Related to the humble potato, this climber will make a perfect addition to your garden this summer. From June through to September, this gorgeous climber is covered in exotic looking star-shaped white blooms that are detailed with delicate yellow centres. Its blooms make a perfect contrast to the glossy green and semi-evergreen foliage. Perfect for trailing up walls and fences, if you place this climber near a doorway, you can enjoy the jasmine scent from inside the home. 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. A hardy shrub, position your 'Solanum Jasminoides' in a sheltered area of your garden is full sun and enjoy the summer long floral display. Supplied as an established 75-90cm tall plant in a 19cm pot, ready to plant.
If there was an award for the most useful houseplant, then the diehard snake plant (Sansevieria) would certainly be one of the favourites. Also known as the Mother-in-laws tongue', the Snake plant has a secret side that makes it a must-have indoor plant. Many gardeners have known for years that Sansevieria is a great plant for the bedroom, helping you to get a good, restful night's sleep, and now we know why. Research by NASA has shown that one of their most useful features is their ability to keep the air inside your home clean, removing toxins such as formaldehyde and benzene, and giving out valuable oxygen at night. With gorgeous, sword-like, mottled green leaves edged in golden yellow, the Snakeskin Plant lives up to its name and is a plant that's really easy to care for and maintain. Ideal for those of us who are short of time or tend to forget about looking after houseplants. Sansevieria are tolerant of neglect, going for weeks being ignored or forgotten, yet their strappy leaves still manage to look fresh and vibrant. An ideal houseplant, the snake plant can survive in poor light, with little water, able to go extended periods without a drop, and is resilient to pest assault! Supplied as an established plant in a 17cm nursery pot and growing to 1.2m (4ft) tall.
Create a fabulous exotic look, in your garden or on your patio, with our glorious hardy Hibiscus 'Double Pink' standard lollipop-form tree - years of fabulous late-summer floral displays from this ever-so-easy-to-grow tree. Despite looking very exotic, with the huge double pink blooms, they are very tough and hardy indeed. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come. Grow it in a warm, sunny spot for the longest lasting and biggest displays - they can be hungry feeders, so give them plenty of feed as they come back into leaf and set buds. Supplied as an established standard tree, 80-100cm tall including pot ready to go straight into the border or into a large container.
Now you can grow three different varieties of apple in the space you'd usually need to grow just one! With three of the most popular apples growing on one dwarfing rootstock, this trio will blossom and fruit just as they would if they were individual trees, ripening at their natural time, giving you a delicious crop of tasty, fresh apples. The tree will thrive in a sunny border and, far from being a mere novelty, will mature into a highly productive tree. The individual varieties will pollinate each other and you can expect the first crop as soon as the year after planting. This is also the perfect fruit tree for a large pot on the patio. 'Braeburn' - The UK's most popular eating apple variety by far and will easily grow and flourish superbly in your garden! The crisp and juicy, white-fleshed fruits have what is considered by most to be the perfect sweet/tangy flavour balance, literally providing a flavour explosion with every mouthful! The gorgeous fruit will be ready to pick fresh from your tree by mid-October. 'Golder Delicious' - An exceptionally sweet, rich flavour and a distinctive golden-green colour. They will look wonderful as they ripen on your tree from September, producing abundant crops to make delightful desserts and yummy puddings as well as keeping them to eat just as they are. 'Elstar' - A versatile variety that is delicious and juicy eaten straight from the tree, this apple's honeyed sweetness balanced with slight acidity means it is also a great for cooking - superb in cakes, desserts and apple sauce! Producing medium-sized dessert apples, 'Elstar' are bursting with juicy flavour, ready from October to December.Supplied as an established tree in a 2L pot, 80cm tall, growing on an M9 dwarfing rootstock and reaching 2.5m (8ft) in height.
This set of 3 potted pink Oleander bushes is the perfect way to add that exotic, Mediterranean holiday feel to your garden without having to go anywhere! These 3 sweetly fragrant Oleander plants will be smother in flowers all summer-long and is surprisingly fully hardy, even here in the UK!Oleanders are one of the UKs favourite exotics and it's not hard to see why - these gorgeous Oleander plants will add a real warm Mediterranean feel to your patio or balcony with their boldly coloured, sweetly perfumed pink blooms standing out against their rich green, glossy foliage. Flowering from May to September, each Oleander plant looks stunning in a terracotta pot on a patio or balcony.So easy to grow, Oleander plants simply love hot dry weather, yet are perfectly happy in conditions down to -5c. Brilliant value, these large 2-year-old plants are supplied fully established in 17cm pots.
Blooming for up to 6 months of the year, Hydrangea paniculata Switch Ophelia (R) is a delightful hydrangea that will change colour through the year. Unique in that it will grow to just 50cm tall, 'Ophelia' is perfect for container growing so you don't even need a garden to appreciate its beautiful, colour-changing blooms. Coming into flower from late May and lasting well into October the faded flowers can remain on the plant right through the winter bringing extended interest across the seasons. The delicate blooms emerge green-white and take on a pink hue as they age, becoming pinker as the seasons progress. Easy to grow and hardy right down to -25°C, this is a hydrangea suitable for anyone to grow and it will even double as a houseplant for the spring - just remember that ultimately it prefers to be outside. Supplied as an established plant in a 3L pot, ready for immediate planting.
This little gem of a hardy palm adds a new colour dimension to exotic and tropical gardening, with its steel blue grey fan palm foliage. The colour can be variable but is stronger in full sun. Reportedly even hardier than the plain green species, they originate from the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, so get extreme cold there and will survive -10C in the UK once established. Very slow growing, so makes an excellent specimen in a large pot for patios and decking, requiring little maintenance in the year. Stock is limited at this price, and is rarely sold in this size, so please order early.
Be the envy of your gardening friends and grow a gorgeous Cordyline for instant Mediterranean impact. With burgundy-and-apricot-coloured leaves, the Cordyline 'Charlie Boy' is a splendid plant for the patio thanks to its compact nature and evergreen foliage. Over time, it will develop a distinctive silhouette thanks to its string stem that will become more noticeable as the older leaves ta the bottom shed. An ideal specimen for growing in pots on patios and balconies, why not experiment and make a real tropical paradise by growing them alongside other tropical plants such as cannas, and broad-leaved Zantedeschias. Over time, your cordyline will grow and branch into a small, evergreen tree resembling a palm - hence cordyline's other name of cabbage palm - creating a unique look all year-round and for many years, adding colour to your garden when all else begins to fade. Easy to grow, cordylines need little maintenance and pruning is limited to removing any dead leaves in the spring. Able to withstand a -7C winter, we do however suggest frost protection with fleeces or wrapping or bringing it into a garage or porch during the coldest months. Plant in a pot and grow outside through the summer before moving to a protected space such as a greenhouse or conservatory for the winter. As plants mature, they become more frost hardy so can be left outside in all but the coldest weather and will withstand all but severe frost. Supplied as an established plant in a 17cm pot, standing at approx 60-70cm tall, ready to plant.
If you're looking for an interesting new horticultural hobby, then you'll find the ancient and fascinating art of bonsai intriguing and immensely satisfying! This Chinese Sweet Plum - Sageretia has been trained by skilful cultivation into perfect miniature form. Already fully established in its own decorative ceramic pot this beautiful little tree will provide an instant focal point to any well-lit room. It may even treat you to pale yellow flowers in summer, followed by blue fruits in the autumn! Sageretia are native to southern China and are exceptionally well suited to bonsai culture, readily branching with beautiful flaky bark and foliage tinged with red. They're easy to care for needing only a light trim each autumn to encourage branching. Water well as the compost becomes dry but avoid the tree standing in water. Feed occasionally with bonsai feed and your tree should thrive and last a lifetime or more! During summer your tree can be moved outdoors but be careful to keep it watered and don't let it get cold overnight as bonsai love a constant unchanging temperature. Supplied ready planted, 30-40cm tall including a 20cm ceramic bonsai pot with tray.
If you love pears but only have room for one fruit tree, here is the perfect solution, as this tree has three different varieties growing on the same plant. It's not a freak of nature but the result of skilful grafting work by expert nurserymen who have grafted 2 additional varieties onto another pear tree. By careful selection of varieties you can be sure all three parts of the tree will grow in harmony and the fruits will ripen at their natural time, giving a succession of tasty fruits across a much wider cropping window than if just one variety were grown. No need to worry about pollination either, as the three varieties on the tree will pollinate each other! Your Family pear tree will thrive in a sunny border and, far from being just a curiosity, will mature into a highly productive tree. You can expect the first crop as soon as the year after planting. This is also the perfect fruit tree for a large pot on the patio. The main tree is Williams - a classic English pear with meltingly juicy flesh that is ready in mid-September. Onto this have been grafted: Conference - the perfect all-rounder. Elongated fruit are ready to pick in October for ripening through autumn. Deliciously sweet when ripe, they are also the perfect cooking pear. Abbe Fetel - not a familar name perhaps, but widely seen in shops, imported from Italy, where it is the favourite variety. It gives medium-sized pears with an aromatic, honeyed sweetness. Pick in October. Keep cool and bring the fruits in to ripen as needed through to Christmas. Supplied as a Three Variety Family Pear Tree, in a 3L pot, approx. 80-100cm tall including pot.
Create an instant statement in your garden with this ceramic-effect planter. A tough and durable planter that is perfect for bulbs, bedding, shrubs, houseplants and more, it's made to last from heavy duty polypropylene, with a classic Mediterranean Olive design. For the fraction of the cost of a ceramic pot it will add instant effect to your patio for many years. Stylish and traditional, the glossy finish gives a real ceramic feel to the planter, making it a feature in its own right. Reproducing a glossy, fired finish, 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. This stunning ceramic-looking planter will add an exquisite decorative look to your home or garden, without the cost of real pottery and being polypropylene, it is also light weight, so easier to pick up and move around when compared to other containers. Perfect as a contrast if you have a group of pots, where the patterned design helps draw your attention to the group and therefore the plants. Perfect for indoor or outdoor use, you'll receive a single, 40cm (16in) sage-green, olive design planter.
A beautifully designed solar torch light that produces a striking lighting effect which looks and moves exactly like a real flame. Perfect for marking borders, flower beds and paths, the TrueFlame™ Solar Torch Light is wireless, completely solar powered and fully automatic - they're absolutely outstanding when used in a group of 3 or more, especially when lining a path. Designed to work all year round, the Solar Torch turns on automatically at night and turns off automatically at dawn and has an optional Power saving mode for superb winter performance - reducing brightness in favour of longer run times. Simple quick and safe to install with everything you need in the box, the garden torch is Waterproof and designed for outdoor garden use - there's no need to dig up your garden to lay trunking and cables. Key Features of the Mini TrueFlame™ Solar Torch Light: Amazing TrueFlame™ flickering flame effectPower Saving Technology - maximise the brightness in the summer and double the runtime on shorter days.Will light for up to 10 hrs from a full charge.Installs in seconds - no need to dig up your garden to lay expensive mains cableBattery, pole & deck mounting, and spike included Note the torch will only illuninate in darkness. Height: 380mm (above ground after install) Overall Height: 490mm (including spike) Diameter of light head: 70mm Diameter of pole: 22mm In the Box 2 x TrueFlame™ Solar Torch Lights (Batteries included) Poles and spikes Instructions
The contents of our Wildlife World Woodland Gift Pack have been tailored to encourage both birds and ladybirds into your garden. Both are vital to a healthy garden environment as they manage insect populations such as larger slugs, snails and aphids. The pack makes a perfect present for any gardener or allotment owner - whether they are experienced gardeners or beginners. Also included is a UK Bird Species Guide to help with identification, as well as wild flower seeds to bring stunning colour and diversity to your garden.
A spectacular cordyline with striking, broad sword-like leaves, 'Burgundy Spire' will bring stunning contrast to your garden planting. The leaves are an incredibly dark burgundy purple and this stunning evergreen shrub will bring a sultry, dark and exotic look to your garden. When planted in borders, the colour will make all of the plants around it really stand out, especially those with bright flowers in shades or orange, blue and red and white. Like all cordylines, also known as cabbage palms, 'Burgundy Spire' is wonderfully architectural, and looks superb growing in a statement planter on a patio or either side of a gate or doorway, and will eventually forming a trunk as it grows upwards and sheds its lower leaves and begins to look like a small palm tree. Once mature 'Burgundy Spire' will produce clusters of small, sweetly scented creamy white flowers that are attractive to bees and butterflies, followed in autumn by berries that birds love to eat. Although hardy to around -7°C (19°F), we recommend that you provide your cordyline with protection during the coldest winter weather, either by tying up the leaves and wrapping in fleece, or bringing pot grown plants under cover. Supplied as an established plant in a 17cm pot, 60-70cm tall, ready to plant, growing to a height and spread of 3m (10ft) and spread of 1m (3ft).
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! Blueberries provide true season-long interest and will produce 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 September 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 harvest period and ease of growth in your home garden. Yellowberry: A real novelty, the warm yellow leaves are tinged with pink and orange tones and make for an altogether highly decorative plant for the kitchen garden. Fruits July Bluedrop: A new type of blueberry, 'Bluedrop' brings a new dimension to this popular berry. Everbearing with teardrop-shaped fruits (hence its name) you'll experience a taste sensation with an abundance of balanced, sweet and sharp blueberries.Fruits June to September Littleblue Wonder: Highly ornamental, in spring the bush becomes covered in pale flowers - so much so that it has earned this blueberry the name the 'Heather Blueberry'. Then in autumn, the foliage will provide a bright flourish of burgundy red colour before falling off for the winter.Fruits June
Primula Belarina is and incredible range of vibrantly coloured primroses with clusters of large, lightly scented double flowers, creating a lovely bright splash of colour. These wonderful, compact plants have rosettes of beautifully textured leaves and are smothered in flowers between March and May and will look fabulous wherever you plant them. They're great in pots, containers, beds, or baskets, in partial shade or sun - they really are easy to grow and bring the spring garden to life with their cheerful colours. In this collection you will receive one each of the following varieties: Primula Belarina 'Mandarin'- Gorgeous clusters of golden orange double blooms contrast beautifully with the crisp green foliage and form perfect buttonhole flowers that herald the return of spring. Primula Belarina 'Carmen' - This is the first ever fragrant hardy primrose with ruffled, blousy blooms bursting in a spectacular show of vibrant rose-red petals throughout the season. Primula Belarina 'Goldie' - A fabulous, compact plant that is smothered in clusters of delicately fragranced, golden-yellow, double flowers which look like miniature roses. Primula Belarina 'Buttercup' - With clean and compact, bright green leaves, 'Buttercup' is a striking double-flowered primrose with lightly scented, double blossoms of golden-yellow. Primula Belarina 'Amethyst Ice' - The lightly scented, double lilac blossoms are edged in ice white, making a delightful colour combination that is sure to thrill. Primula Belarina 'Bicolour'- A beautiful mixture of fully double apricot and deep purple blooms that complement each other effortlessly. Perfectly hardy in the garden, they're great when combined with other perennials and underneath trees and shrubs where they'll flower for months, gradually forming large clumps that can be divided every few years to give you more plants. Supplied as 6 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant out.
Scrumptious! You Can Now Pick Abundant Crops Of Delicious Plums, Apples & Pears From Your Own Mini-Orchard Fruit Tree Collection! These top-quality, 'Professional Standard' fruit trees mean YOU can now grow full-sized crops in your garden or even in pots on your patio! What's more, you can expect to be picking your first juicy fresh fruit in the first year! The crop will increase year on year, eventually giving you hundreds of pounds of produce per season and costing literally pennies per lb over their long life of over 50 years! They are 'self fertile' and grown on 'dwarfing' rootstocks so they will pollinate themselves and always be compact. The beautiful, fragrant blossom in spring will precede the fruits, with 'Victoria' cropping from July, 'Conference' in September and 'Braeburn' in October. Delicious fresh from the tree, they also make perfect jams and preserves or can be stored for later use - 'Conference' and 'Braeburn' will even keep until Christmas! Varieties Included: 'Braeburn' Apple'Braeburn' is the UK's most popular eating apple variety by far and it will easily grow and flourish superbly in your garden! The crisp and juicy white-fleshed fruits have what is considered by most to be the perfect sweet/tangy flavour balance, literally providing a flavour explosion with every mouthful! The gorgeous fruit will be ready to pick fresh from your tree by mid-October each season and will store well until the end of January if kept chilled but frost free. 'Conference' Pear'Conference' Pear produces a large crop of fruits with clear white flesh that are ready to pick each September. The long, tapering fruits are packed with an irresistible sweetness and lip-smacking juice that will drip from your chin when you bite in to a ripe one! Because of its outstanding flavour, it remains the most popular pear grown in Britain by a long measure both in commercial orchards and home gardens. It is perfect for you to grow because it is very heavy cropping and when picked unripe, it is great for keeping for 2 or more months. 'Victoria' PlumNamed in honour of the much-loved Queen, 'Victoria' Plum is the UK's favourite plum variety by a mile and deservedly so! The delicious fruits are ready to pick each July and taste simply mouth-watering when eaten straight from the tree. With the remaining fruit you can make jams and preserves and of course, eat them stewed with custard! Known for its sublime flavour and productivity - a fully established tree of this 'self-fertile' variety will produce up to 100lbs of fruit in a bumper season! Fruits are ready to pick each July.
This has to be one of the toughest and most indestructible garden plants - fully hardy, no maintenance required at all, and you can walk all over it! Despite being called a 'grass', Ophiopogon is in fact a strappy leaved perennial. It is one of the very few so-called 'black' plants that are actually black - a year-round matt black backdrop to set off bolder and brighter garden features. It is a very slow-spreading, carpet-forming plant, and can remain undisturbed for years, eventually forming a fair-sized clump. You can then chop it up with a spade in spring and create many more plants for free! Superb when interplanted with small perennials, use it also as groundcover, be it in shade or sun, drought or wet - it is also great in modern mixed container plantings. Easy to grow and fully hardy, this plant is a real time saver, its evergreen colour a fabulous foil for bright golds, oranges and limes. 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 - a versatile little gem!
Unusual and rarely available to UK gardeners, Parrotia persica 'Persian Spire' (also known as Persian Ironwood) will amaze averyone who sees it, whatever the time of year. With its purple shoots in spring, your garden will be filled with gorgeous colour, then in summer, the leaves of Persian Spire turn to dark green with a striking purple border. Then, in autumn, its foliage will turn yellow/orange/red before falling in a fiery display of colour to reveal its delicately coloured bark. An award-winning shrub, this new form of Parrotia has narrow, upright growth and its more compact size makes it a perfect specimen for containers and small gardens, adding vertical interest and taking up little room wherever it is planted. Hardy to -30°C you don't have to worry about protecting it over the winter and the bare branches produce dainty flowers in February and March before the leaves appear, giving added interest to your early spring garden. Easy to grow, this really is a plant that anyone can enjoy from beginner to expert. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant out. 'Persian Spire' will reach 250cm x 75cm.
The amazing Hydrangea that everyone is talking about!! Forget those dull seaside displays of blues and pinks, 'Miss Saori' is something different. And this was recognised when it won the Best Plant 2014 at the RHS Chelsea Flower Show. Such has been the popularity of this stunning hydrangea that plants remains scarce, although we have once again secured stock of these sought-after beauties for our customers this year. So what is all the fuss about? Well, each flower is fully double, which is unusual for Hydrangeas. To top this, each petal looks sugar-coated with lipstick-pink edging, fading subtly to the centre, creating a wonderful effect when the huge flowerhead is seen. Bred in Japan by the world's premier Hydrangea hybridiser, 'Miss Saori' also repeat flowers, as it flowers on both young and old wood - this removes many of the conundrums of pruning, making it easier to manage, and longer flowering than conventional types. As if this was not enough, as cooler autumn approaches, and the final flowers blossom, the leaves turn burgundy purple, presenting the perfect foil for the flowers. Be one of the very few who can grow this so early in it's life, it is set to be an exceptionally successful variety. Supplied as 3 x establoshed plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant out now.