Plant this desirable perennial in a sunny or slightly shaded spot and you can enjoy a succession of brightly coloured bell-shaped flowers that are carried on short, upright spikes throughout summer and into autumn. A classic cottage garden perennial that is totally winter hardy and easy to grow. Perfect for beginners and experienced gardeners alike, you're guaranteed masses of spectacular flowers which can also be cut for your home. Superb grown in beds and borders alongside other perennials or among ornamental grasses, Penstemon likes well-drained soil and forms large clumps in time, rewarding you with even more flowers. Looking after them is easy; occasionally dead-head fading blooms to prolong the display and cover plants with a dry mulch of compost in late autumn to keep roots snug and protected from frost. Varieties Included: Heavenly Blue - A low mound of leaves absolutely smothered in electric-blue flowers with a hint of pink. King George V - A robust penstemon with stocky growth, covered in red flowers with a white throat. Snowstorm - An upright penstemon with bright green leaves and beautiful white bells tipped with pink. Raven - One of the darkest penstemons with dramatic trumpets of deepest purple.Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Scrumptious! You Can Now Pick Abundant Crops Of Delicious Plums, Apples & Pears From Your Own Mini-Orchard Fruit Tree Collection! These top-quality, 'Professional Standard' fruit trees mean YOU can now grow full-sized crops in your garden or even in pots on your patio! What's more, you can expect to be picking your first juicy fresh fruit in the first year! The crop will increase year on year, eventually giving you hundreds of pounds of produce per season and costing literally pennies per lb over their long life of over 50 years! They are 'self fertile' and grown on 'dwarfing' rootstocks so they will pollinate themselves and always be compact. The beautiful, fragrant blossom in spring will precede the fruits, with 'Victoria' cropping from July, 'Conference' in September and 'Braeburn' in October. Delicious fresh from the tree, they also make perfect jams and preserves or can be stored for later use - 'Conference' and 'Braeburn' will even keep until Christmas! Varieties Included: 'Braeburn' Apple'Braeburn' is the UK's most popular eating apple variety by far and it will easily grow and flourish superbly in your garden! The crisp and juicy white-fleshed fruits have what is considered by most to be the perfect sweet/tangy flavour balance, literally providing a flavour explosion with every mouthful! The gorgeous fruit will be ready to pick fresh from your tree by mid-October each season and will store well until the end of January if kept chilled but frost free. 'Conference' Pear'Conference' Pear produces a large crop of fruits with clear white flesh that are ready to pick each September. The long, tapering fruits are packed with an irresistible sweetness and lip-smacking juice that will drip from your chin when you bite in to a ripe one! Because of its outstanding flavour, it remains the most popular pear grown in Britain by a long measure both in commercial orchards and home gardens. It is perfect for you to grow because it is very heavy cropping and when picked unripe, it is great for keeping for 2 or more months. 'Victoria' PlumNamed in honour of the much-loved Queen, 'Victoria' Plum is the UK's favourite plum variety by a mile and deservedly so! The delicious fruits are ready to pick each July and taste simply mouth-watering when eaten straight from the tree. With the remaining fruit you can make jams and preserves and of course, eat them stewed with custard! Known for its sublime flavour and productivity - a fully established tree of this 'self-fertile' variety will produce up to 100lbs of fruit in a bumper season! Fruits are ready to pick each July.
Simply Stunning! Garden Glamour Repeat-Flowering Rose Bush Collection... Fully Fragrant Flowers For Non-Stop Summer Colour Every Year! This sensational Garden Glamour collection has been specially selected and features five multiple award-winning varieties, three of which have been honoured with the prestigious title "World's Favourite Rose"; 'Pascali', 'Queen Elizabeth' and 'Peace'! All are proven performers, guaranteed to produce masses of fragrant classic-style flowers. Each bush repeat flowers from May to October for a non-stop display of spectacular colour and scent - plant now for the best flowering displays next year! Perfect for pots, patios or borders, they reach 60 - 90cm in height and spread - perfect for all gardens, and easy to keep too. • Incredible fragrance from each flower• Repeat displays - masses of blooms from May - October• All disease resistant, proven performers in British gardens• 60 - 90cm high - perfect for patios, beds and borders Supplied as dormant, bare root roses in autumn and winter, ready to plant straight out, and they will shoot away the following spring as temperatures warm up - will flower in first year after planting.
Simply Stunning! Our best Ever Garden Rose collection of 5 Fabulous Hybrid Tea Roses This incredible collection, available only while limited stocks last, comprises 1 each of Vibrant Red, Pure White, Golden Yellow, Powder Pink and Peach Melba. All varieties have been selected for their proven garden performance, and will provide fantastic outdoor colour as well as stems you can cut for indoor displays too. They will fragrantly repeat flower from May to October year after year and are incredibly easy to grow. Each premium quality bush is totally winter hardy and will already have 3-5 strong branches when delivered to you. Bushes grow to 60-90cm tall and now is the perfect time to plant! Incredible fragrance and non-stop colour Repeat-displays - masses of beautiful blooms from May to October every year Disease resistant, and easy to grow... proven performers in British gardens 60-90cm high - perfect for your patios, beds and borders
Transform Your Garden - Grow These Garden Hardy Perennials For 6 Months Of Spectacular Colour Every Year! These incredibly colourful, strong-growing perennials will transform your garden from this year. Providing a wonderful display of showy colour and long-lasting structure throughout summer and until late October, they will look great AND attract beneficial insects including butterflies, ladybirds and honey bees, perfect for fruit and veg gardeners where pollination is so important. Supplied as plugs, they are big enough to plant straight out spring, summer or autumn and will establish and get better year after year. If planting together in a border, we suggest you plant 60cm (2ft apart), which they will fill after their second season. Main varieties Included (but not guaranteed): Achillea 'Summer Berries', Delphinium 'Pacific Giant Mix', Digitalis (Foxglove) 'Dalmation Mixed', Hollyhocks 'Chaters Double Mixed', Coreopsis 'Early Sunrise', Gaillardia 'Mesa Mix', Geum 'Lady Stratheden', Aquilegia 'Mrs Scott Elliot', Alchemilla mollis, Salvia Salvatore Blue, Verbena bonariensis, Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm'. Note: Due to this product being available all year, in some weeks we reserve the right to substitute some varieties in the specific collection shown here.
Vibrant Early Summer Colours, Sweetly Fragrant And They Last For Decades Too! Grow Anywhere Magnolia Collection. Create incredible spring displays as early as this April with these stunning Magnolia shrubs. Their heady perfume fills the air and the range of colours and formats makes this a perfect starter collection. And, whilst they love garden soil, they will happily grow almost anywhere - they look stunning in pots on your patio. Despite their connoisseur status, anyone can achieve truly amazing displays with these easy-to-grow Magnolias. Compact and slow-growing, they remain a manageable size for even the smallest garden. Totally winter hardy and perennial, so you can enjoy them year-after-year ... for decades! Supplied as a collection, one of each of the 3 gorgeous colours below, of 3 year old pot grown plants 40cm tall:: Magnolia stellata: Breathe in deeply. The large white flowers that burst out of the silky, silvery buds that cover the bare branches of the aptly named Star Magnolia during March and April are deliciously fragrant. Slow-growing and compact (3m (10ft) in height and 4m (12ft) across) this plant will thrive in most soils. Magnolia x soulangeana: One of the most popular magnolias you can grow thanks to a succession of huge, tulip-shaped pinky white flowers that smother the branches of this shrub in mid to late spring. They are shown off to great perfection on the spreading bush as they appear before its dark green leaves. Eventually reaching 6m (20ft) by 6m (20ft) wide, it can be pruned to keep within an allotted area. It prefers acidic soil or pots filled with ericaceous compost. Magnolia Susan: A perfect specimen for a small garden, this medium-sized magnolia boasts narrow, goblet shaped flowers that appear from near purple buds in April. Measuring almost 15cm (6in) across, each deep pink bloom packs a heady scent. It does best in slightly acidic soil or can be planted in containers of ericaceous compost. This upright shrub will grow to 4m (12ft) high by 3m (10ft) across.
Now more than ever is the time to grow something tasty from home and this is your chance to grow your very own crop of incredibly tasty blueberries on your patio - yummy! This veritable super food is believed to carry all manner of health benefits and is recommended by health experts and dietitians accordingly. Packed full of vitamins and minerals as well as antioxidants, they are not only really good for you, but they taste great too! Besides tasting great, blueberries will also provide true season-long interest for your garden with wonderfully fragrant tubular blossom in spring, followed by delicious fruits that form and colour up ready for picking from June onwards. This collection will provide 3 months of harvest from June until August with each bush providing up to 5kg (over 10lbs) of fruit per season once fully established. Blueberries make brilliant patio plants and will grow perfectly in pots. Do remember to use ericaceous (slightly acidic pH) compost though as all blueberries are lime intolerant. In autumn, the foliage will provide a bright flourish of scarlet colour before falling off for the winter. The collection comprises 3 varieties, selected for their wide continuous harvest period and ease of growth in your home garden. Varieties Included: Early: 'New Hanover' - The earliest cropping and a heavy cropper with fruits of a good size but with a wild blueberry flavour delicious! Mid: Blueberry 'Blueray' - A popular, tasty mid-season cropper providing big crops of juicy sweet fruits. Late: 'Ozark Blue' - The latest cropper within our collection providing a big crop of delicious berries it is one of the most popular varieties and a real favourite of chefs!
These stunning Acers are guaranteed to make an impact in your garden for years to come! Fully hardy even in the coldest winters they lose their leaves in winter, only to burst with incredible colour in spring. The stunning foliage changes colour throughout the year, producing an amazing array of colours in Autumn. With this incredible collection you get 3 beautiful and highly desirable Acer plants, carefully selected to give a complimentary colour mix. Acers are slow growing, making them ideal for growing in large pots or smaller gardens, where once planted, they are very easy to maintain, and reward you with gorgeous foliage displays for many years. They do well in light shade, as the brightest Summer hot sun can scorch the paler coloured leaves occasionally. Being slow growing, and difficult to propagate, they are usually much more expensive, but we have a very special offer available. Varieties Included: Acer palmatum 'Atropurpureum' Deep burgundy-purple leaves that turn an even more brilliant shade of bright red in Autumn, just before they fall. The classic red-leaved maple. Acer 'Orange Dream' (AGM): New bright orange growth, which fades to yellow in the autumn. It is a great specimen shrub that grows to 2m over 20 years. Acer palmatum 'Emerald Lace': Bright emerald-green leaves that in the autumn, turn into blazing shades of reds and oranges. Grows to 1.5M over 20 years. Supplied in 10.5cm pots, 1 of each variety approx. 20cm tall and well branched.
Conifers provide a great ultra-low maintenance solution for smaller gardens, rockeries or gravel beds and this fantastic dwarf varieties mean that anyone can grow them, no matter what size of garden. This collection has been specially selected to provide a complimentary mix of varieties that will provide year round colour. Easy to grow, and fantastic for many a scenario in the garden, you can plant up in pots on the patio as evergreen features that will bring your patio to life at any time of year, or plant directly into the ground to fill up gaps in the garden or separate areas of beds and borders. All are easy to grow and are dwarf varieties so only require infrequent trimming to shape every few years. Best of all, they are very hardy so you needn't worry about them in the winter - just plant and grow! Supplied as a set of 6 different varieties of a seasonally available range, ready to plant out all year round. Juniperus Blue Carpet AGM - H10cm x W150cm Juniperus Green Carpet AGM - H10cm x W100cm Thuja Golden Globe - H50cm x W40cm Thuja Mr Bowling Ball - H60cm x 60cm Thuja Rheingold AGM - H100cm x W50cm Chamaecyparis Baby Blue - H50cm x W50cm Please note that the varieties supplied may differ depending on availability.
Quite possibly one of the most colourful of the creeping phloxes, this dainty, evergreen perennial is a versatile solution for a colourful spring garden, perfect for planting in drifts for a carpet of colour through April and into May or dotted around to fill gaps and keep weeds at bay. With an abundance of 5-petalled star-like flowers along with distinctive needle-like leaves, each plant will spread to 60cm (2ft) across and is the perfect choice for rock gardens and for edging paths and borders. Also known as creeping moss phlox, you can grow it in mixed borders in full sun as well as in all manner of containers - it really is a plant for every occasion. As well as making an invaluable groundcover plant and weed suppressant, hardy carpet phlox is a low or no maintenance hardy plant needing very little in the way of aftercare, making it the perfect plant for those new to gardening or with no time for faddy garden divas. This collection is made up of 4 different varieties: 'Candy Stripe' - Pink with white stripes. 'Emerald Cushion Blue' - Pale lavender blue. 'McDaniels Cushion' - Bright pink. 'White Delight' - Pure white. Supplied as collection of 12 x Plug Plants, 3 of each variety, ready to pot on or plant out.
Perfect for filling gaps in beds and borders with masses of beautiful blousy flowers, these vigorous 'rock roses' are hardy, drought tolerant and ever so easy to grow. With just a little pruning after flowering in late spring/summer, they'll reward you with another flush of flowers in late summer. In an assortment of varieties and colours, the flowers really stand out against the evergreen shrubby silver-green foliage and will bring the bees, butterflies and other beneficial wildlife to your garden - great for aiding pollination of other plants in your garden! Ideal as a groundcover plant or for growing in sometimes problematic areas like rockeries, gravel areas or hot and dry borders, this helianthemum collection makes light work of hard areas. Supplied as 6 x plug plants, one of each variety ready grow on before planting out. Growing to 20cm (8in) x 30cm (12in).
The World's first Hardy Gerbera in a range of bright, zingy neon colours, the 'Garvinea' series was launched 3 years ago to great acclaim across Europe. Well, now they have got even better! The breeders in Holland who created them have developed an improved series with much bigger flowers, and even longer lasting performance called the 'Sweet Series'! Bringing popular florists gerbera flowers to a garden perennial, they give an amazing 7 months of colour from spring to autumn every year - not many plants can do that. Retaining the same benefits of being winter hardy to around -8C and flowering for several seasons of colour, their highly distinctive flowers simply keep coming - up to 50 on a 2-year-old plant. We love them potted up in these bright & bold planters - a mix of 4 rainbow colours, you can mix and match your plants to your planters and creating an eye-catching display for your patio. Highly distinctive with their 'ruler straight' stems and perfectly symmetrical, upward facing flower heads, Gerberas are also highly prized as a cut flower so are ideal for cutting at the stem and bringing indoors for beautiful displays in vases on the windowsill.