Lupin 'My Castle' is a gorgeous example of a cottage garden favourite with its tall, dramatic spires of scented boldly coloured flowers, great for cutting too! This strikingly coloured lupin will grow to 1m in height and makes a real statement in late spring and summer with its deep pink, almost brick red flowers opening in succession from the bottom of the spire upwards and giving a long flowering season. They're extremely attractive to bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects too, making your summer garden a haven for wildlife. With palmate, sage green foliage creating the perfect backdrop for these eye-catching flowers, their tall, spiky display of blooms really stand out in beds and borders, making a stunning statement in your garden. They're also great in pots where they're make a bold statement, creating a focal feature on patios and decking - or cut the stems and bring indoors to create beautiful cut flower displays. One of the Band of Nobles Series of hybrid lupins, easy to grow and totally winter hardy, 'My Castle' is also easy to maintain and makes the perfect cottage garden plant - it's perennial so comes back year after year with an ever-increasing amount of blooms. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot.
If you want to grow something different, then this is the plant for you! The Yellow Bird of Paradise (Caesalpinia gillesii), is a bushy shrub with a profusion of snapdragon-like flowers dripping with orange-red tassels. Caesalpinia goes by several other names, including the Desert Bird of Paradise and Crimson Threadflower - which give a hint to its drought tolerance and beautiful flowers. The yellow flowers reach around 2.5cm (1in) and are extended further, sometimes by as much as 7.5cm (3in), by the showy stamens which are produced on erect stems 15-30 (6-12in) long. The blooms are a favourite with humming birds in its native South America. Rarely sold or grown in the UK, Martin discovered it on a Spanish Nursery on a trip there recently, and bought all we were allowed to. With fine feathery foliage, like an Acacia, this bird of paradise (which incidentally is not related to the Strelitzia), is borderline hardy in the UK, so we advise protecting from frost in winter. Grow it in large pots in a sunny position, and enjoy its amazing flower displays in late summer. Caesaplinia easy to care for and generally problem free - plants under glass may need a restrictive prune after the first flush of flowers.
Colourful and compact, these 'Festival Mix' dwarf lupins have been specially blended to combine glorious jewel-like tones ranging from soft white and pale lemon-yellow to darker hues of pink, cerise and purple. The beautifully bold, candle-like blooms rise up through starry mounds of lush green, palmate leaves and are perfect for bringing joyful colour and structure to your summer garden. Members of the legume family, the petals on the tall flower spikes have a pea-like structure, giving off a delicate, peppery aroma that will attract bees, butterflies and other pollinators. Reaching a height and spread of 60cm (24in), their compact habit means that they don't need staking, so they are an ideal choice for patio containers or small-space gardening. For an informal look, try planting in clumps or drifts through other flowering perennials such as iris, delphiniums or geraniums - or even ornamental grasses. An eternal cottage garden favourite, they will also look good in contemporary schemes as well as making a fabulous cut flower for your vase. 'Festival Mix' lupins are easy-to-grow hardy perennials that will thrive in a light but moist, well-draining soil, preferring a sunny position that has some shade during the hottest part of the day. An early sowing will bring flowers in the same year, usually between August and September. In subsequent years they will flower from May to July. Supplied as a packet of 30 (approx.) seeds ready to sow indoors in a seed try from January to March, or outdoors into a seed bed from April to June, for transplanting into their final flowering position from May to October.
This amazing collection of stunning flowers will fill your garden with blooms all summer long and well into autumn.We've chosen shades of pink, purple and blue that perfectly compliment each other and their different heights mean that there's something for every part of the garden. Mixed together they create a magical cottage garden feel, and they're great for cutting too. Cornflower 'Blue Ball' a gardeners' favourite loved by butterflies and bees, this showy annual is a slender, dainty plant with sky-blue flowers. Perfect for punctuating wild gardens or meadows with colour. Grows to 75cm. 180 Seeds. Sweet Pea 'Galaxy' early flowering in luscious colours from reds to pinks to blues from late spring through to autumn, they'll produce a fabulous succession of beautifully fragrant stems that just keep on coming the more they're cut, so your vases can be as full as your garden with these prolific, long lasting star performers. Growing to 180cm. 35 Seeds. Cosmos 'Candy Stripe' exceptionally free flowering, giving a succession of white blooms with an edging of the deepest pink. With its delicate feathery foliage 'Candy Stripe' makes a lovely cut flower too. Its pollen rich, yellow centres are a magnet for bees on warm sunny days. Grows to 120cm. 100 Seeds. Lobelia 'Cambridge Blue' the perfect filler plant for pots, planters and tubs, or even large scale border plantings. Very easy to grow, its hundreds of sky-blue flowers will wind their way through the gaps in plants, filling them in with ease. A great little essential plant for all planting schemes, Grows to 15cm. 1500 Seeds.
There's nothing more iconic than a beautiful rose in summer and these half standard roses are AMAZING value for money! These expertly grown half standards will produce an abundant display of classic, fragrant pink blooms all summer long, filling the air with their perfume and adding colourful blooms to your garden for many years - a truly worthwhile investment. Also known as Tree Roses, they are the perfect way to add height and style to your patio, decking or balcony where a single bush makes a dramatic feature and a pair will dress a door or gateway to perfection. By carefully 'top grafting' the flowering variety onto a vigorous, straight stem of rootstock, our specialist growers have brought you a unique rose bush that will perform well in its first year, with guaranteed results. It takes 3 years to produces these gems - they are supplied as bare root bushes ready to be planted immediately upon receipt, supplied approx. 70cm tall with bushy heads.
Rosa 'Graciously Pink' is a repeat-flowering patio rose, which becomes smothered in clusters of mid-pink blooms through summer and into autumn. A beautiful, compact rose that will look magnificent displayed on your patio or outside your front door, this half standard has a long, slender stem, topped with a head that bursts into vibrant colour with clusters of fragrant flowers. The double flowers are lightly perfumed, which makes Graciously Pink a superb addition to your garden and as a more compact rose, it's ideal in containers so you don't even need a garden to benefit from its scent. A patio rose is a miniature floribunda rose and as such guarantees you a fabulous show of multiple blooms. They easy to grow and don't require much maintenance, being smaller than the average rosebush, so you can plant in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come. Perfect to use as groundcover when grouped together, Patio Roses are growing in popularity and are more and more being used to reduce erosion on slopes - so they are the perfect rose for ecologically minded gardeners. If you think that roses are not for you, then why not consider 'Graciously Pink' as a low hedge - with its lovely, glossy green leaves complimenting its blooms, it really is a great garden all-rounder and will give you vases of cut flowers for your home too! Supplied as an established plant in a 5L pot, ready for immediate planting.
Small-leaved, very tender spinach for salads and cooking, 'Samish F1' has good mildew resistance and is moderately winter hardy so is ideal for late season cropping. Grow as a baby leaf vegetable under glass throughout the winter to extend the season. Believed to be of Persian origin, spinach has long been a favourite as a tasty and versatile green leafy vegetable to be eaten cooked or raw. This 'savoy' or 'curly leaf' spinach has dark green, slightly crinkly leaves that have a crisp texture and a rich green, slightly bitter flavour, which makes it well suited to cooking. It is also great when added raw to salads to add an unusual and distinctive note. Highly nutritious, it is an excellent source of folate and vitamins A and C. A great choice for gardeners, 'Samish F1' has great resistance to cold and disease so is a good choice for early and regular sowing to ensure a long harvest. It thrives in well-drained, fertile soil, so adding composted manure to the ground before planting will give it an extra boost. A sunny position is ideal although it will also grow well in light shade. Supplied as a packet of 200 (approx.) seeds ready to sow outdoors in their growing position. Sow outdoors from March to September, 30cm (12in) apart in rows, in moist but well-drained fertile soil. Harvest from May to October, or through the winter if grown under glass.
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.