Plant labels that don't wash away... Among the frustrations of gardening life are plant labels that wash away in the rain or fade after only a brief time leaving prize garden plants or vegetables nameless.These six blackboard markers are a dream come true: write the name (or planting date) using the chalk pen for weatherproof naming.To re-use, simply wipe clean using methylated spirits and a cloth. Ideal for flower and vegetable gardens. Box Size 32 x 14 x 4 cm Includes 6 Markers plus pen Markers 24cm long, writing area 8 x 5.5cm
Use this easy to build kit to create a home for solitary bees and other insects in the garden. Fascinating to watch as bees lay their eggs in the holes and young ones emerge.Learn about bees using the spotter sheet.Gift of the Year Highly Commended 2020. Tin size 14.5 x 10.5 x 5.4cm Assembled Bee Hotel 9.5 x 11 x 9cm Recommended age: 6 plus
A wonderful collection of some of the most popular garden vegetables, each one chosen to give you a reliable, bumper harvest of scrumptious courgettes, tomatoes and cucumbers over a long season. These are all easy to grow outdoors and they're also happy in a green house. Supplied as 12 plug plants, ready to plant out when the danger of frost has passed, including 4 each of the follow varieties: Courgette 'Defender' - an enduring favourite and holder of a coveted RHS Award of Garden Merit, 'Defender' crops early and has a picking season that can be twice as long as other varieties, producing heavy crops of delicious and firm, mid-green courgettes. Harvest time is from July right through to October and the fruits should be picked when they're 10-15cm long. The plants will grow to 45cm high and 90cm wide. Tomato 'Buffalosteak' - a wonderful variety that will give you large and delicious fruit, full of flavour with rich and meaty flesh over a long season. This top-performing cordon tomato has been created using a technique similar to that used with fruit trees for generations - grafting a variety onto a strong, disease resistant rootstock to get the best of both. The result is a bumper crop of tasty, juicy tomatoes! Cropping from July until October, provide a sturdy support as 'Buffalosteak' can grow to 2m tall. Snack Cucumber 'Nimrod' - will produce bright yellow flowers followed by a bountiful harvest of small, delicious snack sized cucumbers that have bumpy deep green skins that are unusually thin, with pale green flesh that is crisp and refreshing to eat. A naturally trailing plant, grow it up a support where it will reach 3m in height. Pick regularly when young and tender between June and October to encourage more fruits over a longer period.
Introducing this magical and unique Buddleia, 'Flower Power', that has taken years of dedication from plant breeders to produce. The first hybrid Buddleia between normal types, and a yellow flowered species, it has gorgeous 'colour changing' spires of flowers, from purple to orange - and all shades in between! What a sensational new colour for hot summer borders and shrubberies. It retains the ability to attract Butterflies, hence the common name Butterfly Bush, in flower in Summer it will become a mecca for beautiful peacock and tortoiseshells. The bees will love it too - and repay you by pollinating crops for you! Hardy and easy to grow, its multicoloured displays of colour and sweet scent will last all Summer long. It is more upright and less bushy than more common Buddleia, and can quite lax in some cases, so may need some support in windy spots. Grow in well-drained borders in sunny spots for maximum Flower Power. Look forward to great Summer displays year after year.
Perfect for small spaces or patio pots, this apple will perform just as well as any other, but in an incredibly compact form! 'Bolero' is a Ballerina apple tree, grown to be naturally columnar in shape and almost without branches. As this is achieved by breeding instead of pruning, the tree will maintain its upright shape without the need for skilled pruning or training. 'Bolero' apples are sweet, crisp and juicy, medium sized, and ready to pick from September. Ideal for eating fresh or for cooking, this is a wonderful way to grow your own apples! Reaching just 2m in height after 5 years, Ballerina 'Bolero' is so easy to harvest as the apples naturally occur on small spurs close to the main stem instead of on branches. As well as being a productive fruit tree, it makes a spectacular ornamental tree when grown in a large pot, superb as a patio plant and wonderful displayed either side of a doorway or garden gate where you can really appreciate their lovely pink flushed, white spring blossom followed by a good crop of juicy apples. Supplied as a bare root tree, ready to plant, growing to 2m in 5 years.
Perfect for small spaces or patio pots, this pear tree will perform just as well as any other, but in an incredibly compact form! 'Decora' has been grown to have an upright, columnar form and almost no branches, achieved by breeding instead of pruning so that the tree will maintain its shape without the need for skilled pruning or training. The delicious fruit is firm and juicy and ready to pick from September. Self-fertile and growing to just 2m in height after 5 years, 'Decora' is so easy to harvest as the fruit naturally occurs on small spurs close to the main stem instead of on branches. As well as being a productive fruit tree, it also makes an ideal, eye-catching specimen when grown in a large patio pot where you can really appreciate the lovely spring blossom followed by a healthy crop of tasty pears. Supplied as a bare root tree, ready to plant and reaching 2m after 5 years.
A fantastic Lucky Dip collection of plug plants to fill up your garden pots, hanging baskets and borders, including some of our top-selling varieties! With a mixture of colours, sizes and fragrances, your garden will be transformed into a riot of colour that'll last all summer long and into autumn. Plant your bedding in groups to create drifts of gorgeous flowers, or dot them randomly through your beds and borders for a cottagey feel. This is a brilliant idea if you're not sure what you want to plant, and the result will be a fabulous display of dazzling flowers! Supplied as 120 perfect, nursery fresh plants, 40 each of 3 varieties, ready to pot on or plant out when the risk of frost has passed and may include, amongst others: Antirrhinum (Snapdragon) 'Twinny' - pastel pink, peach and yellow flowers. Begonia 'Non Stop', 'Apricot Shades' and 'Organdy' - Orange, red, yellow and pink. Coleus 'Wizard' - spectacular foliage in green, pink and maroon. Dahlia 'Figaro' - rich burgundy, orange, yellow and white double flowers. Dianthus 'Corona' - scented blooms in pink and purple. Gazania 'Tiger Stripes' - fiery oranges and purples with striking, contrasting stripes. Geranium 'Cabaret' and 'Zonal Ultimate Red' - clusters of dazzling scarlet, pink and white blooms. Impatiens (Busy Lizzie) 'Beacon' and 'New Guinea Divine' - bright red, pink and white flowers. Lobelia 'Crystal Palace' and 'Fountain Mix' - cascades of vivid blues, pinks and purples. French Marigold 'Bonanza' - hot shades of yellow, orange and deep red. Petunia 'Frenzy' - trumpet shaped flowers in red, yellow, white and shades of pink and purple. Verbena 'Quartz' - clusters of small pink, red, purple and white flowers Please note that although your collection will include some of the above, it may not include all of them, and there may be additional varieties to those listed.
These incredible Skyscraper Lilies grow so tall they look like trees! In their first year they will reach up to 1.5m (5ft) tall, but in future years, once they are fully established, they will get even taller up to 6 or even 7 foot tall eventually! These large flowered beauties arise as a consequence hybridisation between Oriental and Trumpet strains of lily hence the marriage of both species characteristics. Every flower carries a wonderful heady perfume and each individual stem can carry well over 20 blooms, which can measure well over 15cm (6in) across. This collection comprises of 9 top sizes bulbs, 3 of each variety, the same as used by commercial flower growers in Holland: - Conca d'Or - gorgeous soft lemon yellow - Robina - deep pink, verging towards berry purple - Matisse - cream-edged to red-purple centres, a classic two-tone Lily Grow all 3 in large pots about 15cm apart, or in groups in garden borders. They have very strong stems, so should not need support. Cut them for the long-lasting displays in the vase, or leave them to marvel at in your garden. Allow them to die down naturally after flowering, and they will build up reserves for even bigger and better displays the following year. Fully Winter hardy, they will last for many years.
These fantastically striking Primula vialii will provide a splash of vivid colour to borders and patio pots. Also known as the Chinese Pagoda Primrose or Orchid Primrose, their unique, violet-pink flower heads, each with a striking, bright-red, central spike rise majestically on slender, upright stems from the plant below. Perfect for shady borders or pots on the patio where they can get afternoon shade, these colourful Primula will certainly be a talking point, and look even better when grown in groups! Each of your plants will form a compact habit of deeply-veined, lance-shaped leaves that will grow to about 30cm long. During the winter, the foliage will die back, and the plants becomes dormant. Supplied as 3 x established plants in 9cm pots, ready to be planted out (Dormant Sept - Mar).
The Lawn luxury blend is perfect for creating a very high quality all-purpose lawn. Great for producing stripes, but also great for family life Composed of a premium blend of grasses: 5% Brown Top Bent, 10% Smooth Stalked Meadow, 10% Slender Creeping Red Fescue, 30% Chewings Fescue, 45% Turf Perennial Ryegrass It will quickly establish a resilient lawn, lush and smart enough to give a perfect appearance, but also tough enough for general use. You won't need to ask people to keep off it! Our luxury lawn seed is our range topping mix and a perfect all-rounder - not only will this produce a stunning appearance, it is also be hardwearing and pet friendly - perfect for busy gardens that want to maintain a pristine finish. Extremely hard wearing, a lawn grown with this mix will stand up to life as a playground for your family and pets, or as a venue for outdoor parties and; will remain looking great. Sowing is recommended between March - October, with the best results seen in Spring and Autumn. Supplied in a 1kg recyclable bag.
'Magic Pillow' is a very unusual, low growing ground cover hydrangea that's native to the hillsides of Korea and Japan. Living up to its name beautifully, it's covered in abundant flowers from June until September, creating a wonderful pillow of colour. The flower colour changes depending on the acidity of the soil. Alkaline soils will produce gorgeous pink blooms, whilst acid soil will give you strikingly bright mauve-blue. The flower heads open from the outside inwards, becoming fully with each day and although the stems are shorter than most hydrangeas, the flowers still make excellent cut flowers and dry well too. The foliage is lush and green with serrated leaves in spring and summer, and in autumn it transforms to incredible flaming red, orange and purple before they fall. As with all hydrangeas, the faded flowers look spectacular if left on the plant over winter. 'Magic Pillow' is an excellent ground covering shrub that will keep weeds under control and look particularly good at the front of a deep border or on a bank. Preferring light shade over full sun, it's also an ideal shrub for a woodland style garden. Supplied as an established plant in a 19cm pot, ready for planting and growing to a height of 60cm (2ft) and spread of 1.2m (4ft).
Brand new in 2021, Garden Pleasures is a wonderful collection of Dianthus caryophyllus. We have picked six of the best of this new variety to bring you a display of colour and fabulous fragrance to brighten your borders. Instantly recognisable, garden pinks (Dianthus) are one of the hardest working and reliable plants that you can get, producing masses of fragrant ruffled flowers. Blooming reliably all summer - often well into the autumn months - they will fill your garden with vibrant colour and their sweet clove-like scent on warm evenings. 'Lady Margo' bicoloured magenta flowers with a contrasting white edge. 'Rosy Rosalyn' bicoloured ruby red flowers with a contrasting pink edge. 'Aunt Agatha' bicoloured deep burgundy flowers with a striking white edge. 'Mrs Coho' stunning white flowers. 'Queen Helene' rich coral pink flowers. 'Blushing Bride' bright pink flowers. Garden Pleasures is a range of compact garden pinks that are heavily perfumed and will produce large, double blooms in a range of sumptuous colours throughout the summer. Ideal for growing in pots, and perfect for sunny beds or patio pots and containers. The richly-coloured blooms are held on sturdy stems above neat cushions of slender, leaves, making pinks not only a fabulous garden 'doer' but also superb and long-lasting as cut flowers for you to bring in and enjoy indoors, where their intoxicating scent will fill your rooms. Supplied as 12 x plug plants, 2 each of 6 varieties, ready to grow on before planting out.
Quick and easy, our pre-planted hanging basket is the perfect solution for gardeners who want perfect displays but don't know where to start. We've hand-picked the best plants for you, carefully choosing varieties of Petunia which blend together to create wonderful displays of riotous colour. Guaranteed to give you fabulous results, we've done all the work for you - just hang it up, water it and let it do its thing. Consistent and predictable results every time. Pre-planted, just waiting to cascade with colour throughout the summer. Producing endless waves of simply gorgeous flowers in multiple colours, our hanging basket comes ready planted with our top quality, UK-grown plants with no work required! Supplied as a pair of ready-planted baskets for immediate display featuring purple, blue vein, red, hot pink and blue Surfinias.
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 'Vitara' hanging baskets are instantly striking! In a mix of stunningly vibrant deep orange, magenta and white, busy lizzies sit against a backdrop of tough deep-green leaves that frames the floral display to perfection. Although they may look beautiful and delicate, 'Vitara' are strong and vigorous growers that will withstand the UK's unpredictable summer weather, from wet and cold or dry and hot, these Impatiens will continue to provide you with stunning displays all summer long, right up until the first autumn frosts. Resistant to downy mildew, which can otherwise cause the leaves to turn yellow and fall. Supplied as a pair of ready-planted green 25cm baskets for display.
Quick and easy, our pre-planted hanging baskets are the perfect solution for gardeners who want perfect displays but don't know where to start. Light up your summer garden with Begonia 'Tutti Frutti', covered with sumptuous flowers, ablaze with beautifully warm shades of red, apricot, orange and yellow. These colourful trailing beauties will give your garden the pizazz that will get heads turning - they'll be overflowing with spectacular colour all summer long and the super-strong blooms will continue look great even through the wettest weather. Guaranteed to give you fabulous results, we've done all the work for you - just hang them up, water them and let them do their thing. Consistent and predictable results every time. Pre-planted, just waiting to cascade with colour. Supplied as a pair of green 25cm (10in) diameter hanging baskets preplanted with Impatiens, reaching a height and spread of 45cm (18in).
Simply the best compost available to the gardener today and now available with reduced peat content!As part of our drive to improve our 'green credentials', from 2020 we have reduced the amount of peat in our compost. By increasing the percentage of wood fibre in the mix we have produced a greener and more environmentally friendly compost without compromising results. This is a bespoke professional mix made to our exacting recipe from one of Europe's leading blenders. It contains 50% composted wood fibre, to open the mix up and get air to the roots, and a precise blend of 3 different grades of peats to balance drainage and water holding. With added Lime, it is pH balanced to give the optimum growing conditions and with starter fertiliser and a wetting agent, to ensure even water distribution in pots and container, it will get your plants off to a head-start. On top of that it contains a 6 Month Controlled Release Fertiliser - meaning whatever you grow will get a slow and steady stream of nutrients for 6 Months. Under no circumstances should this compost be confused with cheap bags of low-grade black peats at DIY stores - you will feel the light and fluffy difference yourself and notice the difference in plant growth quickly. Perfect for pots, baskets and planters for growing any plants. Please note as this is a heavy item delivered by courier, there will be an additional postage charge added to your basket.
For those looking for a Peat-Free potting compost, our Multipurpose is carefully blended from a mix of composted coir (cocofibre), fine bark chippings for aeration, and a sterilised mixed organic green waste. This is then topped up with a 5:6:10 NPK fertiliser, plus 2.9% Magnesium, which gives all plants a good start in life. The Peat-Free Compost is fine enough for seedling and cutting use, yet coarse enough for general purpose potting on into tubs, baskets or pots. You may find this compost needs slightly less water than peat-based composts, otherwise treat them exactly the same. Please note as this is a heavy item delivered by courier, there will be an additional postage charge added to your basket.
This attractive doormat is not only great to look at but thoroughly functional too. Being manufactured from a hardwearing and durable natural coir it is perfect for scraping off mud from boots and shoes. It also benefits from a non-slip backing so it will always remain in place. If it gets dirty, simply allow to dry and then brush clean. Height: 1.5cm Length: 45cm Width: 75cm
This attractive doormat is not only great to look at but thoroughly functional too. Being manufactured from a hardwearing and durable natural coir it is perfect for scraping off mud from boots and shoes. It also benefits from a non-slip backing so it will always remain in place. If it gets dirty, simply allow to dry and then brush clean. Height: 1.5cm Length: 45cm Width: 75cm
This attractive doormat is not only great to look at but thoroughly functional too. Being manufactured from a hardwearing and durable natural coir it is perfect for scraping off mud from boots and shoes. It also benefits from a non-slip backing so it will always remain in place. If it gets dirty, simply allow to dry and then brush clean. Height: 1.5cm Length: 45cm Width: 75cm