Also known as New Zealand Flax, Phormium 'Evening Glow' is a robust, fully hardy evergreen which forms a dense clump of sword-like leaves - a really great plant for adding a bit of a statement to your garden. Stunning in a border and stylish in a container, this recently introduced phormium plant has particularly attractive, bright red, lustrous foliage highlighted with a bronze edge, and is a compact form - meaning that it won't overshadow everything in your garden plus you can grow it in a pot! Phormiums prefer a hot dry site (although will tolerate partial shade) and make a great candidate for a Mediterranean garden or a gravel garden where their upright leaves make a great foil for many other coloured plants. Easy to grow, phormium 'Evening Glow' is a compact form, and needs virtually no maintenance - it may even reward you with spikes of red flowers in late summer. Ultimately growing to around 1m, we supply well-established plant in a 3L pot ready for immediate planting.
Also known as New Zealand Flax, Phormium 'Jester' is a robust, fully hardy evergreen which forms a dense clump of sword-like leaves - a really great plant for adding a bit of a statement to your garden. Stunning in a border and stylish in a container, this phormium plant has particularly striking, apricot-pink and lime-green foliage, and is a compact form - meaning that it won't overshadow everything in your garden plus you can grow it in a pot! Phormiums prefer a hot dry site (although will tolerate partial shade) and make a great candidate for a Mediterranean garden or a gravel garden where their upright leaves make a great foil for many other coloured plants. Easy to grow, phormium 'Jester' needs virtually no maintenance - it may even reward you with spikes of flowers in late summer. Ultimately growing to around 1m, we supply well-established plant in a 3L pot ready for immediate planting.
Also known as New Zealand Flax, Phormium 'Golden Ray' is a robust, fully hardy evergreen which forms a dense clump of upright, strappy leaves - a really great plant for adding a bit of a statement to your garden. Stunning in a border and stylish in a large container, this phormium plant has striking green and yellow variegated leaves, edges with bronze. Phormiums prefer a hot dry site (although will tolerate partial shade) and make a great candidate for a Mediterranean garden or a gravel garden where their upright leaves make a great foil for many other coloured plants. Easy to grow, phormium 'Golden Ray' needs virtually no maintenance - it may even reward you with spikes of flowers in late summer. Ultimately growing to around 2m, we supply well-established plant in a 3L pot ready for immediate planting.
The perfect gift to celebrate a Silver Anniversary. This spectacular rose will give great pleasure to someone special for many years to come. An absolutely stunning rose, with almost flawless, pure-white flowers that contrast beautifully with its deep-green, glossy foliage Silver Anniversary will look brilliant wherever you plant it! Add to that a pleasant, sweet perfume and repeat-flowering, and it makes this rose the perfect present, giving enormous pleasure for many years! Note for Gifts: At checkout you can select if you would like to send this as a Gift. If you choose YES (or call our OrderLine), this will: • Allow you to enter a Gift Message, which will appear on the Delivery Note • Remove prices from the Recipients paperwork
Give your "true love" something really special this Valentine's Day - this spectacular rose bush will give them enormous pleasure year after year! Much better than buying expensive cut-flowers - because the pleasure lasts so much longer - your 'My Valentine' rose will arrive perfectly with your own personal message for your loved one, ready to plant and thrive in their garden or patio for years to come. 'My Valentine' is a simply gorgeous Hybrid Tea variety that will burst into full-bloom each year with and abundance of rich, berry-red, high-centred flowers - from May right through to the first frosts in late-autumn. Each flower carries a beautifully sweet, subtle fragrance too! Supplied as freshly lifted, professional grower-quality plants, in 3 litre pots. They are dormant at this time of year and will quickly establish and start shooting when planted.
This is a great little collection to fill those awkward spots most gardens have. Tolerating quite a bit of shade (or full sun), as well as most types of soils, these fab new little groundcover roses really are so versatile and easy to grow. From the newest of breeding, they are classified as 'Multiflora', meaning they produce hundreds of smaller flowers in summer and autumn, filling up gaps in beds and borders with a floriferous displays. Tried and tested in commercial landscape plantings where they get almost no maintenance or help, they form neat mounds of flowers, and have good disease resistance, so really are easy care. One trim back hard each spring before they start growing really is all they need, plus a couple of feeds a year. Simple! Supplied as established plants in 9cm pots, well-branched, they can be planted out any week of the year you can get a spade in the ground! In this Classic Collection, you get one each of: - 'Teeny Weeny Pink' - small mid pink flowers, with darker edge on cool nights -'Teeny Weeny White' - sister of the above, white flowers that have pink tinged edges on cool nights - 'Perle d'Alcanade' - a deep cerise red
This is a great little collection to fill those awkward spots most gardens have. Tolerating quite a bit of shade (or full sun), as well as most types of soils, these fab new little groundcover roses really are so versatile and easy to grow. From the newest of breeding, they are classified as 'Multiflora', meaning they produce hundreds of smaller flowers in summer and autumn, creating an absolute feast for the eyes whilst filling in all those gaps in beds and borders. Tried and tested in commercial landscape plantings, where they get almost no maintenance or help, they form neat mounds of flowers, and have good disease resistance, so really are easy to care for. One trim back hard each spring before they start growing really is all they need, plus a couple of feeds a year. Simple! Supplied as established plants in 9cm pots, well-branched, they can be planted out any week of the year you can get a spade in the ground! In this Fruity Collection, you get one each of: 'Giulietta' - lovely pale primrose yellow 'Baby Masquerade' - lovely peach melba two tone flowers 'Perle d'Alcanade' - cerise berry red
The soft, bright golden-yellow foliage of Cupressus 'Goldcrest' will provide your garden with healthy colour all year round and (in keeping with its name) gives off a fresh, lemon scent when foliage is crushed or cut - which is said to deter biting insects from that area of your garden. In the depths of winter, the cooler temperatures give the trees a deeper, richer colouration, giving you added visual impact in your garden. Also known as Monterey cypress, it's such a great all-round garden plant it has been awarded the coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit so you can be sure that it has been trialled and tested and declared garden worthy! Growing to 3-5m tall in 10 years, Goldcrest is naturally upright and slightly 'teardrop' shaped but can be trimmed to suit your required height and makes perfect topiary. It is very easy to manage and can be kept in post on the patio for many years, where it will happily sit at centre stage of your displays. Golden Scented Cypress will grow in virtually any soil and in any location from full sun to partial shade (although for the brightest of golden-yellow colour it is best in full sun and protected from drying winds). It is completely winter hardy throughout the entire UK and is virtually pest and disease resistant too. Supplied as 6 x plants in 9cm pots, ready for planting out into the desired location.
A compact and relatively new variety, 'Chic n Choc' is suitable for growing in a container on your patio or balcony and produces an abundance of noticeably scented blooms. Ideal for a pot or smaller space in sun or dappled shade, this is a honeysuckle that anyone can grow, whatever the size of your garden! With an impressively long flowering period from early summer until the end of autumn, this honeysuckle produces beautiful crimson-purple flower buds in early summer which open to reveal fragrant flowers of delicate pink-white that eventually saturate with warm golden-yellow. Even when not in flower, this is a honeysuckle to covet - its glorious red stems provide the perfect contrast to the elliptical blue-green leaves and as a semi-evergreen it will hold its own in the garden for longer. Easy to grow and maintain, with the only pruning required being a quick snip to keep it tidy, 'Chic n Choc' is also disease tolerant and fully hardy. Supplied as an established plant in a 2L pot, ready for planting straight out.
A spectacular feature plant for a border or even a large patio container, Magnolia denudata 'Sunrise' is a striking deciduous shrub that has a neat, compact shape, making it perfect for growing in small gardens. A recently introduced variety, this Compact Chinese Magnolia is truly magnificent when covered in its opulent and fragrant blossoms in spring. You'll be delighted when 'Sunrise' comes into its own, producing masses of unique, almost bicolour, 2-tone creamy goblet shaped flowers with a distinctive claret-red flame emerging from the base of each bloom. This tulip tree is really a sight to behold - just be prepared for everyone to ask you what it is! Easy to grow, this fully winter-hardy compact Magnolia makes an eye-catching focal point in smaller spaces, and its super-easy to look after - there's no fussy pruning or shaping, just keep it well-watered and undisturbed. Supplied approx 80-100cm tall and reaching just 1.8m (6ft) in 10-20 years, your Magnolia will be sent as a bare root plant, a cost-effective way to obtain this beauty, and is ready for immediate planting.
Acer palmatum 'Katsura' is a small, slow growing, deciduous tree with arching branches of orange filigree leaves, which puts on a spectacular, fiery show in autumn, making it ideal as a focal point in a small garden. This award-winning selection of Japanese Maple makes a wonderful feature or specimen plant. Never taller than a small tree, it is slow growing, forming an upright mound of cascading branches. Holder of an RHS Award of Garden Merit, this Japanese Maple is covered in pink edged, yellow-orange leaves from early spring, the canopy fades to green over summer, before erupting into an orange inferno in autumn. Grow Katsura in a large pot, or as a feature plant in mixed borders or your lawn - perfect both in modern, minimalist gardens, or a more traditional setting. Adds a lovely textural and colourful feel to your garden, which will last many, many years. Supplied as an established plant in a 17cm pot, ready to plant.
A garden raspberry absolutely ideal for growing in pots, not only is it compact, growing to just 80-100 cm high, but 'Little Red Princess (R)' fruits on this year's canes, so it's really easy to care for. You don't need a huge garden to enjoy the bright red fruits of 'Little Red Princess' raspberry - because its shorter growing, it's happy in a large pot on your balcony or patio, so anyone can now grow this fabulous berry. Even though it's compact, you'll be amazed a the bumper crop of berries that are produced from the first year! The raspberries are sugary sweet, medium-sized and regularly shaped and can be harvested from the middle of June on the side shoots of last year's canes and from the middle of August on this year's canes. Little Red Princess is easy to grow; it has an upright habit, so it does not need extra support and it is also thornless - making picking a breeze! No more nasty prickles! Supplied as an established plant, approx. 75cm high in a 5L pot.
Create an eye-catching and productive feature for your garden with this stylish 'wheat bundle' planter set with three established Elsanta strawberry plants. 'Elsanta' is one of the tastiest and most popular varieties of strawberry that you can grow at home and one of the leading commercial varieties, favoured for their juicy fruit and earlier, heavy cropping. Perfect for growing in patio pots and containers when you're short of space, the plants are in flower with fruit already setting and will be ready for picking in just a few short weeks - continuing up until around the middle of July - weeks-worth of mouth-watering fruit! Not only does 'Elsanta' produce bright and shiny orange-red fruits, but it produces pretty little flowers in the spring and rich deep-green foliage creating a very pretty ornamental plant in between fruiting seasons. The reproduction silver effect planter, is lightweight polypropylene and made with gardeners in mind, so you'll find that they combine good looks with functionality, having raised drainage holes and an internal reservoir to keep moisture in your pots for longer. Plus, as they're UV and frost resistant, they'll last for years, meaning that you can use them over and over again. The stylish wheat design has been brush painted to give an aged metallic look, creating the impression that you have a much more expensive planter, and is a decorative feature in its own right which you can use for many years to come. They're the perfect planting companion for Elsanta, where both pot and plant can bring out the best in each other, creating a fruitful, designer-style effect in no time at all.
Evergreen trees that suit the British climate are few and far between and this is a perfect example of one that will give all-round interest. With shiny, deep-green, leathery leaves, pretty cream autumn flowers and colourful fruit, the Strawberry tree deserves to be far more widely grown. This is an easy tree to grow anywhere and suits coastal regions too. It grows steadily, forming a nicely proportioned medium-sized bush, which is covered with lustrous foliage throughout the year. In autumn you'll enjoy panicles of creamy bell-shaped blooms, which are not unlike Lily of the valley in appearance and are are particularly welcome as winter approaches. The orange-red, globe-shaped fruits ripen in autumn from the previous year's flowers, giving the whole tree a very decorative look at this time of year. Fruits are edible but sharp-tasting when raw so best left on the tree for their ornamental value - although they can be used in preserves. Supplied as an established plant in a 3L pot, ready to plant out.
Add something a little bit different to your garden with these fantastic living willow standards. Their stems, hand-woven into standard form, create a visually stunning centrepiece for any garden, but once they burst into life with growth atop the stem, they can be used in pots and containers as eye-catching specimens or grown in multiples to create unique hedging and screening. The stems will not grow any taller so you can contain the maximum height of the plants, and they can be trimmed, just like topiary, to any shape or size you desire. Over 5-7 ytears the stems will grow togetehr to form an amazing feature 'trunk'. Totally winter hardy and happy both partial shade or full sun, these willow standards are a low maintenance, easy to care for plant that will reward you with an outstanding feature Plant in pots and place either side of doorways, gateways or entrances for a warm welcome to guests, or plant in groups in troughs or borders to separate off areas or create privacy - they're versatile, beautiful to look at and just so easy to grow. When the willow is first planted you can't water it enough! Keep well watered until it has formed a good clump of root.
A uniquely spectacular evergreen shrub, Fatsia japonica 'Spiders Web' produces impressive, serrated glossy-green leaves that are highlighted with a frosted lacework of light webbing giving interest in any season. Also known as the Japanese aralia or castor oil plant, mature Fatsia plants will go on to produce exotic umbrellas of creamy white flowers, followed by attractive deep purple, almost black berries. Definitely a plant for any gardeners, whether novice or seasoned pro, f. 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, dappled shade, making a glossy backdrop to other plants with their amazing palmate leaves. Compact enough to fit in a large pot on the patio where its architectural shape makes a dramatic, tropical feature, plants really need very little attention to give you amazing results especially if you're time strapped. Supplied as an established plant in 3L pot ready for planting straight out into the garden, grows to 2.5m, flowers September - October.
'Braeburn' in the most popular dessert apple in the UK. Discovered in New Zealand in 1952, it is named after the orchard where it was first grown. Famous for its incredibly juicy, firm, white fleshed fruits with greenish yellow skins streaked with orange and red, its flavour is considered to have a perfect balance of sweetness and acidic tartness. This refreshing taste sensation is what makes this such a popular apple. Beautiful pale pink blossom in April and May is followed by the large fruit that can be picked from late September. They keep very well if kept cool, easily lasting until January, so don't worry too much about the bumper crop that 'Braeburn' will deliver as you'll have plenty of time to enjoy eating it. Although it's a dessert apple, it's wonderful in puddings such as tarts because it maintains its shape and flavour and doesn't release too much liquid. 'Braeburn' is self-fertile, so it doesn't need another apple nearby to pollinate it. However, the already excellent harvest will increase further if there is one. Supplied as a bare root tree, 1.2 m (4 ft) tall on a dwarfing M9 rootstock, growing to a height and spread of 2.5 m (8 ft).
Lantana Evita is a striking colour-changing plant for summer bedding and patio containers with gorgeous glowing heads of orange and hot pink - an absolute stunner for your garden this year. Individual flowers emerge peach and deepen to a fabulous deep pink, and are carried above a mound of soft, corrugated leaves on semi-erect stems, making it perfect for pots, baskets and the front of your hot flower borders where the vibrant flowers can froth spectacularly in all directions. These easy to grow plants brighten any colour scheme, and they flower all summer from early June, right up to the first frosts. The verbena-like flowers attract a great range of pollinators, and your baskets will become a mecca for butterflies. Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
If you're looking for magnificent foliage colour that really stands out in the garden, then look no further than the aptly named polka dot plant. A vibrantly coloured annual plant used to add colour and texture to your hanging basket and container displays, this is a must have addition to the garden and worthy of a place in any planting scheme. With its striking-hued leaves the Polka Dot Plant is easy to grow and fabulous as a filler, brightening anywhere it's planted. Having won many awards internationally it's a guaranteed 'doer' and can be adapted as a houseplant too - so you don't even need a garden to appreciate its dazzling colours. The HIPPO (R) series features larger leaves than traditional Hypoestes and are much more vigorous, meaning that they will fill out much more quickly for a faster display and its upright habit makes it ideal in containers. *Design tip* plant with petunias for a super-designer look! Supplied as a collection of 6 plug plants (2 each pink, red, and white) ready to pot up and grow on. Plants reach 40cm (16in) x 20cm (8in).
Easy to care for, and simple to look after, begonias provide reliable, continuous colour throughout the summer until the first frosts. These brand-new, upright, large-flowered Majestic Patio Begonias are just the thing to create a strong focal point in your patio containers. Producing an abundance of flowers all summer long, the blousy, double blooms are big and bold in vibrant shades of blush and pink, each with a delightful pink picotee edging, and reach as much as 20cm (8in) across. Robust and strong, these begonias grow well in partial shade and will stand up to the worst of any poor weather, providing months of colour. You don't need much space to grow them either and they look great in borders too, flowering right through to October so extending the flowering season in your garden. Supplied as a mixture of 12 plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out. (please note that this is a random mixture and exact colours cannot be guaranteed).