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New products at Blooming Direct

Friday, June 10th, 2016

New lines at Blooming Direct

Pair of Pink Oleander Standards with Tulipa Planters & 50g Finest Fertiliser

Pair of Pink Oleander Standards with Tulipa Planters & 50g Finest Fertiliser £29.99
This winter hardy standard oleander produces a riot of sumptuous pink, sweetly scented flowers & luxurious evergreen foliage and will create a wonderful Mediterranean feel all summer long! The 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 as they literally thrive on neglect and love hot, dry weather – no wonder Oleander are such a big favourite with UK plant lovers! They will add height, vivid colour and sweet fragrance to your garden for years to come. Also included with this pair of stunning palm trees is a set of 2 11 Tulipa metallic finish plastic planters – the perfect addition to your trees! Plant your trees up right away with these beautiful, simple and contemporary pots and place your trees either side of patios, terraces, decking or place around beds and borders.What’s more, we’re also throwing in a 50g sachet of our Finest Fertiliser to make sure you get your Oleanders off to the best start! It contains all of the important nutrients that are essential to look after shoots, roots and flowering and fruit yield for bigger crops and floral displays!

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New products at Blooming Direct

Thursday, June 9th, 2016

New product today at Blooming Direct

Pair 13 Wicker effect Black Gold Planters

Pair 13 Wicker effect Black Gold Planters £8.99
Perfect for bulbs, bedding, shrubs, houseplants and more, these wonderful black planters with a brushed gold finish will add an exquisite decorative look to your home or garden, without the cost of real metal pots. Hand finished in gold paint, in a ‘wicker’ style effect, they will add a touch of class to your home or garden. Each one has raised drainage holes and water reservoirs to allow your plants to thrive! Made from heavy-duty injection moulded plastic, they’re tough & durable, and also frost & UV resistant, so they’ll withstand the worst of our British weather too. This set of planters represents great value especially when compared to normal prices for metallic or ceramic pots, yet you get a timeless and classic look!

Price reductions at Blooming Direct

Wednesday, June 8th, 2016

Reduced items at Blooming Direct

Petunia grandiflora Frenzy Mix 40 plug plants

Petunia grandiflora Frenzy Mix 40 plug plants was £7.99 now £3.99
These unbelievable petunias will bring your beds and baskets to life with their sumptuous, velvety flowers. Compact and easy to manage, they are brilliant for patio pots, or flower borders and the gorgeous mix of colours will look spectacular all summer long.

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Price reductions at Blooming Direct

Friday, June 3rd, 2016

Blooming Direct reduced the price on these items today

Pack of 6 Felicia Blue Daisy Plug Plants for Beds, Borders, Pots

Pack of 6 Felicia Blue Daisy Plug Plants for Beds, Borders, Pots was £7.99 now £3.99
Lovely little daisy like blooms that are invaluable as part of a mixed basket or container as they add a colour combination that is seldom seen. This variety is more compact, needs no dead heading and is heat tolerant. They are easy to care for and are among the last plants to cease flowering at the end of a long summer.

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New products at Blooming Direct

Thursday, June 2nd, 2016

New product at Blooming Direct

Bush Fuchsia Army Nurse - pack of 12 large plugs

Bush Fuchsia Army Nurse – pack of 12 large plugs £12.99
The archetypal hardy fuchsia – classic red and purple blue single flowers, this forms a neat compact bush, which flowers all Summer and well into Autumn, even Winter if mild., Better still it is Winter hardy, so grow it as a shrub, for displays year after year, although it makes a neat annual display anyway.

New products at Blooming Direct

Sunday, May 29th, 2016

Blooming Direct just added this new item

Buddleia Petite Collection 3 x 8cm

Buddleia Petite Collection 3 x 8cm £14.99
These brand new Buddleias are naturally compact in habit and are a perfect plant if space in the border is limited or if you would like to grow in patio containers. They’ll produce masses of flowers over the whole summer which are delightfully fragrant and like all Buddleias will act as an absolute magnet for bees and butterfiles. Because flowers are sterile you can be assured that they will not self seed in your garden either. Collection contains an 8cm potted plant of Blue Heaven, Dark Pink and Snow White. Plant singly or together in a large container to achieve a delightful tricolour effect.

New products at Blooming Direct

Thursday, May 26th, 2016

Blooming Direct just added these new items

Apple Patio Duo Fruit Tree - Bramley and Braeburn on 1 Potted Tree 7.5L

Apple Patio Duo Fruit Tree – Bramley and Braeburn on 1 Potted Tree 7.5L £19.99
Apple Braeburn & Bramley Duo Tree – Now everyone can grow fruit trees in the minimum of space! These incredible duo fruit trees have been meticulously grafted by highly skilled nurserymen, to create 2 different trees growing on one rootstock! What’s more, the rootstocks are dwarfing meaning that your trees will always remain compact! You will get 2 different varieties of fruit from 1 tree so are perfect for anyone who loves the idea of picking their own home-grown fresh fruit, but has limited space. Each of the varieties will produce bumper crops of delicious full sized fruit! Because they are already trained into a V shape, they are perfect for growing up a wall. Braeburn Apple The UK’s most popular eating apple variety by far and will easily grow and flourish superbly in your garden! The crisp and juicy white-fleshed fruits have what is considered by most to be the perfect sweet/tangy flavour balance, literally providing a flavour explosion with every mouthful! The gorgeous fruit will be ready to pick fresh from your tree by mid-October each season and will store well until the end of January if kept chilled but frost free. Crops: October. Bramley Apple Considered The King Of Cooking Apples by respected chefs and professional fruit growers, it is the worlds best known and favourite cooking apple, standing the test of time through over 200 years! It is considered supreme because its fruits have the perfect acidic flavour required for use in the kitchen and the almost pure-white flesh becomes incredibly light and fluffy when cooked. Bramley is an incredibly heavy cropper once established with high quality fruits that will store through the winter months pick them in early October (before they get over-ripe) and store cold but frost free for use until January. Crops: October

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Price reductions at Blooming Direct

Wednesday, May 25th, 2016

Blooming Direct reduced the price on these items today

Nerine bowdenii (Guernsey Lily) - pack of 10 bullbs

Nerine bowdenii (Guernsey Lily) – pack of 10 bullbs was £9.99 now £6.99
Breathtakingly pretty clusters of exotic, vivid pink flowers will brighten up your garden late in Autumn, just as your summer flowers are starting to fade and all else seems to be on it’s last legs.! As the days shorten and skies get duller, Nerine bowdenii’s firework-like flower clusters will provide stunning colour right through until Winter, and make pretty posies if cut for the vase as well. Perfect for growing in a drift in flower beds and borders, you could also grow them in big patio pots, say 25-30cm diameter with 5 bulbs in. They are completely hardy and will easily withstand UK winters. Plant them about 5cm (2) deep, and around 10cm (4) apart. Awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit for its all-round performance in UK gardens. Nerines really are outstanding Autumn ‘good doers’, and every garden should have some for one last swansong of flower colour before the frosts.

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Price reductions at Blooming Direct

Thursday, May 19th, 2016

Blooming Direct reduced the price on these items today

Exotic Canna tubers - pack of 5 Tall Mix

Exotic Canna tubers – pack of 5 Tall Mix was £9.99 now £4.99
Cannas are one of those exotic beauties that do so much for the bright, zingy Summer garden. Their fiery hot colours of yellow, orange and red, and combinations of these, will erupt in beds and borders, adding great height and impact too. Each pack of 5 is a mix of colours, and also a mix of the green-leaves and lovely purple-leaved types, selected from taller flowering cultivars, so all will flower at 1M or more. Renowned for their tall flower spikes, grow them in large pots, or at the back of borders, in hot, sunny spots, in well-drained spots. Feed well when in growth – they will not start growing much until may, they grow away quickly as summer warms. They will over-Winter if they do not get too wet, and will benefit form a mulch – or the tubers can be dug up and stored cool over-Winter for use next year.

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New products at Blooming Direct

Thursday, May 19th, 2016

New products at Blooming Direct

Kangaroo Paws (Anigozanthos) Pastel Bush Gems x3 plants in 10.5cm Pots in flower

Kangaroo Paws (Anigozanthos) Pastel Bush Gems x3 plants in 10.5cm Pots in flower £29.99
For a real taste of the unusual look no further than Kangaroo Paws or Anigozanthos to give them their botanic name. Hailing from Australia these ‘Bush Gems’ are the result of extensive breeding work from the wild form which now gives a series of brightly coloured perennials which will thrive in the UK climate and flower and flower all summer. Bush Gems have sword like foliage which is covered in downy hairs giving a soft furry look and feel and has no aged yellow leaves unlike some border plants. One look at the unique multi headed 60cm flower stems and you can see where the name Kangaroo Paws comes from. This is a lovely plant for a sunny border and has good drought tolerance once establish in the garden. They are great in containers too but they need plenty of water, despite their exotic looks. You’ll get a great display with blooms over three to four months in summer followed by another flush through autumn. Collection contains one each of Bush Diamond (white), Bush Pearl (pink) and Bush Pizzazz (magenta) Take a look at our partner site www.anigozanthosproject.com for more hints, tips and growing suggestions and a glimpse into what is in the pipeline for the future.

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