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Archive for the 'Blooming Direct' Category
Wednesday, July 20th, 2016
New item today at Blooming Direct
Pair of Cordyline australis (Torbay Palm) green 1M tall plants with 13 planters £19.99
Add an exotic touch to your garden with our instant impact 1M tall Cordyline palms. Already 5 years old, they are great for adding a modern twist to gardens, especially when grown in metallic or modern containers. Their regular swirled pattern of leaves form the slow growing trunk, creating a unique look for gardens.
The bigger the plant, the hardier they are – these can withstand a -7C winter ok, but we always suggest frost protection fleeces or wrapping, or bring into a garage or porch for during the coldest winters. Water them well in summer when they are growing and they will grow 10-15cm a year here in the UK. Cut off any dead leaves at the bottom, and that is what forms the trunk.
The number one choice for a modern and exoic touch for UK gardens.
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Saturday, July 2nd, 2016
Blooming Direct just added these new lines

Pair of Table Grapevines Red & White in 5L Pots 1.2 -1.4m Tall £39.98
Simply irresistible! Imagine starting your day with a delicious, refreshing, health-packed glass of grape juice or a handful of fresh, sweet grapes picked straight from your own vine sprinkled on your cereal! Simply Gorgeous! Prolific fruiting, incredibly winter hardy and very easy to grow. Decorative as well as bountiful, either will look wonderful when trained over a pergola and will provide natural summer shade.
‘Moscatel’ is a member of the Muscat family of grapes and agreat dual purpose dessert (eating) grape, with relatively few seeds, as well as being great for juicing or wine-making, and crops well in the colder UK climate too. The ripe golden grapes have a delicious sweet floral flavour and aroma
‘Red Globe’ is a great dessert (eating) grape, seedless and extra large very sweet fruit. It can be grown outside in milder regions though is best suited to growing in a cool greenhouse or conservatory.
Perfect in a pot on your patio or in the ground, these top quality vines will reward you with your very own delicious, sweet, juicy grapes for over 100 years or more!
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Friday, June 24th, 2016
Reduced products at Blooming Direct

Pack of 12 Garden Spray Chrysanthemum Bedding Plants Jumbo Plugs was £7.99 now £6.49
If you would like to grow your own tall, strong stems of cut flowers, for harvest late this summer and in to the autumn months these are the perfect plants to grow. They will flower from August and into October, with each plant giving you approximately 5-6 stems for cut flowers. They are ready to pick as soon as the first few flowers Break Bud, which means start to show some colour when they get to this stage, cut the stems quite low down, around 15cm (6′) from the ground level, and remove the lower leaves from the cut stems prior to plunging them in to a tall vase of cold water. As an indoor display, they will last at least 2 weeks, but do change the water every few days as this keeps them in the best possible condition. When grown exclusively as a border plant, give them some support with a bamboo cane and position them towards the back of a border where they will brighten your garden just when so many other plants are coming to the end of their season.
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Friday, June 24th, 2016
New item at Blooming Direct
Scabious Butterfly Blue plants – 3 pack £9.99
These delicate looking yet totally tough Scabious plants are perfect for any cottage garden border or patio container. You’ll get wave after wave of exquisitely beautiful blue pincushion blooms from June to September every year, held on tall elegant stems. As with all herbaceous perennials they die back to ground level in late autumn only to return gloriously the following spring year after year. Admire them in your garden and pick posy after posy for your home as your plants come back bigger and better every year!
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2016
Blooming Direct just added this new item

Delosperma ‘Wheels of Wonder’ 6 x 9cm £19.99
Following the launch of Jewel of the Desert here is ‘Wheels of Wonder’ – the latest breeding breakthrough from the same Japanese enthusiast! The result of more than a decades painstaking work these new ‘Hardy Ice Plants’ sparkle like gems all summer long no matter how hot and dry the weather is and are incredibly easy to look after as they are trouble free and fully hardy.
Most people probably have not heard of Delopsperma, but they are close relations of other trailing succulent types like commonly known Mesembryanthemum, and the borderline hardy Lampranthus often seen on dry stone walls in Cornwall and the South West. The new Wheels of Wonder series all have a distinctive white ring around the centre of their large flowers, giving them a completely new look too, sitting tight into their foliage. Although quite small, the flowers smother the established plants all Summer long.
They love being baked warm and dry in our Summer sun, and conversely hate wet feet in Winter. Therefore we suggest growing in pots, in well-drained soil with added grit and sand. They will spread to cover the pots, and trail down over the side. Or they work well in very dry banks and stone wall crevices, as this new series are totally hardy too, and as part of traditional alpine gardens.
Filed: Blooming Direct, New Products
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2016
Blooming Direct has cut the price of these lines
Pineapple Lily (Eucomis bicolour) – pack of 3 bulbs was £9.99 now £4.99
These unusual bulbs will give you incredibly vibrant displays this summer. From June to September they will produce spikes of cream/green flowers, each one with a thin, rich purple edge. Each flower spike is topped with a crown-like tuft of leaves you can see how they got their name!
Despite their exotic good looks, Pineapple Lilies are surprisingly hardy and will easily withstand British weather. Perfect for planting in pots or straight into your garden, they will form an attractive rosette of leaves, from which the stem will rapidly grow, reaching around 50cm (20) tall.
In autumn, allow the plants to die back naturally, and they will reward you with bigger better displays for many years!
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Saturday, June 18th, 2016
Blooming Direct has this new product today
Pack of 6 Leucanthemum Banana Cream Plug Plants £9.99
This new ‘Shasta Daisy’ really is something special producing a succession of 4-5in blooms all summer long! It’s much bushier and more compact that older kinds meaning it won’t become straggly in the border and is a great plant for patio pots. The lovely blooms open lemon yellow, changing through a buttery hue to cream as they age yet lasting for many days. They’re one of the longest lasting of all cut flowers too, keeping in good condition in the vase for up to 2 weeks.
Grow Banana Cream in a sunny spot and wait for the butterflies which just love this gorgeous plant!
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Thursday, June 16th, 2016
Price reduction at Blooming Direct

Dahlia tubers – Mixed Decoratives – pack x 10 was £14.99 now £7.49
Whilst you may have a perception of dahlias as being old-fashioned, and what granddad grew when you were younger, they are enjoying a renaissance in the last few years, as they provide such stunning colour and value for money in the late Summer and Autumn.
So easy to grow, as they are supplied as tubers, packed full of energy to burst into growth in Spring. Plant in pots or in the garden, they will get away quickly from May, and produce a mass of bright colours which will pepper your garden like gemstones as Summer turns to Autumn.
Each pack provides 10 mixed colour tubers, which will reach 60-90cm tall, and produce 20-30 flowers each. These can be cut for the house, or left to enjoy outdoors. Dead-heading will prolong flowering well into Autumn. They will survive milder Winters, or the tubers can be lifted and kept dry over-Winter, or left in pots if you choose them to grow. Old-fashioned Dahlias – a great addition to any Autumn garden.
Filed: Blooming Direct, Price Reductions
Thursday, June 16th, 2016
New product today at Blooming Direct
Blackberry thornless Chester 1L pot – pack x 2 £14.99
Pick juicy Blackberry fruits in your own garden – without the brambles! Perfect. ‘Chester’ produces abundant crops of large, firm berries that are simply bursting with gorgeous sweet juice! You’ll be able to reliably pick the wonderful fruits from August to the first frosts each year, and best of all, there are no thorns in your way. This US bred beauty is perfect for conditions in the UK, and its pretty foliage and berries will add a decorative look to patio pots and borders.
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Sunday, June 12th, 2016
Reduced products at Blooming Direct
Acer negundo Flamingo tree in 2L pot was £9.99 now £6.99
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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