Outdoor Metal Bucket Allium Planter

Stunning architectural flowers.
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3 x Bulbs and 1 x Planter - SKU: 161184
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Key Features

  • Enjoy the striking, architectural beauty of Alliums anywhere with this stunning planter!
  • Presented in a metal bucket planter with a rustic finish that will look great in contemporary and traditional gardens alike
  • An ideal gardening gift for someone special, including yourself, and the flowers will come back every spring, with more and more each year
  • Everything needed is included, just plant in autumn for a spectacular display the following spring
  • Supplied as a metal planter with compost and three bulbs, growing to a height of 40cm
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Description

Alliums are incredibly beautiful flowers. With their long, upright stems carrying huge globes made up of dozens of individual flowers, they have a spectacular architectural quality that’s impossible to miss and admired by all. Perfect for container growing, Allium ‘Ostara’ is a compact variety, but no less impressive. Its flowers are an amazingly vibrant purple-red during May and June and will look superb with the grey colour of the planter. Alliums are recommended by the RHS as a ‘Plant for Pollinators’ and bees, butterflies find the flowers irresistible.

This metal bucket planter contains everything you need to grow incredibly striking Alliums on a patio, balcony, or just about anywhere else. The rope handles and brushed white finish give it a great, rustic feel that will look fantastic in any style of garden, whether old fashioned and cottage-style or new and contemporary.

Simply plant the bulbs in autumn, up until mid-November, and they’ll produce big, lush grey-green leaves in spring from which the flower stems will rise. As the planter is reusable, once the bulbs have died back you can plant the bucket with summer bedding, and the Alliums will return every spring, with more flowers year after year, and the flower stems look great dried, lasting for years.

Supplied as a metal planter with compost and three bulbs, growing to a height of up to 40cm.

Top Tips
  • Re-use the planter for other plants once the bulbs have finished flowering.
Care Information

Planting Advice for your Allium Bulbs

  • Plant bulbs at twice the depth of the height of the bulb and four times their width apart. e.g. 5cm tall bulbs need to be planted 10cm below the surface of the ground and 20cm apart.
  • They are fine to plant even if a little green growth is showing, they’ll just need a good watering when you plant them, and then only when the soil is dry.
  • Leave them in the ground once they die back for flowers again next year.
  • While all the energy that a bulb needs in order to grow is stored in the bulb itself, they will do better if you feed them when in active green growth.

Aftercare Advice

  • Plant Alliums as soon as possible in autumn so that they can establish a good root system before the weather becomes too cold.
  • Water frequently and ensure pots don’t dry out.

Cutting Back

  • The leaves of Alliums die back at flowering time and can be removed when this happens to keep them looking tidy.
Delivery Information

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.

Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.

We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.

Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.

Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

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