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).
Fiery orange-red blooms stand out beautifully against the dark chocolate foliage of this handsome hardy perennial. Heliopsis ?Red shades? has an upright, branching habit, but remains compact enough for patio pots, making this a versatile choice for your summer containers and borders.
Heucheras are becoming more and more popular due to their ease of growing, maintenance and superb evergreen foliage. This Heuchera Collection features 3 varieties in Autumnal shades of red, brown and peach. Ideal for rockeries and ground cover, adding vibrant colour at any time of the year!
Heucheras are becoming more and more popular due to their ease of growing, maintenance and superb evergreen foliage. This Heuchera Collection features 3 varieties in Autumnal shades of red, brown and peach. Ideal for rockeries and ground cover, adding vibrant colour at any time of the year!
Lettuce 'Colour Shades Mixed' provides a tantalising mixture of bronze and red leaves to add colour, texture and taste to your salad bowl. This RHS AGM loose-leaf mix can be harvested as salad leaves or full heart crops all summer without worry, as this mix is particularly resistant to bolting. Height: 20cm (8). Spread: 25cm (10)
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.
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.
Affectionately known as Black Eyed Susan, this twining annual makes a popular and eye-catching summer climber. Thunbergia alata 'Salmon Shades' is a pretty colour mix with gentle terracotta shades of pink, orange, cream and apricot, each with a characteristic dark eye.
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.
Create a spring display of tulips that, when planted en-masse, will look like a gorgeous fiery sunset. Shades that range from deep, dark red, through to light, creamy-yellow, mix together to form a stunning display!