patio Standard Rose collection is superb value for money, and less than HALF normal nursery prices. They will produce summer-long displays of beautifully fragrant blooms for years to come. Also known as Tree Roses, they are the perfect way to add height and elegance to your patio - where a single bush will make a dramatic fragrant feature - or as a pair of potted specimens to dress a door or gateway. By 'top grafting' the flowering variety onto the straight stem of the rootstock, thereby giving the height, it takes expert growers a full three years to produce these gems. Rose 'Yellow' produces large, yellow flowers and blooms continuously from early summer to autumn. Rose 'Pink' beautifully demonstrates how the perfect rose should look. Its single, perfect buds are held over glossy green leaves from May to October. Rose 'Red' is a classic red rose with deeply coloured, velvet-like petals through summer and into autumn, which look picture-perfect when spotted with early morning dew. Rose 'White' brings simple, elegant beauty to your garden. Its ice-white petals look particularly striking against its dark green foliage and blooms repeatedly from May to October. Supplied as 4 x bare root, standard trees with well-formed heads, approx. 60-70cm tall ready to plant out. NB Colours may vary depending on availability
Incredible value! Our 'Patio Standard' Rose Collection will burst with wonderfully fragrant, premium quality elegant blooms in white, pink, yellow and red. Not only are they smothered with beautiful rose heads all summer long - you can expect to enjoy their splendid displays for centuries to come! This Patio Half Standard Rose collection is superb value for money, that's less than HALF normal nursery prices! Also known as Tree Roses, they are the perfect way to add height and elegance to your patio - where a single bush will make a dramatic fragrant feature - or as a pair of potted specimens to dress a door or gateway. Pair them up with our fantastic hand-finished brushed metallic plant pots that are also included in this collection! These beautiful planters are the perfect partner for your roses - they will even make a perfect gift for a friend, family member or perhaps a neighbour! If you're keeping them all for yourself, you'll be able to pot up your roses right away with this set of 4 matching pots that will really give your garden that contemporary feel. Manufactured from hard-wearing frost and UV resistant plastic with raised drainage holes and water reservoirs to allow your plants to thrive, they are very durable and are perfect for using on your patio. Hand-painted using a brand-new process developed last year, their metallic paint creates an eye-catching and stunning effect that will really add visual value to your beautiful plants!
This is the ultimate chrysanthemum collection - 24 of the biggest and best varieties guaranteed to make a massive impact in your garden!Chrysanthemums are a much loved, classic cottage garden favourite, due to their beautiful clusters of ball-shaped flowers. Nothing heralds the arrival of autumn in the garden than a garden flushed with their gorgeous blooms.'Spray' and 'Bloom' Chrysanthemums are the beautiful classic old-fashioned types, with glorious 8-10 inch blooms in a mix of orange, pink, yellow and purple. Planted in a mixture these will create simply stunning features!Chrysanthemums have a long flowering period, so you can enjoy their huge, impressive displays all summer long, typically from the end of July through to December.Often used to create impact in florist's bouquets where they come at a price, this collection is incredible value for money and you'll be able to cut them from your own garden and create your very own unique displays in vases indoors.These are hardy, shrubby perennials that will return every year to delight with their showy blooms. They are so easy to care for and they thrive when well-watered but require very little pruning. They produce their tight, balls of colour naturally, and don't need any help achieving or maintaining this shape.
Garden Bloom Chrysanthemums bear a single large flower rather than the multiple flowers that Spray types produce. These are really fashionable with top florists and command very high prices per stem, so if you grow your own you can have a magnificent display indoors and out and also save a small fortune! Throughout the growing season, remove the side shoots on a fortnightly basis (these are the little growths between the leaves and the stem) as this directs all of the energy in to the single large top flower. They bloom from September to October, so they make a perfect companion to the spray chrysanthemums, with each plant giving you approximately 3-4 stems of cut-able flowers. They are ready to cut as soon as you see the first sign of colour appearing and when they get to this stage, cut the stems quite low down, around 15cm (6') from the ground level, and remove the lower leaves from the cut stems prior to plunging them in to a tall vase of cold water. As an indoor display, they will last at least 2 weeks, but do change the water every few days as this keeps them in the best possible condition. Support them throughout the growing season with a strong bamboo cane per plant. Although a little more work is involved in growing Bloom Chrysanthemums, the quality and impact of the flowers will more than repay you for your effort!
If you would like to grow your own tall, strong stems of cut flowers, for harvest late this summer and in to the autumn months these are the perfect plants to grow. They will flower from August and into October, with each plant giving you approximately 5-6 stems for cut flowers. They are ready to pick as soon as the first few flowers Break Bud, which means start to show some colour when they get to this stage, cut the stems quite low down, around 15cm (6') from the ground level, and remove the lower leaves from the cut stems prior to plunging them in to a tall vase of cold water. As an indoor display, they will last at least 2 weeks, but do change the water every few days as this keeps them in the best possible condition. When grown exclusively as a border plant, give them some support with a bamboo cane and position them towards the back of a border where they will brighten your garden just when so many other plants are coming to the end of their season.
Bring your winter-worn borders back to life and get them off to a flying start with this wonderful collection of Senetti! Senetti are a fairly new variety, related to Cineraria, but having much greater cold tolerance than them - they are great for planting out earlier as they will take temperatures down to zero. Coming into flower earlier than many Summer bedding lines, thanks to their ability to cope with the cold, these brightly coloured beauties will continue to flower prolifically from early April right through to hot Summer, filling a nice early season gap! With their gorgeous shades of magenta pink and deep blue, as well as their variants with a lovely two-tone white picotee, you will get prolific displays - perfect in patio pots and tubs. Supplied as 12 jumbo plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Nothing heralds the arrival of Autumn in the garden than good old-fashioned Chrysanths - and these amazing Hardy Garden 'Mums are just the ticket to fill your garden with colour late on in the season and on into Winter. Naturally dome forming and compact, they will make fabulous potted plants for outdoors, or neat little domes in beds and borders. They will be smothered in literally hundreds and hundreds of flowers in deep, rich Autumnal shades, their filled centres joining together to create a carpet of colour. You will get 3 plugs each of 6 colours from the Gigi series - Orange, Coral, Pink, Dark Pink, Snow and Yellow - all flowering their socks off from late August well into November. Perfection for the Autumn garden!
'Samira' trailing Verbena will make a superb filler for all of your patio displays, giving a full look whatever the shape or size of the container. In fact, many of the very best professional growers specifically use Verbena to give hanging baskets and patio containers a sumptuous, full look that allows them to charge extra! These 4 vigorous varieties have been carefully selected from the best available because of their extraordinary colour range, fantastic flowering displays and the extra-long season the blooms are produced over. The delicate, serrated foliage grows in between all of the other plants in the container and also acts as a perfect foil for any brightly coloured bloomers! The long-lasting flowers open progressively from the bottom of the bloom and work towards the tip over several days so the visual impact is maximized. Varieties Included: Bright Pink, Purple Eye, Pink Twister and Red. Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.