'Purple Gem' is a gorgeous variety of Dahlia that is perfect for adding unique flowers and stunning colours to your summer garden. These fabulous semi-cactus dahlias are guaranteed to add drama to your summer floral displays. Producing eye-catching flowers made up of multiple petals creating a round spikey head in a beautiful rich shade of purple. A cottage garden favourite, 'Purple Gem' will come into bloom in June and keep flowering through to autumn, providing you with four months of gorgeous colour. So easy to grow, as they are supplied as tubers, packed full of energy to burst into growth in Spring and produce a mass of bright colours which will pepper your garden like gemstones as Summer turns to Autumn. Dahlias are perfect for planting in your bed, borders, patio pots and containers. They also make fabulous cut flowers so pick a bunch of these pastel beauties to bring into your home for amazing colour. Dahlias will need some winter protection if you want them to return next year, we recommend that you dig them up before the first frost arrives and keep them stored over the winter. Supplied as a pack of 3 tubers, ready to plant out.
This rarely seen and unusual evergreen shrub will provide fantastic year round interest in your garden. It bears spiky deep green foliage throughout and from late winter to late summer bears intricate bright pink blooms whose shape gives rise to the plants common name of 'Spider Flower'. Growing into a rounded bush of around 10ft it loves a sunny spot and well drained soil yet is easy to care for and hardy throughout the UK. Plant it the border or a patio pot and admire this lovely plant for years to come.
Treat your winter garden to a fabulous new addition to our range of Christmas Box and be one of the first to be able to delight in its glorious perfume. We all know winter can be a dull and dreary time in the garden, but fortunately it needn't be! The commonly named 'Christmas Box' or 'Sweet Box' is one of those plants that just lifts your spirits when you pass it by. The glossy evergreen leaves of 'Winter Gem' produce glorious little flowers, resembling little fireworks, which emit the most sensational and sweet vanilla fragrance you can imagine, especially on sunny days. The white flowers emerge from pinkish-red buds and are followed by glossy, round red berries that ripen to black adding interest to your garden for even longer. Easy to grow, in pots or borders, or sun or shade, plant it where you can enjoy those amazing winter scent every day - tough and tolerant of most conditions, 'Winter Gem' is especially valuable for shadier areas. Supplied as an established plant in a 15cm pot, ready for immediate planting out.
This prolific flowering Dianthus will produce a mix of red, pink, purple and white blooms set against luscious green foliage. Its compact and dwarf growing habit makes it ideal for your beds and borders, this Dianthus also prefers a sunny spot in your garden where it can thrive.
One of the nation's favourite early spring plants, Camellias are, when given the right conditions, very straightforward and problem free. Camellia Japonica 'Nuccio's Gem' will provide your garden with the most fabulous displays of flowers when almost every other plant is still asleep for winter. Clusters of gorgeous white blooms that are made up of neatly layered pointed petals. Perfect for growing in pots, they have a dense and upright growing habit with glossy green leaves. The key to success with Camellias is they need acidic soils - like Rhododendrons. This means they can easily be grown in pots in ericaceous composts, and provided they are fed with specialist ericaceous feed, will provide many years of colour and interest. They are evergreen, and their neat, shiny, tough leaves will provide a backdrop to other plants all year. Flower buds start swelling late the previous summer, and keep getting bigger all autumn and winter, until they burst open in early spring. The flowers can be caught by frosts when they are opening, but the buds are generally fine, and the plant is totally hardy and tough. 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 and it will return year after year getting bigger and better for many years to come. Supplied as an established plant in a 15cm pot, ready to pot on or plant out.