Flowering shrubs are the backbone of any garden, giving colour, form, winter interest and privacy throughout the year, for many years, as well as attracting a host of wildlife. With so many different types available, there's always something that will appeal to every gardener, whatever their level of experience or preference!We've specially selected and put together a collection of low maintenance favourites that are ideal for filling gaps in gardens, creating screening or a feature shrubbery, but all with the absolute minimum of fuss. A lovely collection of gorgeous late spring and summer flowering shubs for years of colour & fragrance, featuring a mix of flower colours, giving interest from April through to September, this collection includes customer favourites which are particularly adored for their scent and colour. All low maintenance favourites, these shrubs are ideal for filling gaps in gardens, or creating a screen or shrubbery. Supplied as a set of 6 different varieties of seasonally available range, ready to plant out all year - some will be dormant and have no or few leaves in winter.
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. The beautiful foliage ranges from lime to dark green, even cream tipped leaves. Flowering as early as June, they'll come alive with an explosion of pink, purples, reds, whites even blue 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. You will get our selection of 6 different coloured named varieites, as shown here, as potted garden ready plants to plant straight out. Supplied as 6 established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant, reaching a height of 1.2m (4ft) and spread of 90cm (3ft), 1 each of: Fuchsia 'Delta Sarah' - Purple and white. Fuchsia 'Dollar Princess' - Purple and red. Fuchsia 'Hawkshead' - White. Fuchsia 'Lady Thumb' - White and pink. Fuchsia 'Tom West' - Purple and red with variegated, pink edged leaves. Fuchsia 'Genii' - Purple and pink. Please note that varieties may vary based on seasonal availability.
Now you can get that classic look of a lovely evergreen trimmed topiary with this standard lollipop form tree, and then get a fabulous burst of flower power in spring too.This stunning Ceanothus repens, also called 'Californian Lilac', has been skilfully grown to form a tall standard tree for instant impact. In spring, it produces clouds of lightly scented, sky-blue flowers in clusters for several weeks. After flowering, the display doesn't end as its deep-green evergreen foliage will provide year-round interest too, and is easily clipped to shape once a year.Hardy to about -8°C they will be happy left outdoors in all but the severest of winters, continuing to perform in your garden year after year. Great as a pair in large pots framing doorways, gateways or around patios for a really classic look, why not invest in a lovely pair of planters to really bring them into their own. Supplied as a single standard tree, 55-60cm tall (including pot) ready to flower in May-June.
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!
You can now enjoy true year-round interest with vibrant flower colour, brightly coloured berries and stems, tactile bark and wonderfully fragrant flowers - simply brilliant value for money compared to expensive, potted garden centre shrubs. These 12 tried-and-tested garden winners will fill any gaps you might have in your existing beds and borders or allow you to plant a new one from scratch, with each individual shrub having the potential to fill about 1m sq. (3-4ft sq.). Once planted they will rapidly grow and look tremendous from this year onwards, giving a stunning visual display and a degree of privacy and security for you, as well as a natural safe haven for a wide variety of wildlife. The berries will provide much-needed winter food for wild birds and the shrubby structure will offer cover and protection for them too. Varieties Include: Symphoricarpos albus: Known as the 'Common Snowberry' for obvious reasons! The berries provide much-needed winter food for wildlife. Grows to 90-120cm (3-4ft).Syringa vulgaris: The common Lilac produces fragrant, lavender-coloured blooms each May. Hardy and deciduous and great for hedging, it grows to 300-450cm (10-15ft) tall.Cornus alba: The 'Red-Barked Dogwood' provides fantastic autumn colour with its bright red vertical branches. In summer it leafs up and has soft pink flowers in mid-summer. Grows to 90-120cm (3-4ft). Potentilla Yellow: A tall, upright shrub with rich green foliage, smothered in beautiful yellow flowers from late spring to the first frosts. Robust and drought tolerant even in exposed conditions, it likes a sunny spot. Deadhead to keep the flowers coming and trim in autumn. Grows to 120-150m (4-5ft).Tamarix tetandra: Commonly known as the 'Tamarisk' or 'Salt Cedar', this upright, deciduous shrub or small tree has gracefully arching dark branches and needle-like foliage. A superb focal point, it produces masses of feathery plumes of tiny pink blossom from April to May. Holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Grows to 300cm (9ft).Spirea douglasii: Part of the rose family, it is often know as the 'Rose Spirea'. Easy to grow with masses of pretty pink flowers in early summer. Perfect for small spaces. Grows to 90cm (3ft).Forsythia intermedia 'Spectabilis': Literally one of the most spectacular early season shrubs because of its bright yellow bloom. Perfect for hedges and really easy to grow. Grows to 120-150cm (4-5 ft), although can be trimmed into a tidy hedge. Hypericum Hidcote: With masses of saucer-shaped, buttery yellow flowers from early to late autumn contrasted against lush, semi-evergreen foliage, it is compact and bushy and great for feature hedging. Holds the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Grows to 100-150cm (3-5ft). Deutzia scabra: Also known as the 'Fuzzy Deutzia', this native of Japan and China grows to about 250cm (8ft) tall and smothers itself in pure white fragrant flowers in June. Berberis thunbergii 'Atropurpurea': A great hedging plant because of its spiky branches, but also a beautiful garden plant. The yellow flowers appear in late spring and the purple foliage provides lovely autumn colour. Grows to 90-120cm (3-4ft). Philadelphus coronarius: Commonly known as the 'Mock Orange', it will be clothed in a profusion of creamy white, fabulously fragrant flowers through June and July. Grows to 150-180cm (5-6ft).Weigela rosea: A lovely garden shrub, with fabulous pink flower colour in May, June and July. Grows to 90-120cm (3-4ft). Please note: these plants are supplied dormant and without leaves, looking more like dried twigs, and will establish in the ground over winter. They will not show signs of growth until the weather warms in spring, when they will burst into leaf.
We are delighted to offer you the chance to own this dazzling plant which forms a compact bush of lush foliage, and produces prolific, long-lasting displays from June to October. The beautiful, saucer-shaped, blue with white centre flowers contrast beautifully with the rich green foliage. A decendent of the hardy geranium 'Rozanne', 'Azure Rush' is more compact than its parent, making it a spectacular geranium that will bring colour to any corner of the garden, even dry shade! Continuing its display into autumn, as summer fades, the leaves turn from fiery orange, to red, then brown in a glorious late display! A hardy perennial, Geranium Rozanne is perfect for borders, easy ground cover and patio containers - get yours while you can! It really is one of the easiest no-fuss, no maintenance perennials, rewarding you with an amazing show of colour over 5 months. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready for immediate planting. Ultimate height 30cm (12in) tall x 60cm (24in) wide.
Orchids are one of the most popular plants in the UK and when you see their exotic blooms, it's easy to see why. The ones that we are used to seeing are houseplants and need to be grown inside - however there is a hardy orchid that you can grow in your own garden! Bletilla, or the Hyacinth Orchid, is one of the hardiest and easiest to grow garden orchids in the UK, slowly forming clumps which produce their gorgeously detailed violet-pink flowers in early summer. When grown in light, dappled shade, bletilla is quite unfussy so it can be grown in the ground under trees, in lawns, or even in patio pots (in shade). B. striata forms a clump of attractive, ribbed, sword-shaped leaves, with erect stems bearing many violet, fragrant, orchid-shaped flowers in spring and early summer. Blooms can reach up to 5cm wide, and each has a ruffled lip in a slightly darker shade, making them a stunning addition to your garden. Although hardy to -10, we recommend growing them in a container where they can be moved to a conservatory or unheated greenhouse during winter, and in mild areas a generous layer of dry mulch should be applied in autumn to provide protection for the corms. Alternatively, lift the corms in autumn and store it in a dry, frost-free place. One thing you need to remember is that bletilla should be kept dry during their winter dormancy, as they will not survive cold, wet soil. An easy to grow plant, which if left undisturbed, will naturalise and spread out to form good-sized clumps. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready for potting on or planting out when the soil warms, plants can reach 50cm high and 50cm wide. NB - Plants are dormant October to March so there may be no leaves on your plant when delivered.
Ferns are fascinating and ancient plants, being found in fossils from over 140 million years ago. They don't produce seeds or flowers, and instead reproduce using spores. The leaves, known as fronds, begin life curled up tightly in the centre of the plant, and gradually unfurl upwards before arching outwards. Quite a sight! Our collection of evergreen ferns features three of the most familiar varieties, each with a different foliage shape, from the classic woodland Buckler fern to the almost tropical looking Harts Tongue fern and the narrow fronds of the Deer fern. They will compliment each other beautifully when planted together, and they're also great in pots. They're easy to grow and almost maintenance free too. What's more, all three of these spectacular plants hold an RHS Award of Garden Merit, so you know that these are highly regarded garden plants. Ferns are happiest growing in dappled light in cool, moist and fertile soil, although they will tolerate brighter sunshine. They look spectacular in shaded borders or woodland style gardens with their wonderfully lush, rich green colours. Supplied as 3 established plants in 9 cm pots, ready to plant, including: Deer Fern - Blechnum spicant. A beautiful evergreen fern that forms a rosette of ladder-shaped fronds, reaching a height of 45 cm (1½ ft) and spread of 60 cm (2 ft). Harts Tongue Fern - Asplenium scolopendrium. Long, broad and glossy evergreen, tongue shaped green fronds in neatly arching clumps, reaching a height and spread of 60 cm (2 ft). Buckler Fern - Dryopteris erythrosora. A large, striking semi-evergreen fern with long triangular fronds that are tinted in coppery pink when young before maturing to lush green, growing to a height and spread of 1 m (3 ft).
Hardy Lupins are a staple perennial for cottage gardens and are becoming increasingly popular for cut flower displays too. With their tall, stately spires of bloom, lupins are a real summer garden classic and certainly have the wow factor. Smothered in pea-like flowers, right to the top of their stems, their palmate, sage green foliage creates the perfect backdrop for the eye-catching blooms making a stunning statement in your garden. Traditional lupins need a lot of room and can get tall and leggy, but not the Gallery series! Far more compact and robust, they reach just 60cm tall, yet will still fill your garden with incredible flower power. Perfect for growing in pots and great for creating focal features on patios and decking, you don't need a garden to get the most out of these amazing perennials. Flowering throughout June and July, the perfect blooms of Lupin 'Gallery' open in succession from the bottom of the spire upwards, prolonging the flowering season, and are a magnet to butterflies, bees and other beneficial pollinating insects making your summer garden a haven for wildlife. Easy to grow and totally winter hardy, Manhattan Lights is also easy to maintain and makes the perfect cottage garden plant - it's perennial so comes back year after year with an ever-increasing amount of blooms and works spectacularly when planted alongside old fashioned English roses and hardy geraniums. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots and ready to plant out, these lupins are easy to grow and care for and will grow to around 60cm x 60cm, flowering in June - July.
This collection of Peony flowers isthe perfect choice if you are looking to create a gorgeous show of coloured blooms. Producing a simply stunning display of huge, double flowers throughout mid-summer, they will add impact and vivid colour to your beds and borders. For timeless, elegant beauty, peonies are almost impossible to beat! It's easy to see why they are so popular; as a perennial they will come back year after year with bigger, better displays - all with the absolute minimum of effort! Easy to grow and low maintenance, they will reap rewards for both beginners and experienced gardeners. Peonies will die back after flowering each year, only to burst into life again the following spring. You will get bigger, better displays each year for many years to come. Perfect for growing in beds, borders, pots or containers. This collection includes: Peony 'Sarah Bernhardt' - Huge and fragrant, rose-pink double flowers with white edges. Peony 'Karl Roseenfeld'- Eye-catching, rose-shaped red double-blooms. Peony 'Bartzella' - Beautiful lemon-yellow flowers with frilly, ruffled centres. Peony 'Bowl of Beauty' - Huge and striking, two-tone blooms of pink and cream petals. Peony 'Duchesse de Nemours' - Beautiful and fragrant double ivory blooms. Supplied as 5 established plants in 11cm pots, ready for planting.
More commonly seen in ceramic pots and planters on windowsills and sideboards indoors, these new hardy Amaryllis can be planted straight into the ground or pots outdoors!Using cold resistant species, breeders in Holland have created a unique bulb resistant to the cooler climate of the UK that is fully winter hardy, so you can bring the joy of Amaryllis from the indoors, to the outdoors. 'Sonatini' produces classic, trumpet shaped blooms, protruding from tall, glossy green stems creating a colourful contrast. Flowering in a rainbow of shades, from bright primary colours to crisp whites and baby pinks, the 'Sonatini' mix is guaranteed to rejuvenate gardens tired by the winter.
This fabulously attractive, exotic plant is hardy down to -10C and very drought tolerant too! Originating in Chile, Fascicularia bicolour is a rare and unusual plant that forms an impressive and tough mound of long, thin, grey-green foliage. In summer, the inner leaves turn bright red and a ball of electric blue and yellow flowers are formed at the centre of mature plants. This striking combination of colours will be an astonishing contrast to your autumn garden, bringing an exotic twist right through to November! It grows to about 50cm so it is perfect for containers or pots put it in a sunny spot on your patio and it will thrive for years to come.