Currently discounted by over 50% the giant trailing Fuchsia plant collection from Thompson & Morgan is not only incredible value for money, but also a delight to the eye with it’s range of Bella Rosella, Blueberry Fizz, Deep Purple, Seventh Heaven and Voodoo plants.

Suitable for growing in baskets, window boxes and Flower Pouches™ , these plants will give colour all summer long and are sure to get you many compliments with their blooms of up to 10cm (4in) across!

Producing blooms of frosted, marbled and striped appearance, you can currently order yours  for the reduced price of £5 (usually £10.82) at Thompson and Morgan.

Click here now to shop for your giant trailing fuschia plants

Wonderfully elegant with their sophisticated black stems, Phyllostachys Nigra (otherwise known as black bamboo) isn’t just different from your more common bamboo because of it’s colour, but also because of it’s non-invasive qualities.

Acting to form a clump as it grows, instead of spreading wildly, black bamboo is a much more suitable plant for growing in containers and is also fully hardy meaning that it’s not only going to survive the British winter, but also produce a gorgeous display whilst everything else is hiding away.

Available to buy in both 9cm pot sizes or 22cm pot sizes, this black bamboo plant can currently be bought with savings of up to £10 when you buy in the larger sizes.

Click here now to order your black bamboo plants from Thompson and Morgan.

Blooming Direct are now taking pre-orders for their brand new trailing Pansy Plentifall mixed plug plants set.

Perfect for hanging baskets and containers, this gorgeous array of yellow, white and violet flowers create a stunning display and have the added bonus of smelling truly divine too. Delivered as 16 super jumbo plug plants, these flowers will flower from the Autumn and through the Winter and are great value at £12.95 with free delivery!

Click here now to order your Pansy Plentiful Trailing plug plants from Blooming Direct

Fed up with spending a fortune at your local garden centre for plants that often look like they’ve had better days? These days there’s a great alternative – buying plants by post.

Once something we were scared to do, worried about the quality, buying plants over the internet has become hugely popular, thanks to not only the quality, but also the range and price, with these five retailers being a great place to start.

1. Suttons

Offering a wide range vegetable and perennial plants alongside your standard flower plants, Suttons really is the place to head if you’re after a strong selection of plants, and it doesn’t just end with plants…. as well as have seeds and fruit trees on offer you can order just about any piece of garden equipment you could want too!

Click here to visit Suttons online.

2. Dobies

Offering everything from seeds to bulbs, flower plants, vegetable plants and fruit trees, Dobies of Devon has more plants on offer than your average garden centre, and with weekly offers giving you some incredible discounts, this is one online store that you need to be checking out.

Click here to visit Dobies online.

3. Unwins Seeds And Plants

Another supplier of everything from seeds to onion sets, seed potatoes, fruit plants and fruit trees, Unwins also does a roaring trade in pest control products (their slug killers work brilliantly), hanging baskets, potato growing bags and a whole lot more.

Click here to visit Unwins online.

4. Blooming Direct

Offering plants and seeds, Blooming Direct also functions as a online florist, meaning alongside your spring plug plants and garden shrubs you can also send that someone special in your life a rather nice bunch of flowers too.

Click here to visit Blooming Direct online.

5.  Best4Plants

After a shrub? Perennial? Grass? Climber? Fruit tree? Veg plants? Best4Plants has them all and with over 120 acres of nursery to grown them in, you can be sure they’ve got exactly what you’re looking for at the kind of price you’re not going to find in your garden centre.

Click here to visit Best4Plants online

Guaranteed to not only add height but also a contemporary feel to your garden are these black bamboo plants from Greenfingers.

Also known as Phyllostachys Nigra, these plants will definitely become the star attraction in your garden and are more than able to cope with the harshest of British winters (or summers knowing our luck so far this year!!)

Starting off as a green bamboo, the plant’s stem will develop into a black colour by the second or third year, though the leaves remain evergreen for a gorgeous contrast.

Standing out from other bamboo not only on it’s colours, but also because of it’s non-invasive characteristics, this can either be grown in your garden beds or alternatively in large pots.

Sold as 9cm potted plants, these black bamboo plants are currently available in a twin pack for £17.00, with the plants able to grow up to 3m in height.

Click here now to order your black bamboo plants from Greenfingers whilst stocks last.

Love lilies but hate how they drop pollen all over the place leaving those pollen stains long after they’ve shrivelled up and died? Dobies have the perfect solution with their set of pollen free lily bulbs.

Producing flowers that are perfect to use as cut flowers inside, these lily bulbs produce spectacular, fragrant double flowers that look use as good in pots or in borders and come in not one but three different varieties which include:

• Distant Drum – a deep rose pink  lily flower that has petals tinged with white.
• Ismael -  a gorgeous creamy white flower that comes with green backed buds and petals rimmed in a gorgeous soft pink colour.green backed buds open to palest creamy white with petals rimmed with soft pink.
• Serene Angel – a double flowered lily that combines petals of milky white with pale green centres for a spectacular display.

Available to order now in either 6 or 12 bulb packs, these lily flower bulbs are currently available with a massive discount of £9.95 so it’s definitely worth buying now!

Click here now to shop from your Pollen Free Lily Bulbs at Dobies.