The Busy Lizzie is back! The number-one bedding plant grown in the UK for years is making a return with a breeding breakthrough of mildew resistance to bring a riot of summer-long colour to your garden. We are extremely excited to be able to bring this Busy Lizzie to you and we're sure you'll be just as keen to have them in your garden where their reliability and proven performance make 'Beacon' Impatiens a top choice. One of the most popular bedding plants, Busy Lizzies (impatiens walleriana) are guaranteed to excel in UK gardens, rain or shine, sun or shade! During intensive, large-scale trialling, 'Beacon' out performed other varieties even when exposed to downy mildew, growing superbly and lasting until the first frosts. Initial growing trials have shown a natural resistance to downy mildew greater than other Busy Lizzie varieties currently available, and we have been particularly impressed with how well these garden favourites have grown and flowered reliably. Robust and durable, plants are top performers in the garden with reliable, consistent growth and summer-long flowering in a great range of dazzling colours: white, red, rose, violet, orange, and orange star. Unlike many other bedding plants, Busy Lizzies will thrive in shade as well as a sunny position and make superb arrangements in both baskets and pots - plus they're a great filler in the flower border, where they quickly plug gaps between plants. Supplied as 40 Pro Plug Plants, to plant straight out when risk of frost has passed.
Ever wondered if there is an easier way to plant bulbs? These innovative pre-planted bulb trays prove that there is! Simply place the biodegradable cardboard tray into your container or border and cover with compost.
A cottage garden favourite, Calendula, also know as the English or pot marigold is a hardy annual that will flower from late spring and all summer long. 'Fiesta' explodes into colour with double flowers in hot oranges and yellows from May until the first autumn frosts. They look spectacular planted en masse in beds, borders and planters and they make great cut flowers. Calendulas like a sunny location and fertile soil, and once established they will cope very well with wet or dry weather, giving you dazzling colour, month after month, and pollinators and other insects find them extremely attractive too. Sometimes referred to as 'poor man's saffron', the petals are edible and make a colourful salad garnish with a peppery taste, and they can be used to colour and flavour rice too. Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for a stunning summer display. Supplied as 20 garden ready plants, ready to plant in your garden and growing to a height and spread of 25 cm (10 in).
Whilst you may have a perception of dahlias as being old-fashioned, and what grandad grew when you were younger, they are enjoying a renaissance in the last few years, as they provide such stunning colour and value for money in the late Summer and Autumn. So easy to grow, as they are supplied as tubers, packed full of energy to burst into growth in Spring. Plant in pots or in the garden, they will get away quickly from May, and produce a mass of bright colours which will pepper your garden like gemstones as Summer turns to Autumn. Each pack provides 10 mixed colour and shape tubers, which will reach 60-90cm tall, and produce 20-30 flowers each. These can be cut for the house, or left to enjoy outdoors. Dead-heading will prolong flowering well into Autumn. They will survive milder Winters, or the tubers can be lifted and kept dry over-Winter, or left in pots if you choose them to grow. Old-fashioned Dahlias - a great addition to any Autumn garden.
The embodiment of the fleur-de-lis, the iris is a powerful symbol of faith, hope and power, and this scintillating 'Peacock Mix' contains some of the most attractive colours available at the moment. With a sultry mix of classic tones, the stunning, ruffled, blousy blooms appear over evergreen clumps of narrow, architectural leaves which provide year-round structure. A rhizomatous perennial, each bloom consists of 2 parts, the outer petals (falls) and the inner petals (standards) and each flower stem carries 3-5 buds. Currently a plant that's very much in vogue with garden designers, Iris sibirica (commonly called the flag iris) is a reliable, hardy perennial that will fill your garden with colour every year. Useful for providing height to borders without taking over, Sibirica iris are excellent for naturalising and great for cutting so that you can bring their fabulous colour indoors. Supplied as a random mix of 5 bare root plants*, ready for immediate planting. *NB colours cannot be guaranteed
You will absolutely love these vibrant, beautiful Petunias! With their incredible, double, Carnation-like blooms produced in wave after wave all summer long, this fantastic collection will truly bring your garden to life this summer. In a gorgeous range of pinks, purples, whites, reds and blues, your baskets and borders will be simply awash with colour! Incredibly large (up to 5' across!) flowers, weather-resistant, and great value - what more could you want. Supplied as 40 Pro Plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
A new twist on the ever popular Non-Stop Tuberous Begonia range, the Mocca series has the same big, ruffled colourful flowers on Non-Stops, but now set off against the most sumptuous velvety brown to purple leaves, seemingly making the colours even bolder and brighter against their dark and moody background, standing out like jewels. Look out for the orange and pink in particular. Great in borders en masse, or in large tubs, in sun or shade, they will form little corms that can be lifted in Winter and stored dry and replanted the following Spring (although we would much rather you wanted even more from us next season after their fabulous displays this year!). Supplied as 12 plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
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This fabulous mix of classic summer flowering geraniums will burst into colour in late spring, in a torrent of dazzling reds, pinks and white. they will light up your beds, borders and hanging baskets. Their neat, uniform habit means that the plants always look their best with their showy flowers and striking light and dark zoned foliage putting on a wonderful, cheerful show until the first frosts of autumn. Supplied as 40 Pro Plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Always a best-seller, these unbelievable petunias will bring your garden to life with their large, sumptuous, trumpet shaped velvety flowers in fabulous shades of red, pink, yellow and purple! Just the thing for bringing pizzazz to your summer planting, filling your pots, planters, baskets and carpeting flower beds with spectacular colour from June until October. Undemanding and easy to grow, they just need regular feeding, watering and deadheading to keep their impressive display coming. Happy in sun or partial shade, these Petunias with thrive in any soil that isn't waterlogged, so anybody can grow them. 'Frenzy' are extremely weather resistant, coping very well with the unpredictable nature of a British summer, from drought to downpours, the flowers will keep on looking great! Supplied a 40 Pro Plug Plants, ready for potting on and planting out after the risk of frost has passed, reaching a height and spread of 30cm (1ft).