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New products at Blooming Direct

Thursday, January 11th, 2018

Blooming Direct just added these new items

Sweet Pea Saver Pack 36 plugs - all 3 packs

Sweet Pea Saver Pack 36 plugs – all 3 packs £24.97
Trailing Sweet Pea Fragrant Trails Sweet Peas in your hanging baskets… Yes, now it is possible! This ultra-compact, gorgeously sweetly fragrant variety will fill your whole patio with the unmistakeable fragrance of sweet peas from May until September. In a ravishing mixture of colours, including some bi-colours, it will brighten any part of your garden you plant it, although ideally, it needs to be in a hanging basket or another position where it can trail. Super Fragrant Sweet Pea Collection Sweet Peas are consistently voted one of the nations favourite flowers year after year, their evocative scent and ease of growing making them so popular. Here we have created a mix of the most popular colours and shades, including many old-fashioned types, selected primarily for scent when used as cut flowers. Fragrant Patio Perfect Sweet peas Patio Perfect is the very best sweet pea for any outdoor pots and planters! It naturally grows to only around 2ft tall and will become smothered in sweetly scented blooms from mid June onwards bringing a fabulous mix of summer long colour to your garden. As the flower stems average around 6in Patio Perfect can also be cut and makes a lovely posy in a small vase, yet takes up little space at all. These are supplied as 4 plants in each plug – plant them as they are and do not tease apart, and you will end up with bigger and better displays. From earlier plantings before end of March, you can trim them back to encourage side branching and thus more flowers.

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Price reductions at Blooming Direct

Saturday, January 6th, 2018

Blooming Direct has cut the price of this product

Buddleia (Butterfly Bush) Tricolour pot 2L

Buddleia (Butterfly Bush) Tricolour pot 2L was £9.99 now £7.99
Everyone knows and loves a Buddleia for their shear flower power and magnetic allure for butterflies – hence their common name The Butterfly Bush. Here is a new twist on a much-loved favourite – 3 separate colours on one. Our clever growers have skilfully matched 3 different coloured plants – one white, one pink and one purple blue – and grown them close together in one pot. As the plant develops, the stems intermingle, creating a most intriguing mixed colour effect which will get the neighbours talking! Retaining their magical attraction to butterflies, you can look forward to peacock and tortoiseshell butterflies aplenty this Summer – and for years beyond. Buddleia is one of the most robust and easy care shrubs to grow requiring almost no maintenance – we suggest a simple hack back to about 30cm each Spring before new leaves appear, but hey, if you forget, it will be fine too! Very hardy, and disease free, grow in sunny spots or large pots too.

New products at Blooming Direct

Saturday, January 6th, 2018

Blooming Direct just added these new items

Lily Saver Bundle - 25 Asiatics & 25 Orientals

Lily Saver Bundle – 25 Asiatics & 25 Orientals £14.99
This stunning lily collection contains: 25 Mixed Asiatic LiliesThese bright, upward facing beauties bloom earlier than most other lilies thereby extending the season. They have strong stems to support the many blooms you get per bulb and make perfect pot or border plants, plus cut fl owers too. Guaranteed to flower, very hardy! Height 45-60cm (18-24″) 25 Mixed Oriental LiliesOriental lilies are highly fragrant and fl ower year after year in beds, borders or patio pots. Each ‘double nose’ bulb should give 2 flower stems, each carrying 3-5 fragrant fl orets! Includes the ever-popular ‘Stargazer’. Height 1.2m (4ft).

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New products at Blooming Direct

Friday, January 5th, 2018

New product at Blooming Direct

Longifflorrum Asiatic LA Lily x 25 bulbs

Longifflorrum Asiatic LA Lily x 25 bulbs £12.99
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

Thursday, January 4th, 2018

Price cut on this product at Blooming Direct

XXXL Jumbo Amaryllis 'Appleblossom' bulb 42/44

XXXL Jumbo Amaryllis ‘Appleblossom’ bulb 42/44 was £12.99 now £8.99
One of the most iconic Christmas Flower Gifts, we have given it a new twist here by supplying the largest size available at 42-44cm diameter – THAT’S BIG!The ever-popular, RHS Award of Garden Merit winning ‘Apple Blossom’ variety produces the most incredible huge white flowers that are brushed with a beautiful soft pink accent – ideal for warming up those long and dull winter days. The stems shoot up to 60cm tall and produce flowers in just 6-8 weeks of planting – but what’s even better is that the flowers will bloom in succession, not all at once, so you’ll get flowers for weeks!Bigger bulbs mean more and bigger flowers, so expect a breath-taking display from these XXXL size bulbs! Perfect in a pot, Amaryllis is ideal for forcing indoors in the winter for flowers at Christmas – then once the bulbs have flowered, they can be stored and brought into flower again.The perfect living Christmas gift, they will keep on giving weeks after Christmas has passed – or why not keep for yourself and bring life into your home but at half the cost of expensive cut flowers that will only last for days!

New products at Blooming Direct

Thursday, January 4th, 2018

New products today at Blooming Direct

Gift Rose 'Merry Christmas' 3L pot gift-wrapped

Gift Rose ‘Merry Christmas’ 3L pot gift-wrapped £14.99
Give your friends and family something really special this Christmas – this spectacular gift-wrapped rose bush that will give them enormous pleasure year after year – not just a few days at the festive season. Much better than buying expensive cut-flowers – because the pleasure lasts so much longer – your ‘Merry Christmas’ rose will arrive perfectly wrapped with your own personal message, ready to plant and thrive in their garden or patio. ‘Merry Christmas’ is a simply gorgeous Hybrid Tea variety that will burst into full-bloom each year with and abundance of rich, Santa-red 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 in Spring and flower next Summer. Very easy for the recipient to grow, they require little exderience, and full care instructions are provided. Note for Gifts:  At checkout you can select if you would like to send this as a Gift. If you choose YES (or call our OrderLine), this will: • Allow you to enter a Gift Message, which will appear on the Delivery Note • Remove prices from the Recipients paperwork

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New products at Blooming Direct

Tuesday, January 2nd, 2018

Blooming Direct just added these new lines

Allium Flower Bulb Collection - 100 bulbs in 7 varieties

Allium Flower Bulb Collection – 100 bulbs in 7 varieties £14.99
A wonderful selection of 100 outstanding Allium bulbs, these are sure to create an explosion of colour and provide spectacular displays for your garden, patio or decking. The mix of varieties is ideal for the amateur gardener as they are very tough and hardy, making them extremely easy to look after. This collection will also provide ideal cut flowers sure to brighten up your home. This collection includes: 5 Allium nigrum – With their white, globe-shaped flower heads sitting above broad, ornamental, blue-green leaves these wonderful alliums will look simply stunning in wherever you plant them in your garden. 7 Allium christophii – Giant lilac almost solid spheres of flowers stand majestically on long stems above deep green leaves each spring. 7 Allium ‘Purple Sensation’ –  with its enormous bright purple spherical flower heads stand tall on thin stems above deep-green leaves. Related to onions (but dont eat them!) they are very tough and hardy and they are great for beginners. 6 Nectaroscordum siculum – An unusual relation to the allium family, Nectaroscordum Siculum can produce up to 30 hanging flowers from each bulb. 25 Allium ‘Drumsticks’ – delicate, small purple tinged flowers on long, tall straight stems. Plant en masse for maximum effect in pots or garden. 25 Allium moly – a yellow sparkler of a flower head, a more wild and natural looking small variety for front of borders. 25 Allium neopolitanum – lovely white smaller sparkler flowers, sometimes tinged blush pink in cool, plant together for maximum effect.

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New products at Blooming Direct

Friday, December 22nd, 2017

Blooming Direct just added this new product

Strawberry Cambridge Favourite Fruit Bush - Pack x 20 Runners to Grow Your Own

Strawberry Cambridge Favourite Fruit Bush – Pack x 20 Runners to Grow Your Own £6.99
Nothing compares to eating sweet, juicy and delicious strawberries picked from your garden! Cambridge Favourite reliably produces bumper crops of medium-sized orange-red fruits throughout June just in time for Wimbledon! Each one has a deliciously sweet flavour and if you can resist eating them fresh from the plant they are perfect for making jams and puddings! Each plant can produce up to 400g (1lb) of strawberries this June and more in subsequent seasons. They will be supplied as frozen runners so no need to worry about late frosts. They dont look pretty, but each one will have a small bud waiting to burst into life and loads of potential to grow and bear delicious fruit!

New products at Blooming Direct

Thursday, December 21st, 2017

Blooming Direct has these new items today

Pair of Large Citrus Trees in 6.5L pots with FREE Citrus Feed 150g soluble

Pair of Large Citrus Trees in 6.5L pots with FREE Citrus Feed 150g soluble £39.97
Grow your own delicious citrus fruit right here in the UK with this easy-grow Orange & Lemon Tree Collection. Deliciously juicy full-size fruits in the first season, and winter hardy to -5C. Thats right! This pair of Orange and Lemon trees will grow and fruit perfectly in the UK. Packed full of vitamin C, theyre deliciously juicy and good for you too! And they smell simply divine the sweetly perfumed white flowers contrast beautifully against the deep green citrus-fragranced foliage. Both of your trees arrive as well-established 4ft. tall mature specimens in 6.5 litre pots. And, for the pair, they represent superb value for money much cheaper than most garden centre varieties AND you get a FREE 150g tub of Soluble Citrus Fertiliser (a years supply) to ensure your trees grow into big, healthy specimens and, most importantly, bear lots of juicy fruit! Lemon ‘Eureka’ – Hardy down to -5C! – Sweetly scented blossom in late Spring. – Full-size fruit from August onwards. – Perfect for drinks and cooking. Orange ‘Navelina’ – Hardy down to -5C! – Seedless and very juicy. – Enjoy your own freshly squeezed orange juice. – Packed full of Vitamin C.   I just thought you might like to see some photos of the orange tree I bought from you and oranges it produced this year. I got it around the beginning of last year and the fruit was over a year in the making, but it finally started to ripen in September…I have eaten two of the fruits, picking them when they fell off easily with handling. The other three ripe ones (I have a couple of small green ones on from this year too) aren’t quite ready yet, so I will leave them for now. The fruits so far have had a slightly thicker skin than the ones you buy in the shops, but were so much sweeter and tastier. :-)Anyway, please find the photos attached and thanks for your help throughout the year. Teresa, Goole, November 2014

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New products at Blooming Direct

Wednesday, December 20th, 2017

New product today at Blooming Direct

Hardy Hibiscus syriacus (Mixed colours) - pack of 5

Hardy Hibiscus syriacus (Mixed colours) – pack of 5 £14.99
These strong growing and fully winter hardy Hibiscus Syriacus plants will provide you with a torrent of beautiful flowers from June until September each year. They are supplied as Bare-Root plants ready to plant immediately and will grow to around 5ft tall over 3 seasons, and will be smothered in fabulous flowers throughout the summer months. In shades of pink, plum, blue and white they will provide a Mediterranean look to your garden yet these hardy plants will return year after year with their gorgeous display. Perfect to establish in pots on your patio or to fill gaps in your beds and borders you could even grow them as a hedge!