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New products at Blooming Direct

by John - November 21st, 2014.
Filed under: Blooming Direct, New Products.

Blooming Direct just added these new products

Living Pot-Grown Norway Spruce 1-1.2M

Living Pot-Grown Norway Spruce 1-1.2M £49.99
It’s impossible to beat that stunning fresh pine fragrance that a real Christmas Tree brings to the home. Not for us the artificial trees in their odd shades and colours. But fresh cut trees are very expensive just for a few weeks use, before we haul them off to the shredder – any they can make a mess too. That’s where our fabulous Living pot-Grown Christmas trees are a real winner. Yes, you get that lovely pine room fragrance, but it will not drop the needles – because it’s still alive! And at about the same cost as a cut tree, you can keep it from year to year too, and save a lot of money over 5 or even 10 years. The Norway Spruce is the classic Christmas Tree. Grown on the same farms as the cut trees, they have been nurtured and trimmed in just the same way. But, because they are grown in their pots – they can easily be kept for many, many years to come. Just a little water in the rootball when used indoors each year, and once the decorations come down, pop it back outside and keep it growing. In itself, it is a beautiful evergreen garden tree, lovely all year round. It needs no special feeding or pruning – just ensure it does not dry out in Summer. Very slow growing, you can use it for many Christmasses to come. Living Christmas Trees – combing fresh pine fragrance, little needledrop and saving you money over buying a tree every year. Adopt one now!

Hellebore 'Valentine Jewels' Collection

Hellebore ‘Valentine Jewels’ Collection £29.99
Affectionately known as The Lenten Rose, Helleborus hybrids are natures gift to gardeners bringing peerless beauty to the winter garden and are perfect for bringing colour to shady places. Raised in the UK, these superb double and single varieties will delight you, brightening up the dullest of days. Each variety is an individual masterpiece! They are easy to grow, thriving in most soils and reliably appearing year after year. Youll see the first blooms a few weeks after Christmas and flowers keep on coming through to spring even in the harshest of weather. One plant each of the varieties shown – Double Yellow Spotted, Double Purple, Double White Spotted, Single Gold Red Star, Single Pink Spotted and Single Red.

Hollybush collection - 3 vars x 1L

Hollybush collection – 3 vars x 1L £19.99
Holly berries have been the staple decoration and image of Christmas for many years, decking halls the World over for genrations. They also make fantastic evergreen shrubs for year round interest in smalelr gardensw too – providing shelter, security and privacy as well as their prolific berries. Hollies have male and female varieites on separate plants – and pollination by bees is required for the females to produce their berries.This collection provides you the best of all worlds – a male and female, each with stunning foliage variegation in their own right, and the main self-fetile green variety that produces prolific berry crops. Each collection contains one each of: ‘JC van Tol’ – deep green leaves, self-fertile, with big crops of berries ‘Golden King’ – actually a female form, berries with lovely golden yellow leaf edge variegations ‘Silver Queen’ – oddly a male form, it has lovely white leaf variegation, but like all males, does not berry up

Pair Snow Covered Christmas Trees 40cm tall

Pair Snow Covered Christmas Trees 40cm tall £19.99
These gorgeous Living Christmas trees are flocked with artificial snow, to create that snow-covered look we all secretly wish for at Christmas! And you get a Pair of them, so you can decorate them differently, or create a matching pair to frame a doorway. Perfect for dressing hallways, bedrooms, or kitchens as mini trees, or one for the kid’s bedrooms too. You can decorate each one with baubles and drop it in to a cachepot or tissue wrap it, for a quick and easy classic look. These 40cm tall trees are grown in pots,a nd after using them this year, they can be planted out and grown on, and used again – although the snow will have ‘melted’ off within one year! They will retain their fabulous classic Christmas Tree shape, and will grow very slowly, so if potted on can be brought back into the house for many, many years.

Pair of Half Standard Bay Trees 90cm tall

Pair of Half Standard Bay Trees 90cm tall £19.99
Add a stately look to your home with these beautiful Bay Trees. Bay Trees are easy to care for and look simply stunning in pots either side of a door or pathway. The lush foliage has a mouth-watering flavour and rich aroma and can be added to marinades or used to add depth to cooking all year long. Bays can be very expensive in garden centres, with similar products selling for over 50 each, so this fantastic offer is unbelievable value! Easy to maintain, these bay trees enjoy moist, but well-drained soil, positioned in full sun or partial shade.

Pair Tabletop Christmas Trees 25cm tall

Pair Tabletop Christmas Trees 25cm tall £19.99
Get into the festive mood with these wonderful, decorated mini Christmas trees! At just 20-25cm tall, they are perfect for instant windowsills or tabletop displays, or perhaps for an easy to look after tree in childrens bedrooms. Each pot grown real Christmas tree is given either a dusting of magical fake snow, or bright golden glitter – each Pair contains one of each style. Not only that, they are supplied ready to display in an attractive red ceramic pot, and complete with miniature decorations! Just unpack, and they are ready to go. The perfect living decoration – if kept watered indoors this Christmas, they can be planted outside, and will grow slowly over many years – the snow and glitter will of course wash off in the rain, but perhaps if planted in a bigger pot, can be brought inside each year and re-decorated. The perfect and esasy to look after living Tree gift this year.

Araucaria araucana (Monkey Puzzle) 1L

Araucaria araucana (Monkey Puzzle) 1L £16.99
Monkey Puzzle is one of the most iconic. yet majestic and easily recognised trees in the UK, yet not widely planted nopw. Many of the tallest of specmens are a hundred years or so old, yet without the foresight of previous gardeners, we would have few to wonder at today. A lovely and intriguing stately evergreen, with whorls of sharp leaves, they are very slow growing in their first few years, and take a while to get going. They are thus a very expensive plant to propagate and sell. Despite this slow speed, they are relatively easy of planted and left alone! They can reach and elegant 10M in 20-30 years or so, but can also be trimmed to lower than this. Select a spot where it can be seen from, as they are best grown as a lawn or boundary specimen tree, with plenty of space around them. A garden design classic – try one now, they make a great gift too.

Phaleanopsis Orchid 2 stem

Phaleanopsis Orchid 2 stem £14.99
Everyone loves a ‘Moth orchid’ – whether old-fashioned or modern and trendy, they fit in with every colour and style effortlessly. This versatility makes them the perfect Christmas Plant Gift, as the lucky recipient will not only get 6-7 weeks of flower enjoyment (way more than a bouquet), and with little care will flower again in future as well. The Orchid will be pale to darker pink, with plenty of buds remaining, and be the higher quality grade with 2 stems of flowers, and come in a colour coordinated cachepot, so it can be unpacked and displeyed straight away. You can send as a Gift and leave a message on the phone or via website checkout.

Fresh Berry Wreaths

Fresh Berry Wreaths £14.99
Complete your Christmas doorway displays in style! Expertly handcrafted with real, glistening fresh berries and lush green leaves, each one is completely unique. A splash of vibrant colour on the crisp winter mornings – you’ll be the envy of your neighbours!