New products at Blooming Direct
by John - August 10th, 2017.Filed under: Blooming Direct, New Products.
Blooming Direct just added these new products
Living Pot-Grown Christmas Tree 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 for just a few weeks use, before we haul them off to the shredder – and 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. British-Grown on the same farms as 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!
Herbeaceous Paeony plants (pack of 3 colours) bare roots £19.99
Now you too can have a gorgeous show of Paeony flowers in your own garden!
Producing a simply stunning display of their huge, blousy, double flowers throughout mid-summer; they will add impact and vivid colour to your beds and borders from this year onwards. For gorgeous fragrance and elegant beauty, they are almost impossible to beat!
This collection includes 3 fabulous colours; crimson-red, shell-pink, and pure-white, and will look simply marvellous wherever you plant them. Paeonies are very popular and its little wonder why, as a perennial they will come back year after year with bigger, better displays and all with the absolute minimum of effort! They are easy to grow and low maintenance, making them ideal for beginners and those of us with little time on our hands. They will die back after flowering each year, only to burst into life again the following spring. You will get bigger, better displays each year for many years to come.
Perfect for growing in beds, borders, pots or containers.
Mediterranean Oleander Collection plant collection – 3 colours in 17cm pots £14.99
3 Sweetly Fragrant Mediterranean Oleander Plants Smothered In Summer-Long Flowers, Fully Hardy – Perfect For Your Patio!
One of the UKs favourite exotics, these gorgeous Oleander plants will add a real warm Mediterranean feel to your patio or balcony with their boldly coloured, sweetly perfumed pink, red and white blooms standing out against their rich green, glossy foliage. Flowering from May to September, each Oleander plant looks stunning in a terracotta pot on a patio or balcony.
So easy to grow, Oleander plants simply love hot dry weather, yet are perfectly happy in conditions down to -5C. Brilliant value, these large, 3 year old plants are supplied fully established in 17cm pots.
Bramley Apple Patio Fruit Tree Bare-Root 1.2m Tall £14.99
Considered ‘The King Of Cooking Apples’ by respected chefs and professional fruit growers, ‘Bramley’ was raised from a single seed planted by Mary Ann Brailsford in 1809. Since then it has gone on to become the worlds best known and favourite cooking apple, standing the test of time through over 200 years! It is considered supreme because its fruits have the perfect acidic flavour required for use in the kitchen and the almost pure-white flesh becomes incredibly light and fluffy when cooked.
‘Bramley’ is an incredibly heavy cropper once established with high quality fruits that will store through the winter months pick them in early October (before they get over-ripe) and store cold but frost free for use until January.
Our grower quality multi-branched bare-root trees have been grafted on to a dwarfing rootstock to provide a compact and manageable habit which in this case will reach about 2m (6-7 ft) tall. It is best to grow ‘Bramley’ alongside another apple variety such as ‘Braeburn’ for best fruit set, as ‘Bramley’ is not self-fertile.
‘The Bramley Apple bought earlier this year had masses of bloom which made an attractive feature in the botttom of the garden and after a little fruit drop my father and I had 3 decent size bramley apples which had a very good flavour. They went down very well with a home made pie (1 apple) and baked apple and I would certainly recommend the following recipe: Take a generous handful of sultanas and soak overnight in Whisky with a dash of cloves added. Take the apples and core them, also make a cut just through the skin around the circumference to prevent the apples splitting, place on an Ovenproof Dish.Stuff the core cavity with the sultanas and then add sugar to the remaining spirit to make a thick syrup (consistency of Honey) and drizzle over the top of the apples. Then bake at 180 degrees for about 35-40 mins and then serve up with Cream or Ice Cream and enjoy the fruits of the garden!
Robert, Middlesex – October 2014
Primula Belarina Red Valentine 6 pack £12.99
From the fabulous British breeding program of huge ruffled flowered Belarina Double Primroses, comes the brand new for 2014, and the undoubted star of the stable, ‘Red Valentine’.
We have secured limited stocks of this brand new release, and what a colour it is. Deep, sumptuous velvet burgundy red, fully double ruffled primroses, that are 100% hardy and perennial – so will come back year after year and go from strength to strength too.
Grow some Love in your garden this season, and enjoy Red Valentine Double Prirmroses for years to come – a really exciting new release. Be one of the first to enjoy it!