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New products at Blooming Direct

by John - September 10th, 2014.
Filed under: Blooming Direct, New Products.

Blooming Direct just added these new items

Complete Patio Potato Growing Kit Including Seed Potatoes, P

Complete Patio Potato Growing Kit Including Seed Potatoes, P £19.99
This Complete Patio Potato Growing Kit means that anyone can now grow delicious, fresh potatoes you dont even need a garden a patio, balcony or courtyard will do! Just add compost and water and you will harvesting your first New potatoes as early as May from a March planting. We have included 3 fantastic varieties to give a range of harvest dates. ‘Swift’ (Early) – as it’s name implies, this is a very fast-cropper, reaching harvest in 8-9 weeks from planting in April. Gorgeous, soft new potatoes are produced in abundance. ‘Charlotte’ (Salad), perfect as a new potato, or use in salads, yet keeps well for boiling too. ‘Desiree’ (Maincrop) – the classic red skinned, yellow fleshed potato that has been a garden winner for decades. Great for boiling or mashing, but we love them best as jacket potatoes, with a lovely crispy skin. This is the perfect way to grow your own potatoes whats even better is it requires no back breaking digging whatsoever! The Heavy Duty 30 Litre Pots can be used again and again and the Organic Potato Fertiliser can be used all around your vegetable garden.

Value Miniature Tulips - 50 bulb pack Size 9/11

Value Miniature Tulips – 50 bulb pack Size 9/11 £12.99
A mix of wonderful shades and colours to brighten up any garden. Tulips are one of the most popular bulbs, as they are great planted with many different colour variations to give a fresh, vibrant spring colour to your garden, patio or decking. They also make great cut flowers to brighten up the house. Plant in autumn for stunning spring displays.

Value Jumbo Crocus - 100 bulbs Size 7/8

Value Jumbo Crocus – 100 bulbs Size 7/8 £12.99
Large-flowered Crocus, the name says it all! Providing fresh spring colour this wonderful mix coloured crocus are great for pots and containers in the garden or on your balcony. Good for naturalizing as they come back every year and are perfect for planting under shrubs and trees.

Short Mixed Daffodils - Pack of 100 Bulbs

Short Mixed Daffodils – Pack of 100 Bulbs £12.99
Daffodils blowing in the breeze are a true sign that spring is approaching! Heralding the arrival of spring, these bright bloomers are a must for everyone, with flowers from February until April. They are perfect for pots, planters, beds and borders, and will also make wonderful cut flower displays! Leave the bulbs in the ground after the flowers have died back, and they’ll reward you with bigger, better displays, each year for many years to come.

Value Triumph Tall Tulips - 50 bulbs Size 9/11

Value Triumph Tall Tulips – 50 bulbs Size 9/11 £9.99
A great mixture of taller tulips 45-50cm tall, to give you a kaleidoscope of Spring colour. They are incredibly versatile, very strong and sturdy, with the classic tulip shape. Tulips are one of the most popular bulbs, as they are are great planted with many different colour variations to give a fresh, vibrant spring colour to your garden, patio or decking. They also make great cut flowers to brighten up the house. Plant in autumn for stunning spring displays.

Premium Gooseberry 'Invicta' bare root

Premium Gooseberry ‘Invicta’ bare root £9.99
Gooseberry ‘Invicta’ is the Number 1 Outstanding Gooseberry variety for Home Gardeners, and commercial growers too for that matter! Producing big crops of classic green berries, almost twice as many as any other variety, it is also mildew resistant, making it very easy to grow, and has gopod vigour, so supports the big crops well in your garden. The numerous large green fruits are also sweet enough to eat straight off the bush, or cook with if preferred. ‘Invicta’ really is ther all-round Gooseberry for gardens – why not try one this year?

Premium Gooseberry 'Xenia' bare root

Premium Gooseberry ‘Xenia’ bare root £9.99
This fabulous new Red Gooseberry is making waves in gardens across the UK – it simply ticks all the boxes needed for the perfect garden fruit bush. Big crops of red fruit, already sweet enough to eat straight off the bush in Summer, saving you cooking with them. As if that was not enough, it is virtually thorn-free, and has great Mildew tolerance too, and medium vigour, so easy to care for. Now wonder it has just been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit – reserved for those plants that perform year after year in their Trials. Now you can grow ‘Xenia’ too.

Blackcurrant Big Ben bare root

Blackcurrant Big Ben bare root £9.99
Simply the Largest Blackcurrant we have ever seen – end of. If you like your fruits big and juicy, this is the currant for you. And they are particualrly sweet tasting too straight form the bush. This new variety packs a punch too in yield – with more and bigger fruit, expect to pick crops up to 4Kg (8 lbs) of fruit once mature. And, it is also very mildew and disease ressitance, so makes a great garden variety, and deservedly has just won the RHS Award of Garden Merit. Big Ben – the perfect blackcurrant all-rounder.

Narcissi Paperwhite (Indoor) Size 14/15 - pack of 5 bulbs

Narcissi Paperwhite (Indoor) Size 14/15 – pack of 5 bulbs £4.99
This popular, multiple flowering Narcissus is perfect for growing indoors in a pot on your windowsill. Its small, sweetly fragrant, pure-white flowers make excellent cut flower displays, and they are ever so easy to grow. Perfect for beginners who want something truly magical.