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).
A cottage garden favourite, Calendula, also know as the English or pot marigold is a hardy annual that will flower from late spring and all summer long. 'Fiesta' explodes into colour with double flowers in hot oranges and yellows from May until the first autumn frosts. They look spectacular planted en masse in beds, borders and planters and they make great cut flowers. Calendulas like a sunny location and fertile soil, and once established they will cope very well with wet or dry weather, giving you dazzling colour, month after month, and pollinators and other insects find them extremely attractive too. Sometimes referred to as 'poor man's saffron', the petals are edible and make a colourful salad garnish with a peppery taste, and they can be used to colour and flavour rice too. 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 a stunning summer display. Supplied as 20 garden ready plants, ready to plant in your garden and growing to a height and spread of 25 cm (10 in).
'Victoriana' are gorgeous, old fashioned style Primulas that feature a wonderful lacing effect outlining their flower petals. This mixture features flowers with golden yellow centres in deep mahogany with gold lacing, whilst the bright magenta and rich red varieties have silvery lacing. While they have the same number of petals as any other primula, their unique patterning gives the effect that they have twice as many, and their delightful blooms add a sophisticated contrast when planted with other primulas. The flowers are carried on robust, upright stems and can easily number 10-15 per stem. Primulas are woodland plants, so they love shady areas and look wonderful growing underneath shrubs and trees, where they really brighten up the garden before the summer flowering plants take over. Reliable perennials that will naturalise easily, they form tight clumps over several years, and are an absolute delight when they emerge each spring. Occasionally they will flower for a second time in late summer or autumn. Supplied as 20 garden ready plants, ready to plant in your garden and growing to a height and spread of 20 cm (8 in).
Rosebud Geranium 'Sybil Pink' will transform your baskets and gardens with a summer long show of enchanting double flowers in a beautiful shade of pale pink. Renowned for their tolerance of drought and heat in summer, yet they perform really well in our more normal rainy Summers too! In our view, one of the very best choices for summer bedding and reliability you can buy. As they are about to burst into flower in summer, you will notice gorgeous buds in clusters, each one looking just like a tightly budded rose waiting to burst open, to create a simply incredible show of colourful, double flowers. Plant them in baskets, window boxes and containers anywhere where they can trail spectacularly, and you will not be disappointed. Supplied as 3 jumbo plugs, they can either be potted on into 9cm pots for a few weeks in a frost free environment, or planted out into baskets and tubs directly once frost risk has passed. Let Rosebud Geraniums delight you this year.
A profusely blooming new viola mix in the widest range of bold and bright colours! This collection features 3 each of Blue, Scarlet, White and Yellow Frost all offering beautiful tones from dark pink to bronze. Viola plants will brighten your beds, borders and planters - the ideal plant for hanging baskets and patio containers. Some can even be used to splash colour into your winter displays. Violas are so versatile and year in, year out, their cheerful exuberance make them the nation's favourite. 'Ice Babies' has a gently mounding habit which makes it a variety ideal for containers where the blooms will spill gently over the sides creating an enchantingly delightful display. Flowering from autumn and though winter, they'll reach a crescendo of colour in the spring, providing you with 3 season's worth of vibrance, especially during those cold, dark months where there's little else to bring excitement to the garden. Who'd have thought you could have wonderful hanging basket displays adorning the front of your house through the middle of winter? Suppled as a collection of 12 plug plants ready for potting up and growing on or for planting straight into containers and baskets.
Also known as the Alpine Forget me Not, myosotis is a spring favourite that will happily self-seed around the garden to make sure that you always have a good display of these cheery flowers. Reliable and winter hardy, the plants are biennial (flower in their second season) and will form a decent sized clump of bluish-green leaves before they are covered in dainty blooms with a starry middle 'eye'. Compact enough to be grown in a pot, they're also ideal for the front of flower beds, or mixed in with other plants where they will fill gaps and poke through other perennial plants - perfect for edging paths or for planting with spring flowering bulbs such as tulips or daffodils. Traditionally a blue flower, this collection also includes rarer pink and white variants. Easy to grow and look after, they're a perfect plant to get kids interested in gardening as they love the pretty flowers which are produced with such abandon! Supplied as a pack of 20 garden ready plants, ready to plant out. Forget me nots will reach 20cm high and wide (8in approx.) and will flower from March to June.
This Dahlia Lubega collection is the perfect way to add a bright selection of colour to your garden. Blooming earlier than the standard types of Dahlia, they are versatile, all-round garden performers, making them a great choice for anyone to grow. With uniformly large, bright, and bold blooms which contrast magically with the glossy leaves - it's little wonder that these dahlias are proving to be a hit as indoor plants too as they remain naturally compact. Great in borders, but also perfectly suited to pots thanks to their compact nature. The huge, colourful blooms will dazzle you, and their early flowering period means that you will have dahlias to pick before anyone else. Vigorous and self-branching, these gorgeous flowers are very easy to grow, this is because no pinching is necessary and the large, double blooms cover the plant all season giving you great results with no effort. 2 x 'Lubega Burgundy' plugs 2 x 'Lubega Purple White' plugs 2 x 'Lubega Special White' plugs 2 x 'Lubega Power Red' plugs 2 x 'Lubega Power Rose' plugs 2 x 'Lubega Power Yellow' plugs Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready for potting up and growing on before planting out when all risk of frost has passed.
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.
Every chocolate box photograph of a traditional cottage has Hollyhocks in it, and this series has the even more double flowers for greater impact! Tall spires of tightly ruffled, frilled blooms open from bottom to top of the magnificent flower spikes, giving height and impact as well as a nostalgic touch. Long-lasting spires of this specially selected hollyhock mixture features a range of vivid colours that will bring masses of flowers throughout summer. Extremely easy to grow and super-tough, Hollyhocks are very hardy and perennial, providing you with month of glorious colour each year and get bigger and better in subsequent seasons. Supplied as a collection of 12 mixed colour plug plants for you to plant straight out or pot up and grow on.
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.
'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).
The sheer brightness of colours in this French Marigold series opens up a whole range of colour theming opportunities in pots and borders. Durango is a series of large anemone-flowered Marigolds, each flower to 5cm across, and is renowned for it's easy natural branching habit, filling up space well. Plant about 20cm apart for a carpet of colour. Hot oranges, reds, and deep golden yellows and many with a mix of several shades in between - you can get hot, hot, hot with your plantings this year. They thrive in full, hot sun, but tolerate our rainy periods too. 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. Supplied as 20 garden ready plants.
Huge numbers of incredibly intense, rich blue flowers literally pour out of these amazing plants month after month. Lobelia 'Crystal Palace Blue' is the perfect filler plant for pots, planters and hanging baskets, rockeries and even large scale border plantings. Plastered with hundreds if not thousands of flowers, the colour gives dazzling contrast when planted with orange or yellow flowers. Very easy to grow and great planted in groups, or simply winding their way through the gaps in plants, filling them in with ease. An essential plant for all planting schemes. Supplied as 20 Garden ready plugs ready to plant.
Lobelia 'Fountain Mix' is the perfect filler plant for pots, planters and tubs, or even large scale border plantings. It's mix of pale blue, purples, pink and whites, plastered with hundreds if not thousands of flowers, creates a lovely frothy and delicate contrast to larger flowered petunias and geraniums. Very easy to grow, they simple wind their way through the gaps in plants, filling them in with ease. A great little essential plant for all planting schemes. Supplied as 20 garden ready plants.
Zonal Geraniums are among the very best plants for containers and make a great border display too. Providing good height and incredible colour impact to your summer displays, they bring interest to beds and borders as well as making a perfect centrepiece for baskets and patio containers. With its abundance of large, fabulously rich scarlet flowers and deep green leaves, 'Zonal Ultimate Red' really is a top performing plant in beds, borders and containers. Fabulous planted in large groups and easy to look after. Zonals are so named because of the burgundy-coloured half-moon pattern that develops on the upper surface of their leaves, however, it is the strong lollipop-shaped flowers that deservedly capture your attention. Each flower head contains literally dozens of individual flowers together making a display that will last and last. They are incredibly strong-growing and vigorous, flowering throughout the whole of the summer months and right through until the autumn. Supplied as 20 garden ready plants.
Dazzling and luxurious double and semi-double flowers create a blaze of bright summer colour. These dwarf classics have a compact, bushy habit - great for lavish bedding schemes and containers. Each plant produces a mass of flowers, often revealing a yellow centre as they age. They are perfect for pots and planters, or in borders dotted around to fill in gaps and as colourful and neat edging plants for pathways and borders. They'll form tidy clumps and all you'll need to do is deadhead them to keep the flowers coming. Supplied as 20 garden ready plants.
A dwarf version of a garden favourite, 'Mini Butterflies' has a delightfully neat habit and azalea-like double blooms in a range of beautiful colours from rich red and peach to in pastel pink, yellow and white. Perfect for edging beds and borders and an interesting alternative to begonias and petunias, they've become a firm favourite in the garden, providing vibrant summer and autumn colour from June until September. Named after their dragon-head flowers, the perfect, long-lasting garden plant, Snapdragons also make superb cut flowers, and you can grow them in the border, or in pots - just keep picking the blooms and they keep flowering. Supplied as 20 garden ready plants, ready to plant out when the risk of frost has passed, reaching a height and spread of 23cm (9in).
Quick and easy, our pre-planted hanging basket is the perfect solution for gardeners who want a perfect display instantly. We've hand-picked the best plants for you, carefully choosing varieties of Petunias which blend together in harmony to create fabulous displays. Guaranteed to give you fabulous results, we've done all the work for you - just hang it up, water it and let it do its thing. Consistent and predictable results every time. Pre-planted, just waiting to cascade with colour. Giving you superb colour in your garden throughout summer and into autumn, our ready-made basket will billow with flowers - plus you'll have the basket to use again next year! Producing never ending petunias in shades of red, white and blue, our hanging basket comes ready planted with our top quality plants - you don't need to do a thing! Supplied as a ready-planted green basket for immediate display.
Geranium Rozanne was voted the Royal Horticultural Societys Plant of the Centenary at the100th Chelsea Flower Show. The best new plant in the last 100 years, as voted by the gardening public too! We are proud to offer you the chance to own three of these spectacular plants. Each one will form a compact bush of lush foliage, and produce prolific, long-lasting displays from June to October. The beautiful, saucer-shaped, blue with white centre flowers contrast beautifully with the rich green foliage. As summer fades, the leaves turn from fiery orange, to red, then brown in a glorious late display! A hardy perennial, Geranium Rozanne is perfect for borders, easy ground cover and patio containers get yours while you can! It really is one of the easiest no-fuss, no maintenance perennials, rewarding you with amazing dispalys for over 5 Months. In Martin's garden last December it was even still hanging on in flower! Deservedly a best-seller every year, and every garden should have one! Supplied as 3 established plants in 9cm pots, ready to plant out.
Foxglove 'Illumination' is a range of hybrid digitalis. These stunning perennials, producing multiple spikes of tubular blooms that will take your breath away. The striking vivid coloured tubular flowers are lightly speckled and shimmer in the sunshine giving real impact to any garden. Produced in abundance from early June to October, they're magnets to bees and other beneficial pollinating insects. 'Illumination Cherry Brandy' produces the most amazingly vibrant purple flowers with contrasting orange throats, a striking colour combination! Thriving in sun or dappled shed, it's happy in borders and looks magnificent growing in pots too. Relatively compact compared to other foxgloves, 'Illumination' is sterile which means that they will put all of their energy into making more blooms instead of producing seed. Also, they have a naturally branching habit, which results in lots of flower spikes, makes these one of the showier varieties. Supplied as 3 x jumbo plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out, reaching a height of 1m (3ft) and spread of 50cm (1½ft).