Whether you’ve a couple of plant pots on the fifth floor of a high rise or a walled garden within your sprawling country estate, here are some ideas to help you use water more efficiently outdoors – saving you £s in the process. Use the tabs to help your search.
Only £7.00
A robust shrub for a sunny, warm position with silky narrow aromatic foliage and waxy, pinky-red flowers produced in clusters over a long period from winter to summer. Hardy in a moist, well-drained soil in full sun.
Only £8.00
Bushy stiff-stemmed bottlebrush with linear to lance-shaped, dark green leaves. In summer, bears deep red flowers in numerous spikes.
Only £12.00
White Bottlebrush, a low spreading shrub with pure white flowers
Only £12.95
Blue Flax Lilly is a clump forming herb which produces deep blue to purple inflorescences
Only £14.95
Stunning Kangaroo Paw with strap like leaves and amazing, distinctive red woolly flowers
Only £14.95
Decorative ornamental grass with arching sprays of leaves and rose coloured flower spikes
Only £15.00
'Pampas grass' is traditionally grown as a specimen in the middle of a lawn, but also looks good grown in a shrub border as a giant ornamental grass.
Only £15.00
An evergreen shrub with aromatic, narrowly ovate, glossy, dark green leaves. Leaves are often used as a flavouring in cooking.
Only £15.00
Strong and durable New Zealand Flax with variegated sword shaped leaves and red flowers on a long stem in summer.
Only £15.00
Woody, evergreen climber with rich, dark green leaves which turn bronze in winter. From mid- to late summer, pure white, fragrant flowers are produced.
Only £20.00
Flamboyant and striking Bougainvillea with a rich covering of red to to orange papery bracts from summer to autumn.
Only £25.00
Palm tree like in appearance (but not a palm tree) with rich purple arching, lance shaped leaves. Grows fast and looks good all year round. Tolerates windy conditions.
Only £25.00
Vigorous clump forming shrub with sword shaped, pink striped leaves. Excellent architectural plant. Great by the seaside.
Only £29.95
Chusan palm with large fan-like foliage and yellow flower panicles on mature plants
Only £29.95
Ornamental palm with arching branches of grey-green fronds. Produces yellow flowers in summer
Only £35.00
'Adam's needle' produces dense clumps of stiff green leaves edged with fine curly hairs, and striking flower spikes 1.8m in height.
Only £35.95
Bird of Paradise, excellent ornamental plant with spectacular and distinctive orange and blue flowers.
Only £39.95
Distinctive Mediterranean palm with multiple stems bearing fan shaped leaves
Only £45.95
'Cabbage Palm' is palm like in appearance with light green arching, lance shaped leaves