New products at Blooming Direct
by John - November 27th, 2014.Filed under: Blooming Direct, New Products.
Blooming Direct just added these new items
Premium Lily Double Collection – 9 bulbs £19.99
Our Oriental Lilies have been a best-selling type every year, for their ease of growing, fragrance and flower power. Now we are really pleased to bring you some new breeding developments with new Double flowered types. If you can’t choose between our gorgeous single colours, save money and have all 3 with this Double Lily Collection – 3 each of white ‘Polar Star’; blush pink ‘Soft Music’ and rose pink ‘Sweet Rosy’
The great thing about double flowered lilies is they contain an extra row of petals, giving even bigger and longer-lasting displays than even normal Skyscrapers and they are totally pollen free – so will not stain your clothes.
Reaching 90cm in year 1, and up to 1.2M (4ft) in later years, these provide an imposing display in any pot or border, or why not make a flowering barrier or boundary hedge too? Their strong stems are tree-like, so strong to hold the fragrant multi-flowered stems upright.
Grow in pots, about 15cm deep and 10cm apart, or the same min garden soil, in well-drained, full sun spots. New Double Flowered Oriental Lilies really are the jewel in our crown.
Jumbo Flowered American Fuchsia Collection x 12 Jumbo Plugs £12.99
Like many things in America, it seems the bigger, bolder and braser the better! And the same is true of Jumbo Flowered American Fuchsias – a must for every summer flowering display! So many keen gardeners consider any hanging basket incomplete without at least some fuchsias, so if you have grown fuchsia before and liked them, you will certainly love these giants too. With layer upon layer of delicate petals they are breathtakingly beautiful and always draw admiring glances. A regular best-seller with our Customers, they simply perform year in year out, whatever our Summer weather throws at us.
Just look at their size and impact, each flower is up to 10cm (4 inches) across. Each collection contains 3 plants each of: Voodoo – deepest ruffled purple centres, with red; – Swingtime – bright red and white; – Orange King – striking orange centres, with salmon pink outer; – Holly’s Beauty – gorgeous soft lavendar pink These 4 varieties have been selected for their huge flower size and Summer long performance and beautiful colour combinations. They always look best when planted up where they can trail and you can look up in to the blooms, as they cascade over the side of baskets.
Follow the crowd, and see why Jumbo Flowered American Fuchsias are lighting up British gardens too!
Echinacea Green Eyes 9cm £8.99
This robust, well-branched Echinacea is a fine addition to any border, the fragrant blooms are long-lasting and also make great cut or dried flowers. Each magenta bloom has a beautiful indented green centre that matures to a cone of rich orange. Flowers at about 30in. One 9cm plant
Echinacea Maui Sunshine 9cm £8.99
Maui Sunshine, with it’s large, sweetly scented, yellow blooms, is strong growing and very free flowering. Flowering height is just under 3ft so it’s a great Echinacea for the back of the border. The blooms are long lasting and superb for cutting and drying.
One 9cm plant
Geranium Catherine Deneuve 9cm £7.99
Only recently discovered as a chance seedling in a French trial garden this lovely Geranium has the most striking star shaped deep magenta blooms which appear over a long season – from May to September. Plants are vigorous and healthy and form a mound of about 18in. A real collectors plant. One 9cm plant
Thalictrum rochebraunianum 9cm £7.99
Despite it’s delicate appearance this lovely plant is nigh on indestructible. It grows strongly in any reasonably well lit border, even in the poorest soils and forms a cloud of tiny pinkish purple blooms on ferny foliage. Spells of poor summer weather do not seem to bother it and the plants are fresh healthy and colourful all year with an attarctive pink tinge to the young spring growth. A great plant for filling spacious borders and very nice in large floral vases.
Geranium pratense Laura 9cm £7.99
Laura was the star entry in geranium trials at RHS Wisley a few years ago, winning many admires for it’s gleaming white double blooms. Origially discovered as a ‘sport’ in a private Cheshire garden, Laura flowers prolifically for several weeks from mid-summer. Laura sets no seed which enhances it’s vigour and tolerates a wide range of soils.
Eryngium Jade Frost 9cm £7.99
The bright green leaves of this unusual Sea Holly have stunning white edges which develop pink tones in the cooler months. Rich violet flower sprays – loved by butterflies! – appear in summer and are great for cutting and drying. Best in sunny positions with free draining soils.
Dierama Blackberry Bells 9cm £7.99
Dierama Blackberry Bells is a strong growing hybrid with very large deep purple trumpet flowers which dangle from the arched stems, so earning the genus it’s familiar name of ‘Angels Fishing Rod’. It’s perfect for planting at the side of a pond or anywhere that the flowers hang and sway alluringly in the breeze. In flower from early June . Despite their delicate appearance the stems are surprisingly strong and make exotic cut blooms.