If pink is one of your favourite colours in the garden, then Geranium 'Pink Sybil' is a summer plant, that you will want to include in your floral displays. It has lovely soft pink flowers, with full rounded buds, that resemble tiny roses, when they are opening.
There really is something special and iconic about English Shrub Roses, which is the term for the old-fashioned type of classic rose with a very filled centre, their petals making the most remarkable patterns. New breeding over many years has made them much easier to grow in all gardens - big or small - either in larger pots or in borders and beds. This variety has been bred to have both a good fragrance, and superb disease resistance - not always possible with roses, but our growers have managed it! Best of all it is a repeat flowerer, and will bloom for 4-5 months with little dead-heading, although you may wish to keep them tidy. It's a little more vigorous and less formal than Hybrid Tea Roses, so mix them in with other shrubs in borders too. Supplied as 1 bare root plant, trimmed back to 30-35cm, dormant without leaves, to plant November to April.
A magnificent display of fully double flowers will tumble from your baskets and window boxes all summer long with this fabulous new variety. Calibrachoa Calita® Double Pink Bicolour' is the perfect alternative to petunias.
A new introduction and a worthy plant for your borders and pots this year, these bedding plants have been bred to perform really well in your garden and are ideal when grown in containers. With two different flower colours on the same plant, each one is smothered in both pastel pink and also yellow flowers, this Marguerite Daisy will flower its little heart out all summer and into autumn, filling your garden with dazzling, colour-changing blooms. Really easy to grow and ideal for beginner gardeners, the compact plants are well branched, meaning that you'll get plenty of flowers. Good for wildlife too as each daisy is held above the finely divided, feathery leaves, making them stand out even more, creating a mecca for butterflies and other pollinators. Supplied as 6 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
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Amazing plumes of pink flowers cover this deciduous shrub almost continually from spring to the first frosts. The abundant blooms of Lilac 'Bloomerang' are sweetly fragrant and make a lovely addition to cut flower arrangements. With a neat, compact habit, this superb lilac bush makes a fabulous specimen for cottage garden borders and large containers.
One of the very best white periwinkles, vinca minor 'Gertrude Jekyll' boasts striking snow-white, star-shaped flowers that are produced over many months from spring right through to the autumn. An invaluable plant for brightening dull corners of the garden this vigorous, low-growing evergreen perennial will thrive in sun or light shade in most soils. Its trailing stems root easily where they touch the ground, eventually forming a mat of glossy green leaves that act as a superb weed suppressant. A proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience periwinkles are easy to grow, hardy and very low maintenance - the perfect plant for any gardener who wants great results with very little effort. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come. Supplied as an established plant in a 2L pot, ready to plant straight out. H10cm x W100cm, with flowers April - September.
Following on from the success of Lady Boothby, Pink Fizz is a brand new 'climbing' fuchsia which is fully hardy and grows vigorously and vertically, reaching up to 1.5m in a single season. Rose pink and crimson blooms cover the length of its vigorous stems throughout the summer giving a sumptuous display, making it ideal to grow up fences, walls and trellises. While the stems are strong, so vigorous is the growth that Pink Fizz may need some support in windy areas. Flowering from June through till first frosts of late autumn, in milder winters it will keep its leaves on, and in colder ones lose its leaves and shoot again from the base the next season. A stunning new type of Fuchsia, and so easy to grow, 'Pink Fizz' lets you grow hardy fuchsias in ways you had never considered - as a hedge, at the back of a border, or for screening off unsighlty parts of the garden. Supplied as a pack of 6 plug plants for potting up and growing on before planting out when all risk of frost has passed.
Fill your garden with the sensational, fiery blooms of Rose 'Alinka'. A traditional rose bred back in the heyday of rose gardening during the 70's when every garden had a favourite rose bush, and bright colours were a must-have. Alinka is a beautiful hybrid tea rose and certainly caught the eye of our growers with its scorching blooms and light, delicate fragrance. Its medium to large bi-coloured flowers open from scarlet-red buds into a sunset combination of rich red and golden yellow and the blooms start early in the season - in late May - and continue right into the last warm and sunny days of autumn. An upright and bushy shrub with dark green, glossy leaves, Alinka will grow to around 1-1.2m producing blooms which are perfect as cut flowers. Supplied as a bare-root shrub, ready for planting out now.
The delicately scented double flowers of Primula Belarina 'Pink Ice' are stunning. Opening creamy white, they become more and more flushed with pink until almost the whole flower has a soft rosy hue, giving a beautiful multi-tonal effect. These wonderful, compact plants have rosettes of beautifully textured leaves and dense clusters of flowers between March and June and will look fabulous wherever you plant them. They're great in pots, containers, beds or baskets, in partial shade or sun - they really are easy to grow and bring the spring garden to life with their cheerful colours. Perfectly hardy in the garden, they're perfect when combined with other perennials and underneath trees and shrubs where they'll flower for months, gradually forming large clumps that can be divided every few years to give you more plants. Supplied as 3 plug plants ready for potting on or planting out, growing to a height and spread of 20 cm (8 in).
Bees and butterflies will adore this cultivated thistle and so will you when the striking fluffy thistle blooms, unusual in white with their intriguing purple tips, appear throughout summer on tall stems above low growing rosettes of spiky-looking foliage.