Christmas Plants for sale

We have a lovely range of Christmas plants for sale to brighten up your home or garden for the winter – ideal as gifts or just as a treat to yourself. The Plant Centre shop is absolutely bursting at the seams with temptation! My highlights are:

• Indoor Cyclamen. We have a few choices here in lots of different colours. Choose from Mini Cyclamen with bright red flowers at £3.99 each, Midi Cyclamen in mixed colours at £4.99 each or 3 for £12 or Large Flowered Cyclamen at £8.99 each. Look out too for a new variety – Cyclamen Exclusive. These are very distinctive with flared petals on downward facing blooms with contrasting paler sepals giving a unique appearance. These are a new variety, developed in the Netherlands, and new to Woodside and are £6.99 each. Keep all indoor cyclamen in a cool place indoors, and water sparingly and only when required. Some garden centres sell mini and midi cyclamen as being hardy, but don’t be fooled – we are completely honest with you and know that in our area these cyclamen are not suitable for outdoors but are superb indoor plants. If you’d like outdoor hardy cyclamen, please just ask – we have plenty of these too and they do well under deciduous trees and shrubs.
• Indoor Hyacinths. These are well known bulbous plants which are grown both for their colour and for their unmistakable scent. We have them in a very attractive rustic arrangement with a wooden Christmas tree (which need to be seen to be appreciated) which would make an ideal present. We also have a new variety to us – Hyacinth Multiflora – in shades of pink, blue and white. These consist of a lot of shoots coming out of a single bulb, and so gives multiple blooms to one pot. They are showing buds just now and look like they are going to give a wonderful display in time for Christmas, or just after.
• Waxed Amaryllis. Our last batch sold out very quickly, so we now have some more in stock – this time they are wearing a cosy Christmas jumper!  These are specially selected and tested Amaryllis bulbs which need no water or compost to produce flowers. They have a swirl metal base to provide stability and will sit on your windowsill just as they are, and will produce flowers on compact stems, and so are unlikely to become top-heavy and topple over. They make an ideal gifts to people who have limited gardening ability and are very rewarding to grow.
• Orchids – Phalaenopsis. These are also known as Moth orchids and are the most popular and easy to grow indoor variety and we have them in a mix of colours. They are in flower and bud now, and will bloom for weeks, and at just £11.99 they are far better value for money than a bunch of flowers, as you can keep them once they’ve finished flowering, and coax them back into bloom again and again. They do well on a light windowsill but away from full sun, and thrive in bathrooms and kitchens with the extra humidity. They are also very tolerant of central heating, unlike many other indoor plants.
•  Christmas Cactus – Schlumbergera. These are striking houseplants which burst into flower over the festive period creating a brilliant display of colourful blooms. They are easy to care for, thriving in moderate warmth and evenly moist compost, being careful not to overwater. Position on a bright window sill away from direct sunlight for weeks of flowers.
• Narcissus Tete a Tete – Miniature Daffodil. These are very popular spring flowering bulbs for the garden, but also can be forced on indoors for mid-winter colour. We have them available planted up in bowls suitable for growing indoors to give a bright splash of cheeriness. Ideal as a gift, or as an eye-catching display in your own home

Outdoor plants include winter flowering Heathers, Christmas Roses (Hellebores), Skimmias, Leucothoes and Gaultherias, and much, much more. There’s really no excuse to not have a good display of winter interest plants in your garden with the choice of plants we currently have in stock!