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Saturday, December 4th, 2010
Unwins Seeds & Plants just added these new items

Petunia & Euphorbia Combo Pack* BUY 2 GET 1 FREE! £15.90
With this Special Offer – you’ll get 15 Plants for the Price of 10. The worlds first Black Petunia combined with this unique Euphorbia will give you this striking and unusual display. The two complement each other perfectly and will flower in tandem all summer long. Petunia Black Velvet is the first of its type and has wonderful deep black velvety flowers set against luscious green foliage. The elegant Euphorbia Breathless Blush has small pink-flushed white flowers above distinctive dark green and red shaded leaves. As the only red-flushed leaf form available it’s a truly unique plant. Heat tolerant it fills out fast into a showy mass which flowers all summer whatever the conditions. With no deadheading required this is a truly outstanding variety. Delivered from May onwards these plants are both grown from cuttings which give a more vigorous plant with better developed roots. They’ll arrive as large plugs approximately 8-10cm tall from root to tip – ready for planting out.
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Saturday, November 6th, 2010
Unwins Seeds & Plants just added these new items
Modern Grandiflora Sweet Pea Collection £9.45
Bred from the older Victorian “Grandiflora” sweet peas these rare modern varieties generally have smaller but more abundant flowers than “Spencers”. If it’s scent you want Modern Grandiflora’s are the ones to grow – all the varieties in this collection pack a real perfumed punch! Modern Grandiflora Sweet Peas in this collection are: Blackberry Heathcliff Emily Romeo Cathy Sweet peas are incredibly easy to grow the seeds are large and easy to handle and they germinate readily given a bit of warmth and moisture. They are the quintessential cottage garden variety and are perfect for beginners especially children. Unwins have been breeding sweet peas for over 100 years. We recommend starting the seed off in rootrainers and then planting out once they become established (normally in March/April) in a sunny open position in the garden.
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Friday, October 8th, 2010
Unwins Seeds & Plants has this new product today
Pansy Plentifall Collection – 16 Large Plants £6.95
For cascading trails of yellows lavenders whites and purples for up to 8 months of the year this gorgeous new trailing pansy has it all. Pansy Plentifall starts to flower from late autumn really bursts into life in spring and will be at its big beautiful best in early summer. Specially bred with large flowers the plants naturally ‘break’ spread and continue to trail making it perfect for haning baskets containers and window boxes.
Filed: New Products, Unwins
Wednesday, September 22nd, 2010
Reduced price on items today at Unwins Seeds & Plants
Potato Growing Bag Kit – Charlotte – Salad Potatoes was £12.95 now £9.95
Unwins Grow Anywhere Potato Growing Bags! The perfect way to grow potatoes even if you have little space. What’s more for extra early crops start off in the warmth of a greenhouse and then transfer outside. Made to last from strong interwoven polypropylene with two carry-handles. The 12 drainage ports ensure ease of irrigation without risk of water logging. Potato Charlotte produces an excellent crop of uniform shallow-eyed long-oval tubers 50% bigger than other salad varieties. Tender creamy-yellow flesh remains very firm and has a mouth-watering flavour hot or in salads The Charlotte Gro-Kit comprises of: 3 Potato Grow Bags (40 Litre Capacity) 15 tubers of Charlotte See how to grow potatoes in grow sacks here!
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Reduced price on lines today at Unwins Seeds & Plants
Calochortus Mixed was £5.95 now £5.75
Sometimes referred to as Fairy Lanterns because of the shape and attractive shading of the brightly coloured and patterned blooms. The petal formation of the blooms is quite unusual in that the three inner petals are generally larger than the three outer petals – in most flowers it’s the other way round. Plant outdoors in light well-drained soil in full sun ideally at the foot of a south-facing wall. Alternatively so that you are able to inspect the extraordinary blooms at close quarters grow in pots in a cool greenhouse or conservatory. Plant 3in/8cm apart. Bulb Size: 4/+cm
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
Unwins Seeds & Plants just added these new products
Petunia Tumbelina Collection x15 Plants £13.90
Special Offer – Buy 2 Packs Get 1 FREE Simply the best – An amazing profusion of flower-power! When it comes to double trailing petunias Tumbelinas have set the standard which others have tried to match but in our opinion none has yet got even close to doing so. Our customers agree and these are now well up there amongst our customers firm favourites. These fabulous plants trail beautifully over the edges of your baskets. Dead-head regularly to keep them flowering all summer long. Our collection included 15 young plants – 3 of each variety: Priscilla Rosey Ripple Melissa Joanna Clara
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Saturday, September 4th, 2010
Unwins Seeds & Plants added loads of new products
Single Tulip Collection £23.30
Superb Osteospermum Plant Collection Of all the spring-flowering bulbs it is probably the Tulips that are the most diverse providing a bewildering array of flowers of different shapes and sizes and in as wide a range of colours as any other species. Collection consists of 1 pack each of: Apricot Beauty Calgary Princess Irene Kingsblood Shirley
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Saturday, September 4th, 2010
Unwins Seeds & Plants reduced the price on these products today
Onion Sets: Sturon (Heat Prepared) was £3.95 now £3.75
An excellent maincrop variety producing high quality medium-sized juicy-fleshed bulbs. Good yields keeps extremely well in storage. Heat treating helps prevent bolting.
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Runner bean seeds are available Unwins Seeds & Plants. You can get several different varieties. If you’ve grown them this year you should still be eating them!
A well prepared plot yields dividends when growing runner beans.
Dig a trench and line with newspaper and pour in lots of half rotted compost and vegetable peelings. Do this in January. Cover the soil back and then plant the beans in this area – two to a pole – as directed on the packet. The compost continues to rot providing a good base for the plants. It’s vital to water them regularly too! The more water the better!
Dwarf Runner Bean Hestia Plants £6.95
All the benefits of modern stringless beans but on dwarf bushy plants. The pods are held above the ground to avoid disease and remain clean. Suitable for growing in a container on a patio or growing in the flower border.
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Friday, September 3rd, 2010
Unwins Seeds & Plants have a huge range of beautiful sweet pea seeds for you to buy and plant. Sweet peas are fairly simple to grow and look so pretty – and you can pick them almost constantly to provide cut flowers for the house.
Growing them is easy – and you get a good start if you buy the root trainer pots at unwins and there’s also a great sweet pea book available too.
Buy as many pretty colours as you like! They will look stunning in your garden and can be grown up poles or through hedges.
Sweet Pea Old Fashioned Mixed Seeds £1.99
These are the ‘grandiflora’ sweet peas so popular in Victorian times. They are smaller flowered than modern types and so dainty and simple in form. The delicious scent will transport you to a more romantic world.
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