These brilliant planters will bring your patio to life when planted up with gorgeous flowering plants! Perfect for bulbs, bedding and small shrubs, these wonderful metallic-effect planters will add an exquisite decorative look to your garden, without the cost of metal pots. The wide bowl-shaped design will give your plants all the room they need to thrive. You could even grow strawberries in them fresh for picking this summer! Manufactured from hard-wearing frost and UV resistant plastic, they are very durable. Using a brand-new process, they have been hand finished with a spectacular metallic effect to add visual value to your beautiful plants!
A wonderful way to add height and impact in your garden, this classic shaped garden urn with a contemporary finish brings an elegant touch to any garden. Standing at 40cm tall, it's perfect for creating a focal point in the garden with a feature plant such as a cordyline, golden cypress or similar plant with height, surrounded by bold summer bedding and perhaps some trailing ivies or foliage plants that will cascade over the edges. Perfect by doorways, gateways or line pathways and give a real grand look and feel to your home and garden. What's more, you won't get this Urn anywhere else - it's totally EXCLUSIVE to us! Height 40cm (16in)Diameter 36cm (14in)
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.
This exotic palm is sure to turn your garden in to a tropical paradise for years to come! Tough and architectural, these palms will make a striking addition to any garden, with their spiky foliage creating vivid, dancing shadows in the summer sun. With large, deeply ridged, fan-shaped leaves that will spread luxuriously out above the stout trunk, forming an impressive canopy of bright green foliage. Commonly called Cotton Palms because of their wisps of 'cotton' like strands that fall from each leaf, they provide a wonderful spectacle in any setting. Growing as tall as you let them, these stunning palms are perfect as a centrepiece, or to add height to borders. They'll also look great in a large pot on your patio. Semi-hardy down to -5°C, so provide winter protection or move potted palms to shelter. Supplied as an established 50-60cm tall plant in a 14cm pot. Plants will ultimately reach around 2m x 1.5m.
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!
A mixture of delicious 'hybrid berries' and the good old English blackberry, this collection of soft fruits will give outstanding results and a plentiful supply of juicy berries from late July into October. With a vigorous, rambling nature these berries will need support to get the best from them, and they make ideal plants to grow up a trellis or along walls, where their stunning early summer blossom provides a welcome source of nectar for all friendly pollinating insects. To enjoy the berries at their sweetest be patient and pick them when they are fully coloured and perfectly ripe, they're lovely eaten fresh and all of the varieties in this collection will make lovely preserves too. Fully hardy and able to withstand the worst of winter cold, the plants are vigorous and do need space to thrive, so allow 2-4m between plants and you'll enjoy bounteous yields every year. Supplied as established plants (1 of each variety) in 9cm pots: Loganberry ThornlessOne of the early so called 'hybrid berries' resulting from a raspberry x blackberry cross, Loganberries are a splendid plant to train along a wall or trellis. Producing juicy sweet berries from August to October, Loganberries have an aromatic tang and fruit which are larger and longer that it's raspberry parent. Tayberry The splendid tayberry is a hybrid plant resulting from a cross between raspberries and blackberries and bear some resemblance to both its parents.The deep red fruit resemble large blackberries but are sweeter and more aromatic. Blackberry ThornfreeEnjoy the exceptional taste of homegrown blackberries without the hassle of thorns.A compact and thornless variety, you'll be easily picking the bumper harvest of large berries from late July.
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.
'Ruby Beauty' is a new concept rapsberry patio fruit variety - a unique breeding sensation in that it produces masses of short-branched canes that reach no more than 1m (3ft 3in), with the added bonus of being thornless. Its thick clump of canes produces heavy crops of up to 1.5kg on each established plant in 2 years or so, and starts fruiting in June, so is an early starter. This award-winning variety has an excellent fruit flavour, as demanded by today's consumers, making this the perfect all-rounder. For best results, grow in a large pot about 30cm or so in diamneter, allowing room for growth over many years. Picking is at 80-100cm tall, so easy to net and easy to pick - perfect for children, too. Why not make a raspberry hedge for an unusual garden feature? Just plant them about 70cm apart. Supplied as an established plant in a 2L pot ready for planting.
One of the early so called 'hybridberries' resulting from a raspberry x blackberry cross, Loganberries are a splendid plant to train along a wall or trellis. It produces juicy sweet berries from August to October with an aromatic tang and larger and longer that it's raspberry parent. These are preceded by white summertime blossom which provide a nectar feast for all friendly insects. To enjoy the berries at their sweetest be patient and pick when they are purplish red and perfectly ripe, they're lovely eaten fresh and make lovely preserves too. This is a vigorous plant and needs space to thrive, allow 2-4 metres along wires or trellis and you'll enjoy bounteous yiels every year. Once fruiting is over prume away old canes leving freshnew growth in place as these will give fruit the following summer.
New patio raspberry 'Groovy' is just the thing for growing in a pot on your patio, but its golden-green leaves give a unique twist on the classic fruit plant. Excellent as both a fruit producing and ornamental plant, it will look great mixed in beds and borders but is also absolutely ideal for growing in pots and containers thanks to its naturally dwarf habit.From July it bears a bountiful crop of large sweet juicy red berries which are delicious eaten fresh from the bush and the canes are virtually thorn free making picking much more pleasant. What's more, because of its compact nature it will only grow to just under a metre tall so its easy to pick from but also easy to keep covered up to stop the birds helping themselves.Best of all, 'Groovy' is a primocane variety, bearing fruit on new wood therefore meaning you'll get fruit in the very first year - no need to wait a year for crops! Easy to maintain, it requires just a little prune to simply remove old canes once they are older than 18 months and that's it.An easy to grow, care for and tasty Raspberry plant packed full of healthy nutrition that both tastes and looks great!
Now you can pick this brand new and delicious summer superfruit from your own garden! This amazing Honeyberry is a type of sweet honeysuckle produces some of the healthiest fruits around, and best of all they taste great! The sweet, juicy fruits have a melt-in-the-mouth flavour that is similar to blackberries, with a hint of kiwi! They are rich in super-healthy vitamins and minerals, and contain even more antioxidants than blueberries! Simply wonderful in sauces, puddings, jams, jellies and desserts, you can even pick them straight from the bush for a yummy, healthy snack. These unusual and interesting additions to your fruit garden are self-fertile, and will produce their dark-blue, strange-looking, elongated fruits in abundance from this summer onwards, giving you bigger crops each year! Whats more, they have gorgeous berries and elegant, mid-green foliage, and they will look great in patio pots!
'Buddy' is recent introduction to everbearing strawberries and is taking the supermarket world by storm. Now we are delighted to be able to offer it to the home gardener to grow themselves. Everbearing Strawberries are great for spreading strawberry fruit production out. Starting slightly later than the Wimbledon peak, they have a big yield in mid to late July, but then keep going through August - peaking again in September and continuing to crop until first frosts! This makes eating and using the crops easier, not one huge glut! Everbearers have historically not been quite as good on the taste scores as traditional 'June bearers', but 'Buddy' breaks the mould here. It produces big fruit with great taste, and is the sweetest of any everbearer to date (winning many taste-tests), hence its popularity with supermarkets. And it is a great cropper too - commercial trials showed almost 1Kg per plant in year 2 and 3 (just over 2 pounds per plant). 'Buddy' also has good mildew resistance too, so suits home garden production, where none of want to use chemicals if not needed. Let Buddy become your best friend in strawberries this year.
What a fabulous idea! Conventional secateurs can soon rip a pocket (or worse), so these are the perfect solution to an age-old gardening problem. Keep these folding secateurs in your pocket wherever you go - they fold down to a pocket-friendly 9cm x 3cm, with no exposed edges, and feature a handy knife and mini saw blade cleverly concealed within the handles. The stainless steel blades cut woody stems up to 10mm diameter and soft stems up to 15mm - perfect for gardeners, hikers and walkers to tackle exuberant shrubs and unruly brambles. Supplied in a gift box complete with a storage pouch.
Also known as the Chinese money plant or missionary plant, Pilea peperomioides is a compact, upright houseplant with unusual, rounded mid-green leaves carried on long, arching stalks. Originating from southwestern China, this is still quite a rare plant and it's unlikely that you'll see it for sale in your local garden centre. A beautiful plant, its lily pad style leaves look lovely as they move in the breeze. Pilea loves lots of bright, indirect sunlight and reacts amazingly quickly to it, having a tendency to grow all of its leaves in the direction of the light. As it grows quickly, it's a good idea to rotate the plant a couple of times each week so that you get a straight central stem with leaves in all directions. Very easy to grow and care for, Pilea enjoys good light and high humidity and will appreciated regular misting, and if you notice the leaves starting to curl, this means the plant isn't getting enough light. Fully deserving its coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, you can be sure that this is a proven performer, guaranteed to be suitable for UK plant lovers at every level of experience. You can therefore grow this houseplant with confidence. Supplied as a potted plant in a 13cm nursery pot, growing to a height and spread of 50cm (20in).
After a hard day's work in the garden, here is the perfect product to help you unwind and soothe those general aches and pains, minor injuries or areas of tension. It makes a perfect treat for yourself as well as an ideal gift for your loved ones. Just heat this flaxseed-filled body wrap gently in the microwave, and when you mould it to your body, it will give out a relaxing heat and release its naturally healing lavender aroma. Also use chilled straight from the freezer as a cooling compress to reduce inflammation, or ease sprains, bumps and bruises, to relieve headaches and migranes, or even to keep you cool on a hot day. The soothing body wrap is designed to fit comfortably around the neck, over a shoulder, around an arm or leg, across the stomach or around the lower back. Made with 100% pure cotton cover, our body wraps are filled with flax seeds and fragranced with lavender essential oil, to create a therapeutic wrap that can be used hot or cold.
Own something brand new and unusual the worlds first ever Pinkberry and pick your own crop of delicious fruit each year from next season! From the blueberry family, these lovely fuchsia-pink coloured Superfruits are packed with healthy antioxidants and, best of all they are sweeter and juicier than regular blueberries. Put them into your summer puddings or eat them fresh from the bush with some ice cream scrumptious! Pink Blueberry 'Pink Sapphire' reliably bears fruit and which is ready to eat in late-August each year. These incredible plants will even provide an explosion of fiery-orange coloured autumn foliage. Theyll grow into a bush of about 90cm (3ft), and grow best in acidic or ericaceous soils, like all members of this family.
Create a striking floral display this summer using this beautiful Summer Collection of three Alstroemerias plugs. Make your garden come alive with the gorgeous colours of Alstroemerias (Peruvian Lilies). Perfect plants for beds and borders, and if space is limited, they are more than happy in a pot to brighten up your terrace, patio or balcony. A robust alstroemeria with masses of funnel shaped flowers produced over a long period, Incas will grow into a clump over time and give you a continuous supply of cut flowers all summer. Perfect to soften the edges of paths, they also mix well with other plants in the border, sending up shoots that are topped with their amazing spotted flowers from June to November. A clump-forming perennial that grows to just 30cm (1ft) tall, Incas are best grown in full sun or light shade in a sheltered spot, with well-draining, fertile soil to keep the fleshy roots happy. In this collection you will receive: 1 x Alstroemerias Summer Breeze Plug - Dark green foliage with gorgeous yellow and orange blooms that are detailed with brown speckles. 1 x Alstroemerias Summer Break Plug - Funnel shaped bright pink flowers with glossy dark green leaves. 1 x Alstroemerias Summer Saint Plug - Superb dark pink blooms with brown speckles that flower for five months. Naturally hardy to about -7°C, they will survive most UK winters in well drained spots and emerge bigger and bolder year after year. Very easy and low maintenance - just beware slugs on new spring growth and apply a winter mulch to protect the crown!
This incredibly colourful, strong-growing perennial collection will transform your garden this year into a wonderful wash of cottage-garden inspired colour. It will provide an amazing display of showy flowers, foliage and long-lasting structure to your garden with colour commencing in late May and continuing all summer long until late October - a brilliant display lasting 6 months! Each of these fantastic plants has been carefully chosen to provide amazing displays from late May right through to late October, so you can really add colour, impact and structure to your garden all spring and summer long! You'll get 12 different varieties that are bursting with vigour and vivid colour, delivered nursery-fresh straight to your door, ready to thrive in your garden for years to come.When in full colour, they will attract all manner of beneficial insects in to your garden including butterflies, ladybirds and honey bees to your garden - perfect for nature lovers and fruit and veg gardeners where pollination is so important! Main varieties Included (but not guaranteed): Achillea 'Summer Berries', Delphinium 'Pacific Giant Mix', Digitalis (Foxglove) 'Dalmation Mixed', Hollyhocks 'Chaters Double Mixed', Coreopsis 'Early Sunrise', Gaillardia 'Mesa Mix', Geum 'Lady Stratheden', Aquilegia 'Mrs Scott Elliot', Alchemilla mollis, Campanula 'Blue Bells', Verbena bonariensis, Rudbeckia 'Goldsturm'. Due to their very hardy nature, these are perfect for gardeners with little experience or time, or anybody who wants something reliable that will flourish again and again. These can be grown in beds, borders, pots, or containers, and many of the bright blooms make excellent cut flowers that can be brought indoors too. Each one will die back in autumn, only to return with bigger, better displays the following spring!
These windowsill propagators provide the perfect environment to grow on plugs and seedlings before you plant them out into your garden. Shaped to fit onto any windowsill so now even those with the absolute minimum of space can grow on their own plants. Each propagator acts like a miniature greenhouse giving plants warmth and light when potted. Once established, take off the lid to toughen up the plants before planting. This pack contains 3 propagators, each holding 30 plants so you can grow on up to 90 plants at a time. They are completely reusable. It is incredibly easy to grow on plants yourself, rather than buying more established plants at expensive garden centre prices! Dimensions (cm) 52 long x 16 wide x 14 high (including lid/cover). NB colour of plastic base is not guaranteed.