Garden & Indoor Plants

Hayes Garden World have one of the finest plant areas in the Country with an excellent range of outdoor plants. Our plants are sourced from all over Europe by our team of experienced plant buyers who's brief is to find tried and tested varieties with quality and interest, as well as new introductions, ensuring that all plants offered are value for money. We are so confident that our hardy plants will perform that we offer a 5 year plant guarantee.

Early Summer Colour

If your garden is lacking some colour now that the spring bulbs have finished flowering why not consider some Azaleas or Rhododendrons? They are lime haters but if your neighbours are growing them it is likely that you can too. Otherwise grow them in pots for a great patio display or sneak them in pots amongst your garden shrubs - nobody will be any the wiser! We have a lovely selection of perfect pastel shades in store at the moment.

Coastal Inspiration

Anyone who has a coastal garden will understand the difficulties that need to be overcome to maintain a healthy & inviting garden. The biting, salty winds on exposed coastal gardens means that the choice of plants that will survive is limited. Yvonne has designed & built this inspirational seaside garden to give you some ideas for planting & layout. If you want planting advice for your coastal garden, pop in & ask the experts!

Tree Ferns & Garden Ferns

We now have a lovely selection of Tree ferns of various sizes in stock as well as a range of garden ferns. Drop in to see our display and ask for planting advice.

2011 Plants

Citrus Delights

From Wednesday 21st September we will have a great choice of citrus trees available in store. Sandra, our indoor plant expert, says they are difficult to source so she is pleased to be offering such a good selection. They range in price from £15.99 to £54.99 and include a variety of shapes such as standard, half standard, espalier (on a frame) and bush. She has managed to get 4 varieties of lemon, 2 of orange plus kumquats, tangerines & limes.

If you haven’t tried growing citrus trees before the secret is to provide a constant environment. They will relish being outside during the summer but need to be brought back inside before any chance of frosts. Over winter they need to be kept as dry as possible with a minimum temperature of about 10°C in good light such as a conservatory or a sunny windowsill in a cool room. Alternatively they can be kept in a warm environment but humidity would need to be 80-90%. Misting the leaves occasionally with rainwater and standing the pot in a saucer filled with gravel, with the water level just below the gravel surface, will help.

Citrus trees not only produce tasty treats but each fruit is preceded by fragrant flowers which appear all year round, but are especially abundant in late winter; they often flower and fruit at the same time. We stock everything else you will need to look after your citrus trees including citrus compost and citrus feed so call in before they are all gone!

Raymond Evison OBE Clematis

Perfect for smaller gardens or large containers, the Evison and Poulsen Boulevard Collection is ideal. Growing to just 1-1.2m (3-4ft), these clematis will flower from May to mid-summer, then from late summer to autumn, they come in a range of colours and grow in sun or shade.

We have a number of clematis cultivars from this range in stock including 'Cezanne', 'Chantilly' & 'Picardy' & 'Fleuri'.

The strong flower colour of 'Fleuri' makes it ideal for a sunny location, where you can admire the velvety, deep purple-red blooms with a central red bar on the petals and red centres.

'Angelique' which is happy in sun or shade and has pale lilac-blue flowers with a light brown centre, set off among large leaves.

Launched at the Chelsea Flower Show this year, the latest new clematis cultivar to come from the Evison® and Poulsen® breeding programme is Clematis Abilene™. It is a delightful pink with 8 sepals and with contrasting yellow anthers. As the flower opens the tip of each sepal is very pointed and a dark pink in colour.  As the flowers mature the flower colour fades to show a deeper pink bar down the centre of each sepal. The combination of young deep pink flowers and the more mature paler pink flowers is very appealing.

Abilene™ grows to about 3-4ft (1-1.20m) and is ideal for growing in a container for the patio, terrace or deck garden.  It flowers very freely during early summer and late summer and can be grown with other wall trained shrubs or climbers.

Due to its pale colour it is an ideal clematis to be grown in a shady part of the garden and will brighten up a north facing wall when grown through other wall trained evergreen shrubs.

To grow in a container, choose a pot with drainage holes and a minimum diameter of 45cm (18") and a similar depth. Plant in a mix of John Innes No.3 compost and multi-purpose compost with a suitable plant support. Plant flowering annuals or low-growing perennials around the edge to shade the roots. Keep fed & watered through the growing season.

Hydrangea arborescens 'Incrediball'

A vigorous 'Annabelle' hydrangea which will grow in sun or semi-shade. It grows to 4-5' and the white flower heads are enormous, growing up to 12" & fading to green as they age. It blooms on new wood from early summer until the first frost & prefers moist, well-drained, moderately fertile, humus-rich soil.

Hydrangea arborescens 'Invincibelle Spirit'

The first pink Hydrangea arborescens available. It blooms on new wood from early summer until the first frost with the dark pink buds opening to reveal hot pink flowers which fade with age. It is very hardy & also heat tolerant, making an excellent addition to a mixed perennial border. Height is 3-4'.

Echinacea 'Mistral'

An excellent garden plant which will add a splash of colour to any patio pot or border. It has a fantastic compact and upright growth habit, producing masses of soft pink flowers with large bronze orange central cones. It will produce up to 80 flowers per plant in its second year and flowers from July - September, providing continued interest until late Autumn. It is frost hardy, low maintenance and suits sun or partial shade in well drained soil. Height and spread after 4 yrs 50cm x 50cm.

Primula  'Champagne'

Primula Champagne will add beautiful spring colour to any garden. Primula Champagne looks superb not only in pots but also at the front of borders and rockeries. From early spring it produces an eye catching display of beautiful pale peach flowers with pale orange - yellow hues complimented by gorgeous mid green leaves.

Primulas do best in neutral / slightly acid soil. They are essentially woodlanders and like a partially shaded position and large quantities of organic matter. They will survive on thin, alkaline soils as annual bedding plants if you grow them in partial shade and incorporate as much humus as possible but they will not form fat clumps. In this case, try them in pots or the conservatory.

Primula's like cool or even cold conditions, if you have plants indoors it is best to place them in the conservatory or on a cool windowsill. Make sure you do not over water your plants, remove any dead flowers regularly and a regular liquid feed will help promote more flowers.

Frost hardy, ‘Champagne' will flower year after year, suits sun or partial shade and the approximate height and spread is 20cm x 30cm.

Exclusive Rose for Hayes Garden World in 2011

The Lakeland Rose Harspiral

This pink, scented, climbing rose is exclusive to our garden centre and will be available from early March. Alternatively, buy a bare root Lakeland Rose which will be delivered between mid October and mid December.

Class: Compact Climber
Dimensions: Height: 200cm  x  Width: 100cm
Perfume: Medium

The great charm of ‘The Lakeland Rose' is to be found in the simplicity of its scented, apple-blossom blooms. In a sometimes over-elaborate world, simple things can offer much needed relief. The natural prettiness of ‘The Lakeland Rose' is a welcome change from the fat, indulgent flowers often seen in today's gardens, over-ornate with their preposterous crush of petals. In the garden we can choose to go back to basics, and grow plants that are not so obviously the product of a stylised world. The uncomplicated grace of simple flowers fits well into any garden, bringing a refreshing breath of fresh air with it.

Not that ‘The Lakeland Rose' is short of essential modern attributes such as easy-growing habit, healthy foliage and abundant blooming. These characteristics are all linked: good resistance to diseases of the foliage helps the plant to keep growing, and whilst it keeps growing it can continue to produce blooms. ‘The Lakeland Rose' normally produces two main flushes of blooms per season, once in early summer, and again in autumn.

‘The Lakeland Rose' is at its best grown in full sun or dappled shade. Its growth is compact but rapid; the whippy, basal shoots grow readily to a manageable size. They are easy to train into place against a trellis, or to fan out on a small space against a wall or fence. For best results when training on posts or pillars, aim for a maximum height of 6ft.

Besides excelling when planted directly in the soil, ‘The Lakeland Rose' is also an ideal rose for container gardening. For best long-term performance, use a container at least 2ft wide by 2ft deep. Choose a soil-base growing medium, and be sure to maintain constant moisture level during the growing season. All roses grown in pots will benefit from regular fertiliser applications, preferably using a product that contains the correct trace-elements for roses, such as ‘Toprose'.