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Archive for the 'Blooming Direct' Category
Friday, January 22nd, 2016
Blooming Direct has this new product today

Bessera elegans (Coral drops) – pack of 25 bulbs £9.99
This gorgeous little delight called Bessera elegans looks like a cross between an exotically coloured snowdrop and a fuchsia flower, but is known by it’s common name of ‘Coral Drops’.
The corms are quite small, but this belies the truly spectacular displays that erupt form them in late Summer. Stems of up to 45cm tall will bear up to 20 individual flowers, each one a lovely coral red colour, with contrasting creamy centres, and often creamy stripes inside the petal – such an unusual colour combination.
They work really well planted 7-10 bulbs per 25cm pot, grown in hot sun – we do not suggest growing in the soil in the UK. Feed them well in season with a balanced feed, and they will reward with spectacular displays. They will flower in August into September. They are frost-tender, so after flowering, let the stems die back, but move the pot inside and dry right back until following Spring, when they will grow away in even bigger clumps. They can tolerate a little cold down to -5C, but not Winter wet, and if you do this will reward you with many years of flowering.
‘Coral Drops’ are a delightful little Summer firecracker, and well worth growing for something unusual and rarely offered in the UK.
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Wednesday, January 20th, 2016
New product at Blooming Direct
Senetti early Colour plugs – pack of 12 £17.99
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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Thursday, January 14th, 2016
Blooming Direct just added this new product
Petunia Black Night 12 plug plants £14.99
It seems that every summer brings even more remarkable varieties from the plant breeders of the world and Petunia ‘Black Night’ will really take some beating! Not only are the flowers ruffled and fully double but they are of such a deep inky purple that to a casual glance they are black.
Black Night is a wonderful choice for baskets and containers with a gently cascading habit, whether grown on it’s own when the velvety blooms impress against bright green foliage or grow in a mixed basket contrasting against soft creams and yellows. Flowers from May to September. For the very best results keep well watered, remove old flowers regularly and feed weekly with a liquid feed once buds start appearing.
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
Lots of prices reduced today at Blooming Direct
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Tuesday, January 12th, 2016
Blooming Direct added loads of new items
Pair of Box (Buxus) Pyramids 45-50cm tall £39.99
These fully winter hardy and evergreen beauties will provide a stately look and feel to your home in pots, placed either side of a doorway or planted in to a bed or border they will look great. If you have always fancied having your own topiary, this is the perfect place to start incredibly low-maintenance and requiring little more than an occasional trim, they will last for many years and get bigger and better each season. Often sold at much higher prices, this pair of Box Pyramids represents great value for money!
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Friday, July 31st, 2015
Blooming Direct has cut the price of this item
Cupressus Goldcrest Duo Ball Topiary tree 90cm (single) was £29.99 now £14.99
If you have always yearned after a piece of topiary, shaped to perfection, yet don’t want too much maintenance, then this is just the thing for you.
Clipped into two perfect spherical ball shapes, one on top of the pot and one atop a standard form stem reaching 90cm, they add a modern sense of shape and form, as well as year round acid lime yellow colour too! Striking for sure!
They look fab as a single centrepiece plant in a small formal square bed, or in pairs in modern pots. Keep watered well in summer, they are hardy, and only need one trim a year in june time.
Filed: Blooming Direct, Price Reductions
Friday, July 31st, 2015
New products added today at Blooming Direct

Leaf-Curl Resistant Peach ‘Avalon Pride’ fruit tree bare root £29.99
If you love the idea of growing juicy peaches but thought you couldn’t, then think again! ‘Avalon Pride’® represents the most significant development in Peach Tree breeding for over 100 years, meaning you can now grow it here in The UK, with complete confidence that you will get a fabulous crop of up to 20kg of delicious fruits per season for many years to come…
This unique, ‘self-fertile’ variety carries a wonderful display of pretty, sweetly fragrant pink blooms in late March and April that go on to produce a bumper crop in mid-August each year. The productivity of ‘Avalon Pride’® is so good because of its self-fertility, added to its later than usual flowering time – which cuts down the probability of the blooms getting damaged by a late frost before the pollinators do their work! What’s more, this particular variety is THE WORLDS FIRST one that shows very high resistance to Peach Leaf Curl, a problem that blights almost all Peach varieties. It’s also totally winter hardy and will grow brilliantly when planted directly in your garden – ideally against a wall where it will thrive. Supplied as well-feathered, bare-root trees that are 1.5-1.8m tall, and grown on St Julian A rootstock, they are ready to plant outdoors upon receipt and you can expect delicious bumper crops for decades to come. Once planted they will remain compact, growing to just 3m tall after 5 years.
‘Avalon Pride’® was originally discovered by Miss Margaret Proud whilst out walking in woodland adjacent to her fathers garden in Washington State, USA. She quickly realised that it showed no visible signs whatsoever of the dreaded peach leaf curl, and, because she loved eating fresh peaches, decided to propagate her own tree. Having successfully done just that, some years later, a large bear decided to dig the tree up and smashed it to pieces! With just a handful of branches remaining, she skilfully grafted some of them on to another peach tree, thereby saving the variety and making sure that you can still enjoy this super variety today. Each and every Peach ‘Avalon Pride’® tree that is growing around the world today has been raised from that same lineage.
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Thursday, July 23rd, 2015
New lines at Blooming Direct
‘Sibley’s Patio Quince’ tree 2L pot £24.99
We’ve unearthed a little gem here for you, the perfect patio fruit tree for smaller gardens. In fact it’s breeder, renowned British Fruit grower Will Sibley thinks it’s the best patio fruit tree you can grow.
Quinces have fallen out of favour – and perhaps out of flavour too. Yet their sweet fruit make great jellies, jams, and sauces, and they have the most beautiful pink blossom too. Hardy and self-fertile, it really is an easy winner.
This little beauty is destined to stay small, so works well in a big pot on the patio or terrace. The variety itself is naturally compact, and has been grafted onto a very dwarfing rootstock Will found in the former Soviet Union!!
After 3 low maintenance years, you should get up to 50 tennis ball sized sweet yellow fruit each Summer – dig out those recipes and enjoy old-fashioned Quinces once again.
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Wednesday, July 22nd, 2015
Blooming Direct just added these new products

Pair Boulevard Patio Clematis – mixed colours £24.99
Blooming Brilliant! ‘Boulevard Patio Clematis’… Compact ‘flower-towers’ lasting 6 months each year. It’s incredible but true… these compact beauties really will produce a torrent of bright, star-shapes blooms continuously for 6 months – every year!
Bred and developed by world renowned Raymond Evison, this pair of stunning ‘Boulevard’ beauties will captivate all summer long with their large, impactful blooms and repeat-flowering habit. They have been bred for their compact growing habit and precocious flowering nature so you can create a massive colour impact from a very limited space. They are perfect for growing in small spaces, in pots and containers, so are ideal for modern gardens where space may be limited.
With displays lasting for up to 6 months – May until October – they will enliven any terraced garden, patio, balcony or conservatory. They will never get out of hand, growing to just 4ft tall when mature, and only require a minimum of annual maintenance – cut all stems back to 15cm (6′) in Feb/March- PLUS they are totally winter hardy too! Each supplied as a 50cm cane tripod in 2L pot. These unique clematis are simply fantastic value for money – order yours today!
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Monday, July 20th, 2015
Blooming Direct has this new item today
Musa basjoo (Hardy banana) plant 50cm tall £14.99
This fantastic architectural banana plant will create a great impact in any garden! Forming a dense bush with huge paddle fan like leaves spreading gloriously out through the air, it will create wonderful shadows on your patio. Once established, the big leaves will unfurl as they emerge each year through the central trunk, and within 3-4 years you will have leaves over 1M long.
Hailing from Japan, it loves sunshine but it is hardy to -6C perfect for the UK climate! This Japanese Hardy Banana is brilliant if planted into a large pot and will create a real tropical feel to your garden.
Note – it does not actually produce edible bananas in the Uk, it is a close cousin of comemrcial bananas, but they do not grow here in Uk climates. Grow it for it’s huge impact and size as a tropcial foliage plant.
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