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Thursday, August 11th, 2016

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Fragrant Hardy Devon Pinks Cottage Garden Collection Pack of 12 Jumbo Plugs

Fragrant Hardy Devon Pinks Cottage Garden Collection Pack of 12 Jumbo Plugs was £14.99 now £12.99
Classically fragrant Pinks are a cottage garden favourite and deservedly so. These varieties represent the best of the varieties that have stood the test of time for many years, and become a garden favourite all over the world – with that irresistible old-fashioned fragrance it’s not hard to see why. Their wonderful clove-fragranced blooms look lovely in the garden, and will flower throughout the summer months but will also be perfect for taking as cut flowers for indoor displays. The plants will form lovely dense clumps of evergreen foliage that will provide great ground cover with a succession of beautiful fragrant blooms rising up above the rosette of leaves and showing themselves off. Perfectly winter hardy but ideal for a sunny bed or border, these easy to grow plants will establish and thrive for years to come. Flowers from May until October, cut them for the vase just as the buds break colour, for long-lasting fragrance indoors too! Varieties Included are 3 plants each of old fashioned types (may vary in season with similar colours) Cranmere Pool – White with deep pink ringsDoris – Pale pinkLetitia Wyatt – CarmineMrs Simkins – White

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Wednesday, August 10th, 2016

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Pansy 'Frizzle Sizzle' pack of 12 jumbo plugs

Pansy ‘Frizzle Sizzle’ pack of 12 jumbo plugs was £12.99 now £9.99
This incredible Pansy Frizzle Sizzle mix is an exquisite and unuusal mixture of multi-layered frilly flowers, many of which have delicate ‘cats whisker’ markings. Something really different for Winter colour and interest. A dazzling array of fruity colours to brighten up your borders and patios, they will fill your garden with sweet fragrance; they are long flowering, very hardy and perfect for patio containers and flower beds or borders (plant 15cm apart). Pansy ‘Frizzle Sizzle’ are compact and will grow to about 15cm (6), and perform best in full sun or light shade.

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Friday, August 5th, 2016

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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 £7.99 now £3.99
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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Friday, August 5th, 2016

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Geranium oxonianum Southcome Double 3 x 9cm potted

Geranium oxonianum Southcome Double 3 x 9cm potted £9.99
A great new hardy geranium that’s fully hardy and will thrive in most soils so is very easy to grow. Does best in a sunny border where it will quickly establish to a spreading mound so makes perfect ground cover. Through summer it becomes smothered in delightful bright pink fluffy blooms giving the border a lovely cottage garden feel.

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Friday, July 29th, 2016

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Dierama Blackberry Bells 3 x 9cm

Dierama Blackberry Bells 3 x 9cm was £14.99 now £7.49
Dierama Blackberry Bells is a strong growing hybrid with very large deep purple trumpet flowers which dangle from the arched stems, so earning the genus it’s familiar name of ‘Angels Fishing Rod’. It’s perfect for planting at the side of a pond or anywhere that the flowers hang and sway alluringly in the breeze. In flower from early June . Despite their delicate appearance the stems are surprisingly strong and make exotic cut blooms.

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Thursday, July 28th, 2016

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Erythronium Pagoda (Dog's Tooth Violet) bulbs - pack of 10

Erythronium Pagoda (Dog’s Tooth Violet) bulbs – pack of 10 £7.99
A wonderful variety providing the brightest yellow flowers from March until April. Each strong flower stem carries 4 to 5 large canary-yellow blooms, each with a brown ring in the centre. The marbled foliage on this variety is a lovely added bonus! Height 20cm (8).

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Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

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Pair of Hardy Ginger Giant 20cm Tubers (Hedychium)

Pair of Hardy Ginger Giant 20cm Tubers (Hedychium) was £12.99 now £7.99
Ginger Lily will add an exotic look to your garden and create a wonderful display of scented blooms each year from late summer onwards. Zingy spikes of blousy flowers will tower above clumps of lance-shaped leaves, instantly transporting you to a tropical paradise! Dont forget to breathe in deeply as the heavily scented blooms carry a stunning sweet fragrance particularly in the early evening! Despite its exotic good looks, this plant is completely reliable in the UK – the tubers will over-winter successfully and thrive in a sun baked spot in a pot or planted directly in the soil. Jumbo Tubers Guaranteed to flower. Top Tip – plant very shallow on surface of compost in hot sunny spot to get going, they love being baked to get started.

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Wednesday, July 27th, 2016

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Hardy Phlox 'Adessa'  x 12 plugs

Hardy Phlox ‘Adessa’ x 12 plugs £14.99
The superb new ‘Adessa series of Summer flowered hardy Phlox is a real breakthrough – compact and long-flowering, yet with gorgeous fragrance too, and in a lovely sweet-shop confection of sweet pinks, mauves, and whites, and great mildew resistance too. What more do you need from a perennial? Forming neat clumps of flowers, they light up the high Summer garden when many plants are fading away. Fabulous in pots, or the front of perennial borders plant them where you can smell them! Butterflies love them too. Dead-head to prolong flowering, they will die back down underground completely each Winter, and emerge bigger and bolder next year.

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Sunday, July 24th, 2016

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Strawberry Everbearer Buddy  - 6 garden ready plants to Grow Your Own

Strawberry Everbearer Buddy – 6 garden ready plants to Grow Your Own was £12.99 now £7.99
‘Buddy’ is the new everbearing strawberry that is taking the supermarket world by storm, and 2014 is the first year it has been offered to home gardeners to grow themselves. Everbearing Strawberries are great for spreading strawberry fruit production out. Starting slightly later than the Wimbledon peak, they have a big yield in mid to late July, but then keep going through August – peaking again in September and continuing to crop until first frosts! This makes eating and using the crops easier, not one huge glut! Everbearers have historically not been quite as good on the taste scores as traditional ‘June bearers’, but ‘Buddy’ breaks the mould here. It produces big fruit with great taste, and is the sweetest of any everbearer to date (winning many taste-tests), hence its popularity with supermarkets. And it is a great cropper too – commercial trials showed almost 1Kg per plant in year 2 and 3 (just over 2 pounds per plant). ‘Buddy’ also has good mildew resistance too, so suits home garden production, where none of want to use chemicals if not needed. Let Buddy become your best friend in strawberries this year.

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Friday, July 22nd, 2016

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Acer negundo Flamingo tree in 2L pot 40cm tall

Acer negundo Flamingo tree in 2L pot 40cm tall was £6.99 now £4.99
If you are looking for a distinctive and memorable small tree for your garden, then look no further than Acer ‘Flamingo’. This stunning selection of Box Elder was made because of the gorgeous pink tinged new growth that appears in Spring, which fades away to a lovely creamy white leaf margin, leaving a gorgeous soft and subtle variegation on the tree. In Autumn, it produces a glowing yellow display before the leaves fall. Fairly quick growing as a tree, it can reach 5M in 10 years or so, making it an ideal lawn specimen or feature tree for Spring, Summer and Autumn interest in smaller gardens. or it can be pruned each Spring and kept smaller to about 2.5M if space does not permit. It produces better pink colouration in Spring if it has been cut back hard. A great garden tree for creating shade, looking great all season when in leaf and for screening too.

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