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Archive for the 'Blooming Direct' Category
Sunday, December 17th, 2017
New lines today at Blooming Direct

Pair of Italian Cypress Trees 1.4M £29.99
Treat yourself to a pair of these gorgeous Italian Cypress trees, and add a touch of Mediterranean class to your garden. Seen all over Italy, these spectacular architectural conifers will add height and year-round interest wherever you plant them. With their elegant, pencil thin form, they’ll look simply stunning framing a door or gateway, or in a terracotta pot.
Not to be confused with vigorous Leylandii, these slender, manageable beauties are slow growing and wont get out of hand – you can even grow them on your patio! They are of course very drought tolerant, but also completely hardy and evergreen, so they’ll thrive here in the UK and look magnificent all year round whatever the weather! For best results, remove the cones that appear, as these can pull the branches apart, losing shape. They can reach 10M in 20 years or so, yet remain very upright and narrow at 1-1.5M.
Note – image of plants in courtyard are about 10 years old – plants supplied are thinner when immature, as per other images shown
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Thursday, December 14th, 2017
New item today at Blooming Direct
Trailing Hardy Pansy ‘Cool Wave’ Bedding Plant Pack of 12 Jumbo Plugs £14.99
A pansy that the breeder is calling The Best Trailing Pansy Ever! Quite a claim but we think so too!
This amazing large-flowered series keeps flowering all winter long, and well into summer too. It is very hardy (to around -25C!), so it will withstand the worst of the winter whatever the British weather throws at it, producing endless waves of simply gorgeous flowers in shades of golden yellow, violet, mauve, berry purple and white – for nine whole months of the year – hence the name ‘Cool Wave’!
They will cascade over the sides of hanging baskets and planters, providing a splash of zingy colour in the dull days of winter. Smothered in big, traditional pansy flowers, this vigorous trailer is set to make its mark on gardens everywhere – it’s a real breeding breakthrough for much better performance in hanging baskets.
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Thursday, December 7th, 2017
Blooming Direct has this new product today
Hardy Fan Palm tree Trachycarpus 80-90cm with trunk £19.99
Trachycarpus is one of the most hardy palm trees you can get easily surviving past -10C so it is ideal for growing in the variable British climate! With its deep-green, tough, fan-shaped leaves producing wonderful shadows on your patio or lawn, this exotic beauty will be a brilliant centrepiece wherever you decide to plant it. It is slow-growing and compact ideal for a large patio pot, or alternatively you could plant it directly in the ground in a sunny spot. Simply cut off the leaves when they turn brown and over time, an upright, woody, fibrous trunk is formed. Trachycarpus will grow around 5-10cm a year.
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2017
Blooming Direct reduced the price on this item today

Living Pot-Grown Christmas Tree Norway Spruce 1-1.2M was £49.99 now £29.99
It’s impossible to beat that stunning fresh pine fragrance that a real Christmas Tree brings to the home. Artificial trees just aren’t the same in their odd shades of green and papery needles, but fresh cut trees are very expensive for just a few weeks use before they’re hauled off to the shredder – and they can make a mess too.
That’s where our fabulous Living Pot-Grown Christmas Trees are a real winner. Yes, you’ll get that lovely pine fragrance filling the room every day, but it will not drop the needles – because it’s still alive! And at about the same cost as a cut tree, you can keep it from year to year too and save a lot of money over 5 or even 10 years.
The Norway Spruce is the classic Christmas Tree. British-Grown on the same farms as cut trees, they have been nurtured and trimmed in just the same way. But, because they are grown in their pots, they can easily be kept for many, many years to come. Just a little water in the rootball when used indoors each year, and once the decorations come down, pop it back outside and keep it growing in either or pot or in the ground.
In itself, it is a beautiful evergreen garden tree, lovely all year round. It needs no special feeding or pruning – just ensure it does not dry out in summer. Very slow growing, you can use it for many Christmasses to come.
Living Christmas Trees – combing fresh pine fragrance, little needledrop and saving you money over buying a tree every year. Adopt one now!
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Wednesday, December 6th, 2017
Blooming Direct has these new items today
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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Friday, December 1st, 2017
New item at Blooming Direct
Gardenia "Kleim’s Hardy" 9cm – set of 3 £19.99
‘Kleims Hardy’ is the world’s very first fully hardy Gardenia variety and can survive outside in temperatures as low as -10C! Just as stunning and as fragrant as its indoor relative, Gardenia Kleims snowy white, waxy flowers completely smother its exquisite evergreen leaves from early June onwards. The scent of gardenias is so gorgeous its often used in perfume, so imagine sitting on your patio this summer surrounded by its intoxicatingly sweet fragrance heavenly! A beautifully compact shrub, Gardenia Kleims Hardy is both very easy to grow and care for. Simply plant it in a pot or a garden border, preferably using ericaceous compost, and it will happily grow and flourish outdoors all year round.
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Thursday, November 30th, 2017
Blooming Direct has these new items today

300 Summer Flowering Bulb Collection on 7 varieties £19.99
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 Anemone De Caen: Gloriously coloured, poppy-like flowers. Will flower at different times during the year, dependent on when you plant them.
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.
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Wednesday, November 29th, 2017
Blooming Direct just added these new items

Dahlia tubers – Hybridisers Mix pack x 10 £14.99
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 and shape 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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Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017
Blooming Direct just added these new products
Hardy Hibiscus ‘Hamabo’ (Pink) 1M standard tree £19.99
Create a fabulous exotic look, in your garden or on your patio, with our glorious hardy Hibiscus ‘Hamabo’ standard lollipop from tree – years of fabulous late summer floral displays from this ever so easy to grow tree.
Despite looking very exotic, with the huge blush pink with red heart flowers, they are very tough and hardy indeed. You can therefore plant this in the garden with confidence, for stunning displays for many years to come. Grow it in a warm, sunny spot for the longest lasting and biggest displays – they can be hungry feeders, so give them plenty of feed as they come back into leaf and set buds
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Thursday, November 16th, 2017
Blooming Direct just added this new product

Pack of 3 Varieties of Holly Bush in 1L Pots £19.99
Holly berries have been the staple decoration and image of Christmas for many years, decking halls the World over for genrations. They also make fantastic evergreen shrubs for year round interest in smalelr gardensw too – providing shelter, security and privacy as well as their prolific berries.
Hollies have male and female varieites on separate plants – and pollination by bees is required for the females to produce their berries.This collection provides you the best of all worlds – a male and female, each with stunning foliage variegation in their own right, and the main self-fetile green variety that produces prolific berry crops.
Each collection contains one each of:
‘JC van Tol’ – deep green leaves, self-fertile, with big crops of berries
‘Golden King’ – actually a female form, berries with lovely golden yellow leaf edge variegations
‘Silver Queen’ – oddly a male form, it has lovely white leaf variegation, but like all males, does not berry up
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