This Pink Water Lily pond plant kit makes a fantastic gift idea and contains everything that you need to grow a beautiful floating pond plant to create a stunning display. We include everything that you need to add colour and interest to your pond. A complete growing kit, simply add the soil into the special planting basket, add the plant, cover with gravel and your Water Lily is ready to add to your pond.The quick and easy way to grow and display a beautiful pink water lily, this kit has everything you need, including the planting basket. Growing to around 10cm tall (above water) x 150cm wide, this fully hardy lily flowers will fill your pond with blooms from June to September. A popular waterlily, Nymphaea carnea produces showy, vanilla-scented, semi-double, pale pink flowers with golden-yellow centres from June to September. Often, in the first year, it will also produce white flowers. An excellent choice for a wildlife pond, when fully established, this water lily provides shade and shelter for fish and other aquatic wildlife. Additionally, the plants will help reduce the occurrence of blooms of algae, supressing blanket weed and other pond nasties, while at the same time improving the oxygen content. Kit includes a pink water lily (Nymphaea carnea), planting basket, top quality aquatic soil and decorative gravel.
Possibly the brightest and most dazzling cordyline that you'll ever see, 'Pink Passion' is a new and exciting colour variation that will create a wonderfully exotic effect in your garden borders or pots. Perfect for adding a modern twist to any patio, terrace or balcony display, this stunning cordyline plant will provide instant impact in even the most compact of spaces with its arching, red and purple leaves edged with shocking pink. A breeding breakthrough not only in colour but also habit, Cordyline 'Pink Passion' reaches just 1m (3ft) before it sends up new leaves from its base, and because it's compact, it is great for a pot in the smallest of spaces! Evergreen and hardy to -6°C, this pink cordyline will look fantastic all year round, adding colour to your garden when all else begins to fade. To be absolutely sure of surviving the harshest of winter weathers, we do suggest using frost protection fleeces or wrapping, or moving container-grown plants into a garage or porch during extreme cold conditions. Supplied as an established plant in a 17cm pot, repot your cordyline right away into a larger, decorative planter and place by a doorway or gateway, or on the patio or decking for an instant show-stopping display.
Quite possibly one of the most colourful of the creeping phloxes, this dainty, evergreen perennial is a versatile solution for a colourful spring garden, perfect for planting in drifts for a carpet of colour through April and into May, or dotted around to fill gaps and keep weeds at bay. With an abundance of 5-petalled star-like flowers along with distinctive needle-like leaves, each plant will spread to 60cm (2ft) across and is the perfect choice for rock gardens and for edging paths and borders. Also known as creeping moss phlox, you can grow it in mixed borders in full sun as well as in all manner of containers - it really is a plant for every occasion! As well as making an invaluable groundcover plant and weed suppressant, hardy carpet phlox is a low or no maintenace hardy plant needing very little in the way of aftercare, making it the perfect plant for those new to gardening or with no time for faddy garden divas. A great way to attract wildlife into your garden, you will get 2 plants each of the best 3 varieties, growing to 15cm (6in) x 60cm (2ft): Candy stripe - pink with white stripesEmerald Blue - pale lavender blueMcDaniels Cushion - bright pink
A fascinating and stunning looking plant, this Pineapple Guava is a native of South America yet is perfectly happy here in the UK. Like a bird of paradise, its flamboyant sorbet-pink and ice-white blooms will create an exotic display from late spring to early summer, bearing sweet nectar that is loved by butterflies and bees. In autumn this stunning plant then yields delicious, tropical-tasting green egg-shaped fruits with succulent flesh - similar to a kiwi but smoother in appearance. Enjoy them fresh or bake into pies and crumbles for a special treat. Bushes are evergreen, giving year-round interest. Hardy down to at least -5°C, when mature they reach a height and spread of 1.8 m (6 ft). They are very easy to grow and are particularly suited to raising in a large pot or planter.
The exotic Ornamental Fig, Ficus benjamina is a houseplant that's currently bang on trend and on everyone's wish list. and adds a distinctive, tropical feel to your home. The glossy, rich green leaves are held on top of the stems, and over time, the slender branches will begin to weep, softening the plant and making a definite talking point. Not just a pretty face, Ficus is well known for helping keep the air in your home clean as it filters out pollutants keeping it fresh and clean - according to NASA, weeping figs fight formaldehyde, xylene, and toluene, found in furniture, fireplace smoke, and common household products. Very easy to care for, once you have found the perfect place for your ficus, you can more or less leave it alone and let it do its 'thing' as long as it's kept out of draughts. Supplied as an established plant 90cm tall in a 21cm pot. Please note that the decorative pot is not included, see 'as supplied' photo.
A real taste of hot lazy Summers, Bougainvillea grow freely in hot countries around the Mediterranean with their rich colours smothering walls and balconies in the hot sun, but they also make great summer plants right here too!The lovely magenta pink variety is one of the more compact and floriferous varieties, and performs well at lower temperatures in winter too. The colour comes, in fact, from bracts, not flowers themselves - a little like Christmas poinsettia. The bracts turn brightest pink in summer whereas the flower itself is quite insignificant - a small creamy flower, which looks like the eye of the bracts.These plants have been grown on a cane and are supplied with the cane in a 3L pot. Although climbers, they are slower growing in the UK. They're perfect for growing in large pots in full sun on your patio, and then in winter bring inside to protect form cold. . They can lose their bracts suddenly due to stress, so do not be alarmed if they drop - new ones will quickly re-appear in warm weather.A real tropical addition to the Summer garden!
This set of 3 potted pink Oleander bushes is the perfect way to add that exotic, Mediterranean holiday feel to your garden without having to go anywhere! These 3 sweetly fragrant Oleander plants will be smother in flowers all summer-long and is surprisingly fully hardy, even here in the UK!Oleanders are one of the UKs favourite exotics and it's not hard to see why - these gorgeous Oleander plants will add a real warm Mediterranean feel to your patio or balcony with their boldly coloured, sweetly perfumed pink blooms standing out against their rich green, glossy foliage. Flowering from May to September, each Oleander plant looks stunning in a terracotta pot on a patio or balcony.So easy to grow, Oleander plants simply love hot dry weather, yet are perfectly happy in conditions down to -5c. Brilliant value, these large 2-year-old plants are supplied fully established in 17cm pots.
These beautiful Hyacinth Pink blooms will make a perfect addition to your spring floral displays. Hyacinths are very easy to grow both indoors and outdoors too, filling your home or garden with amazing colour and fabulous, heady scent. An iconic spring flower, for best effect your pot of hyacinths is absolutely ideal in a cool room, where they will release their delicious scent for everyone to enjoy. In fact, they'll last twice as long as when grown in a warm room! Ideal to bring early spring colour into your home, simply slip the planted pot into a decorative container whey they will come into flower from February. Once the flowers have finished, they can be planted into the garden. When planted in beds or borders, they will fill your garden with powerful fragrance each April (naturalised bulbs flower slightly later than their pot-grown kin) and of course these beautiful flowers can be cut to make magnificent indoor cut flower displays too! They are really easy to grow; once planted, leave them in the ground and they will flower for many years getting bigger and better each year. Supplied as a pack 7 bulbs, size 14/15 ready to plant in autumn, growing to a height of 40cm and width of 10cm.
Also called a 'Peony Tulip' because of the striking resemblence to the double flowers of a peony, 'Double Pink' has huge ruffled, creamy pink blooms, which last for weeks thanks to their strong, vigorous nature. Perfect in pots on the patio with large gatherings of the same variety, or mixed up in beds and borders with other varieties such as 'Mount Tacoma' or 'Blue Diamond', 'Double Pink' are a gorgeous variety of tulip that is a great choice for creating a romantic, cottage garden display in the spring. These blousy tulips are particularly special as a cut flower too as they are quite different and unique - why not give a bunch as a gift to a friend or family member on a special day? Although easy to grow and care for, double tulips, with their heavy flowers, are slightly more vulnerable to wind so choose a sheltered spot away from any harsh weather conditions and plant in autumn for stunning spring displays. Supplied as a pack of 15 bulbs, size 11/12, ready to plant straight out.
A versatile, perennial bulb, producing a fantastic display of delicate pink and white in mid-late spring, this tulip variety is perfect for beds, borders and containers. With single-bloom, classic cup-shaped flowers growing on sturdy stems, they are resistant to wind and rain, with a fabulous bouquet that makes them ideal for cutting. Easy to grow, they thrive in rich fertile, well-drained conditions, enjoying full or afternoon sun. Plant in the autumn for mid-late spring flowering, each pretty bloom lasting 1-2 weeks in April. Supplied as a pack of 15 bulbs, they are best planted in groups in borders or pots. Mix them with any other solid-colour flowering bulb for a wonderful contrast.
A beautiful winter flowering plant, a joy to see during the winter and spring. Large, gorgeous pale pink double flowers with burgundy freckles bring wonderful colour to your garden in winter, these beautiful blooms, each 3-5cm in diameter, are dainty to look at but incredibly tough whatever the weather! A hardy perennial with flowers from February - April, rising up to 35cm above leathery evergreen leaves. Incredibly easy to grow, hellebores will slowly establish into small clumps, thiving in lower light and shady spots. They can be grown in pots too, provided they do not dry out in summer. Supplied in a 9cm pot, ready for you to plant out.
The easiest way to achieve a perfect windowbox is with our collection of pre-spaced bulbs - a lovely mix of summer flowered shorter bulbs in shades of pink and white. Packed with 38 bulbs already spaced, including Gladiolus Charming Beauty, Begonia white, Oxalis deppei pink and Freesia double white. Using the unqiue biodegradable package, these Balcon-O-Mat Drop in pods are a quick and simple way to take all the hassle out of planting bulbs. No more worrying about colours, or spacing Simply plant the whole tray into the ground or a pot - watch the helpful video to see how. You cannot get easier gardening than this for flowers next summer and for years beyond.