New to our range and a defininte must-have, this is your chance to get a superb, long flowering perennial plant that will fill your garden with striking blue flowers.Lavatera 'Blue Bird' is a compact perennial Mallow (or Malva), growing to around 1m (3-4ft) and producing a spectacular show of blue flowers from June to October.Also known as a Tree mallow, its lobed, green leaves are also an attractive feature being roughly heart-shaped, bringing texture and form to your garden.Its naturally shorter stature means that it's perfect for growing in a pot, particularly if your soil is on the heavy side, your mallow will form a mound of subtle blue flowers for a long period.An easy plant to grow for even beginner gardeners, 'Blue Bird' is reliable and fully hardy, returning to your garden year after year.Supplied in a 3L pot, ready for immediate planting. Dormant November to March.
A particularly attractive variety or flowering quince, 'Orange Trail' produces masses of bloom along its branches in a vivid display of orange/red, each flower highlighted by a crentral crown of yellow anthers. Ornamental quinces bring a welcome flush of colour to the garden in spring, when their bare twigs become smothered in flowers before the glossy, dark green leaves appear. Ideal to train as a climbing shrub against a wall or fence or placed at the back of a border where their spring blossom can really shine. Incredibly easy to grow, Japanese quince will tolerate most soil types and aspects, including shade, which makes them invaluable for brightening dull corners of the garden and being a wide spreading shrub with thorny branches, it makes a perfect security hedge to deter unwanted visitors. Additionally, they have also shown good resistance to honey fungus - ideal if your garden is susceptible. Not just a pretty face, quinces develop apple-like fruit with a distinctive, sweetly fragrant aroma when ripe and can be cooked and made into jelly, making them the perfect decorative addition to any grow your own project. Supplied as an established plant in a 2L pot, ready for immediate planting.
Better known as Witch Hazel, hamamelis is a winter-flowering shrub that brings something rather special to your garden with its stunning autumn colour and lightly scented blooms at a time when it needs it most. A slow-growing, deciduous shrub with oval green leaves that turn yellow and orange tinted with red in autumn in a fiery display of colour. 'Ruby Glow' is a popular variety of witch hazel and produces deep red ribbon-like blooms that erupt like sparklers in winter with a fragrance likened to a mix of spice and citrus - perfect for adding amazing winter interest to your garden when most of its other residents are lying dormant. Perfect as a specimen plant for a sunny or lightly shaded area, flowers look amazing when festooning the bare branched in late autumn and winter once the colourful leaves have fallen. Slow growing 'Ruby Glow' is a very easy shrub to grow, forming a neatly compact bush that's great in containers and pots on the patio if you don't have much room - so everyone has a change to grow it whatever the size of their garden. Supplied as an established plant in a 2L pot ready for immediate planting.
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. A lovely collection of gorgeous summer and early autumn-flowering shrubs for years of colour & fragrance, featuring a mix of flower colours, giving interest from May through to September, this collection includes customer favourites which are particularly adored for their scent and colour. 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 feature plants, but all with the absolute minimum of fuss. Supplied as a set of 6 different varieties of plug plants, ready to pot up and grow on for planting out next year - some will be dormant and have no or few leaves in winter. 1 plant each of: Caryopteris x clandonensis 'Heavenly Blue'Known commonly as bluebeard, this is a compact, upright shrub with arching branches of grey-green leaves and clusters of dainty, dark blue flowers1m x 1.5m Fl August - September Cistus corbariensisAffectionally called the Rockrose, this bushy, evergreen shrub has wavy-edged leaves and produces white flowers with yellow centres through the summer1m x 1.5m Fl June - August Cotoneaster dammeriThe Bearberry is a sprawling, evergreen shrub spreading to 2.5m, with small, rounded leaves and dainty white flowers that are followed by bright red berries0.5m x 2.5m Fl May - June Escallonia x hybrid 'Apple Blossom' AGMA compact, evergreen shrub, with small, glossy dark green leaves and cup-shaped pink flowers. Great when planted as a screen or hedge.2.5m x 2.5m Fl June - July Hypericum x hidcoteense 'Hidcote' AGMSt John's wort is a bushy semi-evergreen shrub much loved by florists for decoration. Its yellow saucer-shaped blooms are followed by sprays of distinctive berries in August.1.5m x 1.5m Fl June - September Spiraea japonica 'Anthony Waterer'Is an upright deciduous shrub with narrow, sometimes variegated leaves in shades of cream and pink, with deep rosy-pink flowers in late summer1.5m x 1.5m Fl May - August
Perfectly formed to bring vibrancy to beds, borders, and containers, these delightful plants will grace your garden with a plethora of colourful blooms. Easy to grow with no special cultivation techniques required, even the most inexperienced of gardeners will have masses of gorgeous translucent blooms in their garden. An upright, hardy annual plant, these mallows are perfect for cutting, and you'll get an abundance of delightful mallow flowers, each 7.5 - 10cm (3-4in) in diameter, along the length of the sturdy stems. Each bloom is magically translucent and will appear to shimmer when illuminated by the sun in a wonderful display and the abundant flowers will continue for many months over the summer - often over 4 months right through to the autumn. Grow in moderately fertile, moist but well-drained soil, ideally in full sun though partial shade is tolerated. Provide support in exposed positions. Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out. Flowers June to September. H90cm (36in) W45cm (18in).
Also known as the Strawflower or the Everlasting flower, this daisy-like plant is related to Helychrysums - a popular cottage garden plant that is enjoying a bit of a comeback. The attention-grabbing flowers are what makes this garden annual so unusual and what gave it the name of 'everlasting flower' - you really must grow them to see what the fuss is all about! As the big, intensely yellow blooms of Granvia Gold mature, they develop a deep orange centre giving the plant a bright golden glow. But that's not its most unusual feature - if you touch the petals, you'll be amazed to find that the actually feel like paper! Compact and easy to grow, these bushy annuals make perfect container plants - ideal for brightening up patios and balconies as they can be moved wherever you want them. Easy to grow and great for filling gaps in borders, they provide long lasting colour and make an excellent cut flower, lasting for weeks - even months if you hang a bunch up to dry for a couple of weeks after picking. Supplied as 6 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out. Plants reach H50cm (20in) x W50cm (20in).
These beautiful Lavatera are one of THE products that every garden should have! Lavatera are large shrubby plants with great big spikes of flowers up to 2 feet long, which will burst with an abundance of pink, purple and white blooms all summer long. Ideal for hot sunny spots, these are great plants for climbing up walls and trellises. You can also prune them to grow in pots on the patio. Incredibly vigorous, these are some of the easiest plants to grow perfect for beginners!
Grown for its gorgeous, springtime displays of pink, bowl-shaped blossoms, 'Triloba' here is grown in standard form creating the perfect compact feature tree for any size garden or patio. The double flowered blossom is a picture in early spring, where the blooms smother bare branches before the foliage appears. What's more, the flowers carry a wonderful floral perfume that will fill the air throughout the spring so make sure you plant somewhere where you can fully enjoy the delightful fragrance. Bright green leaves follow the flowers and fruits for wild birds to feast on arrive late in summer. Concluding in a riot of autumnal-bronze foliage in the autumn, the Prunus Triloba will add colour to your garden throughout the whole year. Perfect for pots, the standard form produces a ball of flowers and foliage atop a long clear stem, adding height to displays but is always very easily maintained with a little prune to shape. Totally winter hardy it can be left outside all year round and will flourish again next year. Supplied as a bare root tree, approx. 1.4m tall, in a standard form.
These standard patio roses are AMAZING quality and SUPERB value for money. Less than HALF NORMAL NURSERY PRICES! They will produce a summer-long display of beautifully fragrant blooms for years to come, adding style and height to your patio, decking or balcony. Also known as Tree Roses, a single bush will make a dramatic, stand-alone feature but will also look fabulous as a pair of potted specimens to dress a door or gate. This unique type of rose is only possible because painstaking work has been undertaken by the grower, 'side grafting' the flowering variety on to the straight stem of the rootstock, thereby giving the height. Supplied as 2 x bare root, standard trees with well-formed heads, approx. 60-70cm tall ready to plant out.
'Sugar Rush' is a fantastic new British-bred Wallflower that will reliably give you two displays of vibrant colour to brighten up your garden this Autumn and Winter! It will flower this autumn around November, overwintering to flower again in the Spring! This dwarf variety is highly fragrant, and its rainbow-like mix of coloured blooms will provide a vivid display in the otherwise dreary winter months. It is very hardy and will deal with wintery conditions no-problem, and is perfect for borders or containers. Growing to about 20cm tall, it's mass of fruit salad shades will work best in full sun or light shade, in massed plantings in pots, planters or mixed borders. Remove spent flowers to prolong displays.
If you are looking for a simple to grow, low maintenance collection to brighten up those dull mid Winter days after Chrostmas, look no further than this fabulous Winter flowering shrub collection - where all the flowers are fragrant too for extra enjoyment. Each colelction incldues one plant each of: Sarcococca (Christmas Box) - a lovely little evergreen shrub with sweet smelling white to cream firework explosion flowers from December to March. Reaches 1.5M tall x 1M spread, Viburnum bodnantense 'Chales Lamont' - very scented pale rose pink flowers emerge on bare stems from November to March on this larger easy shrub. Reaches 2M tall x 2M spread. Chimonanthus praecox (Wintersweet) - beautiful sulphur yellow flowers, with central burgundy detailing, borne on bare stems Jnauary to March on established plants - reaches 2.5M tall x 2.5M spread. All are very tough and hardy, and easy care, perfect for sunny bright mixed shrub borders. or grow them in larger pots, so you can bring them close to the house in Winter flower, so you can enjoy their delightful fragrance to the max.
For sheer impact and flower power, few plants can rival the fuchsia. A must for every summer flowering display, hanging baskets are incomplete without at least some fuchsias, and you'll certainly love these giants! Imagine turbo charging your normal fuchsias and you'll understand just how these larger-than-life beauties can have such an impact in the garden. Jumbo (or giant) flowered fuchsias are breathtakingly beautiful and always drawing admiring glances and with each flower up to 10cm (4 inches) across, these colossal-bloomed plants are a regular best-seller with gardeners. Performing reliably year in year out, whatever our summer weather throws at us, their multiple layers of delicate petals will fill your baskets and containers with dazzling colour and interest. These beautiful double flowered fuchsias will help you create perfect patio displays this summer with simply incredible extra-large, double blooms. What's really great about these varieties is that they are very productive throughout the whole season you'll get wave after wave of gorgeous flowers! With layer upon layer of delicate petals they are breathtakingly beautiful and always draw admiring glances. The varieties we've chosen will complement each other well, producing purples, pinks, reds, magentas creams and whites! They are all proven winners in UK conditions and will produce some of the showiest, brightest displays you've ever grown. Perfect for hanging baskets, pots & containers. Supplied as a pack of 12 jumbo plug plants for potting up and growing on for around 3-4 weeks before planting into baskets. Plant: March-May Flowers: June - September Height/Spread: Approx. 30cm (12in) x 50cm (20in).