Bright orange-pink 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 Mango' 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 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 rose-pink 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 Rose' 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 atop 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 in 12cm pots.
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.
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 9cm pots.
Tropical looking orange-red tubular blooms hang in clusters against a backdrop of dark foliage. Fuchsia triphylla ‘Thalia’ combines superbly with many popular plants for tropical style gardens. This beautiful Fuchsia produces foliage that is tinged with a richmetallic purple. Try planting Fuchsia triphylla ‘Thalia’ with complementary dark purple foliage plants such as Ensete ventricosum 'Maurelii' for a perfect foliage combination with the added bonus of beautiful flowers!
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 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 is a perfect plant for growing near seating areas as it will fill the air with its heady fragrance. Trachelospermum jasminoides 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.
Current size: Young plants in 9cm pots.
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