The Most Beautiful Winter-Flowering Plant - and so on trend too - Hellebore Double Queen mix. This collection features Large, Ruffled & Speckled Blooms in double flowered forms - each one is totally unique because it has come from seed! Adding delightful colour to your winter garden, these beautiful blooms, each of 2-3in diameter, are dainty to look at but incredibly tough whatever the weather! Hellebores are perfect for brightening your garden in late winter when other plants are still slumbering, and they make an ideal accompaniment to spring bulbs. Their cup-shaped blooms provide a valuable nectar source for early pollinators and are a favourite with furry bumble bees when they are woken on a warm spring day. Each collection includes a mix of 3 plug plants thats will provide you with a stunning mix of colours, many with speckles and darker edges to their petals. With flowers from February - April they are a must for every spring garden! So easy to grow, they will slowly establish into small clumps, increasing in flower number year after year - it is not uncommon to have upwards of 50 flowers in around 5 years. They thrive out of direct sun, preferring to grow in rich, well-drained soil in dappled shade - hellebores are essentially a woodland plant, so thrive in soil that is humus rich and moist. They can also be grown in pots if space is limited, provided they do not dry out in summer. Supplied as 3 x jumbo plug plants, ready to pot on and plant out.
Add drama to you hanging baskets with this gorgeous selection of Lofos plugs. The lovely trumpet-shaped flowers contrast brilliantly with the lush green foliage and look incredibly tropical. Lofos is a very fast grower, with the foliage tending to establish first and then, once the warm summer days arrive in June, the pretty flowers will commence, continuing thereafter right until first frost in the autumn. A very special and unusual summer flowering plant and if you have never grown it before, its one that is not to be missed! In this collection you will receive: 4x Lofos 'Wine Red' plugs - Beautiful dark pink - almost red blooms with heart shaped foliage. 4x Lofos 'Compact Pink' plugs - Bright pink trumpet-shaped flowers with trailing foliage. 4x Lofos 'Compact White' plugs - Long impressive vines with creamy-white blooms. Flowering from June all the way through to September, these trailing blooms are sure to create a dazzling display! Supplied as 12x plugs, ready plant.
Every chocolate box photograph of a traditional cottage has Hollyhocks in it, and this series has the even more double flowers for greater impact! Tall spires of tightly ruffled, frilled blooms open from bottom to top of the magnificent flower spikes, giving height and impact as well as a nostalgic touch. Long-lasting spires of this specially selected hollyhock mixture features a range of vivid colours that will bring masses of flowers throughout summer. Extremely easy to grow and super-tough, Hollyhocks are very hardy and perennial, providing you with month of glorious colour each year and get bigger and better in subsequent seasons. Supplied as a collection of 12 mixed colour plug plants for you to plant straight out or pot up and grow on.
A superb collection of perennials, annuals and shrubs that will flower all summer long and into the autumn. Specially selected to be irresistible to butterflies, as well as bees and other pollinating insects, there are plants for every part of the garden, from towering Hollyhocks to compact Lavenders for growing everywhere, in borders or in pots. With their foliage and flowers all bringing different forms and textures, they'll work in harmony with each other to give you a stunning display, and wildlife will enjoy them as much as you. What's more, all of the flowers are great for cutting! This collection will include plants such as, Lavender 'Hidcote', Hollyhock 'Chaters Double', Helianthus 'Vincent's Choice', Lavender 'Munstead', Delphinium ' Magic Fountain' & Verbena bonariensis Supplied as collection of 12 plug plants, ready to pot on or plant out.
Also known as the Alpine Forget me Not, myosotis is a spring favourite that will happily self-seed around the garden to make sure that you always have a good display of these cheery flowers. Reliable and winter hardy, the plants are biennial (flower in their second season) and will form a decent sized clump of bluish-green leaves before they are covered in dainty blooms with a starry middle 'eye'. Compact enough to be grown in a pot, they're also ideal for the front of flower beds, or mixed in with other plants where they will fill gaps and poke through other perennial plants - perfect for edging paths or for planting with spring flowering bulbs such as tulips or daffodils. Traditionally a blue flower, this collection also includes rarer pink and white variants. Easy to grow and look after, they're a perfect plant to get kids interested in gardening as they love the pretty flowers which are produced with such abandon! Supplied as a pack of 20 garden ready plants, ready to plant out. Forget me nots will reach 20cm high and wide (8in approx.) and will flower from March to June.
Nothing heralds the arrival of Autumn in the garden more than good old-fashioned Chrysanths - and these amazing Hardy 'Garden Mums' are just the ticket to fill your garden with colour late on in the season and on into Winter. Naturally dome forming and compact, they will make fabulous potted plants for outdoors, or neat little domes in beds and borders. They will be smothered in literally hundreds and hundreds of flowers in deep, rich Autumnal shades, their filled centres joining together to create a carpet of colour. They will make simply stunning and long-lasting cut flowers to be enjoyed in your favourite vase.Supplied as a pack of 10 Garden Ready Plants, ready to plant out.
'Victoriana' are gorgeous, old fashioned style Primulas that feature a wonderful lacing effect outlining their flower petals. This mixture features flowers with golden yellow centres in deep mahogany with gold lacing, whilst the bright magenta and rich red varieties have silvery lacing. While they have the same number of petals as any other primula, their unique patterning gives the effect that they have twice as many, and their delightful blooms add a sophisticated contrast when planted with other primulas. The flowers are carried on robust, upright stems and can easily number 10-15 per stem. Primulas are woodland plants, so they love shady areas and look wonderful growing underneath shrubs and trees, where they really brighten up the garden before the summer flowering plants take over. Reliable perennials that will naturalise easily, they form tight clumps over several years, and are an absolute delight when they emerge each spring. Occasionally they will flower for a second time in late summer or autumn. Supplied as 20 garden ready plants, ready to plant in your garden and growing to a height and spread of 20 cm (8 in).
Stocks are very well loved garden flowers and a cottage garden favourite. 'Vintage Mixed' is a fabulous hardy annual that will produce gloriously fragrant flowers as early as May and until late summer. They are naturally sturdy, bushy and free flowering, with long, greyish-green leaves and multiple flowers stems densely packed with blooms, over half of which will be double, in a range of shades from white and pale yellow, through pink and mauve and deep purple. They carry an intense, clove-like, sweet fragrance that will smell wonderful as it drifts through your garden, and of course, these are superb cut flowers, and the scent will easily fill a room. The flowers are edible and have a delicately perfumed flavour. Picked fresh, they make a great salad garnish, or they can be used as a topping for ice cream. They can also be candied, allowing them to be stored and used in cakes. Grow them in full sun, in borders and or pots, where the nectar-rich flowers will attract bees and butterflies and you can enjoy the fabulous fragrance. Supplied as 20 garden ready plants, ready to plant in your garden and growing to a height and spread of 40 cm (16 in).
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).
The latest and best Polyanthus around; a 'multiflora' variety and therefore incredibly prolific in flowering displays, fully winter hardy and will flower non-stop from midwinter through to late May every year. The foliage is lusciously deep green, allowing the bright fragrant blooms to stand out brilliantly on their strong stems and for you to even take some cut posies of flower if you want to! Easy to grow, they work best in sunny or lightly shaded spots in tubs, baskets and planters, or the front of garden borders. Supplied as 20 garden-ready plants, to be planted straight up into their flowering positions.
Wallflowers are loved by gardeners for their huge range of vibrantly coloured spring flowers and sweet honey scent. 'Sunset' is a biennial which will flower the spring after it is planted and is a hybrid, which makes it more vigorous and stronger growing with a longer flowering season than most wallflowers, even in poor soil conditions. 'Tuttu Frutti' flowers in wonderfully rich shades of red, purple, orange and yellow, bringing bold, fiery colour to your garden at a time when most other plants are still dormant. They're also a great source of early nectar for bees and butterflies. Growing to just a foot tall, this gorgeous variety is spectacular when mass planted in containers to create a block of colour or planted trough borders for a stunning colour contrast with other spring flowers. They also make wonderful cut flowers, filling your home with fragrance. Supplied as 20 garden ready plants, ready to be planted out, reaching a height and spread of 30 cm (1 ft).
A delightful mix of gorgeous colours are produced from these scented ruffled pansies, creating lovely displays for your beds, borders, and containers. The larger petal to create more coverage once they are established while the purple tones of these blooms contrast perfectly against the green foliage.