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New products at Blooming Direct

Wednesday, February 7th, 2018

New products at Blooming Direct

Universal Bug Killer RTU 1L

Universal Bug Killer RTU 1L £5.99
A handy and ready to use insect killer – reclaim your fruit, vegetable and flower crops from pesky pests that inevitably occur. Will control greenfly, blackfly, mealy bug, red sapider mite, and soft scale insects. Use on fruit, vegetables, and all plants and trees. Has a rapid action on contact with insects for quick knock down. No harmful residues left, and safe to use near children and pets.

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New products at Blooming Direct

Friday, February 2nd, 2018

Blooming Direct has these new products today

Christmas Rose plants (Helleborus niger 'Christmas Carol') - set of 3 in 1L pots

Christmas Rose plants (Helleborus niger ‘Christmas Carol’) – set of 3 in 1L pots £29.99
Brighten up the darkness of winter with these gorgeous Christmas Roses! Helleborus niger is one of the most popular Hellebore varieties across the world, and it is easy to see why. And it has been improved by plant breeders with the introduction of this new variety ‘Christmas Carol’, with many more flowers and a much longer flowering season. Each plant will produce an abundance of truly beautiful bowl-shaped, snowy-white flowers, which turn shades of pink as they age, across the festive period and beyond, year after year. They have lovely, thick, dark-green leaves and foliage too. Perfect for displaying indoors they will make a magical centrepiece, when put in a decorative pot or wrapped in some festive wrapping paper! After, plant them out in your garden they are completely winter hardy and will last for years, with displays coming back bigger and better each year.

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Price reductions at Blooming Direct

Thursday, February 1st, 2018

Price cut on this product at Blooming Direct

Buddleia 'Flower Power' plant 2L

Buddleia ‘Flower Power’ plant 2L was £12.99 now £9.99
Introducing this magical and unique Buddleia, ‘Flower Power’, that has taken years of dedication from plant breeders to produce. The first hybrid Buddleia between normal types, and a yellow flowered species, it has gorgeous ‘colour changing’ spires of flowers, from purple to orange – and all shades in between! What a sensational new colour for hot summer borders and shrubberies. It retains the ability to attract Butterflies, hence the common name Butterfly Bush, in flower in Summer it will become a mecca for beautiful peacock and tortoishells. The bees will love it too – and repay you by pollinating crops for you! Hardy and easy to grow, its multicoloured displays of colour and sweet scent will last all Summer long.  It is more upright and less bushy than more common Buddleia, and can quite lax in some cases, so may need some support in windy spots. Grow in well-drained borders in sunny spots for maximum Flower Power. Look forward to great Summer displays year after year.    

New products at Blooming Direct

Wednesday, January 31st, 2018

Blooming Direct has these new products today

Choisya 'Sundance' 1M standard tree

Choisya ‘Sundance’ 1M standard tree £29.99
We are all familiar with the classic bay tree lollipop shape standard, but how about a completely different colour option? The fabulous golden yellow leaves of Choisya ‘Sundance’ (or Mexican Orange Blossom as it is sometimes called due to their small white fragrant flowers in spring), glow bright golden yellow in spring and summer, yet remain neat and tidy too. And they are ever-yellow too – they remain bright yellow all year, even in winter, so offer a real year round feature. Grown on a clear stem of about 50cm, these standard Choisya’s are quite unusual, and work really well as a low maintenance feature in pairs either side of a doorway or gate.

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New products at Blooming Direct

Sunday, January 28th, 2018

Blooming Direct just added this new item

Himalayan Blue Poppy - pack of 3

Himalayan Blue Poppy – pack of 3 £9.99
Himalayan Blue Poppies will produce striking bright blue, poppy-like flowers in early summer each year, each one with a gorgeous contrasting golden centre. These little beauties will add stunning impact and a definite wow factor to your flower beds and borders this summer! As they are perennial plants they will die back in autumn and come back each year with bigger better displays for many years. Highly unusual and still very rare you’re unlikely to find them in garden centres, so grab your chance to get something your friends wont have at a great price! They’ve also been awarded the prestigious RHS Award of Garden Merit for their all-round garden performance.

Price reductions at Blooming Direct

Saturday, January 27th, 2018

Blooming Direct has cut the price of these items

Pack of 12 Felicia Blue Daisy Plug Plants for Beds, Borders, Pots

Pack of 12 Felicia Blue Daisy Plug Plants for Beds, Borders, Pots was £12.99 now £9.99
Lovely little daisy like blooms that are invaluable as part of a mixed basket or container as they add a colour combination that is seldom seen. This variety is more compact, needs no dead heading and is heat tolerant. They are easy to care for and are among the last plants to cease flowering at the end of a long summer.

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New products at Blooming Direct

Saturday, January 27th, 2018

New products added today at Blooming Direct

Hellebore Double Queen mix - 6 x 9cm

Hellebore Double Queen mix – 6 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 has 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 6 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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New products at Blooming Direct

Wednesday, January 24th, 2018

Blooming Direct just added these new lines

Hardy Tree Fern (Dicksonia antarctica) log - 0.5 foot potter

Hardy Tree Fern (Dicksonia antarctica) log – 0.5 foot potter £29.99
Tree ferns were a firm plant hunter’s favourite from Victorian times, a symbol of wealth and travel experiences to Australia. They have maintained this sense of mystique ever since. Now you too can grow these surprisingly easy exotic looking plants too. Harvested under strict License from woodland clearance in Australia and Tasmania, and in very short supply this season, these astonishing plants really will delight and amaze. They grow under the woodland canopy, in the shade, so grow them here in a sheltered spot too. When you water them via the top crown, they will burst back into life, like it’s the new rainy season! Because they grow in leaf canopies, most of their food comes from leaves falling into their giant shuttlecock like fronds, funnelling the goodness into the growing crown. Feed and water this crown – rainwater is best if you can collect it. Even at this size of log, new fronds of 1M in length will unfurl spectacularly within a Month or so of you watering it. The plant is hardy in winter, although the fronds will die back. Cutting these off when they die back is what creates the new trunk, which slowly inches up over many, many years. Keep the crown protected in winter with a layer of straw to keep cold and wet out. When you get it home, plant it in a big pot, or in the garden soil. It takes almost 2 years to root in, so do not be alarmed by this slow growing beauty.

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Price reductions at Blooming Direct

Sunday, January 21st, 2018

Blooming Direct has cut the price of this product

Longifflorrum Asiatic LA Lily x 25 bulbs

Longifflorrum Asiatic LA Lily x 25 bulbs was £12.00 now £10.00
Recent Lily breeding has created some huge and beautifully fragrant Oriental type Lilies, in their pinks and whites, their brighter, bolder and brighter Asiatic cousins seem to have been left out. Not any more following their breeding with the ever-popualr Longilforum scented lilies, to create Longiflorum Asoatic (LA) hybrids.  With their beautiful sunshine rays of colours in a range of bold ‘fruit salad shades’ in yellow, berry pink, orange and red, these vibrant and hot tropical colours really light up your hot summer garden, and they even inherit some of the fragrance of their parents too. 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.

Price reductions at Blooming Direct

Saturday, January 20th, 2018

Price reduction on this item at Blooming Direct

300 Summer Flowering Bulb Collection on 7 varieties

300 Summer Flowering Bulb Collection on 7 varieties was £12.99 now £12.49
Transform your garden this summer with this simply brilliant collection of summer-flowering bulbs. Youll be amazed by the dazzling array of colours and variety of shapes for 5 whole months of summer! From tall spires of Gladioli, to pretty, disc-shaped Anemones, in multi-coloured vivid shades they are all sure-fire winners! They are perfect for patio containers and flower borders and best of all, each of these items will naturalise, so youll potentially get bigger and better displays each year for many years to come! All of these bulbs will flower from this summer, so youll get a minimum of 300 stems of vivid colour this season! A selection of beautiful summer bulbs comprising: 20 Gladioli Mixed Colours: Tall spires of multi-coloured flowers, perfect to cut for your home or brighten your garden. Extremely easy and low maintenance, and yet very rewarding. 50 Acidanthera Muraliae: Beautiful white flowers with a dark purple blotch at the centre. Tall slender pleated leaves 55 Brodiaea Mixed Colours: Clusters of attractive bell shaped blooms which make ideal bedding plants equally well suited to patio tubs and pots. 20 Freesia Mixed Colours: One of the most attractive and sweetly fragrant summer flowering bulbs. Perfect for patio pots, beds and borders, and will look brilliant in a vase in your home 55 Allium Violet Beauty: Large rich-purple blooms that reach around 10cm in diameter. The added bonus is the soft fragrance that oozes from the blooms!   50 Sparaxis Mixed Colours: Perfect for adding vivid colour to your garden and make excellent cut flowers 50 Liatris spicata: Tall magenta-purple flower spikes appear from mid summer. Superb in the border and lovely in a vase.