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New products at Blooming Direct

Sunday, November 2nd, 2014

Blooming Direct has these new products today

Primrose 'Alaska Mixed' 40 maxiplugs

Primrose ‘Alaska Mixed’ 40 maxiplugs £14.99
Transform your winter garden with these wonderful primroses – flowering like dazzling jewels in cold Winter days. Primrose Alaska is a bright-eyed variety with a soft sweet scent that will fill your garden. They will flower throughout the coldest time in winter, coming to a crescendo of vibrant colour in spring. Compact and low-growing, they are perfect for flower beds and excel in patio pots. They grow to 15cm (6) tall and spread, and thrive in full sun or light shade, and very easy to grow.

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New products at Blooming Direct

Friday, October 31st, 2014

New items at Blooming Direct

Hellebore Double Queen mix - 5 x 9cm

Hellebore Double Queen mix – 5 x 9cm £19.99
The Most Beautiful Winter-Flowering Plant – and so on trend too – Hellebore Double Queen mix. Large, Ruffled & Speckled Blooms in double flowered forms. Every one is totally unique because it’s come from seed! Adding delightful colour to your winter garden, these beautiful blooms, each of 2-3 diameter, are dainty to look at, but incredibly tough whatever the weather! Each collection includes a mix of 5 double flowered 2 year old plants; you will get a stunning mix of colours, many with speckles and darker edges to their petals. With flowers from February – April they are a must for every Spring garden! So easy to grow, they will slowly establish into small clumps, increasing in flower number year after year – it is not uncommon to have upwards of 50 flowers in 5 years. They thrive on shade, and lower light spots, yet can be grown well in pots provided they do not dry out in Summer.

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Price reductions at Blooming Direct

Thursday, October 30th, 2014

Price reduction at Blooming Direct

Trachelospermum jasminoides (Star Jasmine) 1.2M tall

Trachelospermum jasminoides (Star Jasmine) 1.2M tall was £29.99 now £14.99
Need something to cover an unsightly wall, or add some attractive interest and height to your garden? This wonderful Star Jasmine is perfect! It produces waves of gorgeous pure-white star-like flowers across summer, each one with simply stunning fragrance! Evergreen and winter hardy, it will add year-round interest the foliage is a rich purple in winter then a deep-green in spring and summer. Ideal for growing up posts, walls, arches and fences, and will thrive in a sunny, sheltered spot. Plant it somewhere where youll be able to smell its incredible fragrant flowers! It is relatively slow-growing about 10-20cm per year in the UK so it will not take over like other climbers.

Price reductions at Blooming Direct

Wednesday, October 29th, 2014

Blooming Direct reduced the price on this item today

Woven Frost Protection Fleece - Roll 2M x 16M

Woven Frost Protection Fleece – Roll 2M x 16M was £9.99 now £4.99
This roll of Woven Frost Protection Fleece is a simple yet effective way of protecting more tender trees, shrubs and plants from frost, providing up to 4C of temperature lift on the coldest nights and days often making the difference between the plant being damaged or not. Measuring a whopping 2 x 16 metres, it will be enough to cover all of the tender plants in a small garden. It will cover large trees and shrubs with ease. It could not be simpler to use simply cut the exact amount that you need from the roll and tie it snugly round the plant you need. The breathable fabric allows water to move in and out from the plant, so it can continue to grow perfectly normally. You can leave it on for several months over winter with no ill effects. The Woven Frost Protection Fleece will also allow light through, so growth is not affected at all.

New products at Blooming Direct

Saturday, October 25th, 2014

New lines at Blooming Direct

Patio Plum Golddust bare root

Patio Plum Golddust bare root £19.99
If you are looking for somethinhg novel and new to grow, why not try our fabulous dwarf self-fertile Almond, called ‘Garden Prince’. It kicks off early Spring with fabulous dispalys of snow-white blossom – we think this alone should be a reason to grpow this amazing tree. Throughout Summer, the pollinated fruitlets swell and develop – their outer skins pale green and furry as they grow. From mid-Summer onwards you can pick fresh Almonds each year once established. On dwarfing rootstock, and a compact grower, it will remain below 1.4M for 10 years or more, making it ideal to grow ina big pot on patio, deckling or balcony. It does blossom early, so beware late frosts, but it will reward your curiosity with a very unusual crop of fruits.

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Price reductions at Blooming Direct

Thursday, October 23rd, 2014

Price cut on this product at Blooming Direct

Complete Climbing Plant Collection - 6 plugs

Complete Climbing Plant Collection – 6 plugs was £19.99 now £9.99
The complete Climbing Plant collection is the easy way to cover unsightly objects and add colour to your garden all year long with this fantastic collection of climbers! Perfect for brightening up bare walls, banks, sheds, carports, pergolas or growing on trellises, each of these tough and vigorous plants will come alive each year between late spring and autumn, bursting with a range of pinks, purples and yellow flowers. Not only that, these climbers will fill your garden will subtle, sweet scent! Hardy, they will come back year after year, yet are easy to manage, simply cut back to size or trim each Autumn. You will get one each of the varieties: Clematis montana Grandiflora – gorgeous pure white flwoers in early Spring Jasminum beesianum – tiny pink star-shaped flower Jasminum stephanense – pale pink flowers Lonicera serotina (Honeysuckle) – creamy white and purole flowers, very fragrant Lonicera ‘Darts World’ (Honeysuckle) – amazing peach, red to purple flowers – highly fragrant Solanum jasminum Album – white flowers

Price reductions at Blooming Direct

Sunday, October 19th, 2014

Blooming Direct reduced the price on these products today

Wallflower 'Sugar Rush Mix' pack 12 jumbo plugs

Wallflower ‘Sugar Rush Mix’ pack 12 jumbo plugs was £9.99 now £4.99
‘Sugar Rush’ is a unique new British-bred Wallflower that will reliably give you two displays of vibrant colour to brighten up your garden this Autumn and Winter! A real breeding breakthrough – Sugar Rush will flower this autumn around November, overwintering to flower again in the Spring so giving double the pleasure! This dwarf variety is highly fragrant and its rainbow-like mix of coloured blooms will provide a vivid display in the otherwise dreary winter months. It is very hardy, easily enduring wintery conditions , and is perfect for borders or containers. Growing to about 20cm tall, it’s mass of fruit salad shades will work best in full sun or light shade, in massed plantings in pots, planters or mixed borders. Remove spent flowers to prolong displays.

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New products at Blooming Direct

Sunday, October 19th, 2014

Blooming Direct has these new products today

Pair of Patio Standard Roses - White

Pair of Patio Standard Roses – White £24.99
These ‘Patio Standard’ roses are AMAZING quality and SUPERB value for money – only available because of a massive order having been cancelled. Less than HALF NORMAL NURSERY PRICES! They will produce a summer long display of beautiful fragrant blooms all summer long for decades to come. Also known as Tree Roses, they are the perfect way to add height and class to you patio, where a single bush will make a dramatic solitary features but they will look fabulous as a pair of potted specimens to dress a door or gate. This unique type of rose is only possible because painstaking work has been undertaken by the grower, ‘top grafting’ the flowering variety on to the straight stem of the rootstock, thereby giving the height. It takes 3 years to produces these gems – they are supplied as bare root bushes ready to be planted immediately upon receipt, supplied approx 70cm tall with well-formed bushy heads.

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Price reductions at Blooming Direct

Sunday, October 5th, 2014

Price reduction at Blooming Direct

Traditional Hessian Sacks - pack of 10

Traditional Hessian Sacks – pack of 10 was £9.99 now £8.99
Store your produce in perfect condition once harvested, with these brilliant Traditional Hessian Sacks! Ideal for keeping apples and pears, picked them fresh from your Orchard Collection, or yummy potatoes from your patio kit, they are perfect for keeping produce cool, dry and out of harm’s way and can also be used in any number of ways around the garden. Made from highly durable Hessian, they will last for many years to come. Each sack is 50cm wide x 75cm tall.

New products at Blooming Direct

Friday, October 3rd, 2014

New products at Blooming Direct

Cercis Forest Pansy 2L

Cercis Forest Pansy 2L £14.99
Ok, so we gave in to Martin to put this on the website, as it is one of his all time favourite small trees, as it has amazing Summer purple foliage, gorgeous pink flowers that appear before any leaves, and yet is slow-growing and easy to manage. Cercis are slow to get going in Spring, awaking from Winter slumber with small pink flower borne directly on the main stems and branches of the tree, before any leaves emerge. Suddenly, as it warms up in April, the tree is covered in the most gorgeous heart-shaped burgundy purple leaves. They colour up even darker in full sun, perhaps being more reddish in any shade. In late Autumn, they turn red to orange to green before falling late in the season. A great all-rounder, easy to manage small tree – make sure you move quickly, as we do only have a batch of 100 plants.

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