Winter Flowering Plants
by Sarah - September 7th, 2010.Filed under: Thompson and Morgan. Tagged as: winter flowering plants.
Thompson & Morgan have a massive range of plants available and if you’re after some winter colour then there’s lots to pick from. As well as pansys, violas and other traditional bedding plants there are a few more unusual ones which are worth considering for your garden.
Everyone would love to see pretty colours in their garden during the winter and it just takes a little planning to think ahead – right now to be buying some great value plants from Thompson and Morgan. They are great plant experts and have tons of ideas for your garden. The Christmas flowering plants are especially lovely as you can pick a few stems to bring in and add some colour to your home.
Chimonanthus praecox – Wintersweet 2 plants in 9cm pots + 1 FREE £17.99
Christmas flowering – Chimonanthus comes to life in the dead of winter, its bare woody stems dripping with gloriously fragrant, pendent yellow flowers that are tinged with purple in the centre. As spring approaches, the fading flowers are replaced with new, young leaves that smother the once bare branches. This deciduous shrub can be treated as a specimen plant, part of a shrub border, or trained against a sunny wall.
Viola Friolina Mixed 10 jumbo plants + FREE Plant Labels £17.98
Viola Friolina Mixed is an exciting series of exceptionally trailing, multi-flowering violas that are perfect for colour and perfume all summer long. Our hanging basket had over 4,000 flowers on it – and from just 5 plants! Trailing 48-60 inches. Pack contains yellow, purple, blue gold, orange, NEW creamy pink. A dual use basket and container plant: Plant in March/April for a summer display. Plant in August/September for a winter and spring display.
Magnolia Sunrise 1 bareroot plant £16.99
No garden is complete without a Magnolia! This beautiful, new, spring-flowering variety will herald the end of winter with its stunning flowers. Magnolia Sunrise will make a spectacular feature plant planted in a border or in a large pot on the patio. Height: 5-6 feet.
Magnolia Red Lucky 1 Bareroot £11.99
No garden is complete without a Magnolia! This spring-flowering variety will herald the end of winter with its stunning flowers. With their simple beauty, magnolias produce large, goblet-like flowers that unfold like magic just as the new leaves start to appear. Perfect for planting in a large pot for the patio or would make a superb focal point in the garden. Easy to look after, these simple flowers look stunning in any style of garden and next year, you could be admiring your own stunning spring display.
Viola Frizzle Sizzle 72 plug plants + 12 FREE £11.99
Plant a rainbow of bright, bold colours and frills that bring life to your borders and pots during late winter and spring. Pansy Frizzle Sizzle Mixed has cheery blooms with a hint of pansy scent and incredible flowering performance.
Viola Avalanche Bronze Lavender – Basket Viola 36 plug plants + 6 FREE £10.99
Compact plants, smothered in an avalanche of distinctly coloured blooms. Viola Avalanche Bronze Lavender is superb in baskets, containers and patio pots. Very free flowering and early – great for winter and spring. Soft fragrance.
Chimonanthus praecox – Wintersweet 1 plant in 9cm pot £9.99
Christmas flowering – Chimonanthus comes to life in the dead of winter, its bare woody stems dripping with gloriously fragrant, pendent yellow flowers that are tinged with purple in the centre. As spring approaches, the fading flowers are replaced with new, young leaves that smother the once bare branches. This deciduous shrub can be treated as a specimen plant, part of a shrub border, or trained against a sunny wall.
Viola Friolina Mixed 5 jumbo plants + FREE Plant Labels £8.99
Viola Friolina Mixed is an exciting series of exceptionally trailing, multi-flowering violas that are perfect for colour and perfume all summer long. Our hanging basket had over 4,000 flowers on it – and from just 5 plants! Trailing 48-60 inches. Pack contains yellow, purple, blue gold, orange, NEW creamy pink. A dual use basket and container plant: Plant in March/April for a summer display. Plant in August/September for a winter and spring display.
Stocks : Appleblossom 1 packet £0.69
To one of the most beautiful annuals, T&M have added one of the loveliest of colour combinations and Mother Nature has supplied the fragrance. Perfume, beauty and elegance in pink and white all rolled into one. Invaluable summer bedding plants with dense showy spikes of sweet scented flowers. Justifiably popular for beds, borders, cut flowers and they also make magnificent plants for winter flowering in the cold greenhouse. Flowers early summer. Height: 30cm (12in).