An innovation in hanging basket design! These hanging baskets have been designed so that you will not need to use a moss liner and they also have a built-in water reservoir to help keep your plants nicely watered. To make it easier to insert your plants, each basket has 12 removable gates, simply add your plants then slide the gate back into place. Use these baskets to ensure you have the most spectacular displays this summer. These light and durable hanging baskets measure 35.5cm (14) in diameter. Comes complete with 4 metal chains and hook for hanging.
With a maximum growing height of 1 metre, Potentilla fruticosa 'Marian Red Robin', is an ideal flowering shrub for a small garden, or at the front of larger borders.
Vinca minor 'Illumination' or Lesser Periwinkle is a versatile low maintenance plant that offers so much. Because of it's trailing habit and low height it makes the perfect ground cover solution. The variegated evergreen foliage will romp over sunny banks or beneath trees in either full sun or shade and will also provide delightful violet-blue periwinkle flowers from late spring to autumn. Vinca minor 'Illumination' will also earn its keep as a year round trailing plant for hanging baskets or containers. Height: 20cm (8) Spread: 50cm (20).
Brilliant by nature as well as by name, Aronia x prunifolia 'Brilliant' is a fantastic plant for autumn colour. This medium-sized, deciduous shrub produces clusters of pretty white flowers in late spring and early summer. The purple-black berries that follow are ready to harvest in the autumn. Commonly known as Purple Chokeberries, these tart fruits can be eaten raw, but are delicious cooked into jams, compotes, cakes and pies. Easy to grow and happy even in boggy conditions, Aronia x prunifolia 'Brilliant is perfect as part of a mixed border and extends the season of interedt - its autumn foliage takes on incredible fiery shades of orange and red. Height: 3m (10'). Spread: 2.5m (8').
Bring a splash of zingy yellow into your garden with the towering Achillea filipendula 'Coronation Gold'. This eye-catching RHS AGM award winning hardy perennial has tall slender stems topped with an almost flat head made up of dozens of small golden yellow flowers which will be in bloom throughout the summer. The grey-green feathery foliage forms a neutral backdrop to complement the swathe of yellow above. Coronation Gold will be a magnet for bees and other nectar loving insects and will make a good cut flower too. Height: 1m (39). Spread: 50cm (20).
The Royal Horticultural Society has awarded Ceanothus x delileanus 'Gloire de Versailles' it's Award of Garden Merit, due to its profusion of beautiful lilac flowers throughout the summer. They fill the shrub, and their sweet smelling nectar attracts bees and butterflies to the garden. Californian Lilac has good drought tolerance, and thrives in most types of soil. They can be planted in a line to create a colourful hedge, or as stand alone specimens in borders of cottage, coastal or city gardens. Height and Spread: 1.5m (4.9').
Potentilla ?Pink Paradise' is a rabbit and deer proof shrub that offers an abundance of pretty little pink flowers with yellow centres. Potentilla likes to be in full sun so if you can find a place in your rockery or border that suits it's needs you'll have a healthy, hardy shrub clothed with blooms from April right through to September Cinquefoil shrubs as a family require very little maintenance so are perfect for the novice or time-poor gardener . Height: 75cm (30). Spread: 120cm (60).
Easy to grow and perfect for rockeries, borders, hedges and even municipal parks and gardens, Potentilla ?Abbotswood' is a compact shrub with an abundance of 4cm wide pristine white flowers amongst attractively shaped foliage. Potentilla are real workhorse in the garden as they can flower from April through to September when the foliage turns a rich red to close the season. Shrubby Cinquefoil as it's often called has many varieties and colours but the calming white blooms of Potentilla 'Abbotswood' are very welcome in a busy garden and nectar loving insects will appreciate the flowers too. Height: 75cm (30). Spread: 120cm (60).
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).
This creamy white flowered African marigold which produces masses of large blooms up to 8cm (3?) across that are absolutely pure in colour. An added bonus is its less pungent aroma compared to most other marigolds. Perfect for bringing a contemporary twist to beds, borders and containers. Ht. 45cm. Supplied as garden-ready plants
Flowering throughout the summer, Mandevilla 'Bloom Bells® White' makes a wonderful addition to the patio where it will add height and jewel-like colour.
Soft lavender blooms with dark purple veining adorn the trailing stems of this beautiful petunia. The large double flowers of Petunia 'Priscilla' look fantastic tumbling from baskets and pots.