Also known as Stokes' aster, 'Blue Star' does just what its name suggests - it's a star performer for your garden. Large, pale blue, cornflower-like flowers are produced over a low mound of attractive green leaves, making it an ideal plant for late summer containers or for added colour in autumn in your beds or borders. Recommended by the RHS as a 'Plant for Pollinators' because the flowers are produced through the spring and summer and are a favourite with butterflies and bees. Easy to grow and hardy in the UK down to -15°C (5°F), Stokesia is a reliable 'doer' and the frilly blue flowers are produced in abundance through the summer and autumn. Superb when combined with yellow flowers for contrast, Stokesia is a great plant for cut flowers too, so you can bring their colour into your home. An evergreen perennial, Stokesia provides garden colour all year round, and we supply a collection of 6 plug plants ready for you to pot up and grow on before planting out.
Brighten up your garden with these beautiful Asters, flowering throughout summer and into autumn every year with gorgeous, semi-double, yellow-centred daisy blooms. The Autumn Jewel's collection has been carefully bred to be compact and bushy with masses of good-sized flowers, the perfect combination for today's gardens, providing a bold splash of colour late into the autumn. Forming a sturdy clump, these fully winter-hardy perennials perform brilliantly as a central feature in containers or in the middle of borders for reliable, no-fuss colour year on year. Blooming over many weeks, asters make great cut flowers, being very long lasting in a vase, and in the garden will attract a whole host of beneficial pollinating insects.They're loved by butterflies and bees, making them perfect for wildlife gardens. Easy to grow and low maintenance, the short, compact and bushy plants will not require staking and you can more or less leave them to do their own thing! This classic collection is supplied as 6 plug plants, two each of Sapphire, Rose Quartz and Purple Diamond. Growing to approx. 35cm x 30cm (14in x 12in) they'll return each year. Sapphire - Delicate sprays of bright mid blue daisy-like flowers with a bold yellow central disc Rose Quartz - masses of soft pink flowers with contrasting yellow centres Purple Diamond - Bright purple-magenta daisy flowers with a golden centre.
Zauschneria californica 'Glasnevin', also known as the Californian fuchsia, is an award-winning perennial bursting with vibrant red trumpet blooms. Its fiery flowers are favoured by hummingbirds in its native North America, giving rise to its other, rather delightful name of the hummingbird trumpet flower. Thriving in sun baked, nutrient poor soil, it's perfectly adapted to our increasingly dry summers with its food storing roots and thin silvery leaves - ideal for conserving food and water. Highly desirable for the autumn garden, and to bring colour to gravel gardens, Zauschneria will light up your pots and borders with colour and being drought tolerant when established it's low maintenance and easy to grow 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 6 plug plants ready for potting up and growing on before planting out in the garden, this compact, clump-forming perennial reaches just 30cm (12in) high x 60cm (24in) wide.
It's incredible but true... these compact beauties really will produce a tower of striking star-shapes blooms continuously for 6 months - every year! The BOULEVARD(R) series of patio clematis has been bred specifically for a compact growing habit and a precocious flowering nature - so you can create a massive colour impact from a very limited space. Perfect for growing in small spaces, in pots and containers, so are ideal for modern gardens where space may be limited. The plants will never get out of hand and reach a mature height of around 1-1.5m (3-5ft), and as they flower all along the stem from the leaf axils, these splendid clematis are covered in blooms right from top to toe! They are perfect for growing in patio containers and large pots and are a 'must' for town gardens and balconies. Flowering repeatedly from early summer to late autumn, they form a glorious pillar of colour. Plants only require a minimum of annual maintenance - cut all stems back to 15cm (6in) in Feb/March- PLUS they are totally winter hardy too! Supplied as young plants in 10.5cm pots ready for growing on, these unique clematis are simply fantastic value for money. You'll receive one plant each of: Confetti (TM) Evipo036(N) - Dainty sprays of rose-pink, nodding bell-like flowers which are produced from midsummer to autumn. Perfect for growing in small spaces, in pots and containers, so is ideal for modern gardens where space may be limited. Nubia(TM) Evipo079(N) - A stunning combination of red petals and a darker centre makes Clematis 'Nubia' ideal for a sunny spot. Free-flowering and very hardy this clematis is perfect for accentuating pathways in a pot or planter. Olympia(TM) Evipo099(N) - A compact clematis that blooms all the way along its stems, resulting in a proliferation of large, rich purple-blue flowers from the ground upwards all summer and into late autumn. Samaritan Jo(TM) Evipo075(N) - With pretty silvery-pink star-shaped flowers outlined with a delicate tracery of light purple, the blooms are further accentuated with a beautiful crown of purple stamens topped with the clearest golden yellow - a real sight to behold!
Nothing beats the sight and scent of traditional English climbing roses draping from an archway or pergola, churning out flowers for 4 months through the summer, and producing a fabulous fragrance to waft through your garden on the breeze, especially on warm days. Climbing up to 4.5m, these roses are perfect for growing up trellises, arches, walls or fences. What's more, these beautiful roses will produce their first displays this summer to fill your garden with colour and fragrance. Easy to grow and maintain, you will get one each of : Dublin Bay - a sumptuous red double, very-free flowering and quite thorn free (to 2.5m) Golden Showers - bright sunshine yellow (to 4.5m) Zepherine Drouhin - vibrant pink (to 4.5m)
An enduringly popular old-fashioned rose, 'Zephirine Drouhin' is also known as the thornless rose and is one of very few almost thornless climbing roses available. With an exceptionally long flowering season from May to October, you'll be treated to a profusion of large, cup shaped cerise-pink semi-double flowers that carry a powerfully sweet, fruity fragrance that will fill the air around them. A repeat flowering rose, 'Zephirine Drouhin', won't stop flowering until late in the autumn, with its spectacular blooms standing out wonderfully against the foliage, which emerges coppery-red before maturing to glossy, rich green with purple tinged stems. Fabulous growing up a house wall, with the fragrance drifting through open windows, it's happy in the ground or in a large pot and is a vigorous grower. Ideal for covering trellises, arches and pergolas. Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot, growing to a height of 2.5m (8ft) and a width of 2m (6½ft).
Simply spectacular! Delightfully unusual single flowers creamy-white with deep rose-pink edges with a pollen rich centre smother this brilliant, vigorous climber in a stunning season long show. Glossy, deep-green foliage, repeat flowering, and strong growth make Handel perfect for covering fences, walls and trellises. One of the very few two-tone Climbing Roses, in full Summer flower it looks exceptional, and has a traditional feel to it. Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot, growing to a height of 4m.
A stunning Climbing rose with a wonderfully sweet fragrance, Rosa 'New Dawn' bursts into life each May or June with clusters of beautiful, palest shell-pink coloured blooms flowering repeatedly throughout the season. Its lovely scent will fill your patio or garden, and its dark green, glossy foliage is strong, reliable and disease resistant. Climbing Roses bring height and a sense of plenty to the garden, where they are normally grown along house walls and fences but are also perfect for growing up obelisks, arches and trellises. With clusters of large flowers, 'New Dawn' will repeat flower throughout the year, adding much needed colour to the garden when other plants have finished. Reaching 3m height, it is perfect for growing over a pergola or trellis. Voted Worlds Favourite Rose in 1997, and one of the few Climbers to be so, as well as achieving the RHS Award of Garden merit, this cracking climber will perform well wherever you plant it.Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot, growing to a height of 3.5m.
The archetypal Red Climbing Rose - it has it all. Big deep blood red large Hybrid tea style flowers, good fragrance, and good repeat flowering garden performance all Summer long it is difficult to find fault with this proven performer. No wonder it holds an RHS Award of Garden Merit. Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot, growing to a height of 2.5m.
One of the all-time great climbing roses, 'Compassion' is ever popular because of its incredible, all-round features. Its immensely pretty, apricot-pink blooms carry a strong, sweet perfume that will fill your garden, and these are complimented by the deep-red stems and glossy leaves. Repeat flowering quickly and reliably throughout the summer months, 'Compassion' is ideal for cutting. Vigorous, healthy, reliable and easy to grow, this classic climber has won many awards over the years and is a must-have for any garden wall, fence or trellis. 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. Climbing roses have large flowers, held singly or in small groups and are a great way to create height in the garden. As they are repeat flowering, they're the perfect plant to cover unsightly structures with beautiful colour throughout the summer months. Typically used for the front of homes to add a touch of style and class and to frame doorways and entrances. A great garden rose and an absolute must-have for any rose lover! Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot, growing to a height of 4.5m and spread of 2.5m.
Winning the highly coveted 'Rose of the Year' award for 2017, this spectacular climbing rose will flower profusly all summer long. It produces stunning orange-pink, blousy blooms with a sweet and fruity fragrance that will fill your garden throughout the summer. Scent from Heaven was also awarded the fragrance prize in the Paris International Rose Trials and gained a Certificate of Merit in the Royal National Rose Society Trials. Highly disease resistant, UK breeder Chris Warner selected this variety specifically to shrug of many fungal problems that affect roses, meaning that you'll never have to spray it with chemicals. Adding height and masses of flowers to your garden, 'Scent from Heaven' is a great choice for climbing up arches, trellis, obelisks and other support systems to create a stunning frame around late spring and summer displays. Flowering from early June through to the autumn, plant from September for stunning displays next season. Supplied as a freshly potted, professional quality plant in a 3L pot, growing to a height of 3m.
Gorgeous semi-double blooms in a creamy lemon shade adorn this stunning compact rose from May right through to October every year while its delicate fragrance is a joy for the senses. Bred by RHS Chelsea Flower Show gold medallist and rose expert, Peter Beale MBE, this free and repeat flowering rose will fill your garden with blooms for half of the year! Its lush dark green foliage and thorny nature add a real classic feel to this beautiful rose and acts as a fantastic trespasser deterrent... Notre Dame de Calais is a small bushy climber, that will grow with strength and vigour in most gardens - along the back of borders or even in a large container. All of our freshly potted roses are field grown and dug up and potted when the weather conditions are right in October or November, just as the plants are entering their winter dormancy, which helps keep the roots hydrated and in good condition. The roses can be kept in their pots throughout the winter provided they are kept well fed and watered, however ideally, they should planted out as soon as possible. Because plants are dormant throughout the winter, they do not produce any new roots until spring, so don't be alarmed if the compost falls away from the roots when you take them out of their pots. They will already have been cut back so no further pruning will be required, apart from removing any tips that have died back.
Save yourself years of painstaking work by buying this ready-made topiary specimen - already crafted into a dramatic spiral shape by expert nurserymen! Creating a real show-stopping feature, this topiary cypress is the perfect plant to grace a handsome pot and place by patios, terraces or in front gardens as a centrepiece, or plant in pairs and place either side of doorways, gateways, pathways and entrances, bringing the plantsman's art to your garden to be admired for years to come. This form of Thuja occidentalis 'Smaragd' or Emerald Cedar as it is more commonly known, is dense and slow growing so keeps its shape well once trimmed. Easy to care for, there's really very little to do, just give an occasional light trim to maintain the shape to your taste, taking particular care to remove shoots from any bare stems. It will really flourish in a both a sunny or lightly shaded spot. Delivered as a mature pruned plant in 10L pot. Feed regularly during growing season.
Save yourself years of painstaking work by buying this ready made topiary specimen - already crafted into a dramatic '3 ball' shape by expert nurserymen! Creating a real show-stopping feature, this topiary cypress is the perfect plant to grace a handsome pot and place by patios, terraces or in front gardens as a centrepiece, or plant in pairs and place either side of doorways, gateways, pathwys and entrances, bringing the plantsmans art to your garden to be admired for years to come. This form of Thuja occidentalis 'Smaragd' or Emerald Cedar as it is more commonly known, is dense and slow growing so keeps its shape well once trimmed. Easy to care for, there's really very little to do, just give an occasional light trim to maintain the shape to your taste, taking particular care to remove shoots from any bare stems. It will really flourish in a both a sunny or lightly shaded spot. Delivered as a mature pruned plant in 10L pot. Feed regularly during growing season.
Transition the seasons from winter to spring with bold and bright colour year after year! The canary-yellow blooms of the Flowering Mimosa Tree are a spectacular sight from January to April every year. Hundreds of bobbly yellow blooms smother the branches of the Mimosa tree in a lemon haze, almost hiding the stunning grey green filigree foliage that makes this tree a handsome year-round feature in the garden. The eye-catching pom-pom blooms not only look a picture but carry a heavenly fragrance and provide a valuable nectar source for friendly insects that emerge in milder weather, altogether a super tree to own! Widely seen across southern Europe, this variety will thrive outdoors in most of the UK too and is a great plant for conservatories or sunny corners of a room indoors in regions prone to severe frost. It's a great choice for a large container too producing a unique feature tree. Winter Hardy down to -5, will need protecting in very cold winters. Supplied as an established 80cm caned plant in a 19cm pot, ready to plant out.
This exotic deciduous tree comes to life in late-spring with the emergence of wonderful, fern-like foliage - and reaches a crescendo of colour in mid-late summer when the incredible, fluffy, bright pink flowers cover every branch - each one carrying a lovely fragrance! Hardy enough to withstand all but the worst frosts, it is ideal for a pot or sunny border. Also known as the Pink Silk Tree, Albizia Rosea is ideal as a feature plant in Mediterranean-style gardens, where the fine foliage makes a particularly attractive feature in its own right. Hardy throughout most of the UK, the silk tree benefits from planting near a south-facing wall for a little winter protection, helping it to retain its leaves for a little longer into the autumn. The dainty leaves of the silk tree slowly close during the night and during periods of heavy rain to protect itself from damage, giving it an alternative name of 'night sleeper'. In Japan its common names (of which there are several) all mean 'sleeping tree', so don't be surprised if your tree looks a little droopy at times - it's just resting! Reaching up to 4 x 2.5m, you will receive an established young plant in a 3L pot.
The canary-yellow blooms of the Flowering Mimosa Tree are a spectacular sight from January to April every year, where hundreds of bobbly yellow blooms smother the branches of the Mimosa tree in a lemon haze, almost hiding the stunning grey green filigree foliage that makes this tree a handsome year round feature in the garden. Set among a ball of fern-like leaves on a standard stem, the eye-catching pom-pom blooms not only look a picture but carry a heavenly fragrance and provide a valuable nectar source for friendy insects that emerge in milder weather. Widely seen across southern Europe, this variety will thrive outdoors in most of the UK too and is a great plant for conservatories or sunny corners of a room indoors in regions prone to severe frost - altogether a super tree to own! It's a great choice for a large container too producing a really unique feature tree and if you buy a pair you can frame doorways and entrances.
Tree ferns were a firm plant hunter's favourite from Victorian times, a symbol of wealth and travel experiences to Australia. They have maintained this sense of mystique ever since. Now you too can grow these surprisingly easy exotic looking plants too. Harvested under strict License from woodland clearance in Australia and Tasmania, these astonishing plants really will delight and amaze. They grow under the woodland canopy, in the shade, so grow them here in a sheltered spot too. These 'potter' logs are at least 10 years old, and have been cut back and harvested dormant. When you water them via the top crown, they will burst back into life, like it's the new rainy season! Because they grow in leaf canopies, most of their food comes from leaves falling into their giant shuttlecock like fronds, funnelling the goodness into the growing crown. That's hard to achieve in UK gardens so we provide 500ml of concentrated tree fern food, which mimics this feeding method. Even at this size of log at 20-25cm tall, new fronds of almost 1M in length will unfurl spectacularly within a Month or so of you watering it. It's amazing when they come how quickly they grow. The plant is hardy down to -5 in Winter, although the fronds will die back. Cutting these off when they die back is what creates the new trunk, which slowly inches up over many, many years. Keep the crown protected in Winter with a layer of straw to keep cold and wet out. When you get it home, plant it in a big pot, or in the garden soil. It takes almost 2 years to root in, so do not be alarmed by this slow growing beauty.
'Azura' is an excellent new selection of the ever popular Eucalyptus tree, made even more suitable for British gardens. It is a much more compact and bushy form than the typical fast-growing Eucalyptus trees, and is also much hardier - reportedly surviving down to -20C. Both these excellent improvements make it a great specimen for gardeners, and to top that, as the name suggests, it has an amazing Azure blue grey leaf coloration all year round too. And like all Eucalyptus, it has a gorgeous fresh and unique fragrance, so makes an ideal and long lasting cut foliage for the house too. Grows best in full sun or light shade, it works well in larger pots, when trimmed twice a year, or grow as a specimen in lawns and borders, or even form a hedge with it, as in all these settings you get all round leaf colour.
What could be more perfect this winter than a twist on a Christmas classic? Create stunning festive displays, frame doorways and entrances or adorn patios and conservatories, with this pair of standard Holly Trees.With a slight blush tinge to the beautiful, deep-evergreen, classic holly leaves and with their rich red berries, they'll look stunning for many years to come and what's best is that these holly trees can be enjoyed year-round, not just at Christmas, thanks to their evergreen nature.This new variety is a female (berry producing) form and is a very prolific berry producer*, so it will bud up and produce masses of rich, red berries in future years. These bushes are slow growing and easy to manage - just one trim a year will keep that standard tree form.Each pair is supplied with a pair of classic 27cm diameter planters that have been hand-finished in a beautiful gold paint, each one unique, for you to plant your hollies into for maximum impact. This also makes them the perfect gift to give to friends, family or neighbours this winter... *this female plant will carry berries in autumn and early winter months. However, trees may arrive with artificial berries.