A particularly attractive variety or flowering quince, 'Orange Trail' produces masses of bloom along its branches in a vivid display of orange/red, each flower highlighted by a crentral crown of yellow anthers. Ornamental quinces bring a welcome flush of colour to the garden in spring, when their bare twigs become smothered in flowers before the glossy, dark green leaves appear. Ideal to train as a climbing shrub against a wall or fence or placed at the back of a border where their spring blossom can really shine. Incredibly easy to grow, Japanese quince will tolerate most soil types and aspects, including shade, which makes them invaluable for brightening dull corners of the garden and being a wide spreading shrub with thorny branches, it makes a perfect security hedge to deter unwanted visitors. Additionally, they have also shown good resistance to honey fungus - ideal if your garden is susceptible. Not just a pretty face, quinces develop apple-like fruit with a distinctive, sweetly fragrant aroma when ripe and can be cooked and made into jelly, making them the perfect decorative addition to any grow your own project. Supplied as an established plant in a 2L pot, ready for immediate planting.
This beautiful winter flowering Jasmine is a completely reliable and easy to grow plant that will fill your garden with colour in the depths of the dreariest months of the year. It will grow as a loosely scrambling bush with arching stems that become smothered with bright yellow flowers from November to March every year, followed by glossy green foliage which will fill spaces in beds and borders with ease. It can even be grown in large patio pots and containers if space is limited. Fully hardy, it performs well in any soil and flowers best in full sun where it will bring life to winter borders. Easy to grow, it requires no pruning except a trim to limit growth or keep in a preferred shape. It can be trained to trellis or walls and is particularly effective grown with ivy, covering unsightly walls and buildings in the garden. Growing to a height and spread of 3m (10ft). Delivered as established plants in 9cm pots ready to plant straight away.
Otherwise known as 'Glory Flower', 'Pink Diamond' is an easy-care choice for summer interest in your garden borders or in pots on your patio. Large clusters of deep-pink flowers emerge in high summer from dark red buds, set off against large, heart-shaped, soft green leaves, each with a subtle cream variegation. Flowering from August to September, the fragrant blooms are a magnet for bees and butterflies. Compact at about 1.2m (4ft) height and spread, it is tailor-made for larger pots as well as smaller garden borders and shrubberies, in sun or partial shade. This half-hardy, deciduous shrub is easy to care for, requiring only a little trimming in the autumn to keep it tidy. It will require protection from the worst of the winter weather, so mulch around the base of the plant if in the ground, or move container-grown plants to a conservatory or greenhouse during the winter. Supplied as an established plant in a 3L pot, ready to plant.
Also known as the creeping blue blossom, (or Californian Lilac), this Ceanothus certainly lives up to its name, growing into a gorgeous mounded shrub with glossy evergreen leaves and powder-blue flowers in the spring which will delight everyone who sees it. The pale blue flowers form a spectacular cloud of colour during May and June and will attract a host of butterflies and other pollinators into your garden, making it invaluable for supporting our native wildlife as well as thrilling your senses! Easy to grow and one of the hardiest of the ceanothus family, thyrsiflorus var. repens is compact enough to grow in a pot if your space is limited or it can be grown up a wall where it will climb to higher than its normal 1.5m (45cm) giving your garden height and structure. Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come. Supplied as an established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant straight out. Grows to H1.5m (5ft) x W4m (13ft), flowers May - June.
The Kaleidoscope Abelia creates a vibrant spectacle in your garden with its colourful foliage. In spring the colours are a mix of green and yellow which intensifies in summer and then transforms to orange and red hues for Autumn. Delicate funnel shaped pink flowers are produced from June to October attracting butterflies and bees. This plant is semi evergreen so may lose its leaves in the winter however fresh foliage will reappear in the spring. Supplied in a 13cm pot.
A beautiful dwarf lilac with an incredibly long flowering period, easily out-flowering most other lilacs that only bloom for a short time in spring. 'Flowerfesta® Pink' starts to flower with a first flush in spring and into summer, then continuing intermittently well into autumn, when it finishes blooming with one final flourish, and the clusters of tiny pale pink, nectar rich, fragrant flowers will attract bees and other pollinators into your garden. Being a dwarf variety reaching only 1.25m (4ft) and with a compact nature, it'll look great in patio pots where its scent will drift and delight. Easy to care for and slow growing, with little pruning required, just deadhead regularly to keep it tidy and to encourage more flowers. Supplied in a 9cm pot, ready to plant out.
Fuchsias are one of the most versatile of garden plants; their iconic flower colours and shapes decorating our summer gardens year after year. Always a popular choice, the beautiful green foliage frames the bright blooms and as early as June, they will come alive with an explosion of pink, purples, reds and whites with the spectacular flowers hanging daintily from their stems. Perfect for borders, pots & containers, they will provide structure and colour all summer long. These very hardy, reliable garden performers will thrive in your garden, coming back with bigger and better displays each year, and in such a range of flower colours, flower shapes and habits. Supplied as an established plant in a 17cm pot. *Please note that plants are supplied mixed colour so we cannot guarantee the colour that you will receive.
Wallflowers are loved by gardeners for their huge range of vibrantly coloured spring flowers and sweet honey scent. 'Sunset' is a biennial which will flower the spring after it is planted and is a hybrid, which makes it more vigorous and stronger growing with a longer flowering season than most wallflowers, even in poor soil conditions. 'Tuttu Frutti' flowers in wonderfully rich shades of red, purple, orange and yellow, bringing bold, fiery colour to your garden at a time when most other plants are still dormant. They're also a great source of early nectar for bees and butterflies. Growing to just a foot tall, this gorgeous variety is spectacular when mass planted in containers to create a block of colour or planted trough borders for a stunning colour contrast with other spring flowers. They also make wonderful cut flowers, filling your home with fragrance. Supplied as 20 garden ready plants, ready to be planted out, reaching a height and spread of 30 cm (1 ft).
This wonderfully scented variety of Wallflower is so easy to grow and will give you much more 'flower power' for your money. With its increased colour range including bronze, red, gold, yellow, purple, lemon and white, you can create some truly stunning displays and really brighten up your garden borders, patio pots and window boxes from Autumn right through to Spring.
Flowering Cherry Kiku Shidare Zakura will transform your garden for years to come with its incredibly beautiful year-round displays! Also known as Cheal's Weeping, this deciduous beauty bursts into life in early spring with burnished-bronze leaves, quickly followed by clusters of pretty pink, double flowers that completely smother each elegant, arching branch. Has a very pronounced weeping habit, so perfect for smaller gardens. Then, as you sit out in your garden in mid-summer, you'll see the leaves turn glossy and green, then fade to fiery orange-red in a jaw-dropping autumn show! Simply spectacular!
Weigela florida 'Rosea' is a lovely deciduous shrub with arching branches and bright green leaves that form a mound of loose stems as it begins to grow in spring. From May until July it will produce bright cerise buds that open into clusters of lovely, funnel shaped pink flowers. Weigela florida varieties are recommended by the RHS as 'Plants for Pollinators' and are a favourite with butterflies and bees. A medium sized shrub, it looks splendid towards the back of a border or in woodland gardens but also works well in a large planter, where its size can be kept under control to give a more compact plant. It can even be grown as a low maintenance flowering hedge. Very easy to look after, 'Rosea' is fully hardy and low maintenance. Just cut it back after flowering to allow new branches space to grow. These will carry next year's flowers. Supplied as an established plant in a 2 L pot, ready for planting and growing to a height and spread of 2 m (2½ ft).
Transition the seasons from winter to spring with bold and bright colour year after year! The canary-yellow blooms of the Flowering Mimosa bush are a spectacular sight from January to April every year. Hundreds of bobbly yellow blooms smother the branches of the Mimosa bush in a lemon haze, almost hiding the stunning grey green filigree foliage that makes this tree a handsome year-round feature in the garden. The eye-catching pom-pom blooms not only look a picture but carry a heavenly fragrance and provide a valuable nectar source for friendly insects that emerge in milder weather, altogether a super bush to own! Widely seen across southern Europe, this variety will thrive outdoors in most of the UK too and is a great plant for conservatories or sunny corners of a room indoors in regions prone to severe frost. It's a great choice for a large container too producing a unique feature.Winter Hardy down to -5, will need protecting in very cold winters. Supplied as an established plant in a 15cm pot, ready to plant out.