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Price reductions at Blooming Direct

Friday, February 27th, 2015

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Patio Apricot Aprigold bare root tree

Patio Apricot Aprigold bare root tree was £19.99 now £14.99
Apricot ‘Aprigold’ is the fabulous patio Apricot from the world-leading Zaiger American breeding program. Naturally very compact, and yet self-fertile, it makes the ideal patio fruit tree for large pots opn sunny patioms balconies and gardens. With the awdded benefit of lovely soft-pink early blossom, it has a lovely Spring feature too, and as the new leaves emerge they have a lovely orange-red tinge to them, classic of Apricots. Remaining below 1.2M for 10 years or so, this makes it an ideal fruit tree for smaller gardens. Apricots are early fruiters even in the Uk, and once established in a year or 2, you should get good crops of tasty, juicy apricots from late July into August every year.

New products at Blooming Direct

Wednesday, February 25th, 2015

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Begonia semp. Mix 40 plug plants

Begonia semp. Mix 40 plug plants £7.99
Perfect for patio pots, containers and hanging baskets these brilliant begonias will explode with a mass of pink, white and red blooms all summer long! Flowering prolifically against the bronze-green foliage, they will add massive impact wherever you plant them.

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Friday, February 20th, 2015

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Pair Snow Covered Potted Living Christmas Trees 35-40cm tall

Pair Snow Covered Potted Living Christmas Trees 35-40cm tall was £9.99 now £4.99
These gorgeous Living Christmas trees are flocked with artificial snow, to create that snow-covered look we all secretly wish for at Christmas! And you get a Pair of them, so you can decorate them differently, or create a matching pair to frame a doorway. Perfect for dressing hallways, bedrooms, or kitchens as mini trees, or one for the kid’s bedrooms too. You can decorate each one with baubles and drop it in to a cachepot or tissue wrap it, for a quick and easy classic look. These trees are grown in pots, and after using them this year, they can be planted out and grown on, and used again – although the snow will have ‘melted’ off within one year! They will retain their fabulous classic Christmas Tree shape, and will grow very slowly, so if potted on can be brought back into the house for many, many years.

New products at Blooming Direct

Thursday, February 19th, 2015

Blooming Direct just added these new products

Fuchsia Whip Collection

Fuchsia Whip Collection £17.99
Specimen fuchsia plants culivated as standards, columns or pyramids are a treasure in the garden and grown in large pots, can be kept for many years. Our fuchsia whips are the perfect starting point to grow your own spectacular standards. These strong single stem plants have been grown over winter and are now around 15in tall and attached to a split cane for support. They are ‘unstopped’ so will grow vigorously through the spring when they are at the perfect stage for training into the desired form. To form a standard allow to grow to the desired height before taking out the growing tip. The head is formed from the top 3-4 sets of side shoots, those below this should be removed to fashion the clear standard trunk. Collection contains one plant each of: Seventh Heaven – one of the very best for standards forming a lax head and very large double blooms. genii – looks great as a column with golden foiliage and bright red blooms. Hardy in the border Garden News – tough and hardy and very free flowering. Easy to grow in standrads or pyramids

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New products at Blooming Direct

Wednesday, February 18th, 2015

Blooming Direct just added this new item

Herbeaceous Paeony plants (pack of 3 colours)

Herbeaceous Paeony plants (pack of 3 colours) £12.99
Now you too can have a gorgeous show of Paeony flowers in your own garden! Producing a simply stunning display of their huge, blousy, double flowers throughout mid-summer; they will add impact and vivid colour to your beds and borders from this year onwards. For gorgeous fragrance and elegant beauty, they are almost impossible to beat! This collection includes 3 fabulous colours crimson-red, shell-pink, and pure-white and will look simply marvellous wherever you plant them. Paeonies are very popular and its little wonder why, as a perennial they will come back year after year with bigger, better displays and all with the absolute minimum of effort! They are easy to grow and low maintenance, making them ideal for beginners and those of us with little time on our hands. They will die back after flowering each year, only to burst into life again the following spring. You will get bigger, better displays each year for many years to come. Perfect for growing in beds, borders, pots or containers.

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Sunday, February 15th, 2015

Blooming Direct has these new lines today

Duo Fruit Tree - Pear Conference & Concorde

Duo Fruit Tree – Pear Conference & Concorde £16.99
Pear Conference & Concorde 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! Whats 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. Conference Pear This produces a large crop of fruits with clear white flesh that are ready to pick each September. The long, tapering fruits are packed with an irresistible sweetness and lip-smacking juice that will drip from your chin when you bite in to a ripe one! Because of its outstanding flavour, it remains the most popular pear grown in Britain by a long measure both in commercial orchards and home gardens. It is perfect for you to grow because it is very heavy cropping and when picked unripe, it is great for keeping for 2 or more months. Crops: September-October Concorde Pear This scrumptious pear variety produces large crops of elegant, tapering fruits with white flesh that are ready to pick from September each year. Each one is packed with an incredibly sweet, irresistible juice you wont be able to stop yourself eating them straight from the tree! Try to save some for later though as they will make wonderful desserts for your Christmas parties! Concorde is perfect for gardeners to grow because it is very heavy cropping and will keep for over two months when picked unripe. Crops: September-October

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Friday, February 13th, 2015

Blooming Direct has this new item today

Cyclamen hederifolium Pink - pack of 3 x 9cm

Cyclamen hederifolium Pink – pack of 3 x 9cm £12.99
Not to ever be confused with pot plant Cyclamen produced in their masses for Christmas, these superb wild Cyclamen are a stunning garden plant for slowly naturalising in shady spots under trees and hedges, providing subtle Autumn colour and long term foliage interest. Their flowers are produced in profusion in Autumn – once established the flowers appear straight form the ground before any leaves form. As they die back in Winter, the striking silver marked deep green leaves, with whorls of splashes and random leaf markings appear, and last until the heat of the following Spring. They will slowly spread out into small clumps, and naturalise to form a delicate carpet, of totally hardy, no maintenance, almost bullet proof plants. What could be easier? Perfect for that awkward shady space, whatever size of garden you have.

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Thursday, February 12th, 2015

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Double Flowered Hardy Primula'Elizabeth Killelay' - 6 plugs

Double Flowered Hardy Primula’Elizabeth Killelay’ – 6 plugs was £14.99 now £9.99
One of the most prized hardy Primula hybrids, ‘Elizabeth Killelay’ is a most unusual double-flowered form. It’s stems of flowers produce 3-8 beautiful deep maroon flowers, all edged cream to gold, with overlapping layers of petals producing a gorgeous frilly effect. Their flowers last over a Month in March and April, and often longer, they are very tough and hardy little perennials for the front of borders, or in pots in a group. Getting bigger and better every year, they are a little gem for the Spring garden.

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Wednesday, February 11th, 2015

New product today at Blooming Direct

Gift Rose 'My Valentine' 3L pot (gift wrapped)

Gift Rose ‘My Valentine’ 3L pot (gift wrapped) £12.99
Give your true love something really special this Valentine’s Day – this spectacular gift-wrapped rose bush that will give them enormous pleasure year after year! Much better than buying expensive cut-flowers – because the pleasure lasts so much longer – your ‘My Valentine’ rose will arrive perfectly wrapped and in the with your own personal message for your loved one, ready to plant and thrive in their garden or patio. ‘My Valentine’ is a simply gorgeous Hybrid Tea variety that will burst into full-bloom each year with and abundance of rich, berry-red, high-centred flowers – from May right through to the first frosts in late-autumn. Each flower carries a beautifully sweet, subtle fragrance too! Supplied as freshly lifted, professional grower-quality plants, gift-wrapped, in 3 litre pots. They are dormant at this time of year and will quickly establish and start shooting when planted.

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Sunday, February 8th, 2015

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Pansy 'Frizzle Sizzle' pack of 12 jumbo plugs

Pansy ‘Frizzle Sizzle’ pack of 12 jumbo plugs was £12.99 now £6.49
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.