If you're looking for an eye-catching plant to add height and interest to your garden, then this hybrid foxglove will certainly add the 'wow factor' to your displays this summer. Foxgloves hold a special place in the hearts of many gardeners and this remarkable variety is rapidly becoming one of the garden-designers' darlings, with their stately spires cropping up in all of the latest contemporary gardens. Digitalis Foxglove 'Illumination Flame' is an absolutely stunning perennial, producing multiple spikes of tubular blooms that will, simply, take your breath away. The striking flame-coloured tubular flowers are lightly speckled and shimmer faintly when illuminated by the sun giving real impact to any garden. Produced in abundance from early June to October they're magnets to furry bumble bees and other beneficial pollinating insects! Relatively compact compared to other foxgloves, 'Illumination Flame' is sterile which means that they will put all of their energy into making more blooms and don't make a nuisance of themselves by seeding everywhere. Plus, they have a naturally branching habit, which results in lots of flower spikes, makes these one of the showier varieties. Foxgloves thrive in full sun, or dappled shade, and are very easy to grow indeed, giving gardens a wild and naturalistic feel or a smart contemporary look depending on where you plant them. Perfect for a pot if you're short on space. Supplied as 6 x jumbo plug plants ready to pot on or plant out. Grows to H100cm x W50cm
Stunningly beautiful and with legendary, exciting perfume, Margaret Merrill is one of the very best Bush roses you can buy. It's gorgeous, big Floribunda ivory-white blooms flower prolifically against a vigorous, bushy habit, and regrow rapidly from late spring until the first frosts giving you more flowers, more often. This coupled with a wonderful fragrance that will waft through the air, make it perfect for transforming your garden throughout summer into autumn each year, and brilliant for cutting for indoor displays. It makes a great tidy Bush rose for bigger pots or mixed borders, the white flowers standing out in high Summer. Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot, growing to a height of 80cm
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.
The perfect Patio Pear tree for growing in large pots or small gardens, where space is a premium. Part of the world-leading Zaiger range of self-fertile and dwarf patio fruit trees, the dark green and juicy fruits of Garden Pearl will delight. It really is like an orchard pear tree in miniature, except for the size of crop and size of fruits! Being very slow growing it will barely reach 1.2M (4ft) in 10 years or so. Self-fertile, so very easy to grow, it produces lovely pure white blossom displays in April, followed by luscious juicy pears in late Summer. One of the easiest of all patio fruit trees to grow, it is definiteley one for the shortlist.
Nothing beats the sight and scent of traditional English climbing roses draping from an archway or pergola, churning out flowers for 4 months through the summer, and producing a fabulous fragrance to waft through your garden on the breeze, especially on warm days. Climbing up to 4.5m, these roses are perfect for growing up trellises, arches, walls or fences. What's more, these beautiful roses will produce their first displays this summer to fill your garden with colour and fragrance. Easy to grow and maintain, you will get one each of : Dublin Bay - a sumptuous red double, very-free flowering and quite thorn free (to 2.5m) Golden Showers - bright sunshine yellow (to 4.5m) Zepherine Drouhin - vibrant pink (to 4.5m)
This set of charming 50 LED stars will make a wonderful addition to your garden in the evenings. Perfect for winding through trees or shrubs, decorating garden features or adding some glitz to garden trellis. This set of stars string lights are multi function, whether you want them flashing or constant is completely up to you. Place in a position of good natural daylight so that the solar panel may charge during the day. This will automatically light up the orbs at dusk. Total Length: 11.76m inc 2m lead cable Weight:0.483kg
This set of charming 50 LED orbs will make a wonderful addition to your garden in the evenings. Perfect for winding through trees or shrubs, decorating garden features or adding some glitz to garden trellis. This set of orb string lights are multi function, whether you want them flashing or constant is completely up to you. Place in a position of good natural daylight so that the solar panel may charge during the day. This will automatically light up the orbs at dusk. Total Length: 11.76m inc 2m lead cable Weight:0.36kg
These solar powered crystal lights are an ideal way of bringing light and interest to pathways, borders and garden features. They have a stylish stainless steel finish with thick patterned glass that makes for a stunning visual effect when lit. Cleverly, the lights can also be switched between white and colour changing for added effect. Simply place in an area of your garden in direct light, the solar panel will charge and then light up at dusk. Sit back and enjoy. No wiring, no operating costs. As an added bonus, the glass lenses can be removed for table top use so ideal to place on your garden furniture of an evening. Height: 34cm Length: 7.5cm Width: 7.5cm
Perfect for cleaning leaves and other debris from drainage gutters, and for watering those hard to reach baskets, this telescopic gutter cleaner is the safe and easy way to clean up and maintain your garden - without the need for ladders. With a stainless steel head, curved to fit into the gutter, the Aluminium telescopic wand cleaner extends from 117cm (3ft 10in) to 185cm (6ft 1in). Featuring a water fed design with hose attachment and an on off tap, connectors are snap fit - making it quick and easy to connect to a hose pipe. Featuring soft grip handles for extra comfort, this gutter cleaner connects directly to a standard garden hose using a standard Hozelock compatible hose connector. And that's not all! At the bottom of the pole you'll find a switch which allows you to control the flow of water through the pipe which makes it ideal for watering those hard to reach hanging baskets and planters.
The popular cut flower and houseplant Gerbera has been upgraded to a garden perennial, giving an amazing 5 months of colour from spring to autumn every year. The world's first Hardy Gerbera in a range of bright, zingy colours, the 'Garvinea Series' was launched to great acclaim across Europe, where the Dutch breeders developed an improved plant with much bigger flowers, and even longer lasting performance. Winter hardy to around -8C (although avoid severe winter wet), and flowering for several seasons of colour, the highly distinctive flowers of Garvinea simply keep coming - up to 50 on a 2-year-old plant. Easy to grow and keep, they're also highly resistant to pests and diseases, making them the ideal garden plant! We love them potted up in bright & bold planters - in a mix of 4 zingy, starburst colours (Opal Fruits if you are a certain age!) you can mix and match your plants to your planters and create an eye-catching display for your patio! Suppled as 4 x mixed colour plants in 7cm pots ready for potting on or planting out when all risk of frost has passed, Garvineas are herbaceous, so die back completely underground over winter, to emerge bigger and better next year.
Gooseberry 'Invicta' is the number 1 outstanding Gooseberry variety for home gardeners - and is now available in a unique standard form! Grafted onto a long straight stem, the foliage and fruit will be produced in a ball atop the stem for a really unique productive, yet decorative display! 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. In its standard form, it brings a different dimension to growing your own adding a real decorative feature to patios, or even straight in the border where it will add height and interest. 'Invicta' really is the all-round Gooseberry for gardens - why not try one this year?
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 into one that is perfectly ripe! 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 ideal for you to grow because it is very heavy cropping and when picked unripe, it is great for keeping for 2 or more months. 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. Supplied as an established tree, 150cm (5ft) tall grown on an M9 dwarfing rootstock in a 24cm pot, growing to a height and spread of 2.5m (8ft).
Blackcurrants, redcurrants and whitecurrants 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. These top quality, professional grade Uk-grown bushes in your collection will establish quickly and reward with your first fruit this summer, followed by crops that get larger and larger each year. Packed full of vitamins, minerals and requiring the minimum of care, these tasty superfruits are ideal for growing in beds or borders, or for planting in large pots that grace the patio. Blackcurrants and whitecurrants will fruit their socks off in a sunny position, while redcurrants are happy in sun or in a more shaded position they will even do well against a north facing wall or fence. Varieties Included: Blackcurrant 'Ben Lomond' Redcurrant 'Rovada' Whitecurrant 'White Versailles'
Medlars are a somewhat old-fashioned fruit in today's supermarket world, but are a spectacular and rewarding specimen tree. A fabulous Spring blossoming tree, it produces gorgeous pink blossom, and in late Autumn unusual fruits, not exactly a thing of beauty, and which are tart if eaten from the tree, but sweeten beautifully if picked and ripened for a few weeks, and can keep for Months in cool and dry conditions. They then make excellent jellies, as well as cooking well in mixed fruit pies and puddings though, fresh from the trees. Something really different, yet easy for the productive orchard garden!
'Rubinstar' apples are a lovely, rich maroon colour, occasionally splashed of with yellow, and being related to 'Jonagold' they are big and fabulously juicy with a deliciously sweet flavour and a crisp crunch. A versatile apple, they are gorgeously tasty picked straight from the tree and also ideal for cooking, making tasty desserts. 'Rubinstar' is a mutation of 'Jonagold' and is a 'triploid' variety, meaning that it has three sets of chromosomes instead of the usual two. Triploid varieties are sterile, so they can't pollinate themselves or other apple trees. They need other trees nearby to pollinate them, not an issue if you grow more than one apple in your garden, or if a nearby neighbour does! Supplied as an established tree, 150cm (5ft) tall grown on an M9 dwarfing rootstock in a 24cm pot, growing to a height, and spread of 2.5m (8ft).
Long Cane Raspberries are your opportunity to benefit from a massive breakthrough in Raspberry fruit production! Raspberries usually produce their fruit on the previous year's growth of canes. However, they are often sold in garden centres cut back as short canes - great value, but you have to wait an extra year for fruit. Now, with Long Canes you will get fruit in the first season, because they have not been cut back - they are harvested at about 1m or taller and will fruit this summer. A great garden variety, not too vigorous, yet fruiting early to mid-season in July and August and producing good bright red sweet fruits. You will get around a pound of fruit or more per cane for 4-5 years. These raspberries will fruit on the full length of the canes you receive so do not prune them down when you plant them! If space is at a premium, grow them in large pots in a wigwam form it will look great and also produce massive amounts or fruit in the minimum of space! Otherwise, plant in rows about 60cm (2ft) apart, using supporting wires for easier fruit picking. Take advantage of new Long Cane Raspberry production techniques for bigger and quicker crops. Supplied as Long-Canes, approx. 85-100cm tall which means you will get fruit this year!
Garden bonfires are a bit of a nuisance when getting rid of your garden waste. They annoy the neighbours and create a mess of your garden, not to mention damaging grassy areas and nearby plants. So, here's the ideal solution, a specialised container, designed specifically to burn your rubbish. Designed with durability and functionality in mind, you can effectively manage all of your garden waste with this large garden incinerator. Sturdy, durable, and rust-resistant thanks to its galvanised steel construction, this large capacity incinerator will slowly burn your garden waste, turning it to ash which in turn can be used as a soil conditioner in your garden. With predrilled holes to improve the burning process, the easy-to-assemble bin includes feet and chimney lid to allow better control of smoke and ash from the burning contents. With a 75-litre capacity, the garden incinerator is perfect for burning a wide range of unwanted garden waste such as leaves, weeds and cardboard as well as private and confidential documents. Easy to move around thanks to its lightweight construction and integral handles, the legs help reduce scorching of the ground (although we do recommend a solid base for better protection and added stability). Capacity: 75L (approx.). Dimensions of the base with feet (excl. lid): H65cm (26in) x 45cm (18in) (approx.).
Now you can throw away your gardening gloves, because 'Little Black Prince' is thorn-free, it can be grown and harvested simply and without prickly problems in any space - in the garden, on a balcony, decking or terrace.A compact, medium-sized blackberry with glossy, regular shaped black fruits, the berries are sweet and firm and are produced in abundance through much of the year. The compact plants grow no taller than 1m when fully mature and bear fruit directly on this year's canes so they're really easy to grow with no fiddly tying-in of canes or thinning out old ones - everyone can now grow their own delicious blackberries. Effectively an autumn fruiting blackberry, Little Black Prince has the ability to produce a crop in its first year after planting, and will get bushier year on year, giving you even more tasty berries - just make sure that it gets plenty of sun. Supplied as an established plant approx 75cm tall, in a 5L pot, ready for planting out. Use this fabulous blackberry as a specimen plant, in group plantings or as a container plant.
'Sunburst' is a good sweet cherry tree variety that performs well in the UK, producing dark red cherries in July, a week or so earlier than Stella. Not as vigorous as Stella, so more easy to manage. Self-fertile, a good all round garden cherry tree.
This high quality, commercial grade porous irrigation SoakerHose slowly drips water along its entire length, providing a perfectly uniform and gentle distribution of moisture to the root systems of your plants. Simply connect the end to your existing hose, turn on the tap and then relax whilst your garden is watered! Best of all, because it applies the water at exactly the right place and at an even rate so that there is no run-off, it means you will use around 70% less water compared to using a regular sprinkler or hand watering, and no soaking wet leaves or flowers! Quick and incredibly easy to install, simply place it on the ground along your beds and borders where your trees, shrubs and other plants are growing, and it will discretely and precisely water just when it's needed! A covering of bark or mulch will make the results even better, ensuring the water is dispersed more evenly and reducing evaporation. As well as running the hose along your beds and borders, it can also be shaped to suit any layout you require using the special connectors. You can create many different patterns and shapes - loops around newly planted or precious trees and even create high level sections in your greenhouse or along your runner beans that will trickle water over the growing plants keeping, them hydrated and even assisting pollination. The SoakerHose is the highest quality and is used and trusted by horticultural professionals. It has extra thick walls that will ensure it lasts for many years and because of its strength it does not kink, meaning you can snake it around your plants to get the water just where it is needed. Made in the UK from recycled tyre rubber, it is the highest grade SoakerHose available and comes with a 5 year manufacturer's guarantee.