These strong growing and fully winter hardy Hibiscus Syriacus plants will provide you with a torrent of beautiful flowers from June until September each year. They are supplied as Bare-Root plants ready to plant immediately and will grow to around 5ft tall over 3 seasons, and will be smothered in fabulous flowers throughout the summer months. In shades of pink, plum, blue and white they will provide a Mediterranean look to your garden yet these hardy plants will return year after year with their gorgeous display. Perfect to establish in pots on your patio or to fill gaps in your beds and borders you could even grow them as a hedge!
Suppress your weeds with a densely planted carpet of vibrant African Daisies. Osteospermum jucundum var.
Elegant and beautiful, fuchsias are a must-have for any gardener. This wonderful collection of some of the best hardy shrub varieties gives you six of the best from the wide range of colours they produce. Perfect for borders, pots & containers, they will provide structure and colour all summer long. These very hardy, reliable garden performers will thrive in almost any situation, coming back with bigger and better displays each year, and in such a range of flower colours, flower shapes and habits. The beautiful foliage provides gorgeous shades of green from a bright lime to a glossy dark green and even cream tipped leaves. Flowering as early as June, they will come alive with an explosion of pinks, purples, reds, whites even blues with the spectacular flowers hanging proudly from their stems. In this Hardy Fuchsia collection, you will receive: 2 Fuchsia 'Display' plugs - Bushy green foliage and all pink flowers. 2 Fuchsia 'Snowcap' plugs - Two-tone white and scarlet-pink flowers. 2 Fuchsia 'Alice Hoffman' plugs - White and pink blooms surrounded by gorgeous green foliage. 2 Fuchsia 'Delta's Sarah' plugs - Spectacular display of white outer and purple flowers. 2 Fuchsia 'Tom Thumb' plugs - Beautiful red and mauve petals on this bushy shrub. 2 Fuchsia 'Dollar Princess' plugs - Red outers with gorgeous double purple inner petals. Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to pot and plant out.
English lavender is the quintessential cottage garden plant, with a multitude of uses in the garden. Whether you are edging paths or brightening up sunny borders, you'll find that this hardy shrub is always top of the plant list.
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Hostas offer a wide range of leaf shapes, textures and forms, all topped off with a display of summer flower spikes. These resilient, easy to grow, hardy perennials will reward you with fresh colourful foliage each spring, lasting right through to autumn. Our Hardy Hosta Collection will make a statement in beds, borders and containers, or create contrast against the flowering plants in your displays.Your collection will include: Hosta 'Francee', 'September Sun', 'Marmalade on Toast', 'Brim Cup' and 'Frances Williams'.Plant up your bare roots on arrival, so they establish ready to produce a fantastic display.
Often called Princess Lilies, Peruvian or Inca Lilies, Alstromeria's stunning displays make it one of the most popular summer flowering perennials of all time. Often seen in expensive bouquets, Alstroemeria also make spectacular additions to any garden. Their gorgeous, delicate blooms come in one of the widest and brightest ranges of colours imaginable. Flowering from early June onwards, Alstroemeria will go on right through until early Autumn and just get better and better every year. Once planted, these bare-root beauties will quickly establish and go on to produce strong stems that will grow up to 2-3ft tall this year. Completely covered in flowers along their top half, Alstroemeria are perfect for cutting and creating the most stunning indoor display.
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Thanks to some fantastic hybridising at one of Holland's leading cut flowers Alstroemeria breeders, we are delighted to offer this amazing variety to UK gardeners. It combines the impressive high flower count needed for commercial growers, with a strong and robust garden habit, being just 60cm (2ft) tall, and forming big perennial clumps. 'Indian Summer' has a lovely unique strong bronze purple tinge to the foliage which sets off the gorgeous flame-coloured flowers to a tee! The good news is you can enjoy this impressive floral display for even longer as they just keep flowering all Summer, new buds emerging all the time well into Autumn. They're perfect for long lasting displays in pots or mixed borders. Naturally hardy to about -7C, they will survive most UK winters in well drained spots and emerge bigger and bolder year after year. Very easy and low maintenance - just beware slugs on new Spring growth! Supplied as 3 x jump plugs, ready to pot on and plant out.
Tom Thumb is a hardy bush variety in a rich purple and pink mix, producing showy blooms. Easy to grow requiring little maintenance can be used for hedging, garden borders or containers. Achieve there best results planted in moist fertile soil that is well drained.
With frilly white skirts and pretty red outer sepals this fuchsia will offer a striking display of blooms producing regularly over the Season. A hardy fuchsia with a neat compact habit.
Hardy ferns are a hidden gem of the gardening world and should be grown much more widely. Graceful and airy, with a whole range of colours, textures and sizes available, there is a fern for every garden and every gardener! We've hand-picked a select trio of ferns which we think are really special - they're all hardy and will stand out in your garden with their unique leaf colouring. Some of the best to grow, these ferns will reward you with colourful foliage interest, and are perfect together as a small fernery in the border or in a large pot, or even in mixed planters. They all prefer cool, fertile soil that doesn't dry out and are best in light shade where their colours really shine. This collection includes three plants in 9cm pots, one each of: Athyrium otophorum var. okanum (AGM): Yellow green, glowing foliage with contrasting red veins and stipe. Very good in a pot and prefers shade. A deciduous fern, so leaves die back in the winter before emerging again next spring. H45cm (18in). Dryopteris erythrosora (AGM): The buckler fern, this striking deciduous fern has triangular-shaped fronds, which are copper-red when young and slowly mature to dark green. H40cm (16in) x W60cm (24in). Athyrium niponicum var. pictum 'Ursula's Red': The painted lady fern, the newly emerged fronds of this beautiful fern have rich purple-bronze tones. This two-tone effect fades as the fronds mature - the purple tones diminish, and they become greener with a silver dusting. Striking in a large pot and placed on a shady terrace. H40cm x W120cm.