Sweet Peas are consistently voted one of the nations favourite flowers year after year, their evocative scent and ease of growing making them so popular. Here we have created a mix of the most popular colours and shades, including many old-fashioned types, selected primarily for scent when used as cut flowers. These are supplied as 4 plants in each plug - plant them as they are and do not tease apart, and you will end up with bigger and better displays. From earlier plantings before end of March, you can trim them back to encourage side branching and thus more flowers. These Super Fragrant Sweet Pea plants will provide bunch after bunch of long-lasting scented flowers to cut, throughout June and July, making lovely posies in a vase or gifts to friends and family.Supplied as 12 x Multi-Sown Jumbo Plug Plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
'Easy Wave' is an incredibly versatile Petunia and without doubt one of the best performing varieties you can buy, vigorously growing and amazingly robust, it'll remain looking stunning even in the extremes of heat and wet of the British summer! An astonishingly versatile variety for using all over the garden in planters and hanging baskets or as ground cover, it looks great rambling through beds and borders beneath shrubs and perennials. Spectacular in hanging baskets, 'Easy Wave' will create a waterfall of colour, cascading for almost a metre in waves of red, purple, pink and white. Flowering over a long season from May until the first autumn frosts, 'Easy Wave' will thrive in full sun or partial shade, promising a prolific display. Supplied as 20 garden ready plants, ready to plant out from March. Growing to a height of 25cm (10in) and spreading 90cm (3ft).
Verbena are a really good little filler plant, their masses of small delicate pink, red, purple and white flowers, each with a small white eye, seemingly smother any gaps in baskets, pots, tubs and borders. 'Quartz' F1 series has exceptional resistance to mildew, so is easy and trouble free, and performs well in hot and drought conditions too. Thriving in full hot sun, it also tolerates our more inevitable rain well too. Use dotted into mixed plantings with petunias, geraniums and busy lizzies, for a huge colour impact in summer plantings.
Improved Pansy Cool Wave is what the breeder is calling The Best Trailing Pansy Ever! Quite a claim but we think so too! This amazing large-flowered series keeps flowering all winter long, and well into summer too. It is very hardy (to around -25°C!), so it will withstand the worst of the winter whatever the British weather throws at it, producing endless waves of simply gorgeous flowers in shades of golden yellow, violet, mauve, berry purple and white - for nine whole months of the year - hence the name 'Cool Wave'!The cheery blooms will cascade over the sides of hanging baskets and planters, providing a splash of zingy colour through the dullest days of winter and continuing through spring. Smothered in big, traditional pansy flowers, this vigorous trailer is set to make its mark on gardens everywhere - it's a real breeding breakthrough for much better performance in hanging baskets. Plant directly into baskets and containers in autumn then watch as you get the best winter displays you've ever had! Ride the Wave of colour in your garden now with Pansy Cool Wave!Supplied as a pack of 20 Garden Ready plants, ready for planting out.
Incredible flower power unrivalled weather resistance and a colour mix to fall in love with, 'Kabloom' has it all! These vibrant mini petunias in shimmering sweet shop colours will flower from June, filling hanging baskets and pots with thousands of blooms. As well as its prolific flowering ability, 'Kabloom' is vigorous, low maintenance and disease and weather resistant. It looks simply gorgeous, flowering in a range of vibrant colours to both clash and contrast - these will definitely get noticed. Supplied as 6 jumbo plug plants.
Containing a bold and bright zingy mix of Bidens Gold Star alongside Surfinia Hot Pink, your hanging baskets will look spectacular this summer, with non-stop flowers from May until late October! Specially selected to create amazing hanging basket displays, the Surfinia Petunia is a strong trailing variety bred to produce masses of flowers and planted together with bright yellow Bidens, you are guaranteed to produce a stunning display. This spectacular combination will provide non-stop colour all summer long. This item contains 6 plants of each variety for the ultimately sumptuous display!
Lavender 'Hidcote' is the classic, hardy English perennial, and this much-loved cottage garden favourite will transform your garden with colour and incredible fragrance and flower power! Named after the world-famous garden in The Cotswolds and awarded the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit, this compact variety is a proven winner in UK gardens. Suitable for edging a path or for planting as a fragrant hedge or garden border where its magnificent scent will delight anyone who walks past! A perfect solution to attract bees and other pollinators into your garden, Lavender makes an ideal companion plant if you grow your own fruit and veg It'll stay compact too, reaching 45-60cm (1-2ft) tall so won't take over your garden either. Very hardy, incredibly easy to grow and drought tolerant, a top growing tip is to clip lavender back lightly after the flowers have faded in late summer. Cut the stems back by a few inches, but not so far that the stems are bare of live foliage, and plants will then have time to produce new shoots before winter dormancy. The clippings can then be uses to make fragrant indoor displays and potpourri! This drought-tolerant plant will thrive in a sunny border, container, herb or gravel gardens. If you garden on heavy clay, it is worth adding some grit to improve drainage and to open the soil up. Space plants 90cm (3ft) apart, or if growing a hedge, 30cm (1ft) apart or, 45cm (18in) for larger cultivars. Lavender can be grown in large pots, 30-40cm (1ft-16in) diameter, using a multipurpose or loam-based compost such as JI No 3, with some extra coarse grit, (up to 30%), to improve drainage, along with some controlled release fertiliser granules. Supplied as 20 x super-sized, Garden-Ready plants to provide you with fast results for the minimum amount of effort they've been lovingly nurtured and grown on so that they are ready to plant out immediately. Your lavender plants will be delivered to you in time to create fabulous and long-lasting displays - just plant them straight into your pots, hanging baskets or beds and borders and look forward to great displays with absolutely no fuss.
The perfect partner for Begonia Illumination, Begonia Non-Stop is so named because of its prolific flowering characteristics it literally smothers itself in vibrant, brightly coloured double flowers permanently from late April until the first frosts in the autumn. It is really easy to grow in beds and borders as well as patio containers and has such a good reputation with professional growers it is an almost permanent feature in park displays. This is especially so because the faded flowers drop off without the need for dead-heading making way for fresh flowers without any work required! In your garden the large, slightly upward facing flowers which reach 10-15cm across, will be held on strong stems. They are really weather resistant and will thrive in any conditions from the hottest summer days to typically showery summer weather. The colour range is stunning with all shades of red, orange, pink, yellow and white included.Perfect for hanging baskets and tubs where the plants can trail. Supplied as 40 Pro Plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Just imagine, the perfect way to achieve stunning baskets and containers this summer, with minimal effort on your part! We've 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 Parma Violet plug collection is the best solution for time-strapped gardeners. Plant them up in your pots and baskets and you'll soon be enjoying a colourful garden with no fuss - you'll look like a design 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! Guaranteed to give you a fabulous display all summer, 'Parma Violet' collection plugs are supplied as a mix of 12 plugs of Verbena Samira White, Lobelia Laura Purple and Petunia Pegasus Purple Vein. Verbena adds a little touch of the exotic with trailing fragrant foliage and clusters of white star-shaped blooms. Flowering from June to October their mounds of flowers help fill out the whole arrangement. Lobelia is the iconic hanging basket plant, producing masses of tiny purple flowers. Fast growing, it quickly fills a large space in any basket! Petunias always make a statement in summer arrangements and their fragrance is unmistakable as you pass by. With their glorious purple, velvet trumpets, they're an absolute must-have, blooming from May through to October!
Sweet Peas in your hanging baskets . . . Yes, now it is possible! This ultra-compact, gorgeously sweetly fragrant variety will fill your whole patio with the unmistakeable fragrance of sweet peas from May until September. In a ravishing mixture of colours, including some bi-colours, it will brighten any part of your garden you plant it, although ideally, it needs to be in a hanging basket or another position where it can trail. The plants have been selected to flower profusely and blooms will appear along every inch of the stems so you will have a globe-shaped display! Note - the Plug Plants you receive will have been multi-sown and contain approx. 4 plants per Plug. Do not tease the individual plants apart, but simply plant them in their group! A mixture of colours in shades of red, pink, lavender, blue, rose & white. In a ravishing mixture of colours, including some bi-colours, it will brighten any part of your garden you plant it, although ideally, it needs to be in a hanging basket or another position where it can trail. Supplied as 12 x Multi-Sown Jumbo Plug Plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
The incredible contrasting stripes of these large, daisy-like blooms in fiery shades are simply stunning. These fascinating flowers close during the night or in dull weather, reopening when it brightens up. 'Tiger Stripes Mix' is exceptionally free-flowering and undemanding to grow in a sunny position, and is drought tolerant too. Plant them in groups or maximum effect, bringing heat to you beds, borders and containers and really bring you garden to life! Supplied as 40 Pro Plug Plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
An award-winning Fuchsia that boasts an abundance of dainty, elegant blooms with a dusky aubergine, almost black-coloured corolla surrounded by delicate, glossy crimson-red sepals. The decorative leaves are a bonus being deep green with hints of purple veins and the stems also mirror this colour, turning much darker in the autumn to contrast the flower colour beautifully. Blooming from early summer to the first frosts, this compact shrub is fully hardy and makes the perfect addition to any garden, whether planted into the border or into a large pot. 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. Perfect for borders, pots & containers, they will provide structure and colour all summer long. These very hardy, reliable garden performers will thrive in your garden, coming back with bigger and better displays each year, and in such a range of flower colours, flower shapes and habits. Supplied as 6 jumbo plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
This spectacular Bidens provides you with a totally unique and truly wonderful colour combination that will really brighten any summer display. Forget regular yellow Bidens which often flower in flushes, these compact plants will become smothered with bloom throughout summer, constantly attracting butterflies and other friendly pollinating insects. A perfect contrast to more pastel plants and absolutely superb grown together with blue of purple petunias. Grow in baskets or taller containers. 'Hawaiian Flare' loves the heat so be sure to grow in a sunny spot. Height 50 cm (20in) Supplied as a mixture of 12 plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Create a traditional cottage garden feel to your borders and pots with these Cosmos atrosangineus. Also known as Chocolate Cosmos thanks to their delicious scent, these beautiful daisy-like blooms have deep maroon velvet-like petals that stand tall above its green foliage. A cottage garden classic, this popular, compact cosmos is very free flowering and is, quite simply, the perfect flower for patio containers or sunny borders and will provide masses of blooms for cutting. These easy-to-grow annuals are the perfect plant for novice or time-strapped gardeners as they are easy to look after and being plug plants have been grown on and are ready for planting. Perfect for filling gaps in borders, their daisy-like flowers are produced through summer and into early autumn and will be a magnet for pollinating insects such as butterflies and bees. Position your Cosmos atrosangineus in full sun and plant them in moist but well-drained soil. Then all you need to do is watch the gorgeous blooms appear and enjoy that delicious chocolate scent, all summer long. Supplied as 6 x plug plants, ready to pot on or plant out when all risk of frost has passed.
Brand new in 2021, Garden Pleasures is a wonderful collection of Dianthus caryophyllus. We have picked six of the best of this new variety to bring you a display of colour and fabulous fragrance to brighten your borders. Instantly recognisable, garden pinks (Dianthus) are one of the hardest working and reliable plants that you can get, producing masses of fragrant ruffled flowers. Blooming reliably all summer - often well into the autumn months - they will fill your garden with vibrant colour and their sweet clove-like scent on warm evenings. 'Lady Margo' bicoloured magenta flowers with a contrasting white edge. 'Rosy Rosalyn' bicoloured ruby red flowers with a contrasting pink edge. 'Aunt Agatha' bicoloured deep burgundy flowers with a striking white edge. 'Mrs Coho' stunning white flowers. 'Queen Helene' rich coral pink flowers. 'Blushing Bride' bright pink flowers. Garden Pleasures is a range of compact garden pinks that are heavily perfumed and will produce large, double blooms in a range of sumptuous colours throughout the summer. Ideal for growing in pots, and perfect for sunny beds or patio pots and containers. The richly-coloured blooms are held on sturdy stems above neat cushions of slender, leaves, making pinks not only a fabulous garden 'doer' but also superb and long-lasting as cut flowers for you to bring in and enjoy indoors, where their intoxicating scent will fill your rooms. Supplied as 12 x plug plants, 2 each of 6 varieties, ready to grow on before planting out.
Osteospermum 'Serenity Sunshine Beauty' will fill your garden with beautiful blankets of daisy-like blooms is gorgeous shades of gold and yellow. Also known as African Daisies, there gorgeous blooms have eye-catching yellow petals that take on a golden orange tone towards the ends. In bloom from June through to September, the uniform, compact plants that have a mounding growing habit where they create carpets of spectacular colour. 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. Osteospermum's are sun lovers and grow best in moist, well-drained soil. Easy to grow, they are half hardy and will tolerate light frost as well as heat and drought and need very little in the way of aftercare. Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Patio Perfect is the very best sweet pea for any outdoor pots and planters! It naturally grows to only around 2ft tall and will become smothered in sweetly scented blooms from mid June onwards bringing a fabulous mix of summer long colour to your garden. As the flower stems average around 6in Patio Perfect can also be cut and makes a lovely posy in a small vase, yet takes up little space at all. You'll enjoy a lovely blend of pinks blues and reds in this sensational patio sweet pea. A large pot - the one in our picture is around 15in in diameter will accommodate 3-4 plugs supplied, each of which have at least 4 plants in. Like all sweet peas Patio Perfect likes to root deeply so choose pots with a depth of at least 12 inches, large pots such as these will also reduce the risk of your sweet peas drying out in warm summer weather. For best results ''stop' the plants by removing half an inch from the tips soon after planting. This will encourage branching giving an even bushier plant with more flowers. Be sure to dead head any old flowers as this will keep the flowers coming and extend the season right up to Autumn. Supplied as 12 x Multi-Sown Jumbo Plug Plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
These lovely snapdragons produce compact spires of large, pastel coloured, double flowers all summer which are long lasting and loved by bees. Simply stunning planted at the front of borders or in containers, 'Twinny'' is the perfect, long-lasting garden plant and exceptionally weather resistant. Snapdragons also make superb cut flowers and are long lasting in vases. Easy to grow, kids love the flowers and growing them is a great way to introduce children to the world of gardening and all the benefits that it can provide. Supplied as 40 Pro Plug Plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
More than just a new variety Power Daisies are a completely new garden plant bred from old fashioned pot marigolds yet are worlds apart from their fussy forbears. Once planted they branch freely forming neat bushy spreading plants with bright glossy foliage about 30cm tall. Double daisy blooms appear in May and just keep on coming - often right up to the end of the year a full six months after the flowering starts. Unlike regular Calendulas plants set no seeds and are mildew free, they're easy to care for and resist the worst of summer weather, they're perfect for large pots and sunny borders. So perfect is the Power Daisy series that 'Tango' was shortlisted for the 2018 RHS Plant of the Year Competition - so you know that it's a garden-worthy plant. Supplied as 12 jumbo plugs, 6 each of yellow and Tango orange, ready to grow on before planting out.
Just imagine, the perfect way to achieve stunning baskets and containers this summer, with minimal effort on your part! 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 Eton Mess plug collection is the ideal solution. We've hand-picked the best plants for you, carefully choosing varieties which blend together in harmony to create fabulous displays. Just like its delectable dessert's namesake, this sumptuous collection of Petunia, Calibrachoa and Verbena brings shades of pink and purple to your garden in a sizzling display of opulence. Full trumpets of Petunia merge happily with the smaller blooms of Calibrachoa and vibrant Verbena blooms in a spectacular summer show. Calibrachoa's small petunia-like flowers add a delicate feel. The pink blooms have a cerise throat with a yellow middle, and appear from mid-summer to the first frosts, making them a long-lasting and colourful addition to baskets and containers. Petunias always make a statement in summer arrangements and their fragrance is unmistakable as you pass by. With their glorious purple velvet trumpets, they're an absolute must-have, blooming from May through to October! Verbena adds a little touch of the exotic with their trailing fragrant foliage and clusters of pink star-shaped blooms. Flowering from June to October their mounds of flowers help fill out the whole arrangement. Supplied as a mix of 12 plugs plants, ready to grow on before planting out.