A fabulous collection of double-flowered freesias to bring a mixture of colours and perfume to your garden. These stunning double blooms will flower more prolifically than the single-flowered varieties, producing gorgeous, trumpet-shaped freesia flowers with a delicious fragrance above the narrow, lance-shaped leaves. A native of South Africa - we tend to think that growing them in the UK will be difficult, but this isn't the case - they're really easy! Freesias grow well in a sunny spot in well-drained soil and are a great candidate for a pot in a sunny greenhouse or conservatory or on the patio. A cut-flower favourite and a popular cottage garden flower, you can keep your home filled with the delightful scent of fragrant, fresh-cut flowers. Supplied as a collection of 50 mixed-colour freesia corms.
Easier to grow than you may think, cannas are one of those exotic beauties that swiftly helps to create a bright, zingy summer garden. Their fiery hot colour combinations of yellow, orange and red will erupt throughout your beds and borders, adding great height and impact too. Each pack of 5 is a mix of colours, and also a mix of the green-leaves and lovely purple-leaved types, selected from taller flowering cultivars, so all will flower at 1m or more. Renowned for their tall flower spikes, grow them in large pots, or at the back of borders, in hot, sunny spots, in well-drained areas. Feed well when in growth - they will not start growing much until May, they grow away quickly as the summer warms. They will over-winter if they do not get too wet, and will benefit from a mulch - or the tubers can be dug up and stored in a cool, frost-free place over the winter for use again next year.
Also known as the Mexican shell flower, peacock flower or Aztec lily, the striking Tigridia is a delightful flower with petals in a multitude of shades of scarlet, orange, pink, yellow, mauve and white, usually with contrasting spots and splashes in the centre of the flower. Each bloom consists of three large coloured petals surrounding three smaller spotty petals and a central cup and with its lance-shaped leaves, the blooms are not unlike a gladiolus, and just like day lilies will flower for just one day - although although they are produced in succession, so blooming can last several weeks. Hardy to -2°C, in cold areas dig up the bulbs after flowering and overwinter in sand in a dry, frost-free place, repotting in the spring. Alternatively they can be grow in pots and moved out of the cold in winter. Supplied as a pack of 25 bulbs, ready for immediate planting. Plants will reach up to 1m and flower from July to August.
Bulbs such as daffodils and tulips herald the arrival of spring - there's nothing more exciting than the sight of their bold and bright colours peeking up from the ground, marking the end of a long winter and promise of warmer weather to come. This great value collection combines the ever-popular 'Tête-à-Tête' daffodil with compact and robust 'Early Red' tulips for a display that will get your garden noticed. With their distinctive flowers, 'Tête-à-Tête' daffodils are a must-have for any spring garden. A great, green-fingered investment, they'll continue to bloom year after year, getting bigger and better all the time! Brilliant in pots, 'Tête-à-Tête' produces lots of pretty, golden-yellow flowers from late February. Then, blooming from March, the 'Early Red' tulips have more robust, short-stemmed flowers, and these red ones are geat for contrasting with beautiful yellow daffodils and will pick up just as 'Tête-à-Tête' are fininshing. Plant these bulbs in pots or straight into flowerbeds and you will enjoy a host of delicate flowers from late February onwards. Supplied as a pack of 100 bulbs, ready for planting in the autumn.
A great mixture of taller tulips approx. 50-60cm tall to give you a kaleidoscope of spring colour. They are incredibly versatile, very strong and sturdy and show off the classic, much loved tulip shape. These 'Triumph' tulips are perfect for growing in beds and borders, this mix is an all-in-one solution to adding vibrant spring colour to your garden next year - maximum impact with minimum effort! We've put together a stunning mix of colour to create a real rainbow of tulips to stand loud and proud in your beds, borders or containers next year without you having to do anything other than plant and water. Tulips are one of the most popular bulbs, as they are are great planted with many different colour variations to give a fresh, vibrant spring colour to your garden, patio or decking but they also make great cut flowers to brighten up the house. Supplied as a pack of 50 bulbs, size 10/11 ready for planting in autumn.
Get your garden spring ready with this vibrant collection of 75 woodland flowering anemone corms.Anemone coronaria De Caen explodes with early season colour, creating a carpet of reds, pinks, blues and whites that will return to your garden in spring for years to come. They love sunshine, and their poppy-like, velvety flowers also make fantastic indoor cut flower displays.Very easy to grow, once planted you can leave them in the ground and they will naturalise, so if you want to create the perfect spring paradise, then this collection is the easy way to an eye-catching floral display.Anemone De Caen makes a voluptuous display in a group but are equally impressive when grown singly, where you can truly appreciate the sumptuous flowers. Their delicate, cupped blooms each have a darker central eye and appear from March to April above a mound of deeply divided, fresh green fern-like leaves.Ideal for a sheltered, sunny site, this is a charming collection of colours to make your spring garden truly spectacular.We send 75 corms, ready for immediate planting in pots or in the garden.
While you may have a perception of dahlias as being old-fashioned, and something that your grandad grew when you were younger, they have actually been enjoying a renaissance over the last few years, mainly because they provide such stunning colour and value for money in the late summer and autumn. So easy to grow, Dahlias are supplied as tubers, packed full of energy to burst into growth in spring. Plant in pots or in the garden and they will get away quickly from May, producing a mass of bright colours which will fill your garden as summer turns to autumn. Our collection of cactus dahlias will give you large, double blooms with narrow, spiky petals and each pack provides 5 mixed colour tubers, which will reach around a metre tall, and produce plenty of flowers each. These can be cut for the house, or left to enjoy outdoors. Dead-heading 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, or left in pots if that's how you choose to grow them. These blousy Dahlias make a great addition to any autumn garden and their blooms will bring colour as everything else starts to fade.
While you may have a perception of dahlias as being old-fashioned, and something that your grandad grew when you were younger, they have actually been enjoying a renaissance over the last few years, mainly because they provide such stunning colour and value for money in the late summer and autumn. So easy to grow, Dahlias are supplied as tubers, packed full of energy to burst into growth in spring. Plant in pots or in the garden and they will get away quickly from May, producing a mass of bright colours which will fill your garden as summer turns to autumn. Our collection of decorative dahlias will give you large, double blooms with colour-splashed petals and each pack provides 5 mixed colour tubers, which will reach around a metre tall, and produce plenty of flowers each. These can be cut for the house, or left to enjoy outdoors. Dead-heading 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, or left in pots if that's how you choose to grow them.
'Mistral' are magnificent anemones boasting incredibly large flowers from late spring on tall, strong stems in an array of the most amazing colours. We've created a collection that includes white, red, purple, pink and bi-colour, all complimenting each other beautifully. These prolific bloomers are perfect for cutting and will last up to two weeks in a vase and doing this will encourage more and more flowers to grow. Highly sought after, these Italian bred anemones are admired enormously the world over for their glorious, velvety blooms, and they'll naturalise easily so you'll get more and more flowers every year as they spread themselves through your garden. Perfect for a sheltered, sunny site, this collection of will bring an explosion of early season colour to your garden. Supplied as a pack of 10 bulbs, 2 each of five different colours.
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.
Tulips are quite possibly the brightest, most colourful flowers in the spring garden, and miniature varieties have the advantage of being less susceptible to high winds than their taller relatives, which can be blown over in bad weather. This mixture of bright colours, some with contrasting splashes, will look spectacular planted in groups, especially in pots on a patio or as a welcome next to the front door, or in borders in front of taller spring flowers. They are also great cut flowers, just the thing for brightening up your home. Tulips are easy to grow and care for and can be left in the ground after flowering as long as it's well drained, so you'll get a vibrant display year after year. If growing in pots, summer bedding can be planted above the bulbs when the tulips have faded. Supplied as 25 bulbs, size 9/10, ready to plant in autumn, growing to a height of 30 cm (1 ft) and width of 10 cm (4 in).
Daffodils welcome spring with there bright, cheerful flowers in a huge range of sizes, shapes and shades, and miniature varieties are beautiful must-haves for every garden. This delightful collection includes a range of flower shapes in shades of sunny yellow that look absolutely wonderful mixed together. They may be short in stature with small flowers but that only adds to their appeal, being perfect miniatures versions of their bigger, showier relatives. Miniature daffodils are perfect for underplanting shrubs and scattering through lawns and woodland areas for a naturalistic effect, where their bright flowers shine like little stars. They're also superb when packed into pots, indoors or out. Grow them in sun or partial shade, and they'll quickly naturalise, returning in greater numbers year after year.Supplied as 25 bulbs, size 8/10, ready to plant in autumn, growing to a height of 20 cm (8 in) and width of 10 cm (4 in).