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!
You'll absolutely love these vibrant, beautiful Petunias! With their incredible, double, Carnation-like blooms produced in wave after wave all summer long, this fantastic collection will truly bring your garden to life this summer. In a gorgeous range of pinks, purples, whites, reds and blues, your baskets and borders will be simply awash with colour! Incredibly large flowers, weather-resistant, and great value - what more could you want?!
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.
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.
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.
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.
'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 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. 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.
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.
You can now enjoy true year-round interest with vibrant flower colour and year-long foliage interest in this superb, all-in-one hardy evergreen collection! Six tried and tested garden winners will fill any gaps you might have in your existing beds and borders or allow you to plant a new one from scratch. Once planted and established, they will rapidly get going and look tremendous from this year onwards, providing a stunning visual display and a degree of privacy and security for you, as well. As an added bonus, they'll act as a natural safe haven for a wide variety of wildlife. Each plant is easy to grow and needs very little maintenance. In a mixture of colours, this collection of hardy shrubs is guaranteed to brighten up pots, patios, beds and borders - in fact, they're fabulous wherever you fancy planting them! Supplied as a collection of 8 plugs in 6 named varieties, plant together for a vibrant, year-round mix of colour, or plant separately and frame beds, borders and patios. Please note that the varieties received may differ from those listed. Ceanothus thyrsiflorus repens AGM x 1The 'creeping blue blossom' is a small spreading evergreen that can be grown against a wall for optimum effect! Glossy dark green leaves are highlighted by the pale blue flowers in spring. H1m x 2.5m, Flowers May - July. Cistus corbariensis x 1This hybrid Rock Rose is a bushy shrub with wavy leaves and crisp white flowers, each with a yellow centre. The red buds emerge from June. H0.5m x 1m. Cotoneaster dammeri x 2The Bearberry is a low growing evergreen with small rounded leaves. Perfect for supressing weeds as it forms a dense groundcover. The white flowers appear in summer and are followed by bright red berries. H0.1m x 1.5m. Flowers May - June. Euonymus fortunii 'Emerald Gaiety' AGM x 1Also known as the Spindle, this variegated evergreen will look spectacular when planted against a wall. The rounded leaves have a variegated white margin that will flush pink in winter. Flowers, although rarely produced, will appear in summer. H0.5m x 1m. Lonicera nitida 'Baggesen's Gold' AGM x 1A popular, golden evergreen that produces arching branches of light golden-green leaves. Easy to trim, it will form a dense plant that can also be used for topiary. It may produce tiny cream flowers in the spring followed by purple berries. H1.5m x W1.5M Lonicera ligustrina var. pileata x 2The box-leaved honeysuckle is a type of shrub with leaves similar to common box. Its long, glossy leaves are evergreen and form a low growing, ground-cover shrub. H1m x W2.5m. Grows up to 60cm/year with small white inconspicuous flowers in April - May.
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.
The tall, stately spires of lupins are a real summer garden classic, and this Hardy Lupin 'Manhattan Lights' will really knock your socks off and will make you the envy of your gardening friends and neighbours! A real work of art, and standing tall at roughly 1m once fully grown, this amazing Lupin certainly has the wow factor, being smothered in bi-colour, pastel-yellow and vivid purple flowers, right to the top of their stems. With palmate, sage green foliage creating the perfect backdrop for these eye-catching flowers, their tall, spiky display of blooms really stand out in beds and borders, making a stunning statement in your garden. Compact growth means that they're also perfect in pots, and great for creating focal features on patios and decking - or why not cut the stems and bring indoors to create beautiful cut flower displays?! Flowering throughout June and July, the perfect blooms of Lupin 'Manhattan Lights' open in succession from the bottom of the spire upwards, prolonging the flowering season, and are a magnet to butterflies, bees and other beneficial pollinating insects making your summer garden a haven for wildlife. Easy to grow and totally winter hardy, Manhattan Lights is also easy to maintain and makes the perfect cottage garden plant - it's perennial so comes back year after year with an ever-increasing amount of blooms. Supplied as an established plant in a 3L pot and ready to plant out, this lupin will grow to around 1m x 1m and works spectacularly when planted alongside old fashioned English roses and hardy geraniums.
Commonly known as the snowberry, Symphoricarpus produces masses of round white berries in the autumn, which cover the plants like miniature snowballs. A member of the honeysuckle family, this deciduous shrub produces succulent berries that stay on the bush after the leaves have fallen, giving a definite festive feel to the plants as they enter their winter dormancy. If you're looking for an attractive plant to liven up your borders, then this is the ideal plant for you! Blooming in spring, the snowberry produces sprays of dainty pink blooms in spring Easy to grow, Symphoricarpus will thrive in a sunny spot, and is also tolerant of light shade. It spreads by suckering, quickly forming a dense thicket that provides a haven for wildlife such as nesting birds and pollinating insects, making invaluable for a low hedge. Supplied as an established plant in a 3L pot, ready for immediate planting.
This is the perfect way to grow your own Sweet Potatoes at home - no back-breaking digging required! One of the most versatile vegetables, sweet potatoes have become exceedingly popular over the last decade thanks to their delicious flavour, ease of cooking and all the new and unique ways to create a storm in the kitchen - with a healthier twist on a normal white potato! With extra dietary fiber in a sweet potato compared to a normal potato, many of us are adding more and more sweet potato into our diets, and it's so easy to do. From typical mashing, boiling or baking, to chips, soups, curries and stews, there are so many wonderful dishes that are so easy to make - so why not grow your own supply and save yourself some pennies on expensive supermarket prices? This collection includes two vitamin-rich varieties, a purple and a red skin, that when grown by your own fair hands will add something a little special to your dishes. Included in this collection; Erato Orange - a typical orange-fleshed, red-skinned potatoErato White - a slightly more unusual looking white fleshed, purple skinned sweet potato Grow in hot conditions, preferably in a greenhouse or conservatory. Perfect for growing in pots, they'll grow to a maximum of approx. 30cm tall and with regular watering, the vigorous plants will develop large tubers in the summer and will be ready for harvest from September through to October. The tubers can even be harvested in the autumn and stored until you want to use them. The heavy duty, 30-litre pots can be used year after year. Supplied as a collection of 6 plug plants; 3 of each variety Erato Orange and Erato White. Includes 2 Heavy Duty 30 Litre Pots.
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.
Also known as the perennial mesembryanthemum or 'Vygie', Lampranthus is a vibrant succulent which has spectacular displays of unbelievably bright, shining flowers all through the summer. One of the most striking plants for the garden and undoubtedly one of the easiest, its large, daisy-like flowers open when the sun shines, and often cover the plants entirely forming a carpet of colour. Lampranthus make ideal plants for window boxes and baskets and are reliable performers both as a container plant and a garden ground cover, so everyone can have a go at growing them. Low maintenance and simple to care for, they're tolerant of poor soil and drought conditions so don't mind if you forget about them occasionally! A neatly rounded, compact plant that grows to around 30 x 50cm we supply 6 x 9cm plants, 3 of each colour, red and orange.
Not to ever be confused with pot plant Cyclamen produced in their masses for Christmas, these superb wild Cyclamen are a stunning garden plant for slowly naturalising in shady spots under trees and hedges, providing subtle Autumn colour and long term foliage interest. Their flowers are produced in profusion in Autumn - once established the flowers appear straight form the ground before any leaves form. As they die back in Winter, the striking silver marked deep green leaves, with whorls of splashes and random leaf markings appear, and last until the heat of the following Spring. They will slowly spread out into small clumps, and naturalise to form a delicate carpet, of totally hardy, no maintenance, almost bullet proof plants. What could be easier? Perfect for that awkward shady space, whatever size of garden you have. You will get 3 pink-flowered plants already one year old - not small bulbs that you need to wait years for flowers. Please note that plants are dormant when sent with little or no foliage present.
Not to ever be confused with pot plant Cyclamen produced in their masses for Christmas, these superb wild Cyclamen are a stunning garden plant for slowly naturalising in shady spots under trees and hedges, providing subtle Autumn colour and long term foliage interest. Their flowers are produced in profusion in Autumn - once established the flowers appear straight form the ground before any leaves form. As they die back in Winter, the striking silver marked deep green leaves, with whorls of splashes and random leaf markings appear, and last until the heat of the following Spring. They will slowly spread out into small clumps, and naturalise to form a delicate carpet, of totally hardy, no maintenance, almost bullet proof plants. What could be easier? Perfect for that awkward shady space, whatever size of garden you have. You will get 3 white-flowered plants already one year old - not small bulbs that you need to wait years for flowers. Please note that plants are dormant when sent with little or no foliage present.
A highly attractive feature tree, Pomegranates are well-known, although not as widely grown in our gardens as they should be. With deep green foliage and bright orange flowers in summer, your pomegranate will look great for years to come, with its shiny fruits ripening in the sun and providing a beautiful contrast to its leaves. A tough, deciduous shrub, Pomegranate 'Maxima Rubra' is completely hardy when established, and will easily tolerate our British winters, down to -8ºC. For best results, grow in a warm and sunny aspect in a pot where it can be moved around as necessary before planting out when its trunk has thicker wood. Pomegranates are super-healthy and packed with antioxidants - the fruits can be used in cooking sweet or savoury dishes and taste great when made into refreshing, fragrant pomegranate juice! Plants like a rich soil with plenty of grit and gravel for good drainage. Although drought-tolerant when established, do keep your plant well-watered and it will flower throughout the summer. Pomegranate bushes love hot summers and your bush will thrive in a sunny spot in the shelter of a building or ideally up against a stone or brick wall that will radiate heat back to the plant, helping to ripen the fruit and protect it from any extreme winter weather. Supplied as an established plant in a 2.5L pot, ready for planting straight out. Will reach 2-3m tall in 10 years.
'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.
Wow!... Just wow!! You really can't get a more striking plant for your late winter and spring garden - and we're so excited to be able to bring it to you! This new introduction is absolutely exquisite with its gorgeous pink fluffy catkins which just beg to be stroked as you walk past the bush. The fuzzy bunny tails burst from the tight maroon buds as the temperature warms in early spring, bringing a splash of vibrant colour to your garden, with the promise of warmer weather to come. When grown as a hedge or as coppices, the new young growth is luminous with fire when the catkins break - it's really a sight to behold Perfect for a winter garden, the pussy-willow catkins start to appear from late winter and last well into the spring, and the stems are truly impressive when cut and brought into the house for an early flower display. In fact, this variety was bred for the cut-flower market, by a cut-flower arranger, so you know that the stems will make a great visual impact. As the season progresses, the tiny pink powder puffs gradually turn golden as the pollen emerges, bringing a subtle shift of colour to the whole bush, before the blue-green leaves emerge and form a magnificent backdrop to other plants and flowers in the garden. Not just a pretty face, 'Mount Aso' is also known for its abilty to tolerate pollution, salt sea air and damp areas - a truly versatile and useful plant! We supply an established plant in a 3L pot, with an ultimate height and spread of approx. 2m x 2m, but can be restricted by pruning.