Weed-smothering mini-border collection

Weed-smothering mini-border collection

Weed-smothering mini-border collection

Weed-smothering mini-border collection

Weed-smothering mini-border collection

Weed-smothering mini-border collection

Weed-smothering mini-border collection

Weed-smothering mini-border collection

Weed-smothering mini-border collection

Weed-smothering mini-border collection

Weed-smothering mini-border collection

Crocus plant collection

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A harmonious blend of abundant, colourful blooms, delicate pink accents, and cascading charm creates a vibrant, low-maintenance display that naturally...

6 × 9cm plants

£57.99 £9.67 each

Delivered mid-April

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Plant description

A harmonious blend of abundant, colourful blooms, delicate pink accents, and cascading charm creates a vibrant, low-maintenance display that naturally suppresses weeds while adding striking texture and long season colour to your garden border.

Carefully curated to deliver on style and performance, and grown to order on the Crocus nursery, our mini-border plant collections create beautiful displays that come back year after year. Comprising six, 9cm plants, the collections will typically be dispatched from late March to mid-April - perfectly timed for spring planting and robust growth.

Each collection is suited to fill a 1m sq space, and has been designed to enable you to either place them on their own, intersperse them with other plants, or weave them in multiples through your borders to create a cohesive, considered look to your garden.

What's included:

In this collection you will receive the following plants:

2 x Geranium Rozanne ('Gerwat') (PBR): Large (up to 5cm across), saucer-shaped, violet-blue flowers, each with a white eye, appear throughout the summer above the mounds of slightly-marbled, deep green foliage. Perfect for underplanting roses, or filling a few gaps in the front of a border, it copes well in full sun or partial shade. Grows to 60cm.

1 x Campanula portenschlagiana: Spreading mounds of deep purple, funnel-shaped flowers smother the evergreen leaves from midsummer. These low-growing Dalmatian bellflowers look wonderful cascading over a sunny, well-drained rock garden or raised bed, used as edging or tucked in between paving stones or a dry-stone wall. This campanula is very vigorous, so it's best planted away from smaller, less competitive plants. Grows to 15cm.

1 x Vinca minor 'Atropurpurea': Pairs of dark green leaves develop along the long trailing stems, eventually creating a dense mat of rich green foliage that can be used to help keep weeds at bay. The 5-petalled flowers, which appear on long stalks, are a rich shade of plum-purple. Grows to 15cm.

2 x Thymus serphyllum 'Pink Chintz': This mat-forming thyme produces a mass of clear pink flowers in summer. It's an ideal ground cover plant for a sunny border or rock garden. Useful for attracting bees and other beneficial pollinating insects into the garden, the aromatic grey-green leaves release a lovely scent whenever they are trodden on. Grows to 25cm.

Flowering period

Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec

Plant features

Position

Full sun / light shade

Rate of growth

Fast-growing

Soil

Moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soil

Hardiness

Fully hardy

Planting tips:

Prepare the bed well by digging in lots of composted organic matter before you plant.

Where possible, plant in odd numbers, and cluster them together to give impact. Multiples of 3 work really well set out in irregular triangles for an organic feel, while larger numbers can be planted in mercurial clusters or drifts. In bigger gardens, try to repeat your clusters through the border to create a sense of rhythm and cohesion.

Also, when setting your plants out, check their eventual spread and make sure they’ve enough space to fill out. After planting, keep plants well watered for their first year, particularly during warmer weather, and feed them with a good, general purpose fertiliser through the growing season.

Please note:

Some of the plants in this collection will die right back in autumn, then fresh new growth will appear again in spring.

GOES WELL WITH

Pinpoint rotational planter for young plants/bulbs - Crocus by DeWit

Pinpoint rotational planter for young plants/bulbs - Crocus by DeWit

£49.99

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