Fill your garden with the sensational, fiery blooms of Rose 'Alinka'. A traditional rose bred back in the heyday of rose gardening during the 70's when every garden had a favourite rose bush, and bright colours were a must-have. Alinka is a beautiful hybrid tea rose and certainly caught the eye of our growers with its scorching blooms and light, delicate fragrance. Its medium to large bi-coloured flowers open from scarlet-red buds into a sunset combination of rich red and golden yellow and the blooms start early in the season - in late May - and continue right into the last warm and sunny days of autumn. An upright and bushy shrub with dark green, glossy leaves, Alinka will grow to around 1-1.2m producing blooms which are perfect as cut flowers. Supplied as a bare-root shrub, ready for planting out now.
This stylish 'Tuscany' planter is ideal for finishing off displays, from colourful summer bedding and patio plants, to shrubs and small trees - whatever you decided to plant in it, it'll certainly add a touch of Mediterranean class to your home and garden! This weather resistant, plastic planter is UV stable and will really last the test of time meaning you can use it year in, year out. A far cheaper alternative to expensive ceramic or metal pots, it's lightweight and easy to transport around the garden while still providing a tough and durable container for plants. Finished off in a metallic paint it'll shine in the sun and help to provide spectacular garden displays for years to come!
The Handy Connector Accessory Pack contains a special selection of the most popular connectors which will enable you to cut and join and fit the hose to your gardens needs. Go round corners, split into several runs with T pieces. 5 x Stakes to pin to the soil - we suggest 1 every 5M or so. 3 x 90 degree corner Elbows, 3 x 'T' pieces 2 x End Stoppers (one is also included with the hose)
A heavy cropping, large fruited, modern variety that ripens from July through to August. Grow your own delicious blackcurrants from your patio! Bursting with flavour and Vitamin C, blackcurrant 'Titania' has a rich, tart flavour that makes it ideal for cooking and for using as a purée. Add it to yoghurt or ice cream, or use in pies, jams or juices. The glossy black berries also freeze well. Unlike many blackcurrants, which require a lot of space to grow, this beauty stays compact making it perfect for the smallest of gardens. Grow it in a border, a large pot or even plant several to make a fruiting hedge. The juicy blackcurrants ripen in strings and stay on the bushes through to August, making this blackcurrant one of the longest croppers. Frost resistant and disease resistance to problems including powdery mildew and rust, so an ideal starter blackcurrant for those looking to grow fruit in the garden or on the patio for the first time.
This two-way Brass Manifold Y-connector will screw directly to your existing BSP tap and allows you to make two taps from one! Fitting any standard 3/4in BSP tap, the two outlets allow you to do more - just think, use two timers on the same tap or to fill watering cans and buckets while never having to remove your garden hose! Each outlet has an easy-to-use on/off valve which makes them really simple to use and gives you two uses from one tap.
Also known as the Strawflower or the Everlasting flower, this daisy-like plant is related to Helychrysums - a popular cottage garden plant that is enjoying a bit of a comeback. The attention-grabbing flowers are what makes this garden annual so unusual and what gave it the name of 'everlasting flower' - you really must grow them to see what the fuss is all about! As the big, intensely yellow blooms of Granvia Gold mature, they develop a deep orange centre giving the plant a bright golden glow. But that's not its most unusual feature - if you touch the petals, you'll be amazed to find that the actually feel like paper! Compact and easy to grow, these bushy annuals make perfect container plants - ideal for brightening up patios and balconies as they can be moved wherever you want them. Easy to grow and great for filling gaps in borders, they provide long lasting colour and make an excellent cut flower, lasting for weeks - even months if you hang a bunch up to dry for a couple of weeks after picking. Supplied as 6 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out. Plants reach H50cm (20in) x W50cm (20in).
Redcurrants that have been allowed to ripen in the sun taste sensational and far superior to anything you can buy in supermarkets - perfect for eating fresh, adding to your favourite desserts or freezing for use at later date. 'Jonkheer van Tets' is a culinary variety of redcurrant, producing heavy crops of large berries on long strigs in early season. The jewel-like, flavoursome fruits of this redcurrant are loved by leading chefs and are perfect for adding to pork dishes, tarts, summer puddings, cheesecakes or turning into long-lasting jellies. Packed full of vitamins, the berries sparkle like jewels in the sun and drip from plants in long 'strigs', this tasty superfruit is perfect for adding an ornamental touch to beds or patios when grown in containers. Happy in sun, a slightly shaded spot or even planted next to a tricky north facing wall, this great variety is robust and reliable, requiring only the minimum of care. Supplied as and established plant in a 2L pot and growing up to 1.5m (5ft), (although it can easily be kept shorter by pruning), 'Jonkheer van Tets' will reward you with crops that get larger and larger each year.
A wonderful selection of 100 outstanding Allium bulbs, these are sure to create an explosion of colour and provide spectacular displays for your garden, patio or decking. The mix of varieties is ideal for the amateur gardener as they are very tough and hardy, making them extremely easy to look after. This collection will also provide ideal cut flowers sure to brighten up your home. This collection includes: 7 x Allium 'Purple Sensation' bulbs - with its enormous bright purple spherical flower heads stand tall on thin stems above deep-green leaves. Related to onions (but dont eat them!) they are very tough and hardy and they are great for beginners. 5 x Allium 'Christophii' bulbs - Giant lilac almost solid spheres of flowers stand majestically on long stems above deep green leaves each spring. 5 x Allium 'Siculum' (Nectaroscordum) bulbs - An unusual relation to the allium family, Nectaroscordum siculum can produce up to 30 hanging flowers from each bulb. Looks wonderful in borders but give some space around the bulb to enable it to grow the large number of flowers. 5 x Allium 'Nigrum' bulbs - With their white, globe-shaped flower heads sitting above broad, ornamental, blue-green leaves these wonderful alliums will look simply stunning in wherever you plant them in your garden. 25 x Allium 'Moly' bulbs - a yellow sparkler of a flower head, a more wild and natural looking small variety for front of borders. 25 x Allium 'Drumsticks' bulbs - delicate, small purple tinged flowers on long, tall straight stems. Plant en masse for maximum effect in pots or garden. 25 x Allium 'Neopolitanum' bulbs - lovely white smaller sparkler flowers, sometimes tinged blush pink in cool, plant together for maximum effect. 3 x Allium Giant Red 'Novelty' bulbs - Later blooming Alliums with eye-catching punk-like spiky flowers heads that stand on top of the tall slender stems. Alliums are adored by beneficial pollinators such as bees. Therefore, this collection is a must have if you are looking to encourage wildlife into your spring garden. Supplied as a collection of 100 bulbs, ready to plant out in autumn. Growing to a height of approx. 1m.
This handy lightweight and durable Grab and Grip tool has a whole multitude of uses - perfect for picking up litter, leaves or any other lightweight items around your home and garden. The long metal body and trigger action control on the handle reduces the need for unnecessary movement, so you can effortlessly pick things up without bending and lifting, all with one simple motion. Plus, the textured handle makes it a comfortable and easy to use tool, whatever the weather. Complete with a magnetic tip to help retrieve metallic objects with ease and a handy wrist strap to reduce the chance of dropping it when you're using it and to make it easy to store. Made from super-lightweight, durable plastic and aluminium with an easy-to-operate trigger, this is a garden tool that you can't be without!
Gooseberry 'Invicta' is the number 1 outstanding Gooseberry variety for home gardeners, producing big crops of classic green berries, almost twice as many as any other variety. 'Invicta' is one of our favourite gooseberry plant varieties and it is also mildew resistant, making it very easy to grow for even a novice 'grow your own' gardener. It has good vigour, so supports the big crops well in your garden and is winter hardy so can be left outdoors all year round. Each summer 'Invicta' produces numerous large green fruits which are sweet enough to eat straight off the bush but are also ideal for cooking with - something a little bit different to strawberries and raspberries that tend to be grown in home gardens. 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. There's nothing better than growing your own, and this gooseberry will add a real decorative feature to patios, or even borders where it will add height and interest. 'Invicta' really is the all-round Gooseberry for gardens - why not try one this year? Supplied as an established plant in a 2L pot, ready to plant now.
With its delightful deep violet and gold flowers, the sweetly scented, two-tone 'Rhubarb and Custard' flowers of this choice Nemesia appear from early summer and will just keep coming right up until November - that's six whole months of colour. The strong and heady perfume is wonderful on a warm summer's day, so be sure to grow in a place where you can appreciate the fragrance. With a neat , semi-upright habit, 'Rhubarb and Custard' is perfect for taller containers and even hanging baskets where the flowers will tower over the edges and create a dense, floriferous display. Versatile, they make a lovely border plant too, especially when planted en-masse where they'll create a real impact. Easy to grow Nemesia thrives in cool or hot weather and tolerates a little frost too, so stays in bloom much longer than many summer plants. Supplied as 6 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
A striking combination of yellow petals and an orange centre, this double-flowered osteospermum certainly has the WOW factor. Perfect for all manner of container displays and border planting, this is a variety that can't be missed! With abundant heads of bloom to fill your pots, the cheery yellow blooms will be sure to attract plenty of wildlife into your garden as well as attention from your gardening friends! This wonderful combination of colour makes the perfect summer combination and the daisy-like blooms of 'Banana Shake' are produced in profusion for months on end. Ideal for pots and borders, osteos are sun lovers, opening in response to the sun and grow best in moist, well-drained soil. Flowering from spring to autumn, the uniform, compact plants will tolerate light frost as well as heat and drought, plus being easy to grow and needing very little in the way of aftercare, they're the perfect variety for your garden. Supplied as 6 x plug plants, ready to pot up and grow on before planting out.
A sumptuous and stunning newcomer to our range of Hardy Fuchsias, Delta's Sarah (or Delta's Sara as it is also known) produces large, white and violet-blue flowers, which cascade from its branches throughout summer and into autumn. With a really unusual colour break of a lavender-blue to purple corolla, against purest white sepals, this bush fuchsia really stands out among other plants and makes a spectacular display in borders and patio containers year after yearDelta Sarah produces spectacular semi-double unusual coloured blue flowers, up to 6cm (2½in) in diameter, with superb weather resistance, so you really can't get a better hardy fuchsia! Compact and robust these hardy fuchsias are perfectly proportioned for patio containers or small borders so anyone can grow them even without a garden! Growing to around 1m (3ft), we supply a pack of 6 premium quality Jumbo Plugs, ready to be potted up and planted out when all danger of frost has passed.
Strelitzia reginae or Bird of Paradise produces spectacular, long-lasting and unique vivid orange and blue flowers, which look much like a tropical bird. They make a stunning feature houseplant or conservatory specimen, with their tall blooms rising on vertical stems up above their glaucous leaves to 1.8m (6') tall - a florist's dream as they are incredibly long lasting! In addition to their much-prized blooms, Strelizia grow large, paddle-shaped leaves which make an exotic, year-round architectural display even when the plants are not in flower. A striking addition to your conservatory, and suitable as a patio plant through the summer, the bird of paradise is indeed a stunning plant - you can even plunge them pot and all, into your tropical border throughout the summer for an instant, tropical effect. Supplied as an established young plant in a 12cm pot.
A new introduction and a worthy plant for your borders and pots this year, these bedding plants have been bred to perform really well in your garden and are ideal when grown in containers. With two different flower colours on the same plant, each one is smothered in both pastel pink and also yellow flowers, this Marguerite Daisy will flower its little heart out all summer and into autumn, filling your garden with dazzling, colour-changing blooms. Really easy to grow and ideal for beginner gardeners, the compact plants are well branched, meaning that you'll get plenty of flowers. Good for wildlife too as each daisy is held above the finely divided, feathery leaves, making them stand out even more, creating a mecca for butterflies and other pollinators. Supplied as 6 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
When the seasons and the weather conspire to stop you indulging your passion for plants and gardening, why not while away the hours with our top quality botany themed jigsaw puzzle. Featuring an exquisite botanic-inspired image, the scene conjures up thoughts of plant hunting, studying and watercolour painting, or maybe there's some sort of intriguing experiment going on here! Deceptively simple to look at, the large areas of plain featureless darkenss and light are guarenteed to frustate you at first and then delight you when you finally begin to make progress! Botanical Style is a gorgeous new range of jigsaws that tap into the current trend for bringing nature, plants and florals into the heart of the home. This jigsaw puzzle would make a great gift for any puzzle fanatic or plant lover. Measuring 64cm (26in) x 48cm (19in), you're bound to have a table large enough for you to spread out all 1000 acrylic pieces as you try to make sense of the challenge ahead.
A gorgeous combination of apricot and lilac, just like the colours of a twilight sky in summer, the daisy-like flowers of Osteospermum 'Purple Sun' will fill your garden with fiery colour. From spring to autumn, the uniform, compact plants make the perfect variety for garden borders, mass plantings and other container displays where their abundant heads of bloom will fill your pots much more than traditional varieties and will attract bees and butterflies into your garden. The wonderful combination of colours are the perfect summer combination and their daisy-like blooms are produced in profusion. Ideal for containers and borders, osteos are sun lovers and grow best in moist, well-drained soil. Easy to grow 'Purple Sun' will tolerate light frost as well as heat and drought and need very little in the way of aftercare.Supplied as 6 x plug plants, ready to pot up and grow on before planting out.
Not your ordinary fern, the Bears Paw Fern (Plebodium 'Blue Star) is an attractive and vigorous houseplant with a subtle deep blue-green leaf colour, looking almost like an exotic indoor seaweed! Evergreen, it does not lose its leaves and retains its wonderful colour all year, making it a decorative and striking plant to decorate your home - perfect to give as a gift or a housewarming present. As the plant grows, the fronds develop finger-shaped lobes as they mature, held on long stems and looking very much like an outstretched paw, hence its more common name of Bear's Paw or Rabbit Foot. Easy to grow and look after, your Bear's Paw will tolerate low light and as a natural inhabitant of tropical rainforests, Plebodium does like its humidity high so is perfect for a bathroom or kitchen where it will thrive in a bright spot, out of direct sunlight. An interesting and unusual fern, Blue Star is also perfect for cutting and flower arranging so don't be afraid to conjure up your inner designer! Supplied as an established plant in a 12cm pot, growing to around 30cm x 30cm. Note Decorative pot in images is for display purposes only and is not supplied.
Every aspect of meadow life is captured in this wonderful Sweet Meadow jigsaw. Taken from an incredibly detailed watercolour painting, the idyllic scene draws you in with its masses of beautifully illustrated wildflowers and grasses and beyond to a farmer's field and the church tower of a distant village. Alive with insect and bird life, just as a meadow should be at the height of summer, there's even an adorable little mouse looking out at you as you try to work out where all the pieces go. Measuring 68cm (27in) Wide and 49cm (19in) deep when completed, there are 1000 pieces that are bound to frustrate and challenge you before you finally insert the final piece.
Just like its purple cousin, 'Tropic Sun' is a stunning combination of sunny, vibrant colours. Perfect for all manner of container displays and border planting, this is a variety that can't be missed! With abundant heads of bloom to fill your pots, the cheery yellow blooms with their lilac centres will be sure to attract plenty of wildlife into your garden. This wonderful combination of colour makes the perfect summer combination and the daisy-like blooms of 'Tropic Sun' are produced in profusion for months on end. Ideal for pots and borders, osteos are sun lovers, opening in response to the sun and grow best in moist, well-drained soil. Flowering from spring to autumn, the uniform, compact plants will tolerate light frost as well as heat and drought, plus being easy to grow and needing very little in the way of aftercare, they're the perfect variety for your garden. Supplied as 6 x plug plants, ready to pot up and grow on before planting out.