New products at Blooming Direct
by John - July 26th, 2017.Filed under: Blooming Direct, New Products.
New products at Blooming Direct
Hardy Geranium Bertie Crug x 3 plugs £9.99
With a naturally spreading habit this hardy geranium is an ideal ground cover plant and is fully hardy so will last for years. The foliage is a very attractive deep green with bronzed margins and forms a low mound which is smothered in a carpet of bright pink blooms throughout summer. Bertie Crug is particularly lovely scrambling over a rockery or a low wall.
Fritillaria (Crown Imperial) Orange Bulbs – pack of 2 huge size 20/24. £4.99
Also known as Fritillaria imperialis, this stately plant flowers impact-fully from April onwards and is so named because of its whorl of leaves on the top of the blooms that look like a crown. Perfect for early season and tough, hardy colour in mixed borders, or natursalised areas. Very easy to grow. Its unique fragrance repels moles mice and other rodents! Height 1m (3ft).
Gladilous nanus Lipstick mixed x 50 bulbs £4.99
A lovely mix of the more compact Gladioli species, which gets best results from planting in Autumn or early Winter, unlike the bolder and brasher cousins.
Unlike them too, they have a lovely blended palette of pinks, reds, whites and blush colours, often weith the characteristic fuchsia pink lipstick marking on the petals, making them something quite different and unqiue.
Forget big and bold showy Gladioli, these are understated beauties, plant them in groups of 5 or 10 mixed in to borders, for Summer colour. Good for cut flowers too, despite being shorter stemmed.