Also known as New Zealand Flax, Phormium 'Evening Glow' is a robust, fully hardy evergreen which forms a dense clump of sword-like leaves - a really great plant for adding a bit of a statement to your garden. Stunning in a border and stylish in a container, this recently introduced phormium plant has particularly attractive, bright red, lustrous foliage highlighted with a bronze edge, and is a compact form - meaning that it won't overshadow everything in your garden plus you can grow it in a pot! Phormiums prefer a hot dry site (although will tolerate partial shade) and make a great candidate for a Mediterranean garden or a gravel garden where their upright leaves make a great foil for many other coloured plants. Easy to grow, phormium 'Evening Glow' is a compact form, and needs virtually no maintenance - it may even reward you with spikes of red flowers in late summer. Ultimately growing to around 1m, we supply well-established plant in a 3L pot ready for immediate planting.
Transition the seasons from winter to spring with bold and bright colour year after year! The canary-yellow blooms of the Flowering Mimosa Tree are a spectacular sight from January to April every year. Hundreds of bobbly yellow blooms smother the branches of the Mimosa tree in a lemon haze, almost hiding the stunning grey green filigree foliage that makes this tree a handsome year-round feature in the garden. The eye-catching pom-pom blooms not only look a picture but carry a heavenly fragrance and provide a valuable nectar source for friendly insects that emerge in milder weather, altogether a super tree to own! Widely seen across southern Europe, this variety will thrive outdoors in most of the UK too and is a great plant for conservatories or sunny corners of a room indoors in regions prone to severe frost. It's a great choice for a large container too producing a unique feature tree. Winter Hardy down to -5, will need protecting in very cold winters. Supplied as an established 80cm caned plant in a 19cm pot, ready to plant out.
This veritable superfood is believed to carry all manner of health benefits and is recommended by health experts and dieticians accordingly. Packed full of vitamins and minerals as well as antioxidants, they are not only really good for you, but they taste great too! Blueberries provide true season-long interest and will produce wonderfully fragrant tubular blossom in spring, followed by delicious fruits that form and colour up ready for picking from June onwards. An unusual and unique blueberry, 'Yellowberry Blue' is remarkable for its yellow leaves and contrasting blue fruits. A real novelty, the warm yellow leaves are tinged with pink and orange tones and make for an altogether highly decorative plant for the kitchen garden. As a bonus, its compact size means that like many other blueberries, Yellowberry is ideal for growing in a pot - so you don't even need a garden in order to benefit from its decorative form! Blueberries make brilliant patio plants and will grow perfectly in pots do remember to use ericaceous (slightly acidic pH) compost though as all blueberries are lime intolerant. In autumn, the foliage will provide a bright flourish of colour before falling off for the winter. Supplied as an established plant in a 3L pot ready for immediate planting.
A wonderful feature tree for home gardens, the Salix 'Kilmarnock' is a beautiful dwarf tree with waterfalls of dark-green leaves smothered in golden catkins in the spring. Forming a dome-shape, like a beautiful waterfall centrepiece, the long stems hang and gently wave in the breeze throughout the year, whilst bright-golden furry catkins liven things up in the spring time. Ideal for growing in the ground or in containers that can be moved into position on a patio, terrace or even a balcony, this dwarf tree will stay compact and neat but bring a real unique feature to even the smallest of gardens. A stunning solution to creating instant impact in a small space, this weeping willow will create a real talking point next spring!Supplied as a grafted standard tree, approx. 70cm tall in a 17cm pot, ready to plant out.
Finding great specimen trees for smaller gardens or limited spaces, such as patios, can be a challenge, but we think we've cracked it for you here! The stunning 'Flamingo Willow', or Salix integra 'Hakuro-nishiki' to give it it's correct botanical name, produces a stunning spring and summer ritual, bursting forth from bare branches, often with catkins on, into a mass of amazing creamy pink variegated and tipped new shoots, set against white mottled and marbled leaves, keeping that lovely contrast all summer. It is really hardy and easy to grow, simply hack it back to shape in late autumn, it is great in large pots as a feature plant, but needs to be grown where you can see it's delicate colours. It's not fussy at all for soil conditions, but do not let it dry out. Supplied as an established plant in a 3L pot, approx. 80-90cm tall, shaped standard head.
Sweet peppers are delicious and versatile, and now you can grow them as a scrumptious snack that's wonderfully sweet and crunchy and can be eaten straight from the plant! The peppers are green initially, before ripening to glossy sunshine yellow. Each weighs just 30-40g, a fraction of the weight of ordinary sweet peppers, and they have thick walls which gives them a wonderfully firm crunch when eaten fresh. They're also ideal in salads and for stuffing and grilling, and a great source of vitamins A and C as well as potassium and iron - a tasty, healthy snack. A high yielding and versatile plant, it can be grown on the patio or in the vegetable garden or greenhouse, and it makes a spectacular looking houseplant in a sunny, warm spot. Position it in full sun to get the biggest, sweetest crops of scrumptious miniature peppers, producing flowers and fruit month after month. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready for planting after the risk of frost has passed, reaching 90cm (3½ft) tall.
Grow something really different this year and amaze your friends and family with homegrown pineapple guavas.Feijoa sellowiana ,Coolidge' is an evergreen shrub with attractive, grey-green, furry leaves, and exotic red flowers which are followed by juicy, sweetly aromatic, pineapple-flavoured fruits. Also known as Acca or the Pineapple Guava, the pink and red fluffy flowers appear in May and being self-fertile, produce their crop of edible, red-flushed green fruit without the need for a second tree (although productivity is improved with two). The most widely planted variety in California because of its productivity, 'Coolidge' is a self-fertile variety with a good flavor. Of Australian origin, the fruits are roughly egg-shaped and about 3 inches long with a waxy green skin and drop once they are ripe. Alternatively, you can pick them before they ripen and finish them indoors to prevent bruising. Hardy enough to grow in the UK climate, Feijowa is drought tolerant once established and can reach up to 4.5m (15ft) if left unpruned in a sheltered, sunny corner of the garden. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready to plant up straight away.
Grow something really different this year and amaze your friends and family with homegrown pineapple guavas. A striking, year-round plant, Feijoa sellowiana 'Mammoth' is an evergreen shrub with attractive, grey-green, furry leaves, and exotic red flowers which are followed by juicy, sweetly aromatic, pineapple-flavoured fruits. Also known as Acca or the Pineapple Guava, the pink and red fluffy flowers appear in May and being self-fertile, produce their crop of edible, red-flushed green fruit without the need for a second tree (although productivity is improved with two). the fruits are roughly egg-shaped and about 3 inches long with a waxy green skin and drop once they are ripe. Alternatively, you can pick them before they ripen and finish them indoors to prevent bruising. Hardy enough to grow in the UK climate, Feijowa is drought tolerant once established and can reach up to 3m (10ft) if left unpruned in a sheltered, sunny corner of the garden. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready to plant up straight away.
Juicy, ripe tomatoes picked straight from the plant are a luxury that everyone must experience, and these tumbling toms can be enjoyed by anyone whatever space they have. Not only are they incredibly easy to grow, they're also ideal in a hanging basket, window box, or pot in a sunny, sheltered spot where they'll look great trailing over the edges. Growing tomatoes is easy and incredibly rewarding - make salads and chutneys, or of course eat them fresh. 'Tumbling Tom Yellow' is the ideal variety to get started growing your own tomatoes - so easy in hanging baskets, tubs, planters and even window boxes, you will get hundreds of small cherry tomatoes in summer. Kids love growing them too (and of course eating them), and this is a great way to start a life-long interest in gardening. Trailing tomatoes are self-branching, so other than pinching the tip out when you plant them up, there is no need to do anything else to them, unlike other tomato varieties - so they're ideal to grow if you're not a confident gardener. Tumbling Tom produces massive crops of firm, round fruit all summer long - each one packed with sweet, delicious juice. Perfect fresh and in salads.
This UK-bred beauty is guaranteed to grow and thrive in your garden, producing a lollipop of beautiful flowers every summer! A well-established 3L potted standard plant, this Hibiscus produces deeply veined, starburst bicolour blooms of deep pink and white that grow up to 13cm (5in) across.The multi-layered, ruffled petals have a gorgeous 'Chiffon' look about them - hence its name - andare produced in abundance from early summer every year. Fashioned by our expert growers into a beautiful standard tree with a lollipop head, 'Starburst Chiffon' is ideal in sunny beds and borders where its will create a visually arresting tower of colourful beautiful double blooms. Perfect for pots on your patio, it will eventually grow to 1.25 - 1.5m (4-5ft) tall if left untrimmed. Incredibly easy to care for - prune to size just once a year in early spring, they are also totally winter hardy anywhere in the UK! Supplied as an established plant in a 3L pot, ready for immediate planting out or potting on into your favourite container.
Encourage more birds to venture into your garden by using this 4 port, heavy duty bird feeder, which when food is added has everything you need to immediately start attracting wild birds into your garden and providing them with a welcome treat. Turn your garden into a wildlife haven, filled with the happy songs of blackbirds, robins, tits and thrushes to name but a few! Our feathered friends bring a whole variety of benefits with them, including an invaluable pest clearing service, and it's a joy to see them making a home in your garden! Plus, you'll be helping to protect some of our most-loved and threatened wild birds, with the absolute minimum of expense and effort! Quick and easy to hang, clean, and maintain, the durable feeder will keep the birds flocking to your garden. The metal construction ensures it remains fully weatherproof and can be refilled with various sunflower heart mixes throughout the year so you can attract different birds to your garden making it an ideal all-year feeder. Height: 33cm
The original design tall nest pocket is a low-cost way of offering a nesting opportunity or roosting place for small birds. The pocket should be concealed in the foliage of a hedgerow or shrub and can be a life saver for small birds in cold conditions helping them maintain body heat. Made of various natural fibres such as reeds & grasses (appearance may vary due to seasonal availability) Has built in wire hanger to allow the roost pocket to be attached to branches Perfect for species such as robins, wrens, finches, bearded tits etc. Arrange at different heights for a variety of species Can be used in reed beds for warbler species Leave in situ / maintenance free A secondary application for the pocket is for small mammals like wood mice, harvest mice or even for domestic small mammals like hamsters and mice 16.50 x 9.50 cm