Not to ever be confused with pot plant Cyclamen produced in their masses for Christmas, these superb wild Cyclamen are a stunning garden plant for slowly naturalising in shady spots under trees and hedges, providing subtle Autumn colour and long term foliage interest. Their flowers are produced in profusion in Autumn - once established the flowers appear straight form the ground before any leaves form. As they die back in Winter, the striking silver marked deep green leaves, with whorls of splashes and random leaf markings appear, and last until the heat of the following Spring. They will slowly spread out into small clumps, and naturalise to form a delicate carpet, of totally hardy, no maintenance, almost bullet proof plants. What could be easier? Perfect for that awkward shady space, whatever size of garden you have. You will get 3 pink flowered and 3 white flowered plants already one year old - not small bulbs that you need to wait years for flowers. Please note that plants are dormant when sent with little or no foliage present.
Not to ever be confused with pot plant Cyclamen produced in their masses for Christmas, these superb wild Cyclamen are a stunning garden plant for slowly naturalising in shady spots under trees and hedges, providing subtle Autumn colour and long term foliage interest. Their flowers are produced in profusion in Autumn - once established the flowers appear straight form the ground before any leaves form. As they die back in Winter, the striking silver marked deep green leaves, with whorls of splashes and random leaf markings appear, and last until the heat of the following Spring. They will slowly spread out into small clumps, and naturalise to form a delicate carpet, of totally hardy, no maintenance, almost bullet proof plants. What could be easier? Perfect for that awkward shady space, whatever size of garden you have. You will get 3 pink-flowered plants already one year old - not small bulbs that you need to wait years for flowers. Please note that plants are dormant when sent with little or no foliage present.
Not to ever be confused with pot plant Cyclamen produced in their masses for Christmas, these superb wild Cyclamen are a stunning garden plant for slowly naturalising in shady spots under trees and hedges, providing subtle Autumn colour and long term foliage interest. Their flowers are produced in profusion in Autumn - once established the flowers appear straight form the ground before any leaves form. As they die back in Winter, the striking silver marked deep green leaves, with whorls of splashes and random leaf markings appear, and last until the heat of the following Spring. They will slowly spread out into small clumps, and naturalise to form a delicate carpet, of totally hardy, no maintenance, almost bullet proof plants. What could be easier? Perfect for that awkward shady space, whatever size of garden you have. You will get 3 white-flowered plants already one year old - not small bulbs that you need to wait years for flowers. Please note that plants are dormant when sent with little or no foliage present.
Clematis montana 'Fragrant Spring' is a vigorous, deciduous climber, just the thing for creating a mass of spring colour in your garden! This is without a doubt an exceptionally beautiful clematis. The foliage is tinted with bronze when young, before turning dark green as it matures, becoming the perfect backdrop to the delightful, fragrant pale pink flowers with yellow stamens. Like all montanas. 'Fragrant Spring' is a fast grower, using its tendrils to clamber and climb up and over just about anything! It'll quickly grow over garden arches and pergolas or up into surrounding trees and shrubs. It's also very useful if you want to disguise any unsightly sheds or fences or create a screen by growing it on a trellis. Wherever you plant it, you'll love the foliage, flowers and scent of this wonderful clematis. Montanas should be pruned - if necessary - soon after blooming ceases removing only wood from previous years. New summer growth will bear next year's flowers and should be trained and tied in accordingly. Supplied as an established plant in a 15cm pot, ready to plant, growing to 9m (30ft) tall and spreading 3m (10ft).
With the gardening year in full swing, it's time to get planting so that your garden will be bursting with colourful flowers all season! Few things are more satisfying than watching seeds that you've planted yourself grow up before your eyes and explode into flower! We've chosen a wide selection of sensational varieties that will all bring colour and texture to your borders, pots and baskets in shades from the hottest reds and oranges to peaceful cottage garden pastels. They're also a magnet for bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects that will find the nectar rich flowers irresistible. Gorgeous in the garden and also indoors in vases, you'll have hundreds of dazzling blooms for month after month, and they're so easy to grow too! You'll receive three individual packets of seed, chosen from: Silver Grass Miscanthus Sinensis - A tall, epic perennial grass with silvery seed heads. Poppy L'auren's Grape' - Rich, deep purple flowers. Zinnia 'Jazz' - Showy double flowers in bright shades of pink and orange. Dahlia 'Figaro' Mixed - A dazzling display of yellow, orange, red, pink, white and purple double blooms. Stock Night-Scented 'Starlight Scentsation' - Pastel shades with a fragrance that intensifies at dusk. Marigold (African) 'Crackerjack' - Flowers in hot shades of orange and yellow. Cosmos 'Sensation Mixed' - A cottage garden favourite in magenta, pink and white. Sweet Pea 'Incense Mixed' - Exquisitely scented pastel flowers. Calendula 'Art Shades' - Double blooms in peach, orange and yellow. Californian Poppy 'Monarch Art Shades' - Drifts of flowers in shades or orange. Lobelia 'Cambridge Blue' - Masses of vivid blue flowers. Cosmos 'Candy Stripe' - Daisy-like white flowers edged in deep pink.
An exceptional variety that is early to crop and has a long picking season, 'Polestar' produces high yields of smooth runner bean pods that have a sweet flavour and crisp, fleshy texture. If not left too long on the vine, these beans are stringless, so for best taste and texture, pick when they reach 15-20cm (6-8in) in length. A reliable and long-standing favourite of vegetable growers, this heavy cropping variety will produce plenty of delicious fresh beans for your plate and plenty more for the freezer. Versatile and nutritious, they are a classic cooked veg, but the young beans also taste great raw - try shredding or slicing them into a salad or using as a baton for dips. For best results, sow the seeds indoors in pots from April to May for transplanting outside in May to June; or sow from April to May outdoors, directly into their cropping position. To get the growing season off to an earlier start, sow them in containers in your greenhouse. The plants produce pretty red flowers, which are very attractive to bees and other beneficial insects. Grow alongside sweet peas as these will draw in more insects that will help pollinate the runner beans and produce an even bigger crop. As well as 'Polestar' being a rewarding bean to grow, the beans are highly nutritious as they are rich in vitamin C and a good source of fibre. Trim and blanch surplus crops to store in an airtight container or bag in the freezer. They will freeze well, retaining good flavour and texture when cooked from frozen. Supplied as a packet of 50 (approx.) seeds ready to plant indoors in individual pots or outdoors in their growing position. Being deep-rooted, runner beans will thrive in well-dug, fertile, moisture-retentive but well-draining soil, in a sunny and sheltered position. Successive sowings every 2-3 weeks will achieve an extended cropping. Beans will be ready to harvest from July to October, 12-16 weeks after sowing.
Transform your garden with 6 whole months of fabulous colour each year - this fantastic offer is less than half the normal price you'd pay for 300 bulbs of this quality! From January right through to June you will be amazed by the dazzling array of colours and variety of shapes from these quite brilliant plants. They are perfect for patio containers and flower borders, and best of all, each of these flowers will naturalise, so you will get bigger and better displays each year for many years to come. All of these bulbs are guaranteed to bloom, so you will get a minimum of 300 stems of vivid colour through spring and into early summer. Included in this pack: 25 x 'Triumph' Tulips - The classic tulip with large, cup-shaped flowers in a kaleidoscope of vibrant colours during April. Very strong and sturdy, growing to 50cm (20in) tall. 15 x Miniature Narcissi - Brightly coloured daffodils, but in exquisite miniature from February to April, reaching just 20cm (8in) tall. 15 x Crocus - Beautiful purple, yellow and white flowers that look wonderful scattered in drifts during February and March, growing to 20cm (8in). 50 x Muscari - The grape hyacinth, with poker-like clusters of densely packed, bell-shaped, purple-blue flowers in March and April, growing to 15cm (6in). 55 x Allium 'Moly' - Loose clusters of bright yellow flowers make this allium useful for lightening areas of dappled shade in May and June. Grows to 50cm (20in) tall. 55 x Brodiaea - Gorgeous bell shaped deep purple blooms between May and June, reaching 40cm in height. 30 x Allium 'Neapolitanum' - Pure white flowerheads in April and May, growing to 40cm (15in). 55 x Ipheion uniflorum - Beautiful little star-shaped, silvery blue scented flowers from March to May, reaching 25cm (10in). Note - we reserve the right to substitute one or two components to an equal number and value should insufficient stocks be available all season.
Transform your garden this summer with this simply brilliant collection of summer-flowering bulbs. You will be amazed by the dazzling array of colours and variety of shapes for 5 whole months of summer! From tall spires of Gladioli, to pretty, star-shaped Brodiaea, in multi-coloured vivid shades they are all sure-fire winners! They are perfect for patio containers and flower borders. Best of all, they will naturalise easily and provide your garden with bigger and better displays each year for many years to come! All of these bulbs will flower from this summer and produce a minimum of 300 stems of vivid colour this season! In this collection: 25 x Gladioli Mixed Colours: Tall spires of multi-coloured flowers, perfect to cut for your home or brighten your garden. Extremely easy and low maintenance, and yet very rewarding. 50 x Acidanthera: Beautiful white flowers with purple details and gorgeous grassy foliage. Perfect as cut flowers in the autumn. 75 x Brodiaea Mixed Colours: Clusters of attractive bell-shaped blooms which make ideal bedding plants equally well suited to patio tubs and pots. 25 x Freesia Mixed Colours: One of the most attractive and sweetly fragrant summer flowering bulbs. Perfect for patio pots, beds, and borders, and will look brilliant in a vase in your home 75 x Allium Yellow Moly: The ever-popular allium, gorgeous bright yellow blooms and green slender stems. 20 x Allium White Neapolitanum: Also known as white garlic, they produce delicate blooms that contrast effortlessly with the glossy green foliage. 30 x Liatris spicata: Spires of bright lavender flowers that stand tall above gorgeous green foliage. Supplied as a pack of 300 mixed bulbs, ready to plant out.
Senecio herreianus, AKA the string-of-pearls or string-of-beads plant, is a trailing, succulent vine and one of the rising stars of social media sharing! Looking just like a string of green beads, its perfect for hanging baskets or cascading from shelves - the String of Beads appreciates room to trail and is perfectly photogenic. The pea-sized leaves (which allow for the storage of water while at the same time minimising water loss) are produced on trailing stems which can grow 60-90 cm (2-3 ft). In its natural habitat, the stems trail on the ground, rooting where they touch and forming a dense mat. Each rounded leaf has a thin band of dark green tissue on the side known as an 'epidermal window' which allows light to enter and irradiate the inside of the leaf, effectively increasing the area for photosynthesis - a clever plant indeed. Senecio blooms during the summer with clusters of small white flowers with colourful stamens. The flowers last about a month and are said to smell like cinnamon and other spices to some people. Easy to grow and low maintenance, like most succulents the string of pearls will tolerate infrequent watering and just a few hours of direct sunlight every day. Good soil drainage is essential though to prevent problems and we recommend that you use a cactus mix when potting. Note Decorative pot in images is for display purposes only and is not supplied.
A twist on the classic Begonia, these beautiful fringed Begonias produce stunning carnation-like flowers in abundance in summer. The blooms are made up of layer upon layer of ruffled petals with crimped edges, adding something a little bit different to your begonia displays. In a mix of vibrant colours, they'll really stand out of the crowd. These bulbs will produce impressive displays from early July to late autumn each year, meaning you'll get flowers all summer long. Very easy to grow, the tubers last for years - just store them over winter. Fill up pots, containers, baskets and borders with these bright and colourful Begonias and watch as your garden comes to life with colour! Supplied as a pack of 10 tubers, ready to plant out from January to April.
These spectacular double-flowering tulips are also known as 'Peony tulips' for the close resemblance that the sweetly scented, blousey blooms bear to that early summer favourite. They will bloom from April through May, bringing a luxuriant splash of colour to your garden and filling the air with delightful perfume. Tulips are perfect for planting in a mix of hues, shapes and sizes, contrasting beautifully against one another, so plant them en masse in borders for a wave of colour - or in containers for a superb springtime feature. This mix of double-blooming tulips is ideal for creating eye-catching colour and structure. Simply plant the bulbs and look forward to spring, when they will erupt into a delightful display. With long-lasting blooms on elegant stems, they make lovely cut flowers, too. Simply bunch in a vase to bring a beautiful touch of spring colour and scent to your windowsill or mantelpiece. Tulips are very easy to grow, they are suitable for gardeners of every level of experience. Supplied as a mix of 20 bulbs, size 10+ ready to plant out in autumn.
Bulbs such as tulips and crocuses herald the arrival of spring, and 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 the start of the warmerweather. This great value collection combines the instantly recognisable crocus with compact and robust early tulips for a display that will get your garden noticed. With their distinctive goblet flowers, these blue crocuses are the iconic spring flower. Opening with the sun and closing at dusk, they will continue to bloom with bigger and better displays year after year! Perfect in pots, crocuses will flower from February to March, then, blooming from March, the early tulips take over and extend the show. 'Johann Strauss' is a compact tulip at just 25cm in height, with blue-green mottled leaves. The flowers are cream, flushed with red and yellow, and make a truly outstanding display. Plant these bulbs in pots or straight into flowerbeds and you will enjoy a host of flowers from late February onwards. Supplied as a pack of 30 bulbs, ready for planting out in autumn.