Popular since Victorian times and in those days said to be the Queen's favourite flower, this is a heritage variety with a modern twist as it has benefited from re-selection over the years to make a wonderful garden plant for today. Each extra large flower head opens from appleblossom pink rosebud buds held in a dense cluster, forming a luxurious salmony fully double inflorescence which lasts for many days. The blooms keep coming right through the summer months and well into autumn and contrast perfectly against the bright green faintly zoned foliage. This is the perfect plant for a large patio container and also makes a lovely plant for indoors. Why not enjoy it outdoors for the summer and re-pot for indoors when the weather turns colder. Supplied as 6 plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
A brand-new mix of pelargonium geraniums with clusters of flowers in a striking combination of red and white. The delightfully named 'Summer Twist' will give you a succession of unique blooms from early summer until autumn, making this an essential addition to your garden borders, pots, baskets and balcony displays. With an outstanding show throughout the summer to the first frosts of autumn, 'Summer Twist' is extremely free flowering, producing large flower heads of unusually serrated, bicoloured blooms creating an impressive display wherever they are planted. Because this geranium branches naturally, there's no need for fiddly pinching out so they're a really low-maintenance plant, needing just a tidy up of faded flowers to promote more of the lovely blooms. Supplied as a set of 12 Plug Plants, ready to pot up and grow on - ideal for gardeners who have a warm place where the plants can be grown on until they are ready for planting out once all chance of frost has passed. Will bloom June to October, reaching a height of approx. 40cm.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
With an impressive assortment of colours in shades of bright reds, pinks, yellows, whites and more, this brand new 'Mega Revolution' mix is the most colourful of all the Gerbera series! Not only are they the most colourful of the gerberas, but their huge flower blooms on extra-large, vigorous plants make them a top choice for any large patio container or border display. For maximum impact, plant in large groups for a show-stopping feature. Their classic daisy-like flowers open up and lap up the summer sun and will attract bees and butterflies and other beneficial insects to your garden with their bold & bright blooms. Flowering throughout the summer and up until the first frosts in the autumn, they're easy to maintain with just regular watering needed - minimum effort for maximum impact!
A superb collection of perennials, annuals and shrubs that will flower all summer long and into the autumn. Specially selected to be irresistible to butterflies, as well as bees and other pollinating insects, there are plants for every part of the garden, from towering Hollyhocks to compact Lavenders for growing everywhere, in borders or in pots. With their foliage and flowers all bringing different forms and textures, they'll work in harmony with each other to give you a stunning display, and wildlife will enjoy them as much as you. What's more, all of the flowers are great for cutting! This collection will include plants such as, Lavender 'Hidcote', Hollyhock 'Chaters Double', Helianthus 'Vincent's Choice', Lavender 'Munstead', Delphinium ' Magic Fountain' & Verbena bonariensis Supplied as collection of 12 plug plants, ready to pot on or plant out.
Like Bonfire Night in plant form... each star-shaped bloom will grab your attention like an erupting firework Pop Stars is becoming a plant of choice of garden professionals and home gardeners alike because of its non-stop flower power and impressive and weather resistant garden performance. Borne in tight clusters each brightly coloured bloom is intriguingly marbled giving plants a shimmering look. In full flower from May til October Pop Stars is the perfect choice for any patio container or sunny flower bed. The displays are 'self-cleaning' meaning the spent flowers fall freely so no fiddly deadheading is needed so very easy to grow..... Height 25 cm (10in).Supplied as 12 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.
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.
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.
Our finest mixture of premium quality varieties brings colour and fragrance to your home and garden. Pick armfuls of bright, fragrant stems every day throughout summer. Sow in pots or directly in the soil until early May. Richly fragrant Sweet Peas go together with warm summer days no wonder they are the nations favourite annual flower! This unique selection of scent laden kinds, made after testing more than a hundred varieties, rank among the most fragrant of all. You'll get well loved, wavy Spencers and colourful grandifloras and the blend includes High Scent and Matucana, already renowned for their unsurpassable perfume. With at least one fresh flower per plant per day at the height of summer, you'll get hundreds every week.
Sweet William 'Indian Carpet' will brighten up any garden with their cheery colours though spring and summer - they're the perfect choice for bringing extra colour to gardens when the main flowering season is well and truly over. An easy to grow hardy perennial, the Sweet William is a classic cottage-garden plant, and this modern variety produces masses of colourful, fragrant blooms. Best planted in autumn, you will get flowers when all else is fading, and they will continue to flower from spring and into summer. With an abundance of star-shaped, frilly flowers and a delicate scent, Dianthus are versatile, easy to grow and as Indian Carpet is compact, they are great in pots and containers as well as in beds and borders. You won't need to spend hours in the garden tending to these Dianthus, simply plant, water and grow! Supplied as a pack of 20 Garden-Ready plants to be planted straight out.
Like many things in America, it seems the bigger, bolder and brassier the better! And the same is true of Jumbo Flowered American Fuchsias - a must for every summer flowering display! So many keen gardeners consider any hanging basket incomplete without at least some fuchsias, so if you have grown fuchsia before and liked them, you will certainly love these giants too. With layer upon layer of delicate petals they are breathtakingly beautiful and always draw admiring glances. A regular best-seller with our customers, they simply perform year in year out, whatever our summer weather throws at us. Each collection contains 3 plants each of: 'Voodoo' - deepest ruffled purple centres, with bright red sepals. 'Swingtime' - bright red and white. 'Bella Rosella' - tousled deep pink petals. 'Deep Purple' - rich purple with a hint of magenta. These 4 varieties have been selected for their huge flower size and summer long performance and beautiful colour combinations. They always look best when planted up where they can trail and you can look up in to the blooms, as they cascade over the side of baskets. Follow the crowd, and see why Jumbo Flowered American Fuchsias are lighting up British gardens too! Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Create simply stunning floral displays this summer with this collection of zonal Grandeur geraniums. Perfect in pot and in borders, they will produce clusters of beautiful blooms that are framed by gorgeous green foliage. These zonal geraniums give an outstanding show throughout the summer to the first frosts of autumn. Extremely free flowering, they produce large flower heads in a selection of bright and bicoloured shades creating an impressive display in pots, planters, and borders. In this collection you will receive - Geranium zonal Grandeur® Dark Neon Purple - Clusters of stunning and vibrant pink blooms. Geranium zonal Grandeur® Dark White - Beautiful pure white blooms and dark green scalloped foliage. Geranium zonal Grandeur® Classic Salmon - Huge clusters of salmon pink blooms. Geranium zonal Grandeur® Classic Salmon Picotee - Pink double blooms with elegant white edges. Geranium zonal Grandeur® Dark Bright Red - Gorgeous scarlet red blooms standing above bright green foliage. Geranium zonal Grandeur® Dark Lavender - Velvety green foliage and clusters of soft mauve flowers. Position them in full sun, but with a little protection from the midday heat and watch them do their thing, you will not be disappointed! Supplied as a collection of 6 established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant.
This collection of trailing geraniums is sure to create a showstopping display of colourful flowers all summer long. Grouped together or planted separately, trailing from balconies, window boxes, hanging baskets and containers, the green foliage and selection bright colours will not disappoint. Best known for their ability to cascade with free-flowering displays, they will provide you with an abundance of gorgeous shades of pinks, purples, reds and white. Flowering from May until the frosts in the autumn, this collection of trailing geraniums will reward you with an even better show if you feed with a high potash plant food. Geraniums will thrive in a hot, sun-drenched location, making them the perfect choice for the discerning but busy gardener. In this collection you will receive: 1 x Geranium trailing 'Decora Lilac' - Delicate pink-purple petals that are detailed with dark purple veins. 1 x Geranium trailing 'Decora Rose' - Stunning pastel pink petals detailed with dark veins making it a real showstopper. 1 x Geranium trailing 'Grandeur® Ivy Arctic Scarlet' - Big and beautiful white petals with stunning scarlet red edging are surrounded by gorgeous trailing ivy-like foliage. 1 x Geranium trailing 'Grandeur® Ivy Velvet' - Dark green foliage elevates the clusters of wine-red velvety petals. 1 x Geranium 'Ville de Paris Red' - Simply stunning bright red blooms that are surrounded by trailing green foliage. 1 x Geranium 'Ville de Paris White' - A non-stop cascade of delicate white blooms with splashed of purple. Easy for anyone to grow, whatever your level of experience, you can simply plant them up and leave them to get on with their own thing - simple! Supplied as a collection of 6 established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant.
A summer garden just is not complete without fuchsias. Perfect in hanging baskets and window boxes, this collection of trailing fuchsias is an absolute must. With layer upon layer of delicate petals in pinks, reds, whites and purples, these gorgeous blooms will not fail to impress. Flowering throughout the summer, starting in June and lasting all the way through to October, it is easy to see why fuchsias are a firm favourite. In thiscollection of trailing fuchsias you will receieve - Fuchsia Trailing Dark Eyes - Frilly purple blooms with dark pink sepals are guaranteed to brighten up your garden. Fuchsia Trailing La Campanella - The purple corolla of the flowers is framed by gorgeous white sepals that stand out against the mid-green foliage. Fuchsia Trailing Southgate - The mid green foliage contrasts perfectly against these medium sized blooms that are made up of blush corolla and sepals. Fuchsia Trailing Swingtime - Large, double flowers have frilly white corollas and contrasting scarlet sepals that stand proudly out of the gorgeous green foliage. Fuchsia Trailing El Camino - The combination of pink, white and red blooms contrasts perfectly against the oval shaped green leaves. Fuchsia Trailing Harry Grey - Delicate cream blooms with a hint of pink contrast effortlessly against the green foliage. Fuchsias fill baskets and patio containers, complimenting any other plants that you have placed between them. The ballerina-like flowers look beautiful adding depth to displays and most importantly real colour impact. A must for every summer-flowering display, these varieties will give immense flower power. Supplied as 6 established plants in 9cm pots ready to plant.
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.