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Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018

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Pair of hanging basket swivel hooks

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!

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Friday, May 25th, 2018

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Begonia semp. 'Organdy Mix' 40 plug plants

Begonia semp. ‘Organdy Mix’ 40 plug plants was £7.99 now £3.90
Perfect for patio pots, containers and hanging baskets these brilliant begonias will explode with a mass of pink, white and red blooms all summer long! Flowering prolifically against the bronze-green foliage, they will add massive impact wherever you plant them.

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Saturday, May 19th, 2018

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Polianthes tuberosa The Pearl (Tuberose) - pack x 10 size 12/14

Polianthes tuberosa The Pearl (Tuberose) – pack x 10 size 12/14 was £14.99 now £7.49
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.

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Wednesday, May 16th, 2018

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Pack of 12 Double Osteospermum Cape Daisy Plug Plants for Pots and Patios

Pack of 12 Double Osteospermum Cape Daisy Plug Plants for Pots and Patios was £14.99 now £7.49
This pretty new Osteospermum is the perfect plant for colourful summer containers and unlike other kinds, the flowers stay open day and night so you can enjoy them even more. The blooms have a striking double centre and are very weather resistant. Add this to its neat mounded habit and you have a plant that will thrive in the sunshine yet withstand the worst of summer storms. The collection contains three lovely colours Lemon Ice, Purple and Violet Ice.

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Sunday, May 13th, 2018

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Climbing Antik Geranium Collection x 9 Jumbo Plug Plants

Climbing Antik Geranium Collection x 9 Jumbo Plug Plants was £9.99 now £7.49
Antik Geraniums are unique because they grow taller than any other variety in existence! They are so vigorous they are often referred to as The Climbing Geranium, reaching around 1.2m (4ft) tall in a single season. Plant them 3 of one colour in a 25-30cm diameter pot and watch them grow! They can be over-Wintered in a frost free conservatory, porch or garage too, and will reach 1.5M or so in subsequent years. Each collection contains 3 large rooted plugs of: Antik Orange – Deep orange to red flowers Antik Pink – bright pink a little more compact than the others Antik Violet – vibrant neon purple, the most vigorous of all.  V ery unusual and often not found in garden centres because they do not suit the small pots they so often sell, as they out-grow them quickly. The will look great as part of your patio displays as they will add ultimate height,  but planted amidst a bed or border display they will make a really unique focal point.

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Saturday, May 12th, 2018

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Tumbelina Petunia Fragrant Collection 12 plug plants

Tumbelina Petunia Fragrant Collection 12 plug plants was £14.99 now £7.99
Tumbelina Petunias are the original and still the best double, trailing, fragrant petunias. Their carnation-like flowers have masses of gorgeous petals that layer upon each other creating the perfect summer patio display, unlike any other available. The varieties in this collection have been chosen for their gorgeous heady perfume which will fill the air wherever you grow them. Plant them in hanging baskets, window boxes and patio containers where they will excel. Their gently trailing habit means they will tidily tumble over the edge of the container and trail for approx. 30cm (1ft), with flowers along the full length of the branches. They will flower from late May to the first frosts and require only occasional dead-heading to prolong displays. Bred in The UK near Cambridge, they have been rigorously trialled, tested and proven to grow brilliantly in this country in our variable Summers. Varieties Included: Priscilla, Belinda, Joanna, Melissa, Katrina and Margarita – 2 plugs of each.

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Thursday, May 10th, 2018

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Conference Pear Patio Fruit Tree Bare Root 1.2m Tall

Conference Pear Patio Fruit Tree Bare Root 1.2m Tall was £14.99 now £7.49
‘Conference’ Pear produces a large crop of fruits with clear white flesh that are ready to pick each September. The long, tapering fruits are packed with an irresistible sweetness and lip-smacking juice that will drip from your chin when you bite in to a ripe one! Because of its outstanding flavour, it remains the most popular pear grown in Britain by a long measure both in commercial orchards and home gardens. It is perfect for you to grow because it is very heavy cropping and when picked unripe, it is great for keeping for 2 or more months. ‘Conference’ is largely ‘self fertile’ and will be supplied on Quince rootstock.

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Thursday, May 3rd, 2018

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Lofos Wine Red Vine Bedding Plants - Pack of 12 Jumbo Plugs

Lofos Wine Red Vine Bedding Plants – Pack of 12 Jumbo Plugs was £16.99 now £9.99
Lofos Wine Red will add a unique dimension to your summer hanging baskets the flowering trails will reach over 1.2m (4ft) long by the end of the season and almost touch the floor! The lovely trumpet-shaped flowers contrast brilliantly with the lush green foliage and look incredibly tropical. Lofos is a very fast grower, with the foliage tending to establish first and then, once the warm summer days arrive in June, the pretty flowers will commence, continuing thereafter right until first frost in the autumn. A very special and unusual summer flowering plant and if you have never grown it before, its one that is not to be missed!

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Saturday, April 28th, 2018

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Dahlia Diabolo Mix 40 plug plants

Dahlia Diabolo Mix 40 plug plants was £7.99 now £3.99
Diablo Mix is the best-selling bedding Dahlia for bright and zingy summer and autumn displays. The mix contains a whole host of colours from yellows, oranges and red, to pink, white and purples – all set off by dark purple tinged foliage. Each plant produces a mass of double flowers, often revealing a yellow centre as they age. They are perfect for larger pots and planters together, or in borders dotted around to fill in gaps. Dead-head for longer flowering, these little gems form neat clumps, are very easy to manage and deliver good performance come rain or shine in Summer.

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Thursday, April 26th, 2018

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Bessera elegans (Coral drops) - pack of  25 bulbs

Bessera elegans (Coral drops) – pack of 25 bulbs was £9.99 now £6.99
This gorgeous little delight called Bessera elegans looks like a cross between an exotically coloured snowdrop and a fuchsia flower, but is known by it’s common name of ‘Coral Drops’. The corms are quite small, but this belies the truly spectacular displays that erupt from them in late Summer. Stems of up to 45cm tall will bear up to 20 individual flowers, each one a lovely coral red colour, with contrasting creamy centres, and often creamy stripes inside the petal – such an unusual colour combination. They work really well planted 7-10 bulbs per 25cm pot, grown in hot sun – we do not suggest growing in the soil in the UK. Feed them well in season with a balanced feed, and they will reward with spectacular displays. They will flower in August into September. They are frost-tender, so after flowering, let the stems die back, but move the pot inside and dry right back until following Spring, when they will grow away in even bigger clumps. They can tolerate a little cold down to -5C, but not Winter wet, and if you do this will reward you with many years of flowering. ‘Coral Drops’ are a delightful little Summer firecracker, and well worth growing for something unusual and rarely offered in the UK.

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