Crassula ovata, commonly known as the Jade Plant or Money Plant, is a fabulous succulent that's said to be lucky, attracting wealth. Incredibly popular all over the world and 'Sunset' is a stunning variety! Evergreen and bushy, the leaves of this plant are a beautifully warm golden yellow colour with red edges. Slow growing, 'Sunset' can reach 1m in height, so it makes a bold and dramatic specimen houseplant, and as it loves the sun, you'll find the perfect spot on a bright windowsill or in conservatory. During late summer, clusters of lightly scented, small star-shaped white or pale pink flowers appear all other the plant. 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. One of the easiest houseplants to look after, Crassula needs nothing more than a regular feed during the growing season, and little water. Supplied as a potted plant in a 12cm pot, reaching a height of 1m (3ft) in height and spread.
A set of 4 metallic-finish 'Alhambra' pots to give a classic, elegant and contemporary design to your garden. Placed either side of doorways, gateways and pathways or around patios they're a real show-stopping feature, and the perfect partner to display your standard roses, shrubs, annual bedding and select perennials. Manufactured from hard-wearing frost and UV resistant plastic with raised drainage holes and water reservoirs to allow your plants to thrive, they are very durable and are perfect for using on your patio. Hand-painted using a new process, their metallic paint creates an eye-catching and stunning effect that will really add visual value to your beautiful plants. Supplied as a set of 4 heavy duty polypropylene planters, 8inch/20cm diameter.
With highly fragranced blooms that open through the summer, the buds of the scented night phlox emerge like little match sticks over the plant before bursting into a myriad of shining pinwheels. An easy-to-grow, compact plant, the scented night phlox forms a neat mound of aromatic, evergreen foliage topped with an abundance of petite buds which open in the evening to reveal the sparkling white flowers and their fabulous honey-vanilla scent. Flowers close in the heat of the day and in the evening they unfurl releasing their intoxicating perfume! Night-scented plants are common, but the overwhelming sweet fragrance of Zaluzianskya is one of the best! To really appreciate Night Phlox, plant up into your favourite container and add to tables when alfresco dining.
A sumptuously colourful garden has the extraordinary power to lift the spirits no matter the time of year. Yet many people struggle to create their own colour combinations that are suitable to site and soil, and which take their gardens through the seasons. This new book provides inspiration and practical advice for gardeners wishing to improve their plantings, both in appearance and in use. Val Bourne shows how varied and vibrant plantings can enhance the look of beds and borders, and how - with a little planning - they can be beautiful features for much longer than one season. Colour in the Garden is particularly useful for those with small gardens, where every inch of space must work hard for as long as possible. Written by a true plants woman and experienced gardener, with an in-depth knowledge of plants and how they behave, as well as a strong and creative sense of colour, this guide will revolutionise the way we think about colour in our gardens and ensure that no gardener will ever feel at a loss again. Hardback
Our Multi-Purpose & Hardwearing Grass Seed Mix is perfect for busy gardens. It would be particularly well suited to a back garden and other high traffic areas. Extremely hard wearing, a lawn grown with this mix will stand up to life as a playground for your family and pets, or as a venue for outdoor parties and yet will remain looking great. 70% Creeping Red Fescue, 30% Turf Perennial Ryegrass. Multi-purpose; suitable for creating new lawns, thickening up existing ones and filling bare patches Grass generally grows above 7 degrees Celsius and when there is plenty of moisture in the soil, making Spring and Autumn perfect for sowing the seed. However, grass can grow in other seasons (if above 7 degrees) but will require more overall care and attention. Sowing is recommended between March - October, with the best results seen in Spring and Autumn. Supplied in a 1kg recyclable bag.
Rudbeckia fulgida 'Goldsturm' is a neat daisy which erupts into bloom from July to October adding warm, end of season colour to your borders. Also known as Black-Eyed-Susan, 'Goldsturm' produces masses of uniform, golden-yellow flowers, each with a rich brown centre that will light up the garden like sunshine. A compact form of the garden coneflower, the sunflower-like blooms are carried on branching, upright stems which makes them great for cut flowers as well, so you can bring the colour indoors. Totally hardy, even in the harshest winters where it will die back underground, Rudbeckia Goldsturm will flower its socks off, getting bigger and better each year and you'll get months of blooms which look fabulous whether in a container or at the front of the flower border. Growing to just 80cm tall, the toothed, hairy leaves form a compact mound which adequately fills those gaps in borders which appear as the seasons progresses, providing a green backdrop for late spring and summer flowers. Easy to grow and particularly robust, this delightful rudbeckia is low maintenance too as it won't need staking and in late winter the stems just need a quick chop back to ground level - or if you want to encourage wildlife leave them on to provide a natural mulch and home for overwintering insects and invertebrates. 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 and it will return year after year getting bigger and better for many years to come. Supplied as a pack of 3 x 9cm pots, pot ready to plant out.
Imagine this lovely new salvia in your garden, with exotic velvet trumpets standing out against dark purple stems - a truly stunning plant! 'Amistad' will flower its socks off for months, filling your border with dark spikes of flowers, set off against its green, furry leaves. The soft flowers are held on erect almost black spikes up to 1.2m, and cupped within an equally attractive black bract. The spires emerge from the base of leaves and erupt through your other plants, never obscuring them, but working in harmony to create a gorgeous palette of colour. 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. Deadhead regularly and you'll be rewarded with a succession of flower stems, from June to October, bearing gorgeous blooms that bees and butterflies just can't resist. Flowering well into autumn preferably in sun but also in part-shade, the deep purple, velvet-textured blooms of Salvia 'Amistad' are superb in borders or large containers - especially when mixed with yellows or creams. Plants benefit from a winter mulch and will come back bigger and stronger every year. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pot, with an ultimate height 80-120cm.
Turn up the heat with this fabulous collection of plants with their fiery hot colours in shades of yellow, orange and red. Chosen to compliment each other wonderfully, you'll have thousands of flowers from early summer and well into the autumn Nasturtium 'Jewel Mixed' Fabulous semi-double blooms in joyous shades of yellow, peachy orange and red are what make these mixed-colour nasturtiums a must-have for bringing vibrant colour to your summer garden. The showy, saucer-shaped flowers are streaked with darker flushes in their centres and stand bold and upright above rich green, bushy foliage. One of the easiest and most satisfying annuals you can grow. Grows to 30cm. 35 Seeds. Californian Poppy 'Monarch Art Shades' is a compact and wonderfully colourful addition to the summer garden.The plants produces double or semi-double flowers in powerful shades of orange. Perfect in pots and at the front of borders, or scattered amongst your planting to give intense highlights. Grows to 30cm. 350 Seeds. Sunflower 'Titan' True to its name, this giant among sunflowers is one of the tallest you can grow, with huge, long-lasting daisy-shaped blooms measuring up to 60cm across and reaching a height of up to 360cm. Having the best record-breaking potential, this heirloom variety is the obvious choice for nurturing children's interest in gardening as well as for indulging your competitive streak. 25 Seeds. Calendula 'Art Shades' masses of frilly petalled, fully double blooms in shades of creamy peach, orange, gold and yellow. They are hugely attractive to many beneficial insects, so make a great companion plant for your kitchen garden and the petals are edible, with a slightly peppery taste. Grows to 30cm. 200 Seeds.
Achillea always stand out in gardens because of their large, flat-topped flowerheads that look quite unlike anything else, and their finely divided fern-like leaves. It takes its name from Achilles, who in legend is reputed to have used it to heal his soldier's wounds after the siege of Troy, hence its other name 'Soldier's Wound Wart'. 'Paprika' is a fantastic variety with huge, plate-like flowerheads, each one made up of hundreds of individual blooms that are bright red with yellow centres when they first open. As they age, they fade to pale pink and then to a rich, creamy yellow creating a multi-colour effect that's a truly stunning sight. Recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators', the summer flowers are a favourite with butterflies and bees. Flowering from May to August, they're a welcome contrast to the more usual rounded or spike shaped flower heads of most perennials and they look incredibly dramatic as cut flowers, lasting well in a vase, and can even be dried. 'Paprika' will grow in sun or partial shade, and any soil is suitable as long as it's well drained. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting, and growing to a height of 70cm (2½ft) and width of 50cm (20in).
Now more than ever is the time to grow something tasty from home and this is your chance to grow your very own crop of incredibly tasty blueberries on your patio - yummy! This veritable super food is believed to carry all manner of health benefits and is recommended by health experts and dietitians accordingly. Packed full of vitamins and minerals as well as antioxidants, they are not only really good for you, but they taste great too! Besides tasting great, blueberries will also provide true season-long interest for your garden with wonderfully fragrant tubular blossom in spring, followed by delicious fruits that form and colour up ready for picking from June onwards. This collection will provide 3 months of harvest from June until August with each bush providing up to 5kg (over 10lbs) of fruit per season once fully established. Blueberries make brilliant patio plants and will grow perfectly in pots. Do remember to use ericaceous (slightly acidic pH) compost though as all blueberries are lime intolerant. In autumn, the foliage will provide a bright flourish of scarlet colour before falling off for the winter. The collection comprises 3 varieties, selected for their wide continuous harvest period and ease of growth in your home garden. Varieties Included: Early: 'New Hanover' - The earliest cropping and a heavy cropper with fruits of a good size but with a wild blueberry flavour delicious! Mid: Blueberry 'Blueray' - A popular, tasty mid-season cropper providing big crops of juicy sweet fruits. Late: 'Ozark Blue' - The latest cropper within our collection providing a big crop of delicious berries it is one of the most popular varieties and a real favourite of chefs!
Penstemons are a classic cottage garden perennial that has enchanting bell-shaped flowers in a range of bright colours. We've brought together two fabulous varieties in shades of pink and purple that complement each other perfectly. Both are recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators' the flowers are produced through the spring and summer and are a favourite with butterflies and bees. In This collection: 'Ice Cream Blackberry' - 'Ice Cream Blackberry' has elegant flowers in shades of rich purple with attractive white markings on their throats opening from red wine-coloured buds. The luxurious upright spires appear in from June and continue well into the autumn. 'Strawberries and Cream' - Ice Cream Strawberries and Cream' is perfectly named, with sturdy upright spires boasting pink tinged, creamy coloured buds opening to delicious looking flowers in shades of pale pink and white with red and white striped throats. Flowering from June until October, these unusual Penstemons will be a real talking point in your garden! Superb grown in beds and borders, Penstemons prefer well-drained soil and forms large clumps over time, rewarding you with more flowers year on year. Looking after them is easy too, occasionally deadhead fading blooms to prolong the display and cover plants with a dry mulch of compost in late autumn to protect the roots from frost. Grow them in a sunny or slightly shaded spot and they'll flower in upright spires for month after month from June until the autumn. Easy to grow and winter hardy, you're guaranteed masses of spectacular flowers that are also great for cutting for indoor arrangements. Supplied as 2 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant out.
Add drama to you hanging baskets with this gorgeous selection of Lofos plugs. The lovely trumpet-shaped flowers contrast brilliantly with the lush green foliage and look incredibly tropical. Lofos is a very fast grower, with the foliage tending to establish first and then, once the warm summer days arrive in June, the pretty flowers will commence, continuing thereafter right until first frost in the autumn. A very special and unusual summer flowering plant and if you have never grown it before, its one that is not to be missed! In this collection you will receive: 4x Lofos 'Wine Red' plugs - Beautiful dark pink - almost red blooms with heart shaped foliage. 4x Lofos 'Compact Pink' plugs - Bright pink trumpet-shaped flowers with trailing foliage. 4x Lofos 'Compact White' plugs - Long impressive vines with creamy-white blooms. Flowering from June all the way through to September, these trailing blooms are sure to create a dazzling display! Supplied as 12x plugs, ready plant.
Following on from the success of Lady Boothby, Pink Fizz is a brand new 'climbing' fuchsia which is fully hardy and grows vigorously and vertically, reaching up to 1.5m in a single season. Rose pink and crimson blooms cover the length of its vigorous stems throughout the summer giving a sumptuous display, making it ideal to grow up fences, walls and trellises. While the stems are strong, so vigorous is the growth that Pink Fizz may need some support in windy areas. Flowering from June through till first frosts of late autumn, in milder winters it will keep its leaves on, and in colder ones lose its leaves and shoot again from the base the next season. A stunning new type of Fuchsia, and so easy to grow, 'Pink Fizz' lets you grow hardy fuchsias in ways you had never considered - as a hedge, at the back of a border, or for screening off unsighlty parts of the garden. Supplied as a pack of 6 plug plants for potting up and growing on before planting out when all risk of frost has passed.
This brand new and exclusive product represents the very best of commercial plant food and water retention technology and is based on over 25 years of hands on experience of growing plants within the horticultural sector. Blooming Fast SwellGel & Feed PLUS is the complete food and drink for your plants and hanging baskets, and has been specially formulated! A true garden essential, it contains a high water absorption crystal, which locks in water and swells up to a gel in your hanging baskets, tubs and pots. Just a few scoops per hanging basket holds about a litre of water for your plants, so they do not dry out in summer, meaning less water used, less time watering and better results as all that water is locked in to the root system, where it can be used to keep your plants flourishing. The multi-coloured granules contain some of the very best slow release fertiliser, and will feed your plants over a period of 6 whole months. Each granule contains a small dose of balanced fertiliser, slowly feeding your plants roots. Best of all, this unique formulation includes naturally occurring Humic Acid the completely natural way to look after the secret root system of your plant, that is a proven plant tonic encouraging even healthier natural growth, which has been found to improve overall plant health, disease resistance and vigour. For best results, mix in at planting out and filling your baskets, containers, growbags and pots indoors and outdoors. Supplied as a 500g tub, which treats about 25 or so standard hanging baskets or similar sized pots for one season. This 500g tub is resealable and comes with a free measuring scoop to ensure you get the perfect mixture, and will last for 3 years or more if the lid is kept on and the contents dry.
An enduring favourite and holder of a coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, 'Defender' crops early and has a picking season that can be twice as long as other varieties, producing heavy crops of delicious and firm, mid-green courgettes. Harvest time is from July right through to October and the fruits should be picked when they're 10-15cm long. The plants will grow to 45cm high and 90cm wide.
Imagine tall spires of Gladioli in a sweet-shop confection of colours, bursting skywards in full Summer. They really are so simple to grow, each bulb primed to burst into life this Spring. Each bulb will give one sensational stem of flower this Summer, which can be cut for the house when in tight bud, or left to brighten your garden. Pretty hardy, they have survived the last 3 Winters in Martins garden, providing bigger and better displays the following year. Extremely easy and low maintenance, and yet very rewarding and at less than 10p each, incredible value for money too!! Supplied as a mixed pack of 100 bulbs in at least 8 colours, size 8/10 corms. Will reach 90-120cm tall. Flower July & August.
One of the most attractive and sweetly fragrant summer flowering bulbs, this specially selected mixture will be supplied as heat-treated corms, which guarantees they will flower from the first season onwards. Supplied in a stunning array of bright colours, these will be perfect for growing in pots on your patio or planting in beds or borders. They will over-winter in mild winters, and produce bigger and better displays in future years. These beauties no longer need to be simply a treat, so grow your own, and you can enjoy bountiful crops to pick again and again, and at a fraction of even supermarket prices and at just pennies per bulb. They thrive in pots in warm spots, or in well-drained soil, they will flower in summer. Cut the flowers when tight in bud for maximum enjoyment and fragrance indoors, or leave them to provide a splash of colour outside.
An exciting new introduction and an instant hit with customers, this compact, mini apple tree produces a bountiful crop of small, red bite-sized fruits which will delight all who see them, plus they're the ideal bite-sized snack for kids! We were blown away with just how gorgeous this apple tree is - it's truly something that you'll want to grow. With masses of pale pink blossom in spring, followed by The sweet, firm fruits are roughly the size of a golf ball, they taste delicious eaten whole - perfect for making mini toffee apples! Anyone can have a go at growing Appletini - it's easy to grow and self-fertile so you'll get a good crop of fruits without having to worry about complicated pollinating partners - you're guaranteed a crop of tasty mini apples. The tree stays compact at around 2m (6ft) - perfect for smaller gardens, and they will quite happily grow in a larger pot on the patio or planted in the border - so there's no reason not to give it a go!
Trailing Geraniums are must-have summer bedding plants, cascading over the edges of pots, planters and hanging baskets and filling you garden with vibrant colour. This collection of Moonflair and Sunflair varieties all have lush, dark green foliage splashed with dark burgundy and amazingly bright double flowers. Flowering from May and continuing until the first frosts of autumn, these trailing geraniums are robust and will stand up to almost any weather, putting on a fantastic display month after month. Geranium 'Moonflair Red' - bright red. Geranium 'Moonflair Dark Pink' - rich deep pink. Geranium 'Sunflair Pink' - rose pink. Geranium 'Moonflair Amethyst' - bright magenta pink with a splash of red. Geranium 'Moonflair White' - white with a touch of maroon. Geranium 'Sunflair Lillipop' - two tone pinkish red. Supplied as a collection of 12 plug plants ready to grow on or plant out once the risk of frost has passed.
Create a pretty and eye-catching floral display in your garden with this Deutzia shrub. 'Strawberry Fields' is a full hardy and very easy-to-grow plant that will make a perfect addition to your garden. Flowering from late spring into early summer, its blooms are beautiful cupped, star-shaped flowers in a soft pink tone with darker pink details. You should position your Deutzia near a doorway or window so you can enjoy its sweet fragrance from inside too. A versatile shrub, 'Strawberry Fields' will thrive when positioned in full sun and planted in well-drained soil. This plant will suit most gardens, including traditional cottage gardens, city gardens, courtyards as well as sunny borders and containers. 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. It is also highly attractive to bees and beneficial pollinators. It is a great choice for bringing your garden to life with wildlife. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready to plant.