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 good general purpose Lawn Seed blend, it is both quick establishing, and yet hard wearing. Ideal for most lawns, for new lawns or repairing. The lawn seed is primed with MagiCoat for quicker establishment, saving water too.
A super little scented winter treasure 'Wintersweet', as it is commonly called, produces stunning buttery yellow flowers in clusters, each with a lovely burgundy centre and veining detail. Producing a lovely sweet scent on bare stems, they are a joy to behold on cold winter days. An easy and fairly quick grower, it thrives in mixed shrubberies and borders, or larger pots, in sun or light shade, where you can bring them close to the house for maximum fragrance enjoyment. They also make a lovely long-lasting cut stem for the vase also. Supplied as an established plant in a 17cm pot to plant out all year - approx 20cm tall.
With green-grey leaves edged in cream, this eye-catching shrub stands out beautifully among other plants, where its unusual colouring lightens up even the gloomiest of borders. The fabulous creamy variegated leaves are brightest when new growth emerges in spring and summer, remaining bright and neat all year round - even in winter - giving you a real year-round garden feature. New leaves unfurl ivory-white before taking on their characteristic grey and cream shading, and it's not unusual for the creamy margins of the leave to develop a soft pinkish tinge that gives the bush a striking blushed appearance. This Pittosporum is quite unusual, and works really well as a low maintenance feature in your garden. Easy to grow, it also makes a fabulous addition to cut flower displays, where a fresh branch provides a contemporary twist to a vase. Supplied as a standard plant in a 9cm pot, ready for immediate planting.
A set of 4 colourful 'Bellagio' planters to brighten up the drab autumn. This set of four cheerful pots are ideal for showing off your bedding plants, and fabulously floral when filled with pansies or violas. These 25cm (10in) planters are the perfect way to add instant impact to your garden, patio or balcony, they're definitely a dazzling reminder of summer - they made us instantly think of childhood outings to the coast with a brightly coloured bucket and spade! Made from lightweight plastic, with a subtle ridged pattern running around the outside, they can also be used as a pot cover for existing plain pots to add a splash of interest. In addition, the drainage holes are predrilled, so there's no fiddling with power tools! Suppled as a set of 4, one of each: Cherry RedOrangeYellowAzalea pink
A lovely little classic gold effect plastic planter, with removable inbuilt trellis, reaching to 60cm. Ideal for shorter sweet peas. black eyed Susan (Thunbergia), and shorter climbers, and perfect for the new breed of short patio peas, beans and similar, as well as the ultra-compact Boulevard clematis series. Volume 6 litres. 25cm square base, Height inclusive of trellis when fixed is 60cm (2f).
Blessed with strongly scented flowers from late spring into early summer, French lilacs are desirable deciduous shrubs that really make their presence felt. A real showstopper! Appearing in great profusion at the end of branches clothed with heart-shaped green leaves, the tiny, packed clusters of buds open to reveal a mass of double blooms that smell incredible and act as a magnet to wildlife. A sun lover, lilacs can be grown in just about any soil or can be raised in large containers. For a sensational floral display, year after year, deadhead when two new shoots appear beneath faded blooms and remove any wayward branches to keep a compact shape. Supplied as an established plant in a 2L pot, ready to plant out.
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)
One of the most striking periwinkles, vinca minor 'Illumination boasts striking lavender-blue, star-shaped flowers against bright yellow and green variegated foliage to bring colour over many months from spring right through to the autumn. An invaluable plant for brightening dull corners of the garden this vigorous, low-growing evergreen perennial will thrive in sun or light shade in most soils. Its trailing stems root easily where they touch the ground, eventually forming a mat of glossy green leaves that act as a superb weed suppressant. Easy to grow, hardy and very low maintenance, the periwinkle is the perfect plant for any gardener who wants great results with very little effort 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 2L pot, ready to plant straight out.
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.
Treat yourself to something rather special and grow this dazzling bi-coloured rose. An eye-catching floribunda rose, producing masses of crazy, striped flowers which definitely pack a visual punch. This novel variety has yellow blooms that are boldly splashed and striped with bright orange. 'Oranges and Lemons' is a repeat flowering rose, producing clusters of large, slightly fragrant blooms throughout the summer and into the autumn, contrasting beautifully with the dark green glossy foliage. Superb as a cut flower and striking in mixed flower borders. When not in flower, you're still rewarded with colour as the new growth emerges a glossy maroon-red before transforming to a deep green - so if you're looking for something with some garden 'wow factor' then this is the rose for you. Being a floribunda, this rose bush has good disease resistance, is hardy and easy to grow, reaching around 1m in height. Even if you've not got a garden, you can grow 'Oranges and lemons' as it's quite happy in a large pot on the patio or balcony. The incredible colour is caused by what is known as a 'jumping gene' which creates instability in the colour genes of each flower, so it can be either of two colours. This makes each petal and each flower 100% unique, giving a lovely contrasting mix. Floribunda Roses are often repeat flowering, produce large clusters of blooms over such a long season, making them ideal in the garden. Floribundas are hardy and robust with more disease resistant than Hybrid Teas and making them easier to grow., and the best type of rose if you're new to gardening. Supplied as a bare-root plant, ready to plant out.
Beautiful lilac-blue blooms give this popular hybrid tea rose its characteristic name, and its pleasant fragrance make it a garden rose not to be missed. One of the original, and still one of the best, of the 'blue' roses, 'Blue Moon' will flower through summer and into autumn, giving you many months of super colour in your garden. The pastel-toned flowers are help on strong, upright stems, which makes them ideal for cutting, so you can fill your home with the fragrance of this floral beauty too! A large flowering hybrid tea rose, 'Blue Moon' is moderately vigorous with light green, glossy foliage which has a good resistance to disease - a great choice for novice and experienced gardeners alike. Easy to grow and fully hardy, 'Blue Moon' will grow to a height of around 90cm. Supplied as a bare-root plant, dormant with no leaves ready to be planted out.
After years of dedicated breeding we are thrilled to bring you this new variety. The fastest of all raspberries, this unique berry is compact and ideal for growing in pots. The medium-sized fruits are produced from July and have a sumptuous, dark red colour. Although 'Summer Lovers Patio Red' is classed as an autumn-fruiting raspberry, once established it will start to bear fruit in the summer from the middle of July - 3 weeks before 'Autumn Bliss'. In addition, and as a contrast to the classic summer raspberries, this one is a primocane variety bearing fruit on new wood therefore meaning you'll get fruit in the very first year - no need to wait a year for crops! Easy to maintain, it requires just a little prune to simply remove old canes once they are older than 18 months and that's it. A breakthrough in raspberry breeding, 'Summer Lovers Patio Red' beats other established varieties in fruiting time, exceeding the current August crop of the earliest autumn berries. In fact, this variety has more or less made the term 'autumn fruiting' obsolete as it matures in the middle of summer! Easy to grow and look after, this raspberry can be grown and picked without problem in small spaces, in the garden, on a balcony or terrace, as they reach less than a metre. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, reaching H80cm x W50cm
Create an eye-catching and productive feature for your garden with this stylish 'wheat bundle' planter set with three established Elsanta strawberry plants. 'Elsanta' is one of the tastiest and most popular varieties of strawberry that you can grow at home and one of the leading commercial varieties, favoured for their juicy fruit and earlier, heavy cropping. Perfect for growing in patio pots and containers when you're short of space, the plants will begin to flower in June and produce fruit ready for picking in just a few short weeks - continuing up until around the middle of July - weeks-worth of mouth-watering fruit! Not only does 'Elsanta' produce bright and shiny orange-red fruits, but it produces pretty little flowers in the spring and rich deep-green foliage creating a very pretty ornamental plant in between fruiting seasons. The reproduction silver effect planter, is lightweight polypropylene and made with gardeners in mind, so you'll find that they combine good looks with functionality, having raised drainage holes and an internal reservoir to keep moisture in your pots for longer. Plus, as they're UV and frost resistant, they'll last for years, meaning that you can use them over and over again. The stylish wheat design has been brush painted to give an aged metallic look, creating the impression that you have a much more expensive planter, and is a decorative feature in its own right which you can use for many years to come. They're the perfect planting companion for Elsanta, where both pot and plant can bring out the best in each other, creating a fruitful, designer-style effect in no time at all.
A complete 3 in 1 lawn treatment that simultaneously kills unwanted lawn mosses and weeds, without affecting the grass itself, as well as a feed to boost the grass blades and roots for better colour, stronger roots and more resilience to drought and heavy use. Covers 100.sq.m if applied as per label
Bursting with flavour and Vitamin C, the large glossy black fruit of Ben Lomond cover the branches of this completely new type of blackcurrant in mid-summer. Unlike most others, which require a lot of space to grow, this compact beauty only ever grows to 3ft (1m) 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. Really easy to grow, Ben Lomond will thrive in a sunny, sheltered spot out of strong winds and prefers well-drained soil (or compost). Plants are as tough as old boots and have flowers that are resistant to frost. All you need to do to ensure a bumper crop is feed them well with blood, fish and bone in mid-spring, followed by a dose of poultry manure or another high nitrogen plant food, in June.
There's certainly plenty going on is the busy gardening scene featured in this Beautiful Gardens jigsaw puzzle. Designed to delight and also frustrate, you'll love seeing the gorgeous gardening picture come together. It looks as if the gardener walked away just a moment ago, leaving everything behind - maybe they've gone for a well earned cup of tea. Gardeners will recognise everything in this picture and all will have recreated the same scene many times during their own busy days in the garden. Whoever the gardener is here, they've packed a lot into it. From flowers and vegetables to an exotic agave, although the shed may be a little too tidy for some! Measuring 68cm (27in) Wide and 49cm (19in) deep when completed, with 1000 pieces to exercise your puzzling skills.
Belarina primrose 'Carmen' is the first ever fragrant hardy primrose, and heralds the return of spring with ruffled, blousy blooms bursting in a spectacular show of colour throughout the season. Carmen is likely to become a classic Belarina Primula, with its lightly scented, double blossoms of a vibrant rose-red, creating a dazzling burst of cheerful colour in borders, pots and baskets. Bred in the UK, these fabulous, compact plants are smothered in clusters of delicately fragranced, double flowers which look fabulous wherever you plant them - in pots, containers, beds or baskets, in sun or semi shade - they really are an ideal, easy to grow garden plant. Plus, because the magnificent flowers don't set seed, their energy goes into making more blooms and they'll flower their socks off for months. Perfectly hardy in the garden, they're even better when added to your favourite container as a specimen plant, where you can get up close and personal with their fabulous flowers which complement perfectly their lush, ridged, bright green leaves. Supplied as 3 jumbo plugs ready for potting up and growing on before planting out into their final flowering positions.
A flower with real 'wow-factor', Osteospermum Double Pink will certainly liven up your pots and baskets with an abundance of long-lasting, soft-pink blooms. Each flower on this fabulous variety has a double row of slightly darker petals in the center, making these Cape Daisies a real eye-catcher. As an added bonus, the sturdy pom-poms last twice as long than the ordinary varieties, giving you much more flower power in your garden. Ideal when planted in pots or the centre of hanging baskets, Double Pink will thrive in full sun or partial shade, making them a good all-round addition to your garden - they even make fantastic cut flowers for the vase. Easy to grow and needing very little in the way of aftercare, the compact, domed plants are also remarkably drought tolerant meaning that they are perfect for low maintenance areas of your garden too. Supplied as 6 x plug plants, ready to pot up and grow on before planting out.
Traditional Garden Games' handy 2 Player Badminton Set is perfect to keep all ages entertained in the garden or to take on a day out to the park or beach. The set consists of two badminton racquets, three shuttlecocks and zip up carry bag. Great starter kit for future champions! Age Suitable: 6+ CONTENTS 2 x Badminton Racquet 3 x Shuttlecocks Carry bag WARNING. Not suitable for children under 36 months. Small parts. Choking Hazard. Sharp ends