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.
Illuminate your summer displays with the very latest and best trailing Begonia - Super Cascade Mixed... Containing THE very best palette of bright colours ever seen in begonias, including some completely new shades, Super Cascade will provide you with the most torrential summer-long display of semi-double cascading double begonia blooms - each 3-4in across! Super Cascade is ideally suited for the British climate too with strong, very weather resistant blooms - giving you a cascading rainbow of colour from May until early November. Grow in hanging baskets, window boxes and patio containers - anywhere that will allow the plants to cascade freely, then just wait for the flowers - whatever the weather! Trails to 60 cm (24in). Supplied as 12 plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
The Queen Bee is leading her worker bees in the construction of their new honeycomb and they need help! Following on from the huge success of The Genius Square, we're delighted to introduce Bee Genius, the newest member of the Genius Collection, designed especially for little geniuses! Roll the six dice to determine the locations of the worker bees. The challenge is then to fit all 11 of the coloured shapes around the bees, with no gaps, to complete the perfect honeycomb! There are 46,656 unique possible combinations in which the dice can fall and all of them have at least one possible solution. Some combinations will be easier to solve, some much harder. Bee Genius is a non-competitive game, devised to help children to develop their thinking skills. Every puzzle solved will help a child to build their skills and grow their self-confidence, as they start to realise that they too can BEE GENIUS! Box Size: 26.8cm x 26.8cm x 6.2cm Players: 1 or more Suitable Ages: 3-8
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.
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!
For a medium-sized shrub that will bring architectural interest to your garden all year long, Fatsia japonica is just the ticket! A spectacular evergreen shrub, it produces impressively large, serrated, glossy green leaves, which remain throughout the year, giving interest in all seasons. Also known as the Japanese Aralia, mature Fatsia plants produce exotic spikes of creamy white flowers, followed by attractive deep purple, almost black berries. Definitely a plant for novice gardeners and seasoned pros alike, Fatsia japonica will grow well in any garden and is a great plant for difficult shady areas where other plants struggle, in fact they perform best in light or dappled shade, making a glossy backdrop to other plants with their amazing palm-like leaves. Holder of a much deserved RHS Award of Garden Merit, plants really need very little attention to give you amazing results whether you are strapped for time or a complete gardening novice, and you can be sure that this is a plant that has been rigorously trialled and proven to excel in UK gardens. Fatsia is also a great plant to complement a large decorative pot on the patio, where its architectural shape can make a dramatic, tropical feature. Supplied as an established plant approx. 60cm tall, in a 17cm pot, ready for planting straight out into the garden.
An unsung hero of the garden, the 'EverRed' variety of Loropetalum, or Chinese Witch Hazel, enhances its beauty even more. Perfect for autumn and early spring colour in the garden, 'EverRed' has very deep magenta red ribbon-like flowers that erupt like sparklers! The stunning flowers contrast against the deepest purple, evergreen foliage that lasts all year round. Great in containers, it is slow growing and spreading so is very easy to manage and maintain. A great all-rounder, 'EverRed' is a shade lover that will thrive in gaps in beds and borders but it will also tolerate full sun if you want to plant up in a pot and place on the patio for a real feature!Does best in cool, well-drained spots - avoid wet roots in winter.Supplied as a 2 year old established plant in a 15cm pot, ready to plant out.
The World's first wide colour ranging seed-raised Echinacea, called 'Cheyenne Spirit' certainly evokes the warm, autumnal hues of the great plains and prairies of the USA. Winner of several European Trade Awards for excellence in new varieties, this gorgeous mix is uniquely first year flowering, and represents a tremendous value way to get on the Echinacea trend, so dominant in the last few years. Echinaceas, or Coneflowers as they are also known, are classic daisy-like, taller hardy perennials, much suited to a traditional cottage garden style setting, yet equally at home in drift plantings and gravel beds too, or just massed together in pots, you get great flowering performance, bee-friendly flowers and they come back year after year too. Supplied as 6 x jumbo plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
With glossy green leaves and highly fragrant flowers this fantastic honeysuckle is perfect whether scrambling over a pergola of covering an unsightly fence or wall. It's fully hardy and bears green foliage through all but the hardest winters giving a year round display. These well established plants will give plenty of flowers this year.
Enkianthus campanulatus is a large deciduous shrub with small leaves that will thrill you in spring with its clusters of red-tipped blooms and again in autumn with a spectacular display of bright red, orange and yellow. Suitable for acid to neutral soils and a great companion to rhododendrons and azaleas, 'Red Bells' is a particularly choice variety with clusters of cream, bell-shaped flowers tipped with red from late spring to mid-summer. A sumptuous display, the blooms hang like tiny, red-blushed grapes and contrast beautifully with the glossy leaves. Easy to grow, Enkianthus prefers partial shade, but will grow in full sun as long as you remember to keep it well watered. Perfect in large pots, Enkianthus is happiest in ericaceous compost. 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. It's also recommended by the RHS as a Plant for pollinators so will attract wildlife into your garden making it a haven for butterflies and bees. Supplied as an established plant in a 3L pot, Enkianthus will grow to around 4m high and wide.
An unusual and striking garden rose that will fill your garden with a sweet perfume as well as an abundance of beautifully coloured blooms that are perfect for cutting. When in flower, the large, creamy blooms of this spectacular, bicoloured rose are edged in carmine with a silvery hue to the reverse. One of the 'Couture' group of roses, 'Imperatrice Farah' is named after the Empress of Iran. 'Imperatrice Farah' is a hybrid tea rose which produces single stems of colourful blooms, they're ideal for cutting and grow into a straight, upright plant making them perfect for narrow borders or rose beds. Happiest in full sun, this versatile rose will also thrive in light shade, filling the garden with its light fragrance. Despite its robust shape, it can still be grown in a large pot and pruned to a more manageable size, so you don't even need a garden to appreciate this beauty. An award-winning plant, it's one of the easier roses to grow so perfect for novice or time strapped gardeners. Supplied as a single 3L potted bush, ready for immediate planting, reaches up to 1.5m when mature.
A delightfully romantic old-fashioned rose that will thrill you with flowers packed with pink-flushed, yellow and orange petals, Georges Denjean is a rose that everyone will comment on! A floribunda rose, it produces blooms with a strong scent of vanilla and citrus and the full, quartered blooms are filled with petals that make a superb addition to any garden. Produced singly, they make superb cut flowers that will allow you to bring their beauty into your home. Easy to grow, the plants are upright and well branched with robust, glossy green leaves that have good resistance to the usual problems that roses can encounter so make it suitable for every gardener from novice to expert. Supplied as a single bare root rose ready for immediate planting, 'Georges Denjean' will reach approx. 1m and flowers from April, often through to November.
Thanks to some fantastic hybridising at one of Holland's leading cut flowers Alstroemeria breeders, we are delighted to offer this amazing variety to UK gardeners. It combines the impressive high flower count needed for commercial growers, with a strong and robust garden habit, being just 60cm (2ft) tall, and forming big perennial clumps. 'Indian Summer' has a lovely unique strong bronze purple tinge to the foliage which sets off the gorgeous flame-coloured flowers to a tee! The good news is you can enjoy this impressive floral display for even longer as they just keep flowering all Summer, new buds emerging all the time well into Autumn. They're perfect for long lasting displays in pots or mixed borders. Naturally hardy to about -7C, they will survive most UK winters in well drained spots and emerge bigger and bolder year after year. Very easy and low maintenance - just beware slugs on new Spring growth! Supplied as 3 x jump plugs, ready to pot on and plant out.
The perennial wallflower, Erysimum has the same lightly scented flowers, but with no need to replant ever year. They have an amazingly long flowering season from as early as February right through spring and summer and into autumn. In this collection you will receive: 4 x 'Apricot Twist' - A fabulous variety, with masses of flower spikes covered in dark red buds opening into bright orange flowers, almost completely covering the evergreen foliage. They are excellent cut flowers, bringing their subtle fragrance into your home and lasting up to ten days in a vase. 4 x 'Pastel Patchwork' - An incredible variety that produces waves of flower spikes that are covered in colour changing blooms that emerge cream, before changing to yellow, then apricot and then pink. With each flower differing in age, you'll get all of the colours all the time, covering the evergreen foliage. They are excellent cut flowers, bringing their subtle fragrance into your home and lasting up to ten days in a vase. 4 x 'Spring Breeze Sunglow' - Producing continuous waves of dazzling sunshine yellow flower spikes set off beautifully against the evergreen foliage. They are excellent cut flowers, bringing their subtle fragrance into your home and lasting up to ten days in a vase. These glorious plants are perfect for growing in beds, borders and pots and thrive in both full sunshine and partial shade, so everyone can grow these somewhere in their garden. They are a magnet for bees, butterflies and lots of other beneficial insects. Erysimum are so easy to look after, needing only regular removal of faded flower spikes and then trimming back during winter when flowering has come to an end. Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to pot on or plant out, reaching a height and spread of 50 cm (20 in).
Tumbelina Petunias are the original and still the best double, trailing, fragrant petunias. Their carnation-like flowers have masses of gorgeous petals that layer upon each other creating the perfect summer patio display, unlike any other available. The varieties in this collection have been chosen for their gorgeous heady perfume which will fill the air wherever you grow them. Plant them in hanging baskets, window boxes and patio containers where they will excel. Their gently trailing habit means they will tidily tumble over the edge of the container and trail for approx. 30cm (1ft), with flowers along the full length of the branches. They will flower from late May to the first frosts and require only occasional dead-heading to prolong displays. Bred in The UK near Cambridge, they have been rigorously trialled, tested and proven to grow brilliantly in this country in our variable Summers. Varieties Included: Priscilla, Belinda, Joanna, Melissa, Katrina and Margarita. Supplied as 12 plug plants 2 of each variety, ready to grow on before planting out.
In an exciting range of new colours created just for us, many are not available to buy anywhere else, including some unique bicolours! With these rare hybrids being added to our range of Nerines, chances are you'll have something in your garden that no-one else has got. A distinctive bulb with a characteristic feminine beauty, no other flower is quite like a Nerine. Also known as Guernsey Lilies, this breathtakingly beautiful collection of stunning new Nerines will light up your autumn garden from September onwards in subtle shades of white, pastel pinks and reds. An invaluable plant for the garden border, potted displays and flower arrangements, Nerines add splashes of colour wherever they appear, and their long stems make them invaluable too as a cut flower, when not a lot is blooming in the garden. Unusually, some of the colours in this pretty, exotic collection have a subtle silver shimmer which really highlights their delicate petals and you can see instantly that this special range of Nerines has been bred with care and thought to give you something special both yourself and to give as a gift. Perfect for growing in a drift in flower beds and borders, you could also grow them in big patio pots, say 25-30cm diameter with 5 bulbs in. They're also completely hardy and will easily withstand UK winters. In the garden, plant them about 5cm (2in) deep, and around 10cm (4in) apart. Growing to around 60cm (2ft) high x 20cm (8in) wide, these beauties will flower from September to October after their leaves have died back. We supply a collection of 10 mixed colour bulbs* chosen by our experts to give you lasting displays that will naturalise and get bigger and better every year. Don't forget that while the optimum time to plant is autum/winter, bulbs can still be planted now! *(Please note that we cannot guarantee the mixture of colours that you will receive)
A delightful, abundantly flowering spray rose, bearing pretty, dainty blooms in a mix of shrimplike tones of bright pinky and orange all summer long. Unlike long-stemmed roses that produce one flower per stem, spray roses have clusters of smaller blooms that appear at different stages in flushes, giving a range of tight buds to fully open blooms. A fast-growing and consistent bloomer, 'Marie Curie' is an award-winning floribunda rose with double, peony-shaped flowers that have a light fragrance. With a colour and scent reminiscent of old-fashioned roses, it's ideal planted near a patio or terrace, in flower beds and borders. It also makes a charming display when planted in a pot or container. Part of an entirely new collection of 'Romantic' rose, this prolific bloomer is complimented with glossy, dark-green foliage. Its wonderfully nostalgic character is guaranteed to add a touch of enchantment to your garden. Supplied as an established plant in a 3L pot ready to plant out. It will grow to 75cm height x 50cm spread, flowering June to September.
This delightful petunia joins the popular Queen of Hearts with its fabulous blooms, each marked with five sumptuous red hearts set against a white background. These outstanding flowers provide a perfect blend of red and white brought together in perfect flower form! King of Hearts comes into flower from May through to October with an abundance of large blossoms that have good weather resistance, making it invaluable for UK gardens plus its free-branching habit ensures it will be covered in flower for up to 6 months! Each lovely bloom will be subtly different in marking which just adds to the effect. King of Hearts is semi-trailing so perfect for baskets and patio tubs alike. Stunning grown on its own or try with bold blues and mauves Supplied as 12 plug plants ready to plant straight out into baskets and containers and grown on for a few weeks before placing outside when all risk of frost has passed. Height and trails up to 30cm (12in).
The amazingly vivid, bright scarlet flowers of 'Docteur Watson' are impossible to miss. Fully double with a fabulously intense colour, it takes the red rose to the next level! A striking rose with large, vibrant flowers full of beautifully ruffled petals and a delicious, lightly spicy scent and the light green of the foliage compliments the red of flowers perfectly. This compact hybrid tea variety is perfect for growing in borders or as a hedge, and superb in large pots on the patio - a fine addition to any rose collection. Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot.
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.