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New products at Blooming Direct

by John - January 27th, 2018.
Filed under: Blooming Direct, New Products.

New products added today at Blooming Direct

Hellebore Double Queen mix - 6 x 9cm

Hellebore Double Queen mix – 6 x 9cm £19.99
The Most Beautiful Winter-Flowering Plant – and so on trend too – Hellebore Double Queen mix. Large, Ruffled & Speckled Blooms in double flowered forms. Every one is totally unique because it has come from seed! Adding delightful colour to your winter garden, these beautiful blooms, each of 2-3 diameter, are dainty to look at but incredibly tough whatever the weather! Each collection includes a mix of 6 double flowered 2 year old plants; you will get a stunning mix of colours, many with speckles and darker edges to their petals. With flowers from February – April they are a must for every Spring garden! So easy to grow, they will slowly establish into small clumps, increasing in flower number year after year – it is not uncommon to have upwards of 50 flowers in 5 years. They thrive on shade, and lower light spots, yet can be grown well in pots provided they do not dry out in summer.

Hardy Perennial Gerbera 'Garvinea' Collection - pack of 3 colours in 7cm pots

Hardy Perennial Gerbera ‘Garvinea’ Collection – pack of 3 colours in 7cm pots £14.99
The world’s first Hardy Gerbera in a range of bright, zingy neon colours, the Garvinea series was launched 3 years ago to great acclaim across Europe. Bringing popular florists gerbera flowers to a garden perennial, they give an amazing 5 Months of colour form Spring to Autumn every year – not many plants can do that. Well, now they have got even better. The breeders in Holland who created them have developed an improved series with much bigger flowers, and even longer lasting performance. called the ‘Sweet Series’, they are brand new in 2014, and we are pleased to be able to get some of the limited stock. Retaining the same benefits of being Winter Hardy to around -8C (although avoid severe Winter wet), and flowering for several seasons of colour, their highly distinctive flowers simply keep coming – up to 50 on a  2 year old plant. We love them in traditional terracotta pots, in the sun, or grow in well-drained borders at the front, they will amaze you with their persistence of flowering and sheer flower number. In Winter they are herbaceous, so die back completely underground, to emerge bigger and better next year. You will get one plant each about to flower of: ‘Sweet Glow’ – deep warm orange’Sweet Smile’ – warm honey yellow’Sweet Spice’ – bright magenta purple

Dwarf Patio Buddleia 'Blue Chip' plants - pack of 3 in 9cm pots

Dwarf Patio Buddleia ‘Blue Chip’ plants – pack of 3 in 9cm pots £14.99
Incredibly compact, and growing to just 2ft tall, Blue Chip is perfect for patio pots or as a low, colourful and fragrant hedge. The sweetly scented blooms act like magnets for Butterflies, drawing dozens at a time in to your garden all through the summer months. Just like its larger cousins, this new mini variety will attract dozens of beautiful fluttering butterflies to your garden to feed on the sweet nectar from its flowers. Thankfully, one characteristic it doesnt share is the ability to self seed and spread itself round your garden. Simply stunning in a pot on your patio it also makes an equally impressive, low growing, scented hedge. Just imagine walking up your garden path and being greeted with a cloud of heady Buddleia fragrance! Easy to grow, incredibly low maintenance and a great garden performer, Dwarf Buddleia Blue Chip is one of this years must have plants!

Trachelospermum jasminoides (Star Jasmine) vine plant 1-1.2M tall

Trachelospermum jasminoides (Star Jasmine) vine plant 1-1.2M tall £14.99
Need something to cover an unsightly wall, or add some attractive interest and height to your garden? This wonderful Star Jasmine is perfect! It produces waves of gorgeous pure-white star-like flowers across summer, each one with simply stunning fragrance! Evergreen and winter hardy, it will add year-round interest to your garden as the foliage changes from a rich purple in winter to a deep-green in spring and summer. Ideal for growing up posts, walls, arches and fences, and will thrive in a sunny, sheltered spot. Plant it somewhere where you’ll be able to smell its incredible fragrant flowers! It is relatively slow-growing about 10-20cm per year in the UK so it will not take over like other climbers.

Goji Berry Superfruit Collection - Set of 3 Plants

Goji Berry Superfruit Collection – Set of 3 Plants £14.99
Now you too can pick scrumptious super Goji berries from your own garden! This amazing plant has some of the healthiest fruits around, and best of all they taste great! They are rich in super healthy antioxidants, vitamins and minerals, and are wonderful in sauces, puddings, and desserts. Pick them straight from the bush or dry them for a yummy, healthy snack. Goji plants are very easy to grow anywhere and very hardy. Fruiting profusely each autumn, this new variety is widely grown in China for commercial berry production & is the highest yielding and sweetest tasting. Whats more, they have gorgeous berries and stunning, colourful foliage, so they will look great in patio pots!

Set of 3 Honeyberry 'Balalaika' hardy plants in 9cm pots

Set of 3 Honeyberry ‘Balalaika’ hardy plants in 9cm pots £12.99
Now you can pick this brand new and delicious summer superfruit from your own garden! This amazing Honeyberry is a type of sweet honeysuckle produces some of the healthiest fruits around, and best of all they taste great! The sweet, juicy fruits have a melt-in-the-mouth flavour that is similar to blackberries, with a hint of kiwi! They are rich in super-healthy vitamins and minerals, and contain even more antioxidants than blueberries! Simply wonderful in sauces, puddings, jams, jellies and desserts, you can even pick them straight from the bush for a yummy, healthy snack. These unusual and interesting additions to your fruit garden are self-fertile, and will produce their dark-blue, strange-looking, elongated fruits in abundance from this summer onwards, giving you bigger crops each year! Whats more, they have gorgeous berries and elegant, mid-green foliage, and they will look great in patio pots!

Buddleia 'Flower Power' plant 2L

Buddleia ‘Flower Power’ plant 2L £12.99
Introducing this magical and unique Buddleia, ‘Flower Power’, that has taken years of dedication from plant breeders to produce. The first hybrid Buddleia between normal types, and a yellow flowered species, it has gorgeous ‘colour changing’ spires of flowers, from purple to orange – and all shades in between! What a sensational new colour for hot summer borders and shrubberies. It retains the ability to attract Butterflies, hence the common name Butterfly Bush, in flower in Summer it will become a mecca for beautiful peacock and tortoishells. The bees will love it too – and repay you by pollinating crops for you! Hardy and easy to grow, its multicoloured displays of colour and sweet scent will last all Summer long.  It is more upright and less bushy than more common Buddleia, and can quite lax in some cases, so may need some support in windy spots. Grow in well-drained borders in sunny spots for maximum Flower Power. Look forward to great Summer displays year after year.    

Colourful Hardy Geranium 'Cranesbill' Collection - Includes 5 Bare Roots

Colourful Hardy Geranium ‘Cranesbill’ Collection – Includes 5 Bare Roots £9.99
Hardy Geraniums, or ‘Cranesbills’ as they are commonly known, are one of the easiest and best garden performers for low maintenance, flowering displays and versatility to growing conditions. Everyone should find space for them! Not to be confused with bedding Geraniums, more correctly called Pelargoniums, these really are one of the most versatile plants – sun or shade, wet or dry, pots or garden, they just keep doing their thing year after year. From their dormant state over-winter, in spring they produce neat and tidy small domes of leaves, which are smothered in flowers in Summer. A mecca for bees, they will be buzzing with activity on sunny days. In Autumn, the leaves often turn red orange too. A simple trim off of old growth in Autumn is all they need – what could be easier.