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Wednesday, February 4th, 2015

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Climbing Rose Collection - 3 varieties

Climbing Rose Collection – 3 varieties was £17.99 now £12.99
Nothing beats the sight and scent of traditional English climbing roses dripping form an archway or pergola, churning out flowers for 4 months through the Summer, and producing a fabulous fragrance wafting on the breeze, especially on warm days. Perfect for climbing up to 2m up trellises, arches, walls or fences, these bare root roses will produce their first displays this summer. You will get one each of : Dublin Bay – a sumptuous red double, very-free flowering and quite thorn free. Golden Showers – bright sunshine yellow Zepherine Drouhin – vibrant pink

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Thursday, January 29th, 2015

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Best Ever 5 Bush Hybrid Tea Rose Collection

Best Ever 5 Bush Hybrid Tea Rose Collection £19.99
Simply Stunning! Garden Glamour Repeat-Flowering Rose Bush Collection This incredible collection, available at this introductory price only whilst limited stocks last, comprises 1 each of Vibrant Red, Pure White, Golden Yellow, Powder Pink and Peach Melba. All varieties have been selected for their proven garden performance, and will provide fantastic outdoor colour as well as stems you can cut for indoor displaystoo. They will fragrantly repeat flower from May to October year after year and are incredibly easy to grow. Each premium quality bush is totally winter hardy and will already have 3-5 strong branches when delivered to you. Bushes grow to 60-90cm tall and now is the perfect time to plant! Incredible fragrance and non-stop colour Repeat-displays – masses of beautiful blooms from May to October every year Disease resistant, and easy to grow… proven performers in British gardens 60-90cm high – perfect for your patios, beds and borders

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Sunday, January 25th, 2015

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Viburnum bodnantense 'Charles Lamont' (Winter Viburnum) 9cm

Viburnum bodnantense ‘Charles Lamont’ (Winter Viburnum) 9cm was £7.99 now £4.99
A real gem for Winter gardens, producing long lasting floral displays from late October through winter into spring. Clusters of really fragrant, pale to deep pink, long-lasting flowers just seem to keep going and going in winter. A compact shrub at 2.5m tall or so after 10 years, it is easy to manage, and very hardy once established. Some flowers may get frost damage in extreme cold, but new ones appear quickly, and the plant is unharmed. Preferring a sunny spot, it can be grown in large pots. Because of it’s stunning fragrance and winter displays, plant it close to where you can smell it and see it regularly!

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Friday, January 16th, 2015

Blooming Direct reduced the price on these lines today

Dahlia tubers - Mixed Decoratives - pack x 10

Dahlia tubers – Mixed Decoratives – pack x 10 was £14.99 now £12.99
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.

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New products at Blooming Direct

Friday, January 16th, 2015

New items added today at Blooming Direct

Buy 200 Bedding Plants & get 40 Geraniums Free

Buy 200 Bedding Plants & get 40 Geraniums Free £39.95
These super value bedding plants are all perfect for patio displays in any container as well as for beds and borders around your garden. Delivered nursery fresh to your door at exactly the right time! Lobelia Fountain MixThis vibrant mixture of lobelia looks sensational when spilling over the sides of hanging baskets, patio pots and window boxes, and will provide an unrivalled show of trailing colour from summer until the first frosts of autumn. Ideal in sun or a slightly shaded position. Height/Spread: 30cm (12). Busy Lizzie ‘DeZire Mixed”DeZire’ is a cracking new Busy Lizzie that will light up your garden with an incredible show of vibrant pinks, reds, scarlets and whites. Flowering from early summer right through to autumn, it forms a compact, uniform habit that is perfect for beds, borders, window boxes and patio pots Gazania ‘Kiss’ MixThese super value bedding plants are grown from seed on our Jersey nursery to provide you with perfect quality, healthy plants at a fraction of garden centre prices. Gazania Kiss Mix are perfect for patio displays or beds and borders to create breath-taking summer colour! A gorgeous mix that is perfect for pots and borders. Petunias: ‘Frenzy’ & ‘Duo-Double’Bring your beds and baskets to life with sumptuous petunias. Compact and easy to manage, they are perfect for brightening-up pots, baskets and borders. The gorgeous mix of colours will look spectacular all summer long. These incredibly large flowers are weather-resistant and great value, too! Height/Spread: 30cm (12). Free Geranium Blooming MixThis stunning mix of summer-flowering geraniums has been raised from the fi nest seed to guarantee the very best results! Bursting into colour in late-spring, in a torrent of reds, whites and pinks, they’ll light up your beds, borders and hanging baskets, right up until the first frosts of autumn. Height/Spread: 30cm (12).

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Wednesday, January 14th, 2015

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Hardy Geranium collection x 5 bare roots

Hardy Geranium collection x 5 bare roots was £14.99 now £9.99
Hardy Geraniums, or Cranesbills as they are commonly known, are one of the easiest and best garden performers for low maintenance, flowering displays and versatility to growing conditions. Everyone should find space for them! Not to be confused with bedding Geraniums, more correctly called Pelargoniums, these really are one of the most versatile plants – sun or shade, wet or dry, pots or garden, they just keep doing their thing year after year. From their dormant state over-Winter, in Spring they produce neat and tidy small domes of leaves, which are smothered in flowers in Summer. A mecca for bees, they will be buzzing with activity on sunny days. In Autumn, the leaves often turn red orange too. A simple trim off of old grpwth in Autumn is all they need – what could be easier.

New products at Blooming Direct

Friday, January 9th, 2015

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Hardy Geranium collection x 5 bare roots

Hardy Geranium collection x 5 bare roots £14.99
Hardy Geraniums, or Cranesbills as they are commonly known, are one of the easiest and best garden performers for low maintenance, flowering displays and versatility to growing conditions. Everyone should find space for them! Not to be confused with bedding Geraniums, more correctly called Pelargoniums, these really are one of the most versatile plants – sun or shade, wet or dry, pots or garden, they just keep doing their thing year after year. From their dormant state over-Winter, in Spring they produce neat and tidy small domes of leaves, which are smothered in flowers in Summer. A mecca for bees, they will be buzzing with activity on sunny days. In Autumn, the leaves often turn red orange too. A simple trim off of old grpwth in Autumn is all they need – what could be easier.

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Wednesday, January 7th, 2015

Blooming Direct has these new products today

Trailing Fuchsia Collection x 12 Jumbo Plug Plants

Trailing Fuchsia Collection x 12 Jumbo Plug Plants £12.99
Trailing Fuchsia will cascade like a colourful waterfall over the side of hanging baskets and patio containers, complimenting the upright plants you place above them. The Ballerina-Like flowers look beautiful and the long, colourful trails, which extend to 45cm (18in) below the bottom of your basket, will add depth and most importantly real colour impact. These trailing beauties will also look perfect trailing over low walls or raised beds, but wherever you decide to plant yours, they will provide colour for up to 6 months from May until October. Each collection comprise 3 plugs of the following varieties: – Annabel – softest pure white, tinged with blush pink – La Campanella – berry purple, with contrasting white outer – Swingtime – huge ruffled white centres, surrounded by strawberry red – Jack Shahan – two subtle tones of rose pink The 4 varieties we have selected for you will give immense flower power, and whilst the flower size is slightly smaller than their Jumbo Flowered cousins, the total number of blooms more than makes up for the difference in size. They are perfect in mixed displays with other summer flowering plants, but also look simply stunning when grown as a mixture of fuchsia!

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Wednesday, December 24th, 2014

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The Ultimate Winter Hardy Shrub Collection x 12 Mature Bushe

The Ultimate Winter Hardy Shrub Collection x 12 Mature Bushe was £24.99 now £14.99
You can now enjoy true year-round interest with vibrant flower colour, brightly coloured berries and stems, tactile bark and wonderfully fragrant flowers all for less than 1.25 per shrub simply brilliant value for money! These 12 tried and tested garden winners will fill any gaps you might have in your existing beds and borders or allow you to plant a new one from scratch, with each individual shrub having the potential to fill 1m2 / circa 10ftsq. Once planted they will rapidly grow away and look tremendous from this year onwards, providing a stunning visual display and a degree of privacy and security for you, as well as a natural safe haven for a wide variety of wildlife. The berries will provide much needed winter food for wild birds and the shrubby structure will provide cover and protection for them too. Varieties Included: Symphoricarpos albus: Known as the ‘Common Snowberry’ for obvious reason! The berries provide much needed winter food for wildlife. Height 3-4ft.Syringa vulgaris: The common Lilac produces fragrant lavender coloured blooms each May. Hardy and deciduous and great for hedging, it grows to 10-15ft tall.Cornus alba: The ‘Red-Barked Dogwood’ provides fantastic autumn colour with its bright red vertical branches. In summer it leafs up and even has soft pink flowers in mid-summer. Height 3-4ft. Potentilla fruticosa: An evergreen beauty, with masses of yellow saucer-shaped bloom throughout summer. Trim each March to make a perfect hedge. Height 3-4ft.Ribes aureum: Part of the currant family and known as the ‘Golden Currant or ‘Clove Currant. The bright yellow blooms have a vanilla-clove aroma. The foliage has beautiful autumn colour. Height 3-4ft. Spirea douglasii: Part of the rose family, it is often know as The Rose Spirea. Easy to grow with masses of pretty pink flowers in early summer. Perfect for small spaces – height 3ft Forsythia intermedia ‘Spectabilis’: Literally one of the most spectacular early season shrubs because of its bright yellow bloom. Perfect for hedges and really easy to grow. Height 4-5 ft. although can be trimmed in to a tidy hedge. Hypericum moserianum ‘St John’s Wort: Lush green foliage and pretty, bright yellow flowers all summer long. Perfect for a sunny or part-shaded position. Height 3-4ft. Deutzia scabra: Also Known as the Fuzzy Deutzia, this native of Japan & China grows to around 8ft tall and smothers itself in pure white fragrant flowers in June. Berberis thunbergii ‘Atropurpurea’: A great hedging plant because of its spiky branches, but also a beautiful garden plant. The yellow flowers appear in late spring and the purple foliage provides lovely autumn colour. Height 3-4ft. Philadelphus coronarius: Commonly known as the ‘Mock Orange’ it will be clothed in a profusion of creamy-white flowers throughout June & July. The flowers are fabulously fragrant. Height 5-6ft.Weigela rosea: A lovely garden shrub, with fabulous pink flower colour in May, June and July. Height 3-4ft. ‘We ordered the collection of 12 shrubs back in March/April as we have a large garden which was just lawn. We had previously purchased 2 shrubs from a garden centre that cost more than the 12 we bought from you. We thought if half survived, it would be worth the money but all 12 have thrived and a few have over taken the ones from the garden centre. The Spirea has even flowered, the Ribes has grown about 24 in these few months. What a bargain for these shrubs, yes its worrying when they turn up all bare but if regularly watered, they soon spring to life.’ ZR, Southend, July 2014

Price reductions at Blooming Direct

Friday, December 19th, 2014

Blooming Direct has cut the price of these items

Daffodil Pheasant Eye (Narcissus recurvus) Size:12/14 pack

Daffodil Pheasant Eye (Narcissus recurvus) Size:12/14 pack was £4.99 now £2.49
A real British favourite, Daffodils blowing in the breeze are a true sign that spring is approaching! With their distinctive flowers and sweet scent they are a must-have for any garden and have been for hundreds of years. Plant them in pots, containers or straight in the ground this autumn for a fantastic display next spring! Pheasant Eye is over a hundred years old and it is no wonder this old favourite is still as popular as ever. Flowering all the way into June, its elegant white flowers, each with a small red and yellow cup, delight into the early summer months. it looks brilliant planted in groups and naturalises well.

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