A popular cottage garden perennial, Physalis alkekengi is a hardy perennial that produces small creamy-white, nodding flowers in summer, followed by light green fruit cases in August which add to the appeal of the plant and turn to a very attractive deep orange in September. These papery, orange-red husks resemble the popular lanterns and housing bright orange-scarlet berries.Perfect for providing autumn interest to your garden, they can be grown in well-drained beds and borders and are ideal in pots where they can be fully appreciated. As well as great garden colour, the delicate lanterns also make superb dried flowers in arrangements and bouquets and can be easily dried for Christmas arrangements. Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot ready to plant out, Chinese lanterns are very easy to grow and care for, thriving in a sunny or shady position in preferably moist, well-draining soil.
A beautiful winter flowering plant and a must for every spring garden. Large, creamy white double flowers edged and spotted with deep plum bring delightful colour to your winter garden, 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.
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.
A beautiful winter flowering plant, a joy to see during the winter and spring. Stunning large, double deepest purple flowers with pale yellow centres bring dramatic contrast to your winter garden. These luxurious blooms, each 3-5cm in diameter, are incredibly tough whatever the weather! A hardy perennial with flowers from February - April, rising up to 35cm above lush evergreen leaves. Incredibly simple to grow, hellebores will slowly establish into small clumps, thriving 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.
A welcome sight during the winter and spring with beautifully rich flowers. Luscious, reddish-purple flowers with pale creamy yellow centres add a much needed splash of colour to the winter garden. Each one is 3-5cm across, and incredibly tough whatever the weather! A hardy perennial with flowers from February - April, rising up to 35cm above leathery evergreen leaves. Incredibly simple 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.
A beautiful winter flowering plant, giving a woodland feel during the winter and spring. Immaculate, pure white double flowers with pale green-yellow centres add welcome interest to the winter garden. Each one is 3-5cm across, and although they may look dainty they're incredibly tough, whatever the weather! A hardy perennial with flowers from Decemeber - March, rising up to 35cm above leathery evergreen leaves. Incredibly simple 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.
Imagine sitting in your garden in the summer sun with shadows from this architectural beauty dancing on your patio! With its pale-green spikes of evergreen foliage, rising in dense clumps from the base of each plant, Cordyline australis look incredible all year round. Their long, graceful, sword-shaped type leaves look fantastic in beds, borders or containers. Their striking appearance makes a fantastic focal point and will give any garden, patio or decking a touch of the exotic. Compact and vigorous, they are perfect for gardens of all shapes and sizes and despite their exotic looks, are hardy to -7C. Plant yours in a sunny spot and it will thrive for years to come! Supplied as an established plant, 80-100cm tall (including pot), in a 17cm pot.
A striking evergreen shrub, Cordyline australis 'Torbay Red' will add spectacular Mediterranean style to your garden in summer. With its long, arching, sword-like foliage that typically grows on a single stem, it has a distinctive palmlike appearance and compact growth - a great choice for planting in containers to add character to patios and sunny balconies. Also known as the cabbage palm, Cordyline australis 'Torbay Red' has deep bronze-red leaves, making it a perfect plant to add contrast of form and colour in a mixed border. Mature plants produce clusters of sweetly scented, ivory-white blossom in the summer and berries in the autumn, so the bees and birds will love it too! Fully deserving of its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, this is a proven performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can plant this with confidence to achieve stunning displays for many years to come. Hardy to around -5C, we recommend that 'Torbay Red' is grown in a large pot where it can be moved under cover in the winter to protect it from the worst of the cold weather. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, it will reach approximately 2.5m x 1m in 10 years.
Plant a kaleidoscope of colours with this spectacular mix of double-flowered tulips. Also known as 'Peony tulips' for the close resemblance that the sweetly scented, blousy blooms bear to that early summer favourite, they are perfect for beds, borders, and containers, where they will be the star of any spring-flowering show. In a mix of colours ranging from creamy white to glorious pastel pinks and pinky reds, these multi-petalled blooms will fill the air with delightful perfume. The large, double-cupped, bowl-shaped blooms will also look fantastic in a vase - so make sure you plant enough for armfuls of cut flowers. An easy-to-grow hardy perennial, they will thrive in fertile, well-drained conditions, enjoying full or afternoon sun. Plant in the autumn for long-lasting, opulent, multi-coloured blooms in April and May. Easy to grow, they are suitable for gardeners of every level of experience. Supplied as a pack of 20 bulbs, they are best planted in groups in borders or pots for a beautiful display.
Hostas are one of the best perennials here in UK gardens, forming mounds of wonderfully lush, attractive, often colourful foliage, which is topped with spires of bell-shaped flowers in beautiful shades of pale pink, purple and white during summer. Growing virtually anywhere, and particularly valuable for those awkward shady spots, they are available in a wide range of colours and forms to suit any garden.Also known as Plantain Lilies, Hostas are great for filling gaps in beds and borders, and they also look fabulous planted up in patio pots and containers separately for a more formal look. Their attractive foliage creates interest all year round and their stunning, often fragrant flowers really wow in the summer.Although they like the sun Hostas will perform just as well in the shade and are a great choice for planting underneath trees and shrubs in dappled shade, acting as great groundcover plants. Suppled as 5 bare root plants. Images are for illustration puposes only. Varieties may vary depending on availability.
A cottage garden staple, the perfumed bell-flowers of Lily of the valley open in April and May and are a welcome addition to any border or patio pot. Ideal in light or even full shade, lily-of-the-valley is blessed with masses of tiny white bell-shaped flowers that possess a sweet, intoxicating scent in late spring. Growing up to 20cm on arching stems, which contrast beautifully with its clumps of dark green foliage, this hardy perennial is native to alpine meadows and does best in moist soil where it will happily naturalise and gradually spread. A great cutflower to bring into your home and ideal for brightening up a shady border and making a perfumed carpet of colour under trees and shrubs. Spreading via a network of underground roots, the spring shoots are referred to as 'pips' and sit just beneath the surface of the soil before bursting into bloom. Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come. Supplied as a pack of 10 pips.
With its brilliant red flowers this fantastic Crocosmia (Montbretia) really stand out in you garden. Masses of bright red flowers are produced in freesia-like sprays in midsummer. This is a vigorous plant with sword-shaped, pleated, mid-green leaves. It is perfect for planting in large groups, bringing heat to your borders or in pots which will overflow with its arching leaves and stems, and the flowers are also excellent for cutting. Choose a nice sunny spot and that isn't too dry - although can tolerate periods of drought once established and will naturalise if happy where they are. That said however, in general they will thrive in any conditions moist or dry soil, full sun or shade, shelter or exposed spots requiring almost no maintenance. Ideal for busy gardeners. Hardy perennials (to at least -20C), crocosmia are some of the very easiest plants to grow. With the flowering stems reaching around 1.2m (4ft) tall, they are perfect for the middle and back of borders. Over the years the bulbs will multiply freely, so you'll be able to dig up the clumps and split them to spread them around the garden. Supplied as apack of 10 bulbs.
With its fabulous golden yellow, maroon edged flowers, Ranunculus 'Elegance Giallo Striato' is wonderfully striking with hundreds of petals packed into its blooms. As they fade, the flowers fade to almost white. These lovely long stemmed, upright blooms are excellent cut flowers, and quite prolific as long as you deadhead them regularly. Grown in pots or borders, they'll look gorgeous in late spring and summer, especially if planted in groups. Although hardy perennials, the corms require a mulch to survive the harshest winter. Alternatively you can dig them up and store them in a cool, dark, dry location until the following spring. Supplied as a pack of 10 corms, ready for planting.
These semi-dwarf Dahlias are just the thing for bringing vivid colour to your garden. Their fabulous and vibrant flowers will brighten up even the dullest day! Supplied as energy packed tubers, raring to go, just plant them in pots or in the garden and they will burst into life from April, producing neat, bushy plants and masses of brightly coloured flowers to fill your garden all through summer and well into autumn. Our collection of patio dahlias will give you large, semi-double blooms in vivid shades of red, yellow, orange and pink that will reach around 60cm (2ft) tall and produce an abundance of flowers. Ideal in patio pots or in the middle area of borders, and wonderful as cut flowers. Deadheading will prolong flowering well into autumn. Plants will survive milder winters, but we recommend lifting the tubers and storing somewhere dry and frost-free over winter. If growing in pots, simply move the pot to a frost-free place with the tubers in situ. Supplied as a pack of 5 tubers in a mix of colours.
This fabulous cordyline will bring a tropical feel to your garden wherever you position it - whether as a specimen plant in your beds or borders, or in a decorative pot as an eye-catching feature for your patio, terrace, or balcony to provide instant impact in even the most compact of spaces. Or plant into a modern container and place it by a doorway, gateway or at the end of a path for an exotic focal point. Attractive swirls of long, swordlike leaves fan out symmetrically from a central, slow-growing trunk; and being evergreen, it will look attractive all year round, maintaining colour and structure through the autumn and winter when other plants begin to fade. Place yours in a sunny spot and it will thrive for years to come! The bigger the plant, the hardier it will become - it can withstand temperatures of -7°C, but we always recommend using frost-protection fleece or wrapping, or bringing container-grown plants into a garage, porch or greenhouse during the coldest winters. Supplied as an established plant, approx. 55+cm tall, in a 14cm pot, ready to pot on or plant out.
Anyone can find space for houseplants, and as we spend more time at home it's incredibly important that we can still get up close and personal with plants which have been proved to improve our mental health and wellbeing. Also known as Fishbone Prayer Plant, Ctenanthe has wonderful oval leaves that can become up to 30cm long and are wonderfully patterned two-tone grey-green on the top, with an underside of rich deep maroon. Perfect for a focal point in a bright spot in your home. Related to Calathea, Ctenanthe shares its fascinating and unusual habit with leaves that close upwards when light levels fall as if in prayer. Beautiful to look at, these leafy tropical houseplants also help to clean the air in your home. It has been found that houseplants can actually improve the environment in our homes, clearing the air, removing toxins and adding valuable oxygen to the air that we breathe. Supplied as a potted plant in a 12cm pot, growing to a height and spread of 75cm (2½ft).
With large, strikingly shaped leaves, Alocasia 'Bambino' is an evergreen, ornamental houseplant that makes a wonderful addition to your home. The glossy, green foliage is arrow headed and heart-shaped, and this is an indoor plant that's sure to get a lot of attention. Quick and easy to grow, 'Bambino' has dark green leaves with distinctive light coloured veins. This unique, foliage plant originates from the tropics of Asia, and prefers a shady area so when growing it in your home, give it plenty of light and water but not direct sunlight -position it by a bright window.Not only spectacular to look at, leafy tropical houseplants also provide a beneficial air-cleaning service. It has been found that houseplants can actually improve the environment in our homes, clearing the air, removing toxins and adding valuable oxygen to the air that we breathe. Supplied as an established plant in a 12cm nursery pot, Alocasia 'Bambino' will grow to a height of about 40cm.
The Pitchoune range of agapanthus has been grown to have a much more compact habit than most others, but still retaining the large flower clusters and sturdy stems of their taller cousins. Strap-like bright evergreen leaves form in low clumps and give rise to gorgeous, exotic looking sky blue flowers in June and July, and the naturally compact nature of 'Scarery Blue' make it the perfect plant for growing in containers, where it'll look fantastic on a patio or balcony and it's also quite at home toward the front of a border or in a rockery. Like all agapanthus, Pitchoune varieties love rich, well drained soil in full sun or partial shade, and they tolerate drought well. Although hardy to -5°C, some protection will be needed during the coldest winters. Provide a thick mulch in autumn to protect the plants again the hardest frosts, or bring container grown plants under cover. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready for planting, growing to a height of 30cm (1ft) and spread of 50cm (1½ft).
The Pitchoune range of agapanthus has been grown to have a much more compact habit than most others, but still retaining the large flower clusters and sturdy stems of their taller cousins. Strap-like bright evergreen leaves form in low clumps and give rise to gorgeous, exotic looking sky blue flowers in June and July, and the naturally compact nature of 'Pichoune White' make it the perfect plant for growing in containers, where it'll look fantastic on a patio or balcony and it's also quite at home toward the front of a border or in a rockery. Like all agapanthus, Pitchoune varieties love rich, well drained soil in full sun or partial shade, and they tolerate drought well. Although hardy to -5°C, some protection will be needed during the coldest winters. Provide a thick mulch in autumn to protect the plants again the hardest frosts, or bring container grown plants under cover. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready for planting, growing to a height of 30cm (1ft) and spread of 50cm (1½ft).
Heucheras, also known as Coral Bells, are amazing perennial plants, famed for their spectacular foliage in a huge range of colours with wonderful leaf shapes forming low growing evergreen or semi-evergreen mounds. From the 'Fox' series of Heucheras, bred by Richard and Vicky Fox at their Jubilee Cottage Nursery in Cheshire where they hold the National Collection which currently exceeds 450 varieties, the leaves of 'Tangerine Wave' are beautifully textured with deep veins and delightfully wavy edges. As its name suggests, the foliage is a bright peachy orange colour when the plant is grown in full sun and takes on a more caramel hue growing in shadier conditions. The underside of the leaves is darker than the top, from pale orange to rich magenta, creating a lovely colour contrast. In summer tall, dark pink stems grow up from the foliage carrying small white flowers that are attractive to bees and other flying insects and they're great cut flowers too. 'Tangerine Wave' is happy growing in pots and looks great planted in borders. Heucheras look particularly good when several different varieties are planted together, creating a patchwork of colourful foliage. These adaptable plants will thrive in sun or partial shade and aren't too fussy about soil conditions, as long as it isn't heavy and waterlogged as that will cause the crown to rot. Usually evergreen, severe winters may cause leaf loss, but they'll bounce back the following spring. Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven garden performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK gardeners at every level of experience. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready to plant, reaching a height of 25cm (10in) and spread of 30cm (1ft).