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 10 Garden Ready plants, ready for planting out.
Never has there been a better time to Grow Your Own and reap the benefits of producing your own fresh, healthy food. Making use of home gardens has always been a sensible thing to do, but now more than ever, produce picked and eaten from your own plot has never been a better idea! Growing Herbs is an easy way to introduce your family to the benefits of gardening. They're easy to grow and harvest, take up very little space and give you almost instant results - no hanging about for months while they mature! It's also a great way to get the kids involved - especially if you're struggling to find things to keep them occupied. For adults, growing herbs can lead to other interests such as cooking, herbalism and of course gardening. A herb garden is one of the simplest ways to grow and enjoy a whole range of fragrant herbs and a collection of herbs in a decorative container is an ideal solution when placed in a sunny spot near your house. This mixed collection of 12 plug plants will give you a great introduction to the fantastic world of herbs and contains a mixture of the following: Garden Mint Mentha x piperita Oregano Origanum vulgare 'Diabolo'Sage Salvia officinalis 'Fortado' (R)Thyme Thymus vulgaris 'Faustini'
Currently the must-have plants for indoor gardeners, you can't escape the rise of succulent gardening! With our collection of 6 tried and tested plants, this is your opportunity to join in and grow these fun, easy plants! Perfect as a gift for those new to gardening who want to grow something, or as a way to introduce children to the wonderful world of plants, this collection of succulent plants is very forgiving and will tolerate more than the occasional bout of neglect. Succulents have evolved to survive with very little water, storing what they do get in their fleshy leaves, so are perfectly adapted to modern home living and are almost fuss-free! Needing very little in the way of care, these succulent plants are the ideal houseplant for anyone whether they're experts or complete novices. Happy in a sandy compost, with plenty of light and a little water now and again, your succulent collection will thrive. Remember also that these are indoor varieties and will not tolerate the cold. If you're short on time but still want plants around you (after all, they do help clean the air in your home), then this is your solution! Slow-growing, they are the perfect for home decoration, especially when placed in a pretty pot on a bright windowsill. Like cacti, they're ideal to get kids interested in gardening with their spiky shapes, just remember that they can be a bit sharp, so take care when handling them. Supplied as a collection of 6 mixed plants* in 5.5cm pots, ready to go on a windowsill near you now! * Images are for illustrative purposes to reflect the type of plant - individual varieties may vary depending on availability.
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.
A highly attractive feature tree with the added bonus of producing glossy, versatile fruits in autumn each year! With deep green foliage and bright orange flowers in summer, it will look great in your garden for years to come. The leathery skinned, glossy fruits ripen in the sun each summer and have a wonderfully sharp flavour. The fruits can be used in cooking sweet or savoury and taste great when made into refreshing, fragrant pomegranate juice! They are super-healthy, and packed with antioxidants. Pomegranate bushes love hot summers and your bush will thrive in a sunny spot it is perfect for a patio pot. It is completely hardy and will easily tolerate our British winters.
Never has there been a better time to plant a herb garden and reap the benefits of producing your own fresh, healthy food. And, of course, they are a pleasure to grow and make a pretty display. Making use of home gardens for kitchen produce has always been a sensible thing to do and this collection of 12 plug plants provides an easy and enjoyable way to establish some fabulous herb varieties. They are easy to grow and harvest, take up very little space and give you almost instant results - there's no hanging about for months while they mature! Growing your own herbs will encourage you to be more creative with your cooking and perhaps explore other ways to be inventive with herbs. Try drying any surplus for use in the kitchen through the winter months - even when dried, their flavour will be more authentic and intense than shop-bought herbs. You can even mix the dried leaves together as an aromatic pot pourri for your home. Planting herbs is also a great way to get the kids involved in gardening - and they will enjoy eating the results! This mixed collection of 12 plug plants provides one of the simplest ways of growing attractive herbs for pleasure and culinary use. It includes 7 of the more popular kitchen garden varieties: Mint, Thyme, Sage, Garlic Chives, Parsley, Tarragon and Rosemary.
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.
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!
Now more than ever is the time to grow something tasty from home and this is your chance to grow your very own crop of incredibly tasty blueberries on your patio - yummy! This veritable super food is believed to carry all manner of health benefits and is recommended by health experts and dietitians accordingly. Packed full of vitamins and minerals as well as antioxidants, they are not only really good for you, but they taste great too! Besides tasting great, blueberries will also provide true season-long interest for your garden with wonderfully fragrant tubular blossom in spring, followed by delicious fruits that form and colour up ready for picking from July onwards. then in autumn, the foliage will provide a bright flourish of scarlet colour before falling off for the winter. As the blossom appears in late spring, it is rarely affected by frosts and you can expect a bumper harvest once fully established. Blueberries make brilliant patio plants too and will grow perfectly in pots. Do remember to use ericaceous (slightly acidic pH) compost though when planting as all blueberries are lime intolerant. Supplied as an established plant in a 2L pot, ready for immediate planting out or potting up.
A breakthrough in buddleia breeding, 'Butterfly Tower' is perfectly formed, with a unique upright habit, ideal for growing in smaller spaces - so now anyone can grow this fragrant beauty. Producing a tower of mauve-purple flowers right through the summer and into autumn, reaching sround 2m (6ft) tall, but only 1m (3ft) across, these pretty, compact plants won't take over your garden either. Like all buddleias, 'Butterfly Tower' is sweetly fragranced and loved by insects hence their common name of 'Butterfly Bush', and their recommendation as a plant that is 'Perfect for Pollinators' by the RHS.These dwarf buddleias are hardy and easy to grow plus their masses of brightly-coloured, fragrant flowers that will attract clouds of butterflies to your garden. Supplied as 2 established plants in 12cm pots, ready to be planted 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.
Absolutely smothered in delicate blooms in a range of pastel pinks and purples, Aubretia is a pretty addition to any garden and guarantees mounds of frothy colour from March through to May. A popular, evergreen perennial, you definitely know spring has arrived when you see it tumbling through the garden in a cascade of colour. Easy to grow and fully hardy, aubretia makes perfect grouncover and flowers best when planted in a sunny spot at the front of a border or better still, when allowed to spill from containers and rockeries. Perfect for creating a cascading display from pots, Aubretia 'Royal Mix' will form a dense mat of bloom and looks amazing creeping through borders and when mixed in with spring-flowering bulbs. Supplied as 20 garden-ready plug plants ready to plant straight out into the garden or to pot into containers.
Finding year-round foliage colour for mixed planters and baskets, especially for autumn and winter colour, is a significant challenge - but ivies are the perfect foil to many plants. This duo - one a more solid green variety and the other variegated with gold edges - offers the perfect ingredients for hanging baskets, planters and tubs, for foliage interest that will cascade over the sides, providing a contrasting backdrop to any planting scheme. Varieties include: Hedera helix 'Yellow Ripple' (Gold) x 6 - a slow-growing, variegated variety, its grey-green leaves having creamy yellow margins. Hedera hibernica (Green) x 6 - a more vigorous variety with broad, 5-lobed leaves, shiny green leaves veined with paler green or cream. Slow growing, trim to shape; they can become the permanent features in tubs year after year, as you change the seasonal colour with them.
Ginger Lily will add an exotic look to your garden and create a wonderful display of scented blooms each year from late summer onwards. Zingy spikes of blousy flowers will tower above clumps of lance-shaped leaves, instantly transporting you to a tropical paradise! Don't forget to breathe in deeply as the heavily scented blooms carry a stunning sweet fragrance particularly in the early evening! Despite its exotic good looks, this plant is completely reliable in the UK - the tubers will over-winter successfully and thrive in a sun baked spot in a pot or planted directly in the soil. Top Tip - plant very shallow on surface of compost in hot sunny spot to get going, they love being baked to get started.
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.
This collection of herbs includes all the plants you need to plant your very own herb garden. Having fresh herbs easily to had is incredibly convenient and will encourage you to get creative with your cooking. What's more, the attractive flowers are loved by bees and other pollinators. Herbs have many health-giving benefits and have been used for thousands of years both in cooking and medicine. They will enhance the flavour of all your dishes used fresh, kept in the freezer or dried. Plant them in pots close to your kitchen door so that you can snip off the leaves whenever you want them, and you'll also be treated to the scent of the aromatic foliage drifting through the air. Preferring full sun, they'll tolerate partial shade too, in well-drained soil. Garden Mint - The classic herb, whether in mint sauce with lamb, cooked with new potatoes or as a light, refreshing tea. It's also one of the best herbs for attracting insects. Best grown in a pot to keep it under control, it'll grow to a height and spread of up to a metre (3 ft). Chive - Grown for their pungent yet mild tasting leaves that are chopped into salads and other dishes. They have a spring onion flavour, and the attractive, bright pink flowers are also edible. Growing to a height and spread of 30 cm (1 ft). Rosemary - Narrow aromatic leaves full of antioxidants for seasoning a wide variety of dishes, with whole sprigs used to flavour roast potatoes, meats, casseroles, fish and soups and it also has attractive blue summer flowers. Reaching a height and spread of up to 1.2 m (4 ft). Salvia 'Fotado', Green Sage - Highly aromatic foliage and a strong herbal flavour when added to sauces, pastries and meat marinades. Growing to a height and spread of 1 m (3ft). Parsley - Lightly scented, fresh tasting leaves that can be used in soups, sauces, pesto, salsa, marinades and as a garnish. The stems are also full of flavour and can be used in the same way as leaves. Grows to a height and spread of 30 cm (1 ft). Thyme - Wonderfully scented foliage that's popular in Mediterranean dishes, especially added soups, fish and meat, roasted vegetables and pasta recipes. Incredible versatile, it reaches a height and spread of 25 cm (10 in). Supplied as 12 plug plants, ready to grow on before planting.
Treat your winter garden to a fabulous new addition to our range of Christmas Box and be one of the first to be able to delight in its glorious perfume. We all know winter can be a dull and dreary time in the garden, but fortunately it needn't be! The commonly named 'Christmas Box' or 'Sweet Box' is one of those plants that just lifts your spirits when you pass it by. The glossy evergreen leaves of 'Winter Gem' produce glorious little flowers, resembling little fireworks, which emit the most sensational and sweet vanilla fragrance you can imagine, especially on sunny days. The white flowers emerge from pinkish-red buds and are followed by glossy, round red berries that ripen to black adding interest to your garden for even longer. Easy to grow, in pots or borders, or sun or shade, plant it where you can enjoy those amazing winter scent every day - tough and tolerant of most conditions, 'Winter Gem' is especially valuable for shadier areas. Supplied as an established plant in a 15cm pot, ready for immediate planting out.
'Azura' is an excellent new selection of the ever-popular Eucalyptus tree and is especially suitable for British gardens. It is a much more compact and bushy form than the typical fast-growing Eucalyptus trees that we are more familiar with, and is also much hardier - reportedly surviving through winter down to -20°C. This new compact form and cold-hardiness make it a great specimen plant for even the most inexperienced of gardeners, and to top that, as the name suggests, it has an amazing azure blue-grey leaf coloration all year round. Of course, like all Eucalyptus, 'Azura' also has a uniquely gorgeous fresh fragrance, which makes it an ideal and long-lasting plant for cut foliage for bouquets and arrangements too. Growing best in full sun or light shade, this Eucalyptus works well in larger pots, when trimmed twice a year, or when grown as a specimen in lawns and borders. You can even form a hedge with it, as in all these situations you get good all-round leaf colour. Supplied as an established plant in a 13cm pot, ready for immediate planting.
A relative of the more well-known cranberry and blueberry, the lingonberry (or cowberry as it is sometimes called) produces jewel-like, tart red fruits that are popular in Scandinavia for use in jams and syrups. While closest to the cranberry in looks, lingonberries are way more productive and reliable with more robust growth that makes them a better option for growing in the UK. Lingonberry 'Miss Cherry' is an attractive, compact variety that is also very productive. With abundant sprays of pink flowers between May and July, it's evergreen too, forming a delightful groundcover plant through the whole year. Robust with good bushy growth, it's a variety that's perfect for containers as well as the fruit garden - just plant them in a sunny or semi shaded place in ericaceous soil and get ready to enjoy the harvest from late July! Supplied as an established plant in a 2L pot, ready for immediate planting.