This incredible new Hydrangea variety will truly impress with its eye-catching, multi-coloured flower heads. This new take on the traditional mop-head hydrangea has incredibly vivid flower heads, made up of multiple individual florets. Each one is a jaw-dropping pink-red, with a bright blue centre, and tipped with lime green. These highly unusual plants will really stand out in a border or pot on your patio. Depending on the acidity of the soil they are planted in, the colours can vary, so why not plant them in different soils for vibrant and varied displays. They are beautiful but incredibly tough and fully UK winter hardy.
Imagine, the perfect plant to attract attention to your garden, and deserving pride of place where it can shine throughout the year. This addition to the popular 'Annabelle' series of hydrangeas has the same dramatic flowerheads but with an added bonus - gorgeous, colour-changing, pink blossom. As the buds emerge the backs of the petals are a rich shade of raspberry, so when young, the overall impression is of quite a strong pink. Then, as the buds open, they reveal a lighter upper surface, giving an overall softer shade when the flowers have opened fully. Over the course of the summer the colour becomes even paler, and eventually the big heads take on a subtle, greenish tone. The show doesn't stop there though as after the flowers have faded and fallen, a skeleton of fine filigree remains to catch the frost and sparkle in the low winter sunshine - adding to its year-round interest. Really easy to grow and a great plant for a newbie gardener, 'Sweet Annabelle' blooms on new wood, unlike older varieties which only bloom on the old, so you'll continue to bloom year on year, all throughout the summer, regardless of pruning or extreme weather. An invaluable addition to the mixed or shrub border - as well as a large patio pot - this is a hydrangea that you don't want to be without. Supplied as an established plant in a 3L pot.
The exuberant flower heads of Hydrangea 'Vanille Fraise' are what transform an ordinary paniculata hydrangea into an extraordinary paniculata hydrangea! Turning from vanilla-white, through shades of pink as they age, to a sumptuous rich raspberry pink, these cones of starry flowers are an absolute dream! With flowers of many different shades of pink present on this hydrangea at any one time, Vanille Fraise is perfect for adding colour to in the late summer border and is particularly useful for north facing gardens where it will add colour and light. Vanilla Fraise also makes a great cut flower and the glorious heads can also be dried and sprayed for a stunning winter decoration. Very hardy and easy to grow, the loose cone-shaped clusters of blooms form at the tips of red-stemmed branches in summer. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot ready for planting out.
A particular favourite at the moment with florists, hydrangeas feature in many contemporary designs of both bouquets and cut flowers and are known the world over for their fabulous heads of blossom. Easy to grow and a breeze to maintain, 'Madame Emile Mouillère' is a compact hydrangea with large oval leaves and rounded mopheads of white, serrated florets that become lightly suffused with pink when grown in full sun. With an abundance of flowers from May onwards this is an hydrangea that will bring a delightful and stylish show to your garden for months, allowing you to create beautiful flowering displays in beds and borders and also in dried flower arrangements - a truly year-round plant. Compact enough to grow in pots and planters on the patio or decking, the eye-catching flowers of Madame Emile Mouillère retain their beauty for a very long time. To extend the seasonal interest, leave some flower heads on the plants over winter where they look gorgeous covered with frost, and of course they'll provide shelter for overwintering wildlife. 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 an established plant in a 3L pot, ready for immediate planting out. Flowering from May onwards and reaching 1.8m (6ft) but can be kept compact by pruning.
Just imagine, the perfect way to create designer-style combinations for baskets and containers with minimal effort on your part! Well we've done the hard bit for you and 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 'Fruit Salad' plug collection is the best solution for time-strapped gardeners. Carefully tested by our growers to ensure they blend together, this vibrant range of plants will fill your garden with glorious colour with no fuss - making you look like a gardening 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 of Orange, Blue and White! Trailing up to 60cm (24in) this 'Fruit Salad' collection plugs are supplied as a mix of 12 plugs of Calibrachoa Dark Blue, Calibrachoa Sunrise, and Lobelia Laura White. Calibrachoa's small petunia-like flowers add a delicate feel. The blue and the apricot-yellow blooms of the 2 varieties included appear from mid-summer to the first frosts, making them a long-lasting and colourful addition to baskets and containers. Lobelia is the iconic hanging basket plant, producing masses of tiny flowers. Fast growing, this white variety quickly fills a large space in any basket! Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
Have you ever looked at other people's baskets and pots and wished that your displays could look as good? Well now you can! Introducing the perfect way to create designer-style combinations for baskets and containers with minimal effort on your part! Well we've done all the hard work and put together the ideal combination of flower shapes and colours to give you dazzling displays this year that will make you the talk of your street! Perfecting pots and creating containers full of colour has never been easier with our range of hand-picked plug plants, chosen to give you a beautiful display of harmonious colour and form. Our 'Sherbet Lemon' plug collection has been carefully tested by our growers to ensure that the plants complement each other, to fill your garden with glorious colour with no fuss - making you look like a gardening 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 of Yellow, Blue and White! Bidens is the classic yellow basket plant covered with tiny sunflowers and trailing, ferny foliage, which contrasts perfectly with the deep blue of lobelia and the ice white of Verbena. Merging together in a perfect symphony of colour, you can't get a better mix for your pots and baskets. Trailing up to 60cm (24in) this 'Sherbet Lemon' collection of plugs are supplied as a mix of 12 plugs of Bidens Port Royal, Lobelia Laura Deep Blue, and Verbena Samira White ready for you to pot up and grow on before planting out when all risk of frost has passed.
Quick and easy, we've selected the best mix of colours to give you amazing results. The perfect solution for gardeners who have been scuppered by the winter, this collection is guaranteed to give you fabulous results - just plant them up, water them and let them do their thing. Consistent and predictable results every time, the Patriotic Petunia Collection is a spectacular profusion of tiny petunia flowers in red, white and blue. You can rest assured that the collection will flower together in perfect harmony in a glorious patriotic tribute. Giving you superb colour in your garden all summer long, our top quality, UK-grown plants are the easy way to a perfect garden display this year! Supplied as 12 x plug plants in a mixture of red, white and blue, ready to grow on before planting out.
Also known as the Strawflower or the Everlasting flower, this daisy-like plant is related to Helychrysums - a popular cottage garden plant that is enjoying a bit of a comeback. The attention-grabbing flowers are what makes this garden annual so unusual and what gave it the name of 'everlasting flower' - you really must grow them to see what the fuss is all about! As the big, intensely yellow blooms of Granvia Gold mature, they develop a deep orange centre giving the plant a bright golden glow. But that's not its most unusual feature - if you touch the petals, you'll be amazed to find that the actually feel like paper! Compact and easy to grow, these bushy annuals make perfect container plants - ideal for brightening up patios and balconies as they can be moved wherever you want them. Easy to grow and great for filling gaps in borders, they provide long lasting colour and make an excellent cut flower, lasting for weeks - even months if you hang a bunch up to dry for a couple of weeks after picking. Supplied as 6 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out. Plants reach H50cm (20in) x W50cm (20in).
Busy Lizzies are one of the most popular summer bedding flowers and it's not hard to see why. Combining a tough, weather resistant bloom with the beauty and floral pizazz of the most delicate of flowers, the 'New Guinea' group of Impatiens brings a lush, tropical feel to containers, beds and baskets! In a mix of stunning bright colours, busy lizzies sit against a backdrop of tough deep-green leaves that frames the floral display perfectly. Although they may look beautiful and delicate, New Guineas are strong and vigorous growers that will withstand our topsy-turvy summer weather - wet and cold or dry and hot, these Impatiens will continue you to provide you with stunning displays all summer long. Robust and healthy, plant them roughly 30cm apart and they will cover beds and borders to create a carpet of colour or alternatively, plant in pots and containers and watch as a ball of reds, whites and pinks explode over the top. Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out. * Please note that plugs are mixed colours and we cannot guarantee the colours that you will receive.
Lofospermum Wine Red (creeping Gloxinia) will add a unique dimension to your summer hanging baskets the flowering trails will reach over 1.2m (4ft) long by the end of the season and almost touch the floor! The lovely trumpet-shaped flowers contrast brilliantly with the lush green foliage and look incredibly tropical. Lofos is a very fast grower, with the foliage tending to establish first and then, once the warm summer days arrive in June, the pretty flowers will commence, continuing thereafter right until first frost in the autumn. A very special and unusual summer flowering plant and if you have never grown it before, its one that is not to be missed! Supplied as 12 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
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.
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!
A striking combination of yellow petals and an orange centre, this double-flowered osteospermum certainly has the WOW factor. Perfect for all manner of container displays and border planting, this is a variety that can't be missed! With abundant heads of bloom to fill your pots, the cheery yellow blooms will be sure to attract plenty of wildlife into your garden as well as attention from your gardening friends! This wonderful combination of colour makes the perfect summer combination and the daisy-like blooms of 'Banana Shake' are produced in profusion for months on end. Ideal for pots and borders, osteos are sun lovers, opening in response to the sun and grow best in moist, well-drained soil. Flowering from spring to autumn, the uniform, compact plants will tolerate light frost as well as heat and drought, plus being easy to grow and needing very little in the way of aftercare, they're the perfect variety for your garden. Supplied as 6 x plug plants, ready to pot up and grow on before planting out.
A new introduction and a worthy plant for your borders and pots this year, these bedding plants have been bred to perform really well in your garden and are ideal when grown in containers. With two different flower colours on the same plant, each one is smothered in both pastel pink and also yellow flowers, this Marguerite Daisy will flower its little heart out all summer and into autumn, filling your garden with dazzling, colour-changing blooms. Really easy to grow and ideal for beginner gardeners, the compact plants are well branched, meaning that you'll get plenty of flowers. Good for wildlife too as each daisy is held above the finely divided, feathery leaves, making them stand out even more, creating a mecca for butterflies and other pollinators. Supplied as 6 x plug plants, ready to grow on before planting out.
A gorgeous combination of apricot and lilac, just like the colours of a twilight sky in summer, the daisy-like flowers of Osteospermum 'Purple Sun' will fill your garden with fiery colour. From spring to autumn, the uniform, compact plants make 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. The wonderful combination of colours are the perfect summer combination and their daisy-like blooms are produced in profusion. Ideal for containers and borders, osteos are sun lovers and grow best in moist, well-drained soil. Easy to grow 'Purple Sun' will tolerate light frost as well as heat and drought and need very little in the way of aftercare.Supplied as 6 x plug plants, ready to pot up and grow on before planting out.
Just like its purple cousin, 'Tropic Sun' is a stunning combination of sunny, vibrant colours. Perfect for all manner of container displays and border planting, this is a variety that can't be missed! With abundant heads of bloom to fill your pots, the cheery yellow blooms with their lilac centres will be sure to attract plenty of wildlife into your garden. This wonderful combination of colour makes the perfect summer combination and the daisy-like blooms of 'Tropic Sun' are produced in profusion for months on end. Ideal for pots and borders, osteos are sun lovers, opening in response to the sun and grow best in moist, well-drained soil. Flowering from spring to autumn, the uniform, compact plants will tolerate light frost as well as heat and drought, plus being easy to grow and needing very little in the way of aftercare, they're the perfect variety for your garden. Supplied as 6 x plug plants, ready to pot up and grow on before planting out.
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.
Also known as Justicia rizzinii, this winter-flowering shrub is also known as the Brazilian Fuchsia on account of its amazing yellow and scarlet fuchsia-like blooms. A sight to behold when in full bloom, this evergreen is a compact, tender variety growing to around 60cm (2ft) in height and making an ideal conservatory or heated greenhouse plant that can live short-term outside as a summer patio plant. Although it need protection from frost, the reward that you get is well worth the little extra effort - flowering from late autumn to early spring the dainty nodding clusters of tubular blooms are around 2cm in length and contrast magically with its small, oval, dark green leaves. 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 grow this plant confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come. Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready for potting on.