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).
These trailing geraniums look spectacular when grown in a window box or hanging basket, alternatively they can be trained up a trellis, to grow like a climbing plant, to quickly transform a drab fence or wall.
Become an instant bulb expert in no time at all with the ingenious Plant-O-Mat Drop in Bulb Pods! This Acidanthera and Brodeia Mix will produce an amazing summer display with the absolute minimum of effort... The designer 'Bulb Pods' will be delivered with your bulbs 'in-situ' and in their ideal spacing so you will get picture-perfect colour-themed displays each and every summer! Simply dig a planting hole in your garden, pot or trough, drop the entire 'Bulb Pod' in, cover with compost or soil, water and wait for great results. It really is a case of DIG - DROP - COVER - your results will astound friends & familly and there's no need for dirty hands. The totally biodegradable 'Bulb Pod', will itself disappear with a few weeks from planting, leaving the bulbs in the perfect planting design - in summer you will get a fabulous display that looks just like the picture! This Mix includes 19 bulbs that have been carefully positioned into a complimentary design that will look absolutely stunning when in flower. You'll get a neat and professional looking display that your neighbours will be jealous of. You will get: Acidanthera (white) 7 bulbs Brodeia (blue)12 bulbs Classic 'Bulb Pod' - Round in shape, each one is 24cm diameter and contains 19 premium quality bulbs that are all guaranteed to flower next summer! Perfect for large pots, beds & borders.
These semi-dwarf Dahlias are just the thing for bringing vivid colour to your garden. Their fabulous and vibrant flowers will brighten up even the dullest day! Supplied as energy packed tubers, raring to go, just plant them in pots or in the garden and they will burst into life from April, producing neat, bushy plants and masses of brightly coloured flowers to fill your garden all through summer and well into autumn. Our collection of patio dahlias will give you large, semi-double blooms in vivid shades of red, yellow, orange and pink that will reach around 60cm (2ft) tall and produce an abundance of flowers. Ideal in patio pots or in the middle area of borders, and wonderful as cut flowers. Deadheading will prolong flowering well into autumn. Plants will survive milder winters, but we recommend lifting the tubers and storing somewhere dry and frost-free over winter. If growing in pots, simply move the pot to a frost-free place with the tubers in situ. Supplied as a pack of 5 tubers in a mix of colours.
An easy to grow mixture of 10 colourful annuals, which includes species found in our countryside during the Middle Ages such as borage, cornflowers and flax. This mixture has a blue tone base of cornflowers and echium, with added red-orange contrast provided by flax and marigolds, and lastly a touch of antique pink provided by mallow. Height 50-60cm (20-24in).
One of the most attractive and sweetly fragrant summer flowering bulbs, this specially selected mixture will be supplied as heat-treated corms, which guarantees they will flower from the first season onwards. Supplied in a stunning array of bright colours, these will be perfect for growing in pots on your patio or planting in beds or borders. They will over-winter in mild winters, and produce bigger and better displays in future years. These beauties no longer need to be simply a treat, so grow your own, and you can enjoy bountiful crops to pick again and again, and at a fraction of even supermarket prices and at just pennies per bulb. They thrive in pots in warm spots, or in well-drained soil, they will flower in summer. Cut the flowers when tight in bud for maximum enjoyment and fragrance indoors, or leave them to provide a splash of colour outside.
Primula Belarina is and incredible range of vibrantly coloured primroses with clusters of large, lightly scented double flowers, creating a lovely bright splash of colour. These wonderful, compact plants have rosettes of beautifully textured leaves and are smothered in 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).
Daffodil Miniature Mix brings together some of our favourite dwarf Narcissus to create a collection that will give you years of pleasure. The cheery blooms of these adorable little Daffodils are hard to resist. They make fabulous cut flowers so you can enjoy them in a vase indoors, as well as in the garden.
A vibrant mix of up to 20 different coloured blooms. Primrose 'Alaska Improved Mixed' boasts extra large flowers and a sturdy constitution! These robust Primroses will happily weather the cold winter months, flowering freely in beds, borders, containers and window boxes for a superb spring display.
Add that cottage garden feel to your borders and pots with Cosmos Apollo. It's very free flowering with extra large petals and is, quite simply, the best Cosmos on the market for patio containers giving a succession of pastel blooms in shades of white, blush, light and dark rose pink. It's pollen rich centres are thronged by bees on warm sunny days as well. The stems of this new introduction are strong and compact meaning it will need little or no support in the border unlike other varieties. With it's delicate feathery foliage Apollo makes a lovely cut flower too. Supplied as a mix of 12 plug plants ready to grow on before planting out.
Create a display full of colours and textures with these fabulous Dahlias. This is a seed grown mixture of both decorative and cactus dahlias. This will provide you with a spectacular range of heights and shapes and well as a mix of colours that could include red, purple, yellow orange and pink. The decorative dahlias will give you large, double blooms with colour-splashed petals and the cactus dahlias will give you large, double blooms with narrow, spiky petals. In bloom from July through to October, they are easy to grow and packed full of energy to burst into growth in Spring and produce a mass of bright colours which will pepper your garden like gemstones as Summer turns to Autumn. Dahlias are perfect for planting in your bed, borders, patio pots and containers. They also make fabulous cut flowers so pick a bunch of these pastel beauties to bring into your home for amazing colour. Dahlias will need some winter protection if you want them to return next year, we recommend that you dig them up before the first frost arrives and keep them stored over the winter. Supplied as a pack of 3 tubers, ready to plant out.
Now your garden can be bursting with fabulous flowers throughout autumn with these healthy, large, garden-ready plug plants. Stocks 'Autumn Perfume Mixed' has fantastic, colourful blooms and a spicy fragrance. Simply remove from the box and plant them out into your borders, containers and baskets for a rewarding display from autumn through to spring. Ht. 30cm.