Price reductions at Blooming Direct
by John - October 2nd, 2018.Filed under: Blooming Direct, Price Reductions.
Blooming Direct has cut the price of these items
Pair of hanging basket swivel hooks was £2.99 now £1.99
These swivel hooks will allow you to turn your baskets regularly, giving your plants even light and water distribution, and of course meaning your chains wont tangle up if it gets a bit windy!
Fragrant Oriental Lily Bulbs (Mixed colours) x 25 bulbs was £12.99 now £2.99
Everyone loves fresh lilies in the house, and now you can grow these fragrant beuties and pick them fresh from the garden . At a fraction of the cost of florist stem prices, and yet producing a flower every single year for many years to come and so easy to grow, its all done for you in our pre-programmed bulbs.
Oriental lilies have large, upward facing flowers in a pastel blend of white, pink and blush shades, as well as the ever-popular and instantly recognisable two-tone ‘Stargazer’, with its reddish centre. Martin grows them in terracotta pots, for wonderful summer displays cut them for the house or leave them to brighten the patio.
Flowering in summer at between 60 and 90cm tall, the flowers will last 3 weeks from bud break. Leave them to die back in winter, and they will flourish for many more years.
As a bonus, our Oriental Lilies are now all ‘Double Nose’ bulbs, so you will get twice the flower stems per bulb – now 40 flower stems per collection!!
Skyscraper Lily ‘Matisse’ (Red/Cream) – pack of 5 bulbs was £7.99 now £2.99
This collection comprises of 5 top sizes bulbs, the same as used by commercial flower growers in Holland, of gorgeous two-tone Lily ‘Matisse’. These incredible Skyscraper Lilies grow so tall they look like trees! In their first year they will reach up to 1.2M (5ft) tall, but in future years, once they are fully established, they will get even taller up to 6 or even 7 foot tall eventually! The really do reach for the Sky.
These large flowered beauties arise as a consequence hybridisation between Oriental and Trumpet strains of lily hence the marriage of both species characteristics. Every flower carried a wonderful heady perfume and each individual stem can carry well over 20 blooms, which can measure well over 15cm (6in) across.
Grow all 5 in large pots about 15cm apart, or in groups in garden borders. They have very strong stems, so should not need support. Cut them for the long-lasting displays in the vase, or leave them to marvel at in your garden. Allow them to die down naturally after flowering, and they will build up reserves for even bigger and better displays the following year. Fully Winter hardy, they will last for many years.
Marigold Durango Mix 40 plug plants was £7.99 now £3.99
The sheer brightness of colours in this French Marigold series opens up a whole range of colour theming opportunities in pots and borders.
Durango is a series of large anemone-flowered Marigolds, each flower to 5cm across, and is renowned for it’s easy natural branching habit, filling up space well. Plant about 20cm apart for a carpet of colour.
Hot oranges, reds, and deep golden yellows and many with a mix of several shades in between – you can get hot, hot, hot with your plantings this year. They thrive in full, hot sun, but tolerate our rainy periods too.
Surfinia Trailing Petunia Hanging Basket/Bedding Plants – Pack of 12 Jumbo Plugs was £12.99 now £4.99
‘Surfinia’ Petunia has been the Number 1 Summer flowering trailing Petunia for over a decade now, such is its ability to produce an unending display of incredible colour from May until October, flowering all along its trailing stems! It has been bred and developed to produce the biggest, best and longest display of any variety and its trumpet shaped flowers even have a gorgeous sweet fragrance. It’s no surprise our Customers vote it in their Top 3 every year too with their orders.
On top of its flowering ability, it is also vigorous and low maintenance, disease resistant and also very weather resistant. It is because of all of these positive attributes you see it planted in so many professional displays! Plant ‘Surfinia’ Petunia in any hanging basket or container with enough height for it to trail (its trails can reach over 90cm (3ft) long!) or even in beds and borders where it will provide a colourful summer ground cover, smothering any weeds that try to grow.
If you would like a truly impressive display this year with a torrent of flowers cascading from your hanging baskets, pick ‘Surfinia’ Trailing Petunia! Colours included are 3 each of: Surfinia ‘Hot Pink’ Surfinia ‘Blue’ Surfinia ‘Red’ Surfinia ‘Blue Vein’
Dwarf Pomegranate bush 14cm was £9.99 now £4.99
A highly attractive feature tree with the added bonus of producing glossy, versatile fruits in autumn each year! With deep green foliage and bright orange flowers in summer, it will look great in your garden for years to come.
The leathery skinned, glossy fruits ripen in the sun each summer and have a wonderfully sharp flavour. The fruits can be used in cooking sweet or savoury and taste great when made into refreshing, fragrant pomegranate juice! They are super-healthy, and packed with antioxidants. Pomegranate bushes love hot summers and your bush will thrive in a sunny spot it is perfect for a patio pot. It is completely hardy and will easily tolerate our British winters.
Plumbago auriculata Blue plant in 2L pot 70cm was £9.99 now £4.99
A superb summer patio plant, adding a tropical flavour to your garden or patio – their clear sky blue flower clusters smother this informal climbing shrub, which works well in large pots with cane supports.
Grow outside all summer, it will need winter protection, as can be damaged below 2C, but will regrow away the following year when it warms up again.
The phlox-like flowers are subtly scented and will attract butterflies and hoverflies into your garden.
A great colour addition for summer long colour, and unusual too.
Ilex ‘Golden King’ 1L was £7.99 now £4.99
Holly berries are one of the most iconic of Christmas decorations, decking the halls of many a house in the festive season.
Now you can grow your own Holly berries too, with a twist – a lovely golden variegated form. Despite it’s name, ‘Golden King’ is actually a female form, the one’s which produce the berries!
Holly is a slow-growing and easy to maange bush, for large pots or shrubberies. It is very tough, evergreen and with this lovely golden variegation offers year round colour in addition to the berries.
Polianthes tuberosa The Pearl (Tuberose) – pack x 10 size 12/14 was £7.49 now £4.99
Commonly known as Tuberoses, these amazingly sweet-scented beauties will enchant you in summer, as their beautiful fragrance wafts gently on warm evening breezes. You can see why it is used so much as a base fragrance in leading perfumes !!
Tuberoses make a really nice cut flower to scent a room with, or enjoy in pots too. Plant the bulbs indoors in spring to get a head start, and bring outside from May, growing in a warm, sunny spot. They flower in August and September, producing pretty creamy white double flowers, with an intoxicating strong fragrance, on stems about 60-80cm tall.
Top tip for success is once flowered, remove this section of the bulbs, as it never flowers again, but leaving new side shoots to flower next year. Bring pots inside each winter for frost-free area, and dry back.
Enjoy the allure of your own Tuberose fragrances wafting on evening breeze in your garden.