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Archive for the 'Blooming Direct' Category
Friday, August 11th, 2017
Blooming Direct just added this new product

Tree Hydrangea "Incrediball" (Strong Annabelle) plant in 3L pot £14.99
Hydrangea ‘Incrediball’ , the Tree Hydrangea, produces amazing and enormous colour-changing blooms that change from Lime Green to Pure White then fade to Green again, to make the most amazing displays in your garden and your home. It is unbelievable, but true!
This is an entirely different species and variety than the traditional pink and blue plants you are probbaly more familiar with. The stems are incredibly strong to enable the support for this amazing flower, and they are tolerant of rain and wind hence the name, ‘Incrediball’!! This has been bred to supercede Hydrangea ‘Annabelle’, which suffered from weaker stems in wind and rain.
Displays will be all Summer long whatever the weather and will produce flowers to up to 30cm or 12 inches in diameter. They can be cut and used as dried flowers too – this will preserve the natural colouration, or spray them gold or silver for spectacular Christmas decorations.
For real Summer imapct in your garden, the Tree Hydrangea ‘Incrediball’ is a winner.
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Thursday, August 10th, 2017
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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!
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Wednesday, August 9th, 2017
Blooming Direct just added this new item

Premium Oleander Standard Pink tree in 20cm pot £19.99
Breathtaking! Winter Hardy Standard Oleander A Riot Of Sumptuous Pink, Sweetly Scented Flowers & Luxurious Evergreen Foliage! A magnificent addition to any patio or balcony, these stunning, winter hardy Standard Oleander will create a wonderful fragrance and a Mediterranean feel all summer long. Gorgeous, sweet scent from their exotic, vibrant pink blooms will gently waft through the warm air in your garden simply delightful in early evenings in the summer.
Flowering all summer long, they are wonderfully exotic, yet incredibly they are UK winter hardy to -5C too. They are very easy to grow they literally thrive on neglect and love hot, dry weather. No wonder Oleander are such a big favourite with UK plant lovers! These Mediterranean beauties will add height, vivid colour and sweet fragrance to your garden for years to come.
Note: We use several varieites of pink, ranging from dark hot pink to pale pink – so the exact colour you receive may vary.
These trees have produced an abundance of flowers since late June. They are absolutely stunning and have received similar comments from both neighbours and visitors. As you can see they are still producing flowers into September at a time when bedding plants and other shrubs are beginning to fade. Excellent value for money!
Peter, East Riding, September 2016
See photos opposite – thanks Peter!
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Friday, August 4th, 2017
New product at Blooming Direct

Hardy Alstroemeria ‘Inca’ Series – 3 x 7cm Potted Plants £9.99
Often seen in expensive bouquets, Alstroemeria also make spectacular additions to any garden. They come in one of the widest and brightest ranges of colours imaginable. These ‘Inca’ series plants come in a mix of vibrant red and pink colours and are bred to be compact and produce a lot of stems over a long flowering period – and will look fantastic wherever you plant them.
Flowering from early June onwards, Alstroemeria will go on right through until early autumn and just get better and better every year. Their gorgeous, blooms look delicate but they are actually very tough, hardy and easy to grow. Once planted in pots or mixed beds or borders, these beauties will quickly establish and go on to produce strong stems that will grow up to 2FT (60cm) tall.
Completely covered in flowers along their top half, Alstroemeria are perfect for cutting and creating the most stunning indoor displays, with the long-lasting flowers looking marvellous for up to 4 weeks! Often called ‘Peruvian Lilies’, Alstroemeria’s stunning displays make them some of the most popular summer flowering perennials of all time.
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Thursday, August 3rd, 2017
New item today at Blooming Direct
Pack of 5 Hardy Cyclamen (Cyclamen hederifolium) Bulbs Size 15/20 £4.99
Not to ever be confused with pot plant Cyclamen produced in their masses for Christmas, these superb wild Cyclamen are a stunning garden plant for slowly naturalising in shady spots under trees and hedges, providing subtle Autumn colour and long term foliage interest. Their flowers are produced in profusion in Autumn – once established the flowers appear straight form the ground before any leaves form. As they die back in Winter, the striking silver marked deep green leaves, with whorls of splashes and random leaf markings appear, and last until the heat of the following Spring. They will slowly spread out into small clumps, and naturalise to form a delicate carpet, of totally hardy, no maintenance, almost bullet proof plants. What could be easier? Perfect for that awkward shady space, whatever size of garden you have.
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Sunday, July 30th, 2017
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Bougainvillea ‘Alexandra Pink’ standard 70cm plant £29.99
A real taste of hot lazy Summers, Bougainvillea grow freely in hot countries around the Mediterranean with their rich colours smothering walls and balconies in the hot sun, but they also make great summer plants right here too!
The lovely magenta pink variety ‘Alexandra’ is one of the more compact and floriferous varieties, and performs well at lower temperatures in winter too. The colour comes, infact, from bracts, not flowers themselves, a little like Christmas poinsettias. The bracts turn brightest magenta pink in summer whereas the flower itself is quite insignificant – a small creamy flower, which looks like the eye of the bracts.
These plants have been expertly trained into a standard form, and can easily be maintained this way outside. Although climbers, they are slower growing in the UK. Grow in large pots in full sun, and then in winter provide protection below 2C. They can lose their bracts suddenly due to stress, so do not be alarmed if they drop – new ones will quickly re-appear in warm weather.
A real tropical addition to the Summer garden!
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Saturday, July 29th, 2017
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Trachelospermum jasminoides (Star Jasmine) vine plant 1-1.2M tall £29.99
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.
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Friday, July 28th, 2017
Blooming Direct has these new products today
The Complete Fruit Bush Garden (21 plants) £29.99
If you’ve ever wanted to grow your own fruit, this set is perfect! We’ve picked some of the best varieties to give you a complete fruit garden, and bumper crops from this year onwards!
Growing fruit is incredibly rewarding & surprisingly easy, and of course your home-grown fruit will taste simply delicious! Perfect for eating fresh, the sweet, juicy berries will also make incredible summer puddings, desserts, or jams!
Now is the perfect time to plant and they are very easy to grow. All of these varieties will produce large crops on compact bushes, perfect for patio pots and containers you dont even need a garden! Included in this collection:
10 x Elsanta Strawberry runners
5 x Glen Clova Raspberry canes
2 x Ben Lomond blackcurrant plants
2 x Hinnomaki gooseberry bushes (1 x red; 1 x yellow)
2 x Waldo blackberry plants (bare root)
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Thursday, July 27th, 2017
Price cut on this product at Blooming Direct
Pair of Potted Fuchsia Trees 90-100cm Tall was £29.98 now £14.99
Fuchsias are one of the most versatile of garden plants; their iconic flower colours and shapes decorating our summer gardens year after year.
One of the most spectacular formats is the tall Fuchsia Column (or Fuchsia tree as some like to call it), where a tall stem has been skilfully grown over the last winter, to get a head start this season..
Here we offer you a lovely pair in flower and bud that will add instant impact and colour to your garden or patio from now til the first frosts of winter. With care and a frost protected greenhouse, they will over-winter as well.
They can easily be made into classic Standard Lollipop shapes too by removing the lower branches at the main stem.
Grow on in large pots on the patio or plant out into beds, in full sun locations – feed well to keep flowers coming.
Filed: Blooming Direct, Price Reductions
Thursday, July 27th, 2017
Blooming Direct added loads of new products

Rose ‘Babylon Eyes’ collection – 3 x 80cm half standard roses bare root £39.97
Welcome to a rose breeding breakthrough – these deliciously fruity roses are brand new on the market, and we are we believe the first in the World to get them in half standard form. After years of breeding, these stunning open centred single roses have a deep red maroon heart, the result of crossing with exotic Persian Rose species.
The results are a cocktail of tutti frutti colours, even on one plant. A much less formal rose flower style, their open centres are a magnet for bees, their ever-changing flower colours provide long season interest, especially in half standard form.
You will get one each of:
‘Sunshine’ is a tropical mix of red, orange and warm yellows, the flowers change as they age, and through the season, as cold nights draw in, darkening the colours.
‘Cream’ is a lovely pure cream, just like vanilla ice cream, splashed burgundy red in the centre eye, slowly fading paler as they age.
‘Queen Pink’ is a classic berry pink, with darker purple centre eye, which softens to paler pink.
When you offered three half standard Persica roses for sale, I couldn’t resist.
I had already fallen for the single flowers of For your Eyes Only, voted rose of the year 2015. The vivid central eye had been achieved after thirty years of breeding work from the original wild persica rose that grows in Iran. These half standards in varying shades of cream, yellow and pink all have this deep red eye, with petals that change in hue as they age.
My own plants have made a spectacular show in their very first year and I do recommend them to rose lovers for their charm and long flowering period. Gentle scent too.
Nikki Abramson, September 2016
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