Exotic and tropical plants that provide incredible blooms. There is such a variety of beautiful flowers available for your garden, try some of these flowering plants in your own patch of paradise.
A hardy shade loving Begonia with eye-catching orange blooms! This selection of Begonia sutherlandii produces lush green leaves for shaded areas with a profusion of small tropical orange blooms. This resilient hardy Begonia sutherlandii produces tiny bulbils along its stems helping it to reproduce and come back bigger and better every year. The blooms really work to brighten dark areas of the garden. A really easy to care for plant that has long been a favourite of ours.
Current size: Established plants in 12cm pots.
The 'angel trumpet' plant is a semi-evergreen tender shrub with enormous pink trumpet-like blooms. The impressive pink blooms hang from the branches in a stunning display from summer through to autumn. Brugmansia suaveolens 'Pink' will grow well in a container, but thrives when planted out into the summer garden borders. The flowers of Brugmansia suaveolens 'Pink' are night scented so we recommend planting it close to your favourite spot to spend summer evenings.
Current size: 60cm tall, including pot.
The 'angel trumpet' plant is a semi-evergreen tender shrub with enormous yellow trumpet-like blooms. The impressive yellow blooms hang from the branches in a stunning display from summer through to autumn. Brugmansia suaveolens 'Yellow' will grow well in a container, but thrives when planted out into the summer garden borders. The flowers of Brugmansia suaveolens 'Yellow' are night scented so we recommend planting it close to your favourite spot to spend summer evenings.
Current size: 60cm tall, including pot.
A beautiful early flowering and compact Canna with bright orange blooms help on a gorgeous stem of large bronze leaves. Canna 'Cannova Bronze Orange' will grow to a height of up to 80cm in one season. These amazing plants make the perfect plant for patio containers or dotted throughout your garden borders. Blooms emerge at the very top of each leafy stem from July to September. These Canna plants are half-hardy throughout the UK, simply provide good drainage and a winter mulch to protect the underground rhizomes.
Current size: Supplied as a jumbo plug plant.
Bright red blooms help atop a gorgeous stem of lush green leaves, the 'Cannova' series of Cannas are a great addition to any style of garden. Canna 'Cannova Red' will grow to a height of up to 120cm in one season. These amazing plants make the perfect plant for patio containers or dotted throughout your garden borders. Blooms emerge at the very top of each leafy stem from July to September. These Canna plants are half-hardy throughout the UK, simply provide good drainage and a winter mulch to protect the underground rhizomes.
Current size: Supplied in 12cm pots.
Bright red blooms help on a gorgeous stem of large bronze leaves, the 'Cannova' series of Cannas are a great addition to any style of garden. Canna 'Cannova Scarlet Bronze' will grow to a height of up to 120cm in one season. These amazing plants make the perfect plant for patio containers or dotted throughout your garden borders. Blooms emerge at the very top of each leafy stem from July to September. These Canna plants are half-hardy throughout the UK, simply provide good drainage and a winter mulch to protect the underground rhizomes.
Current size: Supplied as a jumbo plug plant.
Bright yellow blooms help atop a gorgeous stem of lush green leaves, the 'Cannova' series of Cannas are a great addition to any style of garden. Canna 'Cannova Yellow' will grow to a height of up to 120cm in one season. These amazing plants make the perfect plant for patio containers or dotted throughout your garden borders. Blooms emerge at the very top of each leafy stem from July to September. These Canna plants are half-hardy throughout the UK, simply provide good drainage and a winter mulch to protect the underground rhizomes.
Current size: Supplied in 12cm pots.
Flamboyant yet elegant plants that produce strong yellow coloured blooms above lush green foliage. Canna 'Cannova Yellow' will grow to a height of up to 80cm in one season. These amazing plants make the perfect plant for patio containers or dotted throughout your garden borders. Blooms emerge at the very top of each leafy stem from July to September. These Canna plants are half-hardy throughout the UK, simply provide good drainage and a winter mulch to protect the underground rhizomes.
Current size: Supplied as a jumbo plug plant.
Large lush green leaves streaked with gold looking amazing, even before this Canna blooms. In mid-to-late summer sturdy stems arise that are topped with bright orange blooms that combine perfectly with the tropical foliage. Canna 'Tropicanna Gold' loves a sunny site, ideally with damp soil. Canna 'Tropicanna Gold' makes an ideal tropical plant for patio pots, in your garden borders or even as a marginal aquatic plant for your pond.
Current size: Supplied in 1.5L pots.
A lush and unusual Canna, with leaves that can be green, dark chocolate or a combination of both! Canna ‘Cleopatra' is a vigorous plant that produces stunning bi-coloured flowers that emerge yellow with red spots. Canna ‘Cleopatra' is a really eye catching plant and is a must have for those of us who love something unusual or exotic. Grows best in rich but well drained soil. Try planting at the back of your borders to get some really exotic height. Combine with dark leaved plants to highlight the chocolate coloured streaks on the foliage of Canna ‘Cleopatra'.
Supplied fully rooted in 1.5L pot.
One of the easiest plants for adding tropical foliage colours to your garden or container displays. Coleus 'Chocolate Covered Cherry' has deep purple foliage with rich magenta centres that look fantastic when combined with bold tropical plants. Coleus are very shade tolerant, making them the perfect plant for filling those partially shaded gaps beneath other plants in your garden. We love using these colourful plants to create that very desirable dense jungle garden style.
Current size: Supplied as a plug plant.
Sumptuous dark purple leaves edged with minty green margins make this beautiful foliage plant the perfect addition to any summer garden. Coleus 'Chocolate Mint' is very shade tolerant, making it the perfect plant for filling those partially shaded gaps beneath other plants in your garden. We love using these colourful plants to create that very desirable dense jungle garden style.
Current size: Supplied as a plug plant.
A towering tree-like Dahlia that reaches the impressive heights of up to 3m in one growing season! Dahlia imperials will be towering above you by mid-summer with thick fleshy stems and masses of large jungly leaves. In late summer this enormous perennial all be topped with sprays of pink Dahlia blooms, giving your neighbours something impressive to talk about!
Homegrown by us here in the UK, peat free using organic methods
Current size: Supplied in a 9cm pot.
A beautiful shrubby perennial Echium commonly called the 'Pride of Madeira' for obvious reasons! Multiple spires of electric blue flowers cover this perennial Echium in early summer and they are loved by pollinators . Best kept dry during the winter months to help it survive cooler weather. This Echium will re-bloon year after year unlike Echium pinanana.
Homegrown by us here in the UK, peat free using organic methods
Current size: Sold in a 9cm pot.
A show stopping exotic plant unlike anything else! This plant spends its first year producing masses of exotic looking pinnate green leaves on thick burgundy red stems. As the stems mature they fold down to the ground and form a support framework that looks like something from a mangrove forest. In year two, Geranium maderense produces an enormous dome made up of hundreds of intense magenta pink blooms held up high above the plant. When in bloom, this plant will inevitably be the star of your garden and the talking point of your neighbours. Try planting Geranium maderense in a tall pot so that you can enjoy the exotic mangrove style stem as well as those stunning blooms.
Homegrown by us here in the UK, peat free using organic methods
Supplied in a 9cm pot
Known a the 'Brazilian Jasmine', this woody climber is native to tropical Central and South America. Given a bright spot these beautiful plants will produce deep red blooms all the way from spring to autumn. Mandevilla have thick glossy evergreen leaves that complement the bright red blooms perfectly. Mandevilla 'Rio Deep Red' will thrive in well drained soil, so we recommend growing them in pots with a support for climbing. These plants are evergreen but may loose leaves in cooler temperatures. They are best grown as a showpiece plant outdoors in summer and kept frosts free for winter.
Current size: Established plants in 12cm pots.