One of the most popular dark-coloured Tulip, 'Queen of Night' makes a striking appearance in the garden with its deep-purple, almost black, velvety blooms. Tulips are a popular bulb choice for spring colour but why not try something a little different and create a stunning feature border that will stand out amongst the crowd in your garden? The dark-purple, traditional tulip cup-shaped blooms are set against a wonderful glossy green backdrop that will look fantastic used to fill up borders but will look just as spectacular in pots and containers placed on patios, pathways and around entrances. Easy to care for and great for cutting and bringing indoors, Tulip 'Queen of Night' is a spectacular spring flowering bulb that will really add an intense flavour to your garden. Supplied as a pack of 30 bulbs, size 10/11 ready for planting out in autumn.
From the strikingly colourful 'parrot tulip' group 'Estella Rijnveld' is one of the most spectacular varieties around with frilly double blooms and flame streaked petals that have a wonderfully exotic feel to them. On warm spring days the blooms open wide and become almost flat - often 4in or more across - before closing again in the evening. For best effect plant in close groups in a sunny spot - they're perfect in close groups in pots and containers on the patio. As with all our other tulips, they make beautiful cut flower displays - simply cut the long stems and place in groups in vases to dress up windowsills or mantelpieces. They look truly spectacular but they're really not hard to grow and are perfect as an easy solution to adding bold spring colour with a twist to your garden next spring. Supplied as a pack of 10 bulbs, size 11/12, ready for planting out in autumn.
Dutch Irises make a wonderful addition to the spring garden with their highly unusual flowers. Plant them in pots or borders in a sunny spot and you will reap the rewards year after year! Ideal for indoor cut-flower displays, their unusual and striking blooms come in contrasting shades of purple, white, orange and yellow. Be sure to plant plenty so you have enough for your own vase and for giving some to friends and family! With their straplike, grey-green leaves and sturdy stems, Dutch irises are attractive when planted in groups in beds and borders, and make a superb addition to pots. Very hardy and easy to grow, they are the perfect plant for those with little gardening experience or anyone who wants great results with little effort. Supplied as a pack of 100 bulbs in mixed colours, size 6/8 ready for planting out in autumn.
Superb tulip mix in a rainbow mix of bold, flame-like colours. Equally at home in borders and patio pots.'Rembrandts' are an old-fashioned style of tulip, which were very much in vogue at the time that the tulip trade was at its height. Each variety in this stunning blend has bold, streaked petals in fantastic bicolours, together offering all the hues of a painter's palette.Growing to 50cm tall, they bloom througout May, giving stunning displays - and they make lovely cut flowers, too. Plant in groups of 10 or so bulbs in a sunny spot for best performance and maximum visual impact. They combine well with blues and purples, which will highlight their fiery colours.Easy to grow, the colours are the result of genetic variation and not, as often believed, the result of virus - although this would certainly have been the case in the 17th and 18th centuries, when 'bulb mania' gripped Holland.Tulips prefer a position where they can be baked in the summer sun to help ripen the bulbs for next season's display.Delivered as a pack of 25 professional-quality bulbs for immediate planting in the autumn.
Gladiolus communis byzantinus, also known as the Byzantine gladiolus, is a reliable cottage-garden perennial, with striking sword-shaped leaves. Erect spikes of magenta trumpet flowers are produced from late spring Easy to grow, plants can be left to naturalise where they will spread freely and produce a mass of gorgeous colour - the perfect way to get larger displays year after year. Plus they won't need staking so really easy to look after! Perfect to grow as a cut flower, byzantinus can also be dotted about between shrubs and other herbaceous perennials where they add height and a dramatic colour contrast in flower beds and even pots. Holder of the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a garden-worthy plant sure to perform - giving you years of glorious colour. Supplied as a pack of 50 bulbs, size 7/8 ready to plant out i 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.
Bulbs such as tulips herald the arrival of spring, and there's nothing more exciting than the sight of their bold and bright colours erupting from pots and flowerbeds to mark the start of the warmer weather. This great value collection of purple tulips will give you the ultimate display of purple tones that will certainly get your garden noticed, with their distinctive goblet flowers and sword-shaped leaves. Spectacular whether planted directly into flowerbeds or into a favourite container, tulips are easy to grow and need very little in the way of expertise to get great results that a gardening pro would be proud of! The size of the bulb is expressed as the girth of the bulb in centimetres, so these 10/11 tulip bulbs are a good-sized bulb that will give you tremendous, garden-worthy results. Plant these bulbs in pots or straight into flowerbeds and you will enjoy a host of flowers from late April.Supplied as a pack of 25 bulbs, size 10/11 ready for planting in autumn.
Surely one of the most dazzling tulips that you can add to your garden this year, the large, frilly flowers of Tulip 'gold dust' are fully double and look like peony blooms as they burst into colour in spring. With bright, scarlet blooms fringed with gold, this lavish tulip will bring a touch of opulent luxury wherever it's planted and will certainly create a talking point! Easy to grow, Gold Dust is a perfect tulip for growing in pots, where they can be moved around the garden, and they make perfect cut flowers so you can bring their rich display into the home. To create a magnificent visual impact, plant them in a clump or dot throughout the flower bed between blue and purple perennials. Supplied as a pack of 20 bulbs, size 12+ ready to plant out in autumn.
Camassias (Wild hyacinths) are one of the easiest, simple to look after bulbs you can grow, thriving in poor soils that other bulbs tend to struggle in. Extremely hardy, this perennial bulb returns year after year, with bigger and better displays and can be successfully naturalised in grass. In late spring, loose spikes of stunning white and violet-blue, star-shaped flowers appear on top of tall stems and are the perfect to compliment tulips. As they flower before many perennials are in bloom, Camassias will add an invaluable splash of colour to your garden. Perfect for sun or light shade, they're also good in containers and as cut flowers, so you can grow and enjoy them even without a garden. Supplied as a pack of 6 bulbs, size 12/14 ready for planting out in autumn.
A mix of wonderful shades and colours to brighten up any garden. Tulips are one of the most popular bulbs as they are perfect when planted with a mix of different colour variations to give vibrant spring colour to your garden, patio or decking. Their compact nature keeps them in neat form and means they won't topple over or takeover beds and borders. It also means they are fantastic for filling up pots and containers on the patio.This mix is the perfect all-in-one solution to adding a rainbow of colour to your garden ready to burst to life next spring. Tulips are easy to plant, grow and care for - maximum impact with minimum effort! Don't forget - they also make stunning cut flowers to brighten up the indoors as well as outdoors! Plant in the autumn for stunning spring displays.
Why not grow something unusual this year and give the Cuban Lily a chance to wow in your garden. Also known as the Portuguese Squill, Scilla peruviana is a glamorous Mediterranean bulb which is a firm favourite in the herbaceous borders of grand estates and gardens. This is an absolute show-stopper that will bring a touch of class to your own garden, whether in borders or on your decking or balcony in a favourite container. Looking much like a cross between a hyacinth and an allium, this bulbous perennial grows to 30cm tall, forming a rosette of narrowly lance-shaped dark green leaves which are semi evergreen, especially if winters are mild. The bulbs usually lose their foliage for a few months during the summer and then sprout new leaves in the autumn which last through winter and spring as long as the winter is on the mild side. The eye-catching, violet-blue flowers are of course the main attraction, each being a 1.5cm wide star, and carried in large, conical heads in early summer - perfect for bringing colour to beds, borders and patio pots when tulips have faded, and perennials are still gearing up. Supplied as 3 bulbs, size 16/18 ready to plant out in autumn. They will ideally be planted in well-drained soil, in full sun or partial shade.
A lovely mix of the more compact Gladioli species, which gets best results from planting in Autumn or early Winter, unlike the bolder and brasher cousins. Unlike them too, they have a lovely blended palette of pinks, reds, whites and blush colours, often weith the characteristic fuchsia pink lipstick marking on the petals, making them something quite different and unqiue. Forget big and bold showy Gladioli, these are understated beauties, plant them in groups of 5 or 10 mixed in to borders, for Summer colour. Good for cut flowers too, despite being shorter stemmed. Supplied as a pack of 50 mixed bulbs, size 7/8 ready to plant out in autumn.
What could be easier than this perfect blend of pre-spaced and filled bulbs - arranged as 7 red Tulip Scarlet Baby, surrounded by 12 sea blue Crocuss, creating a lovely effect. Perfect for dropping straight into larger pots (diameter 24cm (10') or more), or into the garden for circles of colour. Using the unique biodegradable package, these Plant-o-Mat Drop in pods are a quick and simple way to take all the hassle out of planting bulbs. No more worrying about colours, or spacing Simply plant the whole tray into the ground or a pot - watch the helpful video to see how. You cannot get easier gardening than this for flowers next Spring and for years beyond.
Introducing Drop In Bulb Pods Quick and Easy - For Perfect Displays EVERY Time, Yes! Now YOU can become an instant bulb expert and produce amazing spring bulb displays every time with this NEW ingenious system! The Designer Bulb Pods will be delivered with your bulbs in-situ and in their ideal spacing- so you WILL get perfect colour-themed displays! Simply dig a planting hole in your garden or if you plant in a pot or trough, drop the entire Bulb Pod in, cover with compost or soil, water and wait for great results! It really is a case of DIG, DROP, COVER - your results will astound friends and familly! No need for dirty hands. The totally biodegradable Bulb Pod, will itself disappear with a few weeks from planting, leaving the bulbs in the perfect planting design in spring you will get a fabulous display that looks just like the picture! GUARANTEED! Each display has been skilfully created by our experts so the varieties within it will provide a co-ordinated riot of colour each spring.
Probably the most widely grown of all dwarf tulips, Tulip 'Red Riding Hood' is a top choice for stunning springtime displays. Flowering in March and April, they have striking, bright scarlet-red blooms with black centres, which contrast delightfully against broad, grey-green, maroon-striped leaves. Plant with other spring-flowering bulbs of different hues for dramatic effect. Fully deserving of its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, 'Red Riding Hood' is a compact variety, so is perfect for rock gardens or the front of beds and borders. Alternatively, scatter them through grass, where they will naturalise easily and produce bigger and better displays every year. They look equally stunning when planted in garden pots - and make a beautiful cut flower for your vase. Easy to grow and reliably hardy, they are happy to be left in the ground for stunning results for many years to come. Supplied as a pack of 30 bulbs, size 10/11 ready for planting out in autumn.
A great mixture of taller tulips approx. 50-60cm tall to give you a kaleidoscope of spring colour. They are incredibly versatile, very strong and sturdy and show off the classic, much loved tulip shape. These 'Triumph' tulips are perfect for growing in beds and borders, this mix is an all-in-one solution to adding vibrant spring colour to your garden next year - maximum impact with minimum effort! We've put together a stunning mix of colour to create a real rainbow of tulips to stand loud and proud in your beds, borders or containers next year without you having to do anything other than plant and water. Tulips are one of the most popular bulbs, as they are are great planted with many different colour variations to give a fresh, vibrant spring colour to your garden, patio or decking but they also make great cut flowers to brighten up the house. Supplied as a pack of 50 bulbs, size 10/11 ready for planting in autumn.
With their intense indigo blue colour and sweetly fragrant perfume, Scilla nutans - English bluebells - boldly herald the arrival of spring and the onset of warmer weather. These bee-friendly blooms are great for attracting wildlife to your garden. A perennial woodland favourite, the bulbs will naturalise easily to form clusters of cheerful, nodding flowers on bright-green foliage each spring. Scatter the bulbs through grass or wooded areas and plant them where they fall for a naturalistic effect; or place them in a shady spot at the base of a hedge or around the bases of trees, where they will naturalise easily, just like in the wild. Reaching a height of 25cm, this truly native British bluebell makes an attractive addition to garden beds and borders - a punchy contrast to other spring-flowering bulbs or perennials and a great choice for a traditional cottage garden feel. They look equally stunning in containers for your patio or decking and are wonderful in a vase. They will return with bigger and better displays every year. Fully hardy, they can be left in the ground or lifted after flowering to divide large clumps for replanting. Supplied as a pack of 15 bulbs, size 7/8 ready for planting in the autumn.
With its unusual and striking flowers, 'Banana Cream' is certain to attract a lot of attention. The huge blooms look just like banana ice cream! Beginning as large, globe shaped green buds that gradually become more pink, they burst open to bright banana yellow, petal packed double flowers. The petals are wonderfully ruffled and the flowers are so large that they have to be seen to be believed. The combination of the stunning yellow sitting on the green and pink cup is extraordinary! Once open, the flowers are long lasting, and the relatively compact size makes 'Banana Cream' ideal for growing in planters and window boxes as well as in spring borders. They are also excellent cut flowers and make stunning indoor displays. Supplied as 3 bulbs, size 11, ready to plant in autumn, growing to a height of 35 cm (14 in) and width of 15 cm (6 in).
It's incredible but true... this special evergreen clematis must be one of the easiest of all to grow. Apart from the removal of the odd broken branch in spring Kimiko needs no pruning at all. This compact beauty really will produce a tower of bright, star-shapes blooms continuously for months - every year!Bred specifically for a compact growing habit and a precocious flowering nature, it's vigorous, hardy, healthy and very easy to grow with vigorous re-growth every spring. Perfect for growing in small spaces, in pots and containers, so are ideal for modern gardens where space may be limited. Fragrant flowers appear all from early spring to summer over the entire height of the plant giving the appearance of a column of white as these splendid clematis flower from the leaf axils and the ends of the stems, resulting in blooms right from the ground.As a bonus, the plants will never get out of hand, reaching a mature height of around 1-1.25m (3-4ft) - perfect for growing on an obelisk in a large pot in a tree or on a fence. Supplied as an established plant in a 7cm pot, Kimiko is best planted in a sunny location with its roots in some shade. Plants only require a minimum of annual maintenance - cut all stems back to 15cm (6in) in Feb/March- PLUS they are totally winter hardy too!
What could be easier than this perfect blend of pre-spaced and filled bulbs - arranged as 7 white Tulipa 'Royal Virgin' , surrounded by 12 stunning Anemone blanda 'Blue Shades' bulbs, creating a lovely effect. Each display has been skilfully created by our experts so the varieties within it will provide a co-ordinated riot of colour each spring. Perfect for dropping straight into larger pots (diameter 24cm (10in) or more), or into the garden for circles of colour. Using the unique biodegradable package, these Plant-o-Mat Drop in pods are a quick and simple way to take all the hassle out of planting bulbs. No more worrying about colours, or spacing, simply plant the whole tray into the ground or a pot - watch the helpful video to see how. You cannot get easier gardening than this for flowers next spring and for years beyond! Supplied as a pre-positioned pack of 19 bulbs, in circular biodegradable pack.