Similar to the popular rock rose, this low-growing shrubby perennial has small, rosemary-like leaves and delicate saucer-shaped yellow flowers, adding a subtle lemon hue to planting schemes. An attractive evergreen that will thrive in a sunny spot, this Mediterranean native will excel in gravel gardens and in pots on a sun-baked patio. Perfect when combined with lavenders and other drought tolerant plants, it makes an exciting addition to your garden. Compact and ideal when grown in containers, plants will reach just 50cm x 50cm, so won't overrun your garden. Flowering from May to August, we supply an established plant in a 2L pot, approx. 20-25cm tall (inc. pot) ready for planting out.
A sumptuous and stunning newcomer to our range of Hardy Fuchsias, Delta's Sarah (or Delta's Sara, as it is also known) produces large, white and violet-blue flowers, which cascade from its branches throughout summer and into autumn. With a really unusual colour break of a lavender-blue to purple corolla, against purest white sepals, this bush fuchsia really stands out among other plants and makes an eye-catching display in borders and patio containers year after year. Delta's Sarah produces spectacular semi-double, unusually coloured blue flowers, up to 6cm (2½in) in diameter, with superb weather resistance, so you really can't get a better hardy fuchsia! Compact and robust, these hardy fuchsias are perfectly proportioned for small borders or patio containers - so anyone can grow them, even if you don't have a garden to plant them out in! Growing to around 1m (3ft), we supply a pack of 12 premium-quality Jumbo Plugs, ready to be potted up and planted out when all danger of frost has passed.
Seen in some of the swankiest gardens across the country, lavender hedges are easy to create features that will delight all the senses for many years. The silvery grey foliage and pure purple blooms are packed with a heady scent and will provide you a colourful spectacle from early to mid summer. The purple flowers are also a magnet to bees, butterflies and other beneficial creatures, which will have your garden buzzing with wildlife - literally! Growing up to 60cm tall, a hedge of traditional English lavender can be used in many ways. Try planting it around beds, borders or paths, to divide up parts of your garden or to make an eye-catching parterre or knot garden space plants 30cm apart. Once established, a lavender hedge is extremely drought tolerant. Keep it in great shape by pruning twice a year; trim lightly in mid to late summer, removing spent flower heads. Prune again in early spring, removing about 2.5cm of growth.
Lavender 'Munstead' will transform your garden with colour and incredible fragrance! These traditional cottage garden favourites are proven winners in UK gardens & ideal as a fragrant hedge or border make sure you plant them somewhere youll be able to catch the magnificent scent! They will attract bees and other pollinators perfect for fruit tree growers! Theyll stay compact, reaching 45-60cm (1-2ft) tall. Very hardy, incredibly easy to grow, and drought tolerant keep them in great shape by pruning twice a year in spring and late summer. You can even cut the stems to make fragrant indoor dried displays!
Something that plants lovers have been waiting for - 'Kleims Hardy' is the world's very first, fully hardy Gardenia variety and can survive outside in temperatures as low as -10C! Just as stunning and as fragrant as its indoor relative, the snowy white, waxy flowers of Gardenia Kleims completely smother its glossy, evergreen leaves from early June onwards, opening from tight buds to exquisite pinwheels. The scent of gardenias is so gorgeous its often used in perfume, so imagine sitting on your patio this summer surrounded by its intoxicatingly sweet fragrance - heavenly - and something that your friends and family will be sure to remark on. A beautifully compact shrub, Gardenia Kleims Hardy is very easy to grow and simple to care for. Simply plant it in a pot or a garden border, preferably using ericaceous compost, and it will happily grow and flourish outdoors all year round.Supplied as an established plant in a 15cm pot, ready to plant out.
A cracking new selection of the ever-reliable and easy to grow Escallonia, this lovely compact shrub combines glossy evergreen foliage with 4 months of summer and autumn colour from its notably larger blooms than most other Escallonia! Producing clusters of candy pink flowers in early summer, often reblooming well in autumn, 'Pink Elle' is ideal for forming a decorative low hedge or filling in gaps and in beds and borders with its barrage of flowers contrasting against year-round evergreen foliage. It will remain compact, growing to around 1.2m tall and wide, producing a nice even bush, perfect for larger pots that can be placed around the patio. A brilliant flowering shrub, its flowers are very attractive to pollinators which will not only bring your garden to life with the buzz of bees, butterflies and other beneficial insects but will help with the performance of other plants in the garden. Easy to care for, tough and very rewarding, 'Pink Elle' is an RHS 'Perfect for Pollinators' plants and a great new introduction to the Escallonia family!
A real gem for winter gardens, producing long lasting floral displays from late October through winter into spring. Clusters of really fragrant, pale to deep pink, long-lasting flowers just seem to keep going and going in winter! A compact shrub at 2.5m tall or so after 10 years, it is easy to manage, and very hardy once established. Some flowers may get frost damage in extreme cold, but new ones appear quickly, and the plant is unharmed. Preferring a sunny spot, it can be grown in large pots. Because of its stunning fragrance and winter displays, plant it close to where you can smell it and see it regularly!
As pretty as one of Monet's masterpieces, this delightfully small and compact flowering shrub really has the most beautiful 3-colour foliage. Perfect for mixed borders and containers. Reaching around 1m in height and width, Weigela 'Monet' is a lovely spring-flowering shrub, with big, lipstick-pink tubular flowers in spring. However, the real highlight is its foliage which forms a neat mound of pink-blushed leaves. Each green leaf is edged with a variable cream variegation, with varying tints of rose-pink flushing throughout. Variegation will change depending on light exposure - whiter variegation develops in shade and deepest pink in full sun - nevertheless a picture wherever it is grown! Due to its compact nature, it's perfect in pots as a feature plant or in the front of smaller gardens. Easy to grow too, so makes the perfect plant for new gardeners or those who prefer to spend less time maintaining and more time enjoying. Supplied as an established plant in a 3L pot, ready for planting out. and reaching 60-100cm high and wide. Flowers mainly in May but can flush again in summer.
What could be better than the sweet, heady fragrance of a daphne in the garden! Recently introduced to UK gardens, this daphne is a superb alternative to the popular 'Eternal Fragrance' and will provide you with flowers for months on end - often right up to autumn. 'Pink Fragrance's' perfumed blooms are produced in abundance from April until October every year and being a compact and slow-growing variety' it's perfect for smaller gardens or for growing in a container on your decking or patio. One of the remarkable things about this beautiful semi-evergreen is that rather unusually for a daphne, it produces flowers on new growth, meaning the lovely pink blooms just keep on coming right through the summer. Grow it in a pot and place on the patio or near a garden path so you can fully enjoy the delightful scent. Height and spread 90 cm (3ft). Supplied approx. 20 cm tall in a 9cm pot.
Guaranteed to dazzle, this beautifully formed mophead hydrangea makes a unique garden plant and is perfect to give as a gift. While many hydrangeas start their blooming with a hint of green before colouring up, 'Rhapsody' maintains its green colour right up to autumn, where it ends the season with a brief touch of flame red before the leaves also take on fiery tones before falling. Compact enough for container gardens and small spaces 'Rhapsody' will grow into a loose mound of large leaves, and this glamourous hydrangea makes a statement wherever it is planted. Even when grown in a pot, 'Rhapsody' will bring an attractive touch to your decking, patio or balcony. Being a mophead, the large flower heads consist of sterile coloured bracts which look like flowers and these are super as cut flowers for both summer colour and dried winter arrangements. Easy to grow and relatively compact - it reaches just 1.5m (5ft) high and wide - this is a hydrangea which can be grown by anyone whatever their level of experience. Supplied as an established plant in a 3L pot, ready for planting out or potting on.
With rosettes of deep burgundy, almost black leaves, growing elegantly on palm-like trunks, Aeonium 'Schwarzkopff' is something different for you. It also produces pretty little yellow flowers in spring! This unique plant is stunning as a houseplant, but you can also grow it in a pot in a sunny spot! They are extremely drought tolerant they dont like being in moist soil, so grow them in pots, in soil mixed with 50% grit and sand. They are not hardy though, so make sure you bring them indoors in winter before the cold weather sets in. Slow growing, they will reach around 40-50cm (16-20) tall in about 3-4 years, and will make a spectacular plant for a windowsill or tabletop.
If you would like to grow your own tall, strong stems of cut flowers, for harvest late this summer and in to the autumn months these are the perfect plants to grow. They will flower from August and into October, with each plant giving you approximately 5-6 stems for cut flowers. They are ready to pick as soon as the first few flowers Break Bud, which means start to show some colour when they get to this stage, cut the stems quite low down, around 15cm (6') from the ground level, and remove the lower leaves from the cut stems prior to plunging them in to a tall vase of cold water. As an indoor display, they will last at least 2 weeks, but do change the water every few days as this keeps them in the best possible condition. When grown exclusively as a border plant, give them some support with a bamboo cane and position them towards the back of a border where they will brighten your garden just when so many other plants are coming to the end of their season.
Garden Bloom Chrysanthemums bear a single large flower rather than the multiple flowers that Spray types produce. These are really fashionable with top florists and command very high prices per stem, so if you grow your own you can have a magnificent display indoors and out and also save a small fortune! Throughout the growing season, remove the side shoots on a fortnightly basis (these are the little growths between the leaves and the stem) as this directs all of the energy in to the single large top flower. They bloom from September to October, so they make a perfect companion to the spray chrysanthemums, with each plant giving you approximately 3-4 stems of cut-able flowers. They are ready to cut as soon as you see the first sign of colour appearing and when they get to this stage, cut the stems quite low down, around 15cm (6') from the ground level, and remove the lower leaves from the cut stems prior to plunging them in to a tall vase of cold water. As an indoor display, they will last at least 2 weeks, but do change the water every few days as this keeps them in the best possible condition. Support them throughout the growing season with a strong bamboo cane per plant. Although a little more work is involved in growing Bloom Chrysanthemums, the quality and impact of the flowers will more than repay you for your effort!
This incredible Pansy Frizzle Sizzle mix is an exquisite and unusal mixture of multi-layered, frilly flowers, many of which have delicate 'cats whisker' markings. Something really different for winter colour and interest.A dazzling array of fruity colours to brighten up your borders and patios, they will fill your garden with sweet fragrance; they are long flowering, very hardy and perfect for patio containers and flower beds or borders (plant 15cm apart). Pansy 'Frizzle Sizzle' are compact and will grow to about 15cm (6in), and perform best in full sun or light shade.Supplied as a pack of 20 Garden Ready Plants, to be planted up straight away.
An absolute gem of a winter flowering plant, little seen but a really good winter garden plant, not grown widely enough. In late winter and early spring, before there's much colour about at all, even before daffodils, it produces intriguing yellow and cream flowers, lightly scented, smothered over bare stems, as flowers are produced before the leaves. It is a relative of the Daphne, sharing it's preference for cool, lightly shaded spots. Martin distinctly remembers being blown away by the first sight and smell of this plant, a large specimen on a remote Dutch Nursery, on a wet, windy and grey February afternoon, but finding much stock has been a challenge. Now we have some, it deserves a space in many gardens.
The sheer brightness of colours in this French Marigold series opens up a whole range of colour theming opportunities in pots and borders. 'Bonanza' is a series of large anemone-flowered Marigolds, each flower to 5cm across, and is renowned for its easy natural branching habit, filling up space well. Plant about 20cm apart for a carpet of colour. Hot oranges, reds, and deep golden yellows and many with a mix of several shades in between - you can get hot, hot, hot with your plantings this year. They thrive in full, hot sun, but tolerate our rainy periods too. Supplied as 40 Pro Plug Plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Verbena are a really good little filler plant, their masses of small delicate pink, red, purple and white flowers, each with a small white eye, seemingly smother any gaps in baskets, pots, tubs and borders. Quartz F1 series has exceptional resistance to mildew, so is easy and trouble free, and performs well in hot and drought conditions too. Thriving in full hot sun, it also tolerates our more inevitable rain well too. Use dotted into mixed plantings with petunias, geraniums and busy lizzies, for a huge colour impact in Summer plantings. Supplied as 40 Pro Plug Plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Petunia 'Purple Joy' is dramatically different - seeing its blooms is like looking into the clear night sky. It produces masses of velvety purple-blue flowers with a host of pure white flecks and spots - just like gazing into a far-away galaxy - quite unique amongst any flower we have ever seen. When the plant is flowering in it's full glory through summer these a truly reminiscent of the constellations viewed above in the night. 'Purple Joy' forms a mound of gently trailing stems which is perfect for all baskets and patio planters. Blooming from May right to the end of summer. Deadhead frequently to keep the flowers coming. Such a striking and unusual plant! Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Petunias are, quite rightly, one of the mainstays of summer planting. With so many varieties in such an incredible range of colours and patterns, there's still room for more. 'Pink Joy' is strikingly unusual, with its abundant, fascinating flowers making it a real statement plant that's impossible to ignore! 'Pink Joy' produces masses of stunning flowers in the deepest magenta-pink splashed with pure white spots, and every single flower is different. Not only does it have unique, show-stopping blooms, but its gently trailing habit and freely growing stems are also perfect for pots and hanging baskets where the blooms will spill over the edges to create a waterfall of colour. Incredibly free-flowering from May right to the end of summer, it'll fill your planters to overflowing for a long lasting, vivid display. Plant on their own where they'll make fabulous features of bright colour, or mix up with other bedding such as Lobelia or Geraniums where the colour contrast will really stand out. Regular deadheading will produce more and more flowers. Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out. Growing to a height and spread of 50cm (20in).
The perfect partner for Begonia Illumination, Begonia Non-Stop is so named because of its prolific flowering characteristics it literally smothers itself in vibrant, brightly coloured double flowers permanently from late April until the first frosts in the autumn. It is really easy to grow in beds and borders as well as patio containers and has such a good reputation with professional growers it is an almost permanent feature in park displays. This is especially so because the faded flowers drop off without the need for dead-heading making way for fresh flowers without any work required! In your garden the large, slightly upward facing flowers which reach 10-15cm across, will be held on strong stems. They are really weather resistant and will thrive in any conditions from the hottest summer days to typically showery summer weather. The colour range is stunning with all shades of red, orange, pink, yellow and white included.Perfect for hanging baskets and tubs where the plants can trail. Supplied as 40 Pro Plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.