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 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.
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.
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.
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.
A beautiful frost hardy evergreen ground covering plant, with tiny white flowers on tender upright stems that dance on a gentle breeze. The unassuming Saxifraga stolonifera is a delightful plant with intriguing silvery veined olive toned leaves with a reddish-purple underside. It is commonly known as the strawberry begonia. Saxifraga stolonifera is semi-hardy and is not often seen growing outside. Although dainty this plant has survived -5ºc in the Grow Paradise Nursery Garden. Take inspiration from its use as a house plant and place on the edge of pots and hanging baskets, for an abundance of foliage at eye level. Saxifraga stolonifera is a perennial that would be a perfect addition to a wide variety of planting schemes with its array of complimentary tones.
Current size: Sold in a 9cm pot.
An eye-catching evergreen variegated plant that will produce clouds of orchid-like blooms in summer. Saxifraga stolonifera 'Tricolour' is a spreading perennial that produces masses of rounded hairy leaves with a broad pink to white margin. In mild gardens is will remain evergreen, providing a unique and colourful ground cover throughout the year. It can also be grown in a hanging basket or container, where it's spreading stolons and young offsets will hang down providing visual interest. In summer delicate flower stems are held 30cm high and are covered in flowers that resemble miniature white orchids. We have used Saxifraga stolonifera as ground cover in the Grow Paradise garden for years, with it surviving a dry -6ºC unscathed.
Current height: 10cm, including pot.
One of the best and most fragrant evergreen climbers for UK gardens. Star Jasmine, as this plant is commonly known, will produce masses of highly scented white star-shaped blooms all summer long. Trachelospermum jasminoides 'Star of Toscane' is a perfect plant for growing near seating areas as it will fill the air with its heady fragrance. Trachelospermum jasminoides 'Star of Toscane' grows very happily as a container plant trained to grow up a trellis or garden arch. The thick waxy evergreen leaves of star jasmine can turn fiery red in the cold of winter, elongating its season of interest. This stunner will grow in a warm shaded spot as well as in full sun.
Current size: Established plants in 15cm pots trained up bamboo canes.
An architectural hardy Yucca that has rightly become one of the most desirable drought tolerant plants for UK gardeners. Yucca rostrata is a striking plant species that is known as the 'Beaked Yucca' because its flowers are said to resemble the beak of a bird. Mature plants will produce a thick trunk topped with an almost spherical rosette of narrow blue-green leaves. The smooth leaves are spine-tipped and sway gently even in the slightest breeze. Mature Yucca rostrata plants will produce a 1.5m flowering stalk with creamy-white flowers in autumn. The flowers of this Yucca, as with other species, are adored by pollinating insects. Yucca Rostrata is native to the Chihuahuan desert of Northern Mexico.
Current size: Supplied in a 22cm pot
An impressively large growing and hardy aroid that thrives in moist soil. This clump forming hardy perennial produces large glossy green leaves to 2m tall that are speckled with silvery-white markings on mature plants. From summer to early autumn large funnel-shaped white blooms are produced on thick upright stems and held high above the foliage. Zantedeschia aethiopica 'White Giant' remains evergreen in mild parts of the UK, but may become semi-evergreen in colder winters. An easy and reliable plant with large jungle style foliage.
Current size: Sold in a 9cm pot.
Please note: These young seed grown plants have not yet developed their white leaf markings.