There can be nothing better during the darkness of winter than seeing the bright, cheerful flowers of Violas. These little beauties light up the garden from autumn, all the way through winter and into spring. Sorbet varieties have superb winter hardiness and will withstand the ravages of winter wind and rain incredibly well and maintain their composure when they get wet. They flower profusely yet remain neat and compact. Perfect for bedding displays, planters and hanging baskets. They also look great as ground cover between spring flowering bulbs, giving month after month of vibrant colour throughout winter when little else is in flower. 'Tiger Eye' produces lots of striking flowers that grow to 2.5 cm (1 in) across. They are a vibrant golden yellow colour with beautiful dark veining, especially at the centre, hence the name! Supplied as 20 garden ready plants, ready to be planted out, reaching a height and spread of 15 cm (6 in).
Wallflowers are loved by gardeners for their huge range of vibrantly coloured spring flowers and sweet honey scent. 'Sunset' is a biennial which will flower the spring after it is planted and is a hybrid, which makes it more vigorous and stronger growing with a longer flowering season than most wallflowers, even in poor soil conditions. 'Tuttu Frutti' flowers in wonderfully rich shades of red, purple, orange and yellow, bringing bold, fiery colour to your garden at a time when most other plants are still dormant. They're also a great source of early nectar for bees and butterflies. Growing to just a foot tall, this gorgeous variety is spectacular when mass planted in containers to create a block of colour or planted trough borders for a stunning colour contrast with other spring flowers. They also make wonderful cut flowers, filling your home with fragrance. Supplied as 20 garden ready plants, ready to be planted out, reaching a height and spread of 30 cm (1 ft).
Large colourful blooms in hues of orange, blue, red, pink, white, yellow and purple, sit perfectly above the mid-green foliage.Pansy Colourburst is perfect for your beds, borders and containers for its sheer beauty and long flowering habit.
A beautifully fragrant variety producing an abundance of large blooms with brightly coloured faces in a mix of blues, oranges, reds, yellows and white. Pansy Grande Fragrance is the perfect choice for long-lasting colour in your beds, borders and patio pots.
Without a doubt, the Can Can is the original and best-ruffled pansy. In a stunning range of varying pastel shades, each bloom has a dark coloured centre that creates a radiant display in your beds, borders and patio pots. The gorgeous green foliage contrast effortlessly against all the colours of these pansy and its compact growing habit makes them a perfect choice for smaller spaces and gardens.
This wonderfully scented variety of Wallflower is so easy to grow and will give you much more 'flower power' for your money. With its increased colour range including bronze, red, gold, yellow, purple, lemon and white, you can create some truly stunning displays and really brighten up your garden borders, patio pots and window boxes from Autumn right through to Spring.
Offering a mixture of bright colours on this variety of Viola and one of our favourites. This is a true Viola and it has great tolerance to both heat and cold making it a reliable performer for the whole season. Plant some of these beauties into containers and ensure there is still loads of vibrant colour in your outside spaces whatever the weather.
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.
Pansy Firecracker will produce an abundance of blooms. A free flowering variety with a uniform habit and exceptional overwintering ability. This colourful Pansy will definitely brighten up your borders, patio pots and window boxes.
Just imagine, the perfect way to create designer-style combinations for baskets and containers with minimal effort on your part! Well we've done the hard bit for you and hand-picked the ideal combination of flowers to give you eye-catching displays this year that will be the envy of your neighbourhood! If you've wanted perfect pots and creative containers full of colour, but don't know where to start when it comes to picking complementary plants, then our 'Fruit Salad' plug collection is the best solution for time-strapped gardeners. Carefully tested by our growers to ensure they blend together, this vibrant range of plants will fill your garden with glorious colour with no fuss - making you look like a gardening pro! Quick to plant and easy to grow, this collection is the ideal way to give you pots and containers full of colour - just plant them up, water them and enjoy the display of Orange, Blue and White! Trailing up to 60cm (24in) this 'Fruit Salad' collection plugs are supplied as a mix of 12 plugs of Calibrachoa Dark Blue, Calibrachoa Sunrise, and Lobelia Laura White. Calibrachoa's small petunia-like flowers add a delicate feel. The blue and the apricot-yellow blooms of the 2 varieties included appear from mid-summer to the first frosts, making them a long-lasting and colourful addition to baskets and containers. Lobelia is the iconic hanging basket plant, producing masses of tiny flowers. Fast growing, this white variety quickly fills a large space in any basket! Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Have you ever looked at other people's baskets and pots and wished that your displays could look as good? Well now you can! Introducing the perfect way to create designer-style combinations for baskets and containers with minimal effort on your part! Well we've done all the hard work and put together the ideal combination of flower shapes and colours to give you dazzling displays this year that will make you the talk of your street! Perfecting pots and creating containers full of colour has never been easier with our range of hand-picked plug plants, chosen to give you a beautiful display of harmonious colour and form. Our 'Sherbet Lemon' plug collection has been carefully tested by our growers to ensure that the plants complement each other, to fill your garden with glorious colour with no fuss - making you look like a gardening pro! Quick to plant and easy to grow, this collection is the ideal way to give you pots and containers full of colour - just plant them up, water them and enjoy the display of Yellow, Blue and White! Bidens is the classic yellow basket plant covered with tiny sunflowers and trailing, ferny foliage, which contrasts perfectly with the deep blue of lobelia and the ice white of Verbena. Merging together in a perfect symphony of colour, you can't get a better mix for your pots and baskets. Trailing up to 60cm (24in) this 'Sherbet Lemon' collection of plugs are supplied as a mix of 12 plugs of Bidens Port Royal, Lobelia Laura Deep Blue, and Verbena Samira White ready for you to pot up and grow on before planting out when all risk of frost has passed.
Sure to create magic in your garden this Autumn, producing a colourful display to all your borders and containers. Pansy Tango Magic has the added bonus of a being wonderfully fragrant, ensuring unbeatable displays from Autumn through to Spring.
Quick and easy, we've selected the best mix of colours to give you amazing results. The perfect solution for gardeners who have been scuppered by the winter, this collection is guaranteed to give you fabulous results - just plant them up, water them and let them do their thing. Consistent and predictable results every time, the Patriotic Petunia Collection is a spectacular profusion of tiny petunia flowers in red, white and blue. You can rest assured that the collection will flower together in perfect harmony in a glorious patriotic tribute. Giving you superb colour in your garden all summer long, our top quality, UK-grown plants are the easy way to a perfect garden display this year! Supplied as 12 x plug plants in a mixture of red, white and blue, ready to grow on before planting out.
Pansy Zest is a wonderful Winter flowering variety producing an abundance of large blooms in hues of orange yellow and white from Autumn throughout to Spring. Choose these Pansies to add your own rainbow of sunshine to your beds, borders and patio pots during the cooler months.
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).
A delightful mix of gorgeous colours are produced from these scented ruffled pansies, creating lovely displays for your beds, borders, and containers. The larger petal to create more coverage once they are established while the purple tones of these blooms contrast perfectly against the green foliage.
Busy Lizzies are one of the most popular summer bedding flowers and it's not hard to see why. Combining a tough, weather resistant bloom with the beauty and floral pizazz of the most delicate of flowers, the 'New Guinea' group of Impatiens brings a lush, tropical feel to containers, beds and baskets! In a mix of stunning bright colours, busy lizzies sit against a backdrop of tough deep-green leaves that frames the floral display perfectly. Although they may look beautiful and delicate, New Guineas are strong and vigorous growers that will withstand our topsy-turvy summer weather - wet and cold or dry and hot, these Impatiens will continue you to provide you with stunning displays all summer long. Robust and healthy, plant them roughly 30cm apart and they will cover beds and borders to create a carpet of colour or alternatively, plant in pots and containers and watch as a ball of reds, whites and pinks explode over the top. Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out. * Please note that plugs are mixed colours and we cannot guarantee the colours that you will receive.
Lofospermum Wine Red (creeping Gloxinia) will add a unique dimension to your summer hanging baskets the flowering trails will reach over 1.2m (4ft) long by the end of the season and almost touch the floor! 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! Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Primrose Rainbow is a customer favourite, and it is easy to see why! A hardy outdoor variety with a long flowering period running from late Winter through to early Spring. This lovely Primrose will bring bright, cheery colour to your borders, pots and containers with its dazzling mix of red, yellow, blue, white, and pink blooms. It will continue to perform, in all but the most extreme of weather.
This unusual plant will help deter cats and other unwanted pests from entering and fouling your garden. Coleus Canina works by emitting an odour that cats in particular find incredibly offensive and therefore disappear back out of your gate or over the fence! It will be at its most effective when planted in a sunny spot, because the odour gets stronger the hotter the leaves become - fortunately the odour is barely obvious to humans! Coleus Canina is incredibly easy to grow and will thrive on a high degree of neglect because it is a naturally drought tolerant plant. It even has the added bonus of producing attractive blue flowers during the summer months and in to early autumn. Supplied as 12 plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.