With their range of vibrant pastel coloured blooms, these Lewisia plants will provide a colourful display over three seasons, from Spring to Autumn. With tough evergreen leaves the perfect plant for a rock garden with good drainage, they are drought tolerant once established.
Year after Year, Begonia Illumination Apricot Shades features in our Top 3 best-selling bedding and basket plants. Why? It's undoubtedly the combination of fantastic performance in baskets and tubs whatever the Summer weather, combined with the gorgeous blend of warm tones and shades that the mix produces. This beautiful variety has flowers in wonderfully warm shades of yellow, gold, apricot, orange and ochre that will fill your hanging baskets and patio containers with colour from May until October! The blooms are incredibly weather proof, long lasting and plentiful, held on strong healthy plants with a gently trailing growing habit. They look best simply on their own, as there is enough subtle colour variation not to look too overdone. One for the short-list for sure.
Create a dazzling display this Summer with Nicotiana Essence. They will be smothered in lightly scented, star-shaped blooms in soft shades of red, pink and white. This weather tolerant variety looks particularly good planted en mass in your garden borders or patio pots.
Begonia 'Fragrant Falls Improved' in an improved cultivar of the original version. It has more colour, more flowers and more fragrance.
Apricot Sparkle Trailing Mix baskets are filled with colourful Golden Orange flowers that cascade beautifully over the sides. This Basket comes to you already planted up, just water and hang then enjoy.
A bushy deciduous shrub with the most attractive;colour-changing leaves. Emerging fresh green in the spring;the leaves mature to a golden yellow in summer before maturing to a fiery red in the autumn. Flushes of smokey yellow flowers appear in summer. Will make a striking addition to your garden borders;particularly when planted next to bronzed-leaved plants.
Practical but wonderfully quirky and decorative Scottie Dog doorstop is a superbly practical way to keep doors open with a bit of a twist anywhere in the home. Complete with a stylish collar, this chap will complement any indoor interior. A fabulous home accessory which would also make a special gift This item is not fire retardant so do not place near a direct heat source Item Dimensions: 30 x 28 x 22cm Weight: 1.67kg
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If you are looking for an evergreen shrub, that has foliage all year round, Leucothoe axillaris 'Curly Red' is highly recommended. It is a suitable shrub for medium sized gardens and has unusual curled leaves that turn deep red in autumn. Ideal for shady borders, with acidic soil. You can also grow Leucothoe in containers using an ericaceous compost mix, which will provide instant greenery to a paved area.Height: 1.5m (4'.9). Spread: 2m (6'.5).
Apricot 'Aprigold' is the fabulous patio Apricot from the world-leading Zaiger American breeding program. Naturally very compact, and yet self-fertile, it makes the ideal patio fruit tree for large pots on sunny patios balconies and gardens. With the added benefit of lovely soft-pink early blossom, it has a lovely Spring feature too, and as the new leaves emerge they have a lovely orange-red tinge to them, classic of Apricots. Remaining below 1.2M for 10 years or so, this makes it an ideal fruit tree for smaller gardens. Apricots are early fruiters even in the UK, and once established in a year or 2, you should get good crops of tasty, juicy apricots from late July into August every year.
The Cot series of Apricot trees have taken the commercial fruit and gardening World by storm in the last 5 or so years, bringing exceptional crop yields and fruit quality. 'Tomcot' is one of the best for the UK climate, suited to our colder climates, where we get less accumulated sunshine, yet we get plenty of Winter chill to set buds.One of the key reasons it works well over here is it is late flowering, so avoids the late frosts that can afflict other Apricots. Yet, it catches up and still yields heavy crops of juicy, deepest orange fruits in the UK - perfect eaten when warmed by the sun straight off the tree, or for cooking and jam making. The tree is grafted onto dwarfing rootstock, a new dwarfing type keeping it short and manageable. To cap it all, 'Tomcot; is even self-fertile, so does not need a partner to produce heavy crops. You will get crops in 2 years of planting; this is a great opportunity to buy a tree of the size normally available only to commercial plantations. 'Tomcot' really will deliver big crops of fresh Apricots here in the UK.
A much-loved bedding plant for over a century, Nicotiana alata bears abundant trumpet-shaped white flowers all the way from June until the first frosts.