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Thursday, April 28th, 2016

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Rosebud Double Mini Petunia 12 plug plants

Rosebud Double Mini Petunia 12 plug plants £14.99
These dazzling mini petunias are a must for any garden giving a sumptuous display throughout the summer. Although smaller than regular double petunias, the neat double blooms are produced in far greater numbers meaning your baskets and patio containers will be smothered with colour from late spring to autumn. Known botanically as Calibrachoas, a close relative of Petunias they are vigorous growers and are very easy to care for, they’re more resistant to wind and rain than their Petunia cousins so are the perfect plant for UK gardens. Why not enjoy Calitas this year in your garden! Collection contains white, blue, rose and yellow, 3 plants of each.

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Sunday, April 24th, 2016

Blooming Direct has cut the price of these products

Belgian Giant Trailing Begonias x 10 Tubers

Belgian Giant Trailing Begonias x 10 Tubers was £9.99 now £6.99
Brighten your summer hanging baskets and patio displays with these fantastic Trailing Giant Begonias. These exclusive Giant Belgian Begonias are highly sought after because of their incredible 6 inch (15cm) diameter Giant blooms and dazzling variety of colours. Bred by the renowned Arnold van Peteghem at his nursery in Ghent, Belgium, the European capital of Begonias, Arnold has spent his whole life developing and growing these incredible hybrids. The impressive flowers are produced in great volume all summer long. It has a gently cascading habit so the display will be globe shaped and your hanging basket or patio tub will be covered in flower through 360 degrees a truly eye-catching display! Begonias are undergoing a resurgence in popularity in recent years, as they perform Summer after Summer – whether it’s hot and dry, or our more usual wet and windy! Thanks to all the weather we had last year, this years tubers are much larger than those normally available, which means they will produce an even bigger and more impressive display. You Garden have been lucky enough to obtain a limited number of these jumbo tubers so dont miss this one-off opportunity to obtain some for yourself and at a very special price too!

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Saturday, April 23rd, 2016

New item at Blooming Direct

Hardy Double Flowered Geranium collection 3 x 9cm

Hardy Double Flowered Geranium collection 3 x 9cm £16.99
Hardy geraniums are the essential cottage garden plant and ideally suited to the British climate – no garden should be without them! Reliably re-appearing as spring arrives they’re soon smothered in blooms and the colourful display lasts right through summer. These new double flowered forms set no seed meaning they produce more blooms than ever.This collection contains: himalayense Plenum – Very free flowering, grows anywhere. Lovely bronze foliage in autumn. ‘Summer Skies’ – Compact growing -perfect for pots and front of the border.Unique two tone flowers. ‘Southcombe Double’ – Much admired new variety, flowers prolifically for months

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Wednesday, April 20th, 2016

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Rose 'Blue Beauty' half standard 90cm tall bare root

Rose ‘Blue Beauty’ half standard 90cm tall bare root was £14.99 now £9.99
This distinctive rose variety has the most entrancing flower colour imaginable and one that is rarely seen in the whole rose genus. What is more, in this particular instance the beautiful blooms are held gracefully aloft on a strong ‘Standard’ stem with a ball of lush foliage that will become covered in blooms that stand proud above the rest of your patio displays. Flowering throughout the summer months it will be a major talking point within your patio garden and makes a perfect centre piece of any patio container, bed or border. As with all of our Patio Standard Roses, Blue Beauty is incredibly easy to care for – it is repeat flowering, totally winter hardy and perennial so it will create it’s breathtaking display year after year. Supplied as a dormant but freshly lifted bare root Half Standard that is 80cm tall. Keep the plant cool and the roots thoroughly moist until planting and once planted, water every few days for the first month whatever the weather. To ensure your rose gets away to the best possible start, whether planted in a pot or directly in to the soil, we strongly recommend providing support with a stout cane until the roots are fully established. When your rose is flowering, normally from May until October each year, occasionally remove any spent blooms and feed fortnightly with good quality soluble plant food with a high potash content. This will make the display look even more attractive and also encourage the maximum display for the longest period. YouGardens’ very own formulation of McDermott’s Finest Fertiliser is perfect for this and is proven to give fabulous flowering displays. Prune just once each year in February, merely tidying up the head into a symmetrical ball shape.

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Wednesday, April 20th, 2016

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96 Best-Sellers Bedding Plant Bundle - 24 each

96 Best-Sellers Bedding Plant Bundle – 24 each £49.99
If you want vibrant displays to fill your baskets, beds and borders this summer then look no further that this superb collection of our top-performing, container-filling, sweet-smelling bedding plants! Specifically chosen to guarantee stunning floral displays, this collection includes favourites such as Surfinia Petunias, Rosebud Geraniums and the ever popular Begonia Apricot Shades. Plant varieties separately for a more formal look, perhaps in pots either side of a patio, or mix them up to create eye-catching displays in hanging baskets. As trailing varieties, each plant will cascade over the side of baskets and containers so are perfect in tall or elevated pots or baskets. This collection will bring a rainbow of colour to your garden with the warm shades of orange and red of the Begonia, to the beautiul rose-pink and purple of the Tumbelina Petunias. Flowering prolifically right through from early summer up until the first frosts of autumn, these bedding plants will stun for 6 months of the year and will happily put up with our unpredictable summer weather, but will need protection from the cold in the winter. For an all-encompassing collection of flowers to bring your garden to life this summer, this bedding bundle is a sure-fire winner! Collection includes; Surfinia Trailing Petunia x 24 Jumbo Plugs Double Rosebud Trailing Geraniums x 24 Jumbo Plugs Trailing Begonia Apricot Shades x 24 Jumbo Plugs Tumbelina Fragrant Trailing Petunia x 24 Jumbo Plugs

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Sunday, April 17th, 2016

Blooming Direct reduced the price on this item today

Trailing Hardy Pansy 'Cool Wave' Bedding Plant Pack of 12 Jumbo Plugs

Trailing Hardy Pansy ‘Cool Wave’ Bedding Plant Pack of 12 Jumbo Plugs was £14.99 now £6.99
A pansy that the breeder is calling The Best Trailing Pansy Ever! Quite a claim but we think so too! This amazing large-flowered series keeps flowering all winter long, and well into summer too. It is very hardy (to around -25C!), so it will withstand the worst of the winter whatever the British weather throws at it, producing endless waves of simply gorgeous flowers in shades of golden yellow, violet, mauve, berry purple and white – for nine whole months of the year – hence the name ‘Cool Wave’! They will cascade over the sides of hanging baskets and planters, providing a splash of zingy colour in the dull days of winter. Smothered in big, traditional pansy flowers, this vigorous trailer is set to make its mark on gardens everywhere – it’s a real breeding breakthrough for much better performance in hanging baskets.

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Saturday, April 16th, 2016

Reduced price on products today at Blooming Direct

Senetti early Colour plants - pack of 12 plug plants

Senetti early Colour plants – pack of 12 plug plants was £19.99 now £7.99
Bring your winter-worn borders back to life and get them off to a flying start with this wonderful collection of Senetti! Senetti are a fairly new variety, related to Cineraria, but having much greater cold tolerance than them – they are great for planting out earlier as they will take temperatures down to zero. Coming into flower earlier than many Summer bedding lines, thanks to their ability to cope with the cold, these brightly coloured beauties will continue to flower prolifically from early April right through to hot Summer, filling a nice early season gap! With their gorgeous shades of magenta pink and deep blue, as well as their variants with a lovely two-tone white picotee, you will get prolific displays – perfect in patio pots and tubs.

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Friday, April 15th, 2016

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Hardy Double Echinacea Collection includes 6 Varieties of Garden Ready Plants

Hardy Double Echinacea Collection includes 6 Varieties of Garden Ready Plants £19.99
Bold and beautiful, these gorgeous late-summer flowering Echinaceas or ‘Cone-Flowers’ will bring dramatic and vibrant late summer colour to your garden. Unlike traditional seed raised kinds these innovative ’tissue culture’ plants are more vigorous, colourful and with bigger, longer lasting flowers! Stately and vibrant in the border, they’ll blend beautifully with other herbaceous species and these unique ‘doubles’ in particular are also superb in large patio containers. And… with their diversity of colour and form there’s something for every planting scheme. With a delicate honey like scent they make wonderful cut flowers and as true hardy perennials they’ll reappear year after year getting bigger and stroner from summer to summer. Delivered as large ‘garden ready’ plants. Grow in a sunny spot as they love summer warmth. Varieties included: Southern Belle, Pineapple Sundae, Hot Papaya, Milkshake, Guava Ice, Marmalade

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Sunday, April 10th, 2016

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Asiatic Lilies 'Fruit Salad' shades x 20 bulbs

Asiatic Lilies ‘Fruit Salad’ shades x 20 bulbs was £14.99 now £9.99
Recent Lily breeding has created some huge and beautifully fragrant Oriental type Lilies, in their pinks and whites, their brighter, bolder Asiatic cousins seem to have been left out. Not any more… With their beautiful sunshine rays of colours in a range of bold ‘fruit salad shades’ in yellow, orange and red, these vibrant and hot tropical colours really light up your hot summer garden. Short and strong enough to grow in pots, yet tall enough to cut armfuls of flowers each summer, they are versatile, and very hardy and easy. Plant en masse in large pots or in groups for maximum impact, or maybe just dot them round your garden to brighten up odd spots. Plant in Spring, and pick in Summer – and again year after year. Great value and easy to do Lilies.

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Friday, April 8th, 2016

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Phyllostachys nigra (Black Bamboo) 80-100cm tall

Phyllostachys nigra (Black Bamboo) 80-100cm tall was £29.99 now £19.99
Grab your chance to get a very special offer for such a huge, impactful bamboo plant! Black bamboo is slow growing, and the canes turn a rich, coffee-black colour after a year or so. They will provide a wonderful spectacle and a great centrepiece and talking point. This mature, well established plant will provide instant impact in a large pot (keep well watered in Summer, they are thirsty beasts), looking great on patios or decking, and requiring very little maintenace. Or plant it in the ground where it will form nice attractive clumps over many, many years. It is also good for screening or dividing areas of your garden, and will look lovely with the canes wafting and whispering in the breeze. Phyllostachys nigra is also much less invasive than others so dont worry about it taking over. Very hardy, it needs no maintenance or pruning, so it is perfect for busy gardeners, yet gives year round interest and texture to gardens of all styles and sizes. Can be divided into 2 plants in 5 years or so too! Enjoy!