Also known as Blanket Flowers, Gaillardia are an instantly recognisable cottage garden favourite. These 'Jam Tart Flowers' are invaluable in the summer border due to their long flowering season and their ability to provide a bright and colourful display whatever the British weather throws at them. The plants form a low mound of green, furry leaves, bearing upright stems of large daisy-like flowers on long stems which are perfect for cutting and very attractive to butterflies. Perfect in pots, they will also make fantastic gap fillers in your containers, beds, and mixed borders. 'Arizona Red Shades' produces gorgeous blooms in the most spectacular shades of red, with bright crimson petals that look like the tips have been dipped in yellow paint for a perfect contrast. These daisy-like blooms come into flower during early summer and will last right the way through to autumn. They also make fantastic cut flowers, so you can enjoy them inside the home as well as in your garden. Easy to grow and requiring very little maintenance, just deadhead the faded blooms to prolong the flowering season. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots ready to pot on or plant out.
If you fancy a change from Petunias in your patio pots and baskets, then Calibrachoa Calita® 'Apricot Shades' makes a great alternative. This versatile annual boasts tumbling stems that spill elegantly over the edges of containers.
First F1 Bred Variety on the Market A true eye-catcher with radiant flowers in vibrant shades of orange;contrasting spectacularly against the glossy green foliage. Offering an impressive blooming time from May to October;these impressive plants are perfect for accenting your borders or as feature plants in containers on the patio or decking areas. An easy-to-grow variety;perfect for sunny and dry areas.
When all risk of frost has passed, gradually acclimatise pre-planted patio pot to outdoor conditions over a period of 7 to 10 days before placing in their final positions. Grow begonias in a sunny or semi-shaded position.
Year after Year, Begonia Illumination 'Apricot Shades' features in our best-selling bedding and basket plants. Why? It's undoubtedly the combination of fantastic performance in baskets and tubs whatever the Summer weather, combined with the gorgeous blend of warm tones and shades that the mix produces. This beautiful variety has flowers in wonderfully warm shades of yellow, gold, apricot, orange and ochre that will fill your hanging baskets and patio containers with colour from May until October! The blooms are incredibly weather proof, long lasting and plentiful, held on strong healthy plants with a gently trailing growing habit. They look best simply on their own, as there is enough subtle colour variation not to look too overdone. One for the short-list for sure.Supplied as 40 Pro Plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
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.
This pansy has an amazing warm colour combination of rose shades that will really stand out in your borders or patio pots for those dull winter days.
There is nothing more charming than this Chianti Pansy mix as it has an antique appearance and ruffled blooms in varying shades of red, orange, rose, yellow and peach. The flowers have contrasting dark faces and some of the petals are even striped.
This polyanthus will be adorned with bright blue flowers with a bright yellow heart. Blooming from late winter to early spring, they stand out beautifully against the rosette of oval, wrinkled, dark green leaves.
Heleniums are late flowering perennials with spectacular flowers in hot colours. Also known as sneezeweed, they're invaluable for bringing vibrant colour to the garden from mid-summer until the autumn. 'Zorro Bicolor' is a stunning Helenium with toothed leaves and magnificent rich red flowers edged in golden yellow with a chocolate-coloured centre that gradually turns yellow as the flowers age and the stamens appear - a fiery colour combination that's impossible to ignore from July until September! Still in full flower when other garden plants are fading away, plant 'Zorro Bicolor' in beds and borders or in large pots to create vibrant, flaming displays on your patio. Try underplanting it with Crocosmia to really turn up the heat. Recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators' the flowers are a favourite with butterflies and bees and many other insects. Carried on long, straight and strong stems, they are ideal cut flowers, and there are so many of them that you'll be able to pick them right the way through the flowering season, bringing bold, hot colour into your house. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting, reaching a height of 50cm (20in) and spread of 60cm (2ft).
This half-hardy annual Treasure Flower, Gazania 'Red Shades' is certainly no shrinking violet. It has large, exotic daisy style flowers, that have deep ruby red petals, and orange centres.
Year after Year, Begonia Illumination Apricot Shades features in our Top 3 best-selling bedding and basket plants. Why? It's undoubtedly the combination of fantastic performance in baskets and tubs whatever the Summer weather, combined with the gorgeous blend of warm tones and shades that the mix produces. This beautiful variety has flowers in wonderfully warm shades of yellow, gold, apricot, orange and ochre that will fill your hanging baskets and patio containers with colour from May until October! The blooms are incredibly weather proof, long lasting and plentiful, held on strong healthy plants with a gently trailing growing habit. They look best simply on their own, as there is enough subtle colour variation not to look too overdone. One for the short-list for sure.