Product Description
'Garden Pleasure' is a wonderful collection of Dianthus caryophyllus. We have picked six of the best of this new variety to bring you a display of colour and fabulous fragrance to brighten your borders.
Instantly recognisable, garden pinks (Dianthus) are one of the hardest working and reliable plants that you can get, producing masses of fragrant ruffled flowers. Blooming reliably all summer - often well into the autumn months - they will fill your garden with vibrant colour and their sweet clove-like scent on warm evenings.
- 'Lady Margo' bicoloured magenta flowers with a contrasting white edge.
- 'Rosy Rosalyn' bicoloured ruby red flowers with a contrasting pink edge.
- 'Aunt Agatha' bicoloured deep burgundy flowers with a striking white edge.
- 'Mrs Coho' stunning white flowers.
- 'Queen Helene' rich coral pink flowers.
- 'Blushing Bride' bright pink flowers.
Garden Pleasures is a range of compact garden pinks that are heavily perfumed and will produce large, double blooms in a range of sumptuous colours throughout the summer. Ideal for growing in pots, and perfect for sunny beds or patio pots and containers. The richly-coloured blooms are held on sturdy stems above neat cushions of slender, leaves, making pinks not only a fabulous garden 'doer' but also superb and long-lasting as cut flowers for you to bring in and enjoy indoors, where their intoxicating scent will fill your rooms.
Supplied as 12 x plug plants, 2 each of 6 varieties, ready to grow on before planting out.
What Is Supplied
Item 480687 supplied as:
12 x plug plants
Plant Information
Top Tips
- Regular deadheading will ensure flowers right up to the first frosts.
Care Guide
Planting Advice:
- For most jumbo plug plant collections, the “mini Greenhouse” they are packed in will have a label on the outside, listing the individual varieties inside. We recommend writing your own labels out on receipt!
- Give your plugs a little attention on arrival - unpack them immediately, and either mist them or stand them in water for an hour - they may be slightly dry or yellow after being in a dark box in the post, but they’ll quickly recover.
- If you can’t do this, they can sit in Mini Greenhouses for a week if upright and not too wet.
We recommend that you leave them to settle for a day somewhere warm, light and airy such as a windowsill or greenhouse.
- When you're ready to pot on, use a good quality, multi-purpose compost, and fill 3-4in pots (7-10cm).
- Make a hole in the compost with a dibber or your finger, then holding each plug by its root ball, place it into the hole and gently firm the compost around it.
- For great results, we recommend using our Windowsill Planters or 9cm pots in Shuttle Trays.
- Give your plants a good water initially, then only when the top compost starts to dry as they don’t like to be left in standing water.
- Grow on either on a bright windowsill or a greenhouse for 3-4 weeks before potting up into containers or into flower beds.
- If planting directly into flower beds when all risk of frost has passed, prepare the ground well, removing weeds and digging in some compost or well-rotted manure if your soil is not already rich.
- Plant approx. 20cm (8in) apart to allow them room to grow.
Aftercare Advice:
- Feed using a high-potash feed such as Blooming Fast Superior Soluble Fertiliser for Flowers & Fruits, to encourage flowering.
- Dead head when flowers fade to encourage more blooms.
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Fully Grown Plant dimensions (approx)
40cm
30cm
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Plants arrived in good time and in good condition
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Very good selection of healthy plants
Review Submitted: 28/04/2023 - 18:10:39
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Very quick delivery, plugs arrived in excellent condition. Impressed enough to order a second set.
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All good plugs fresh and healthy
Review Submitted: 14/04/2023 - 12:06:32
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Buddliea in very poor condition on arrival Don?t know if they will survive Will do my best.
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Very healthy plants on arrival very pleased with packaging
Review Submitted: 14/04/2023 - 12:16:43
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I had only 10 plants, 2 were missing---- no:480684 MRS.COHO. The remaining plants are doing well, but would like to be reunited with their two friends!!!! Any chance, or a lost cause????
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Had only 10 plants----2 missing. No:480684 MRS COHO.
Review Submitted: 14/04/2023 - 15:34:28
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the plants were delivered in good condition and the delivery man was very pleasent with a nice smile on a dreary day
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11 good ones 1 useless.packet was good
Review Submitted: 11/04/2023 - 08:47:43
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Plants arrived in time and in a good condition. Good size too.
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Very healthy collection, really pleased with them
Review Submitted: 10/04/2023 - 11:19:05
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I ordered these and within a couple of days they were delivered in excellent condition good strong plug plants
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They arrived in excellent condition well packed and I would recommend buying these thanks
Review Submitted: 10/04/2023 - 11:46:42
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Excellent quality plug plants delivered very quickly at a great price. Nearly bought a second set!
Review Submitted: 10/04/2023 - 12:10:04
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Very healthy plants, well packaged - arrived quickly and in great condition
Review Submitted: 10/04/2023 - 12:20:03
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great service, lovely plants well packaged
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from placing the order the service was very good, good quality plants looking forward to when they flower. will come back to place further orders for other plants
Review Submitted: 10/04/2023 - 13:25:41
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Have ordered similar from Garden Bargains before because they are a very good price and the tiny plug plants are always well protected in their little greenhouse but at least one plant will not survive. Garden Bargains are happy to replace it but I will have to pay postage.
The plants that survive always grow well and make a lovely fragrant show.
I also thought I had instructed the carrier to put the package inside the porch but it was left outside the south facing front door and don't know for how long..
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Although well protected for transport and planted straight away at least one the plugs is starting to look a bit dry and crispy and will probably not survive.
Review Submitted: 10/04/2023 - 14:11:11
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Plant roots very dry
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Plant roots dry. Not sure they will grow
Review Submitted: 10/04/2023 - 16:09:10
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Great service well packed plugs in good condition growing on nicely thank you
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well packed plug plants in good condition thank you
Review Submitted: 10/04/2023 - 18:37:47
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Good plants and fast delivery.
Review Submitted: 10/04/2023 - 21:40:10
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Extremely efficient
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Very good quality and packed with care
Review Submitted: 02/05/2022 - 11:41:57