Plants add interest to a pond, encouraging and sheltering wildlife in the process. Helping to keep the water clear and oxygenated, they're essential for pond health and choosing the right plants will create the perfect mini ecosystem in your garden. Our curated collection of hand-picked plants will help to create the perfect setting in your garden, allowing you full enjoyment of your pond as well as helping resident or visiting wildlife. The perfect way to fill your pond with colourful and functional plants with no effort at all, our Starter Pond Plant Collection contains a mix of 6 of the most useful plants to give you a complete range, suitable for most ponds. Curated to get your pond up and running in next to no time, this mix is perfect if you're new to ponds and are not sure where to start or if you have an existing pond and want to add more plants. We've done the work for you and put together this collection to help you get the right balance in your pond. Our Pond Plant Collection contains: Calla Palustris (bog arum): Marginal pond plant with arum-like flowers, glossy leaves and a sprawling habit. Excellent for disguising pond edges, this hardy perennial will reach 25cm (10in) high and 60cm (24in) wide. Pontederia cordata (pickerel weed) (AGM): Marginal pond plant with bright green leaves and small tubular deep blue flowers. Grows to 60cm (24in) Typha latifolia (bulrush): Marginal-shallow water plant which will thrive in up to 1m (3ft) depth of water. Grows to 1.5m-3m (5-10ft) high. Butomus umbellatus (flowering rush): Marginal to 25cm deep. An herbaceous perennial growing to 1.2m, with upright, twisted grassy leaves and stiff stems bearing heads of fragrant rosy-pink flowers. Caltha palustris (marsh marigold): An RHS Plants for Pollinators, this is a perennial plant for the pond edge with rounded, rich green leaves and clusters of deep yellow flowers 4cm (2in) in width. Eriophorum angustifolium (common cotton grass): Marginal perennial (to 5cm deep) with tufts of dark green, linear leaves, with white-hairy flower-heads in summer. Please note that varieties may change depending on seasonal availability.
Blackcurrants, redcurrants and whitecurrants that have been allowed to ripen in the sun taste sensational and far superior to anything you can buy in supermarkets - perfect for eating fresh, adding to your favourite desserts or freezing for use at later date. These top quality, professional grade Uk-grown bushes in your collection will establish quickly and reward with your first fruit this summer, followed by crops that get larger and larger each year. Packed full of vitamins, minerals and requiring the minimum of care, these tasty superfruits are ideal for growing in beds or borders, or for planting in large pots that grace the patio. Blackcurrants and whitecurrants will fruit their socks off in a sunny position, while redcurrants are happy in sun or in a more shaded position they will even do well against a north facing wall or fence. Varieties Included: Blackcurrant 'Ben Lomond' Redcurrant 'Rovada' Whitecurrant 'White Versailles'
Lilacs are well-loved by gardeners for their sweetly perfumed, late spring blooms. This elegant trio offers 3 choice varieties that are less commonly seen in UK gardens, but certainly deserve to be more widely grown!
Flowering shrubs are the backbone of any garden, giving colour, form, winter interest and privacy throughout the year, for many years, as well as attracting a host of wildlife. With so many different types available, there's always something that will appeal to every gardener, whatever their level of experience or preference!We've specially selected and put together a collection of low maintenance favourites that are ideal for filling gaps in gardens, creating screening or a feature shrubbery, but all with the absolute minimum of fuss. A lovely collection of gorgeous late spring and summer flowering shubs for years of colour & fragrance, featuring a mix of flower colours, giving interest from April through to September, this collection includes customer favourites which are particularly adored for their scent and colour. All low maintenance favourites, these shrubs are ideal for filling gaps in gardens, or creating a screen or shrubbery. Supplied as a set of 6 different varieties of seasonally available range, ready to plant out all year - some will be dormant and have no or few leaves in winter.
We've put together a special collection of shrubs, especially for the winter months when little else is happening in the garden. These wonderful shrubs will not only give you some much needed floral outdoor decoration, but will also enhance your outdoor space by lifting your spirits with delightful scents. Each variety has been especially chosen on its own individual merits, and as a collection they are guaranteed to add a special touch to your winter garden.
Nothing beats the sight and scent of traditional English climbing roses draping from an archway or pergola, churning out flowers for 4 months through the summer, and producing a fabulous fragrance to waft through your garden on the breeze, especially on warm days. Climbing up to 4.5m, these roses are perfect for growing up trellises, arches, walls or fences. What's more, these beautiful roses will produce their first displays this summer to fill your garden with colour and fragrance. Easy to grow and maintain, you will get one each of : Dublin Bay - a sumptuous red double, very-free flowering and quite thorn free (to 2.5m) Golden Showers - bright sunshine yellow (to 4.5m) Zepherine Drouhin - vibrant pink (to 4.5m)
Direct from the latest breeding in Hydrangeas, this new and innovative variety forms part of the Royalty Collection. Hydrangea macrophylla 'Lady Mata Hari Pink' produces large mophead blooms in summer.
These large flowered varieties are informally grouped together as Dinnerplate Dahlias ? and for good reason. Each spectacular bloom grows up to 30cm (12) across!
This vibrant collection of beautiful, re-blooming, bearded Iris provide a colourful display in spring and a second flush in midsummer. These hardy perennials are easy to grow and quick to establish in sunny borders, coping well with sandy, dry soils.
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Coleus are flamboyant foliage plants which come in a range of fantastic colours and make sensational statement plants in patio pots, beds and borders.
This superb collection of Gooseberries will provide you with a fabulous range of juicy fruits, all with their own unique flavour. The Gooseberry ?Giggles? range produces plump, rounded, smooth-skinned berries that complement each other to perfection.