Category Archives: Plants & Seeds
Foxglove ‘Alba’
Marvellous large pure white spikes, a rare and unusual colour. Magnificent in the border in sun or part shade and very useful as a cut flower. Flowers early summer
Teasel
Tall, striking, thistle-like plants with serrated leaves and large spiny flower heads. A valuable source of nectar for bees and butterflies, as well as attracting many seed-eating birds to your garden or wild flower meadow. Makes attractive, dried, cut flowers
Californian Poppy ‘Peach Sorbet’
Very free-flowering double to semi-double blooms in a mouth watering combination of soft peachy-pink with a hint of cream sitting neatly above the deep green ferny foliage. Ideal sown as drifts of colour, flowering all summer in borders
Penstemon heterophyllus ‘True Blue’
Yes, this really is a true blue Penstemon, true from seed! Azure blue trumpet blooms in abundance, with green and grey tinged foliage. An added bonus too – as this charming perennial may be treated as a annual, flowering in its first year. Highly versatile for borders, rockeries, bedding or the patio container
Hesperis matronalis
Charming, large spikes of single, lilac and purple flowers are produced in the spring filling the air with their sweet and spicy evening fragrance. Sweet Rocket will also attract butterflies and other beneficial insects to your garden. Hardy Biennial – can be perennial in some soils.
Hollyhock ‘Antwerp Mixed’
A rich cottage garden mixture of colourful pastel shades. The Antwerp blend has attractive and unusual palmate foliage, and is also shown to have the best levels of resistance to the common Hollyhock problem of rust. Excellent for borders, especially planted in groups. Height: 150-180cm (5-6ft).
Godetia ‘Rembrandt’
An easy to grow, uniform selection with beautiful, deep carmine rose and white bicoloured blooms, with a consistent and stable pattern throughout the summer. Looks a picture sown as drifts of colour in borders, as well as making an eyecatching cut flower
Poppy ‘Pink Fizz’
Bring your garden to life as the stems of silver foliage sway in the breeze, topped by elegant two-tone pink bicolour blooms with irregular and finely slashed ‘lacinate’ petals. An easy to grow annual that is sure to create interest in your borders
Phlox drummondii ‘Moody Blues’
An easy to grow half hardy annual and cottage garden classic, freely flowering in a broad range of attractive blue shades throughout the summer. Its compact bushy habit makes it ideal for planting as drifts of colour, as border edging or in containers
Sweet Pea ‘Prima Ballerina’
Bred by one of the world’s leading Sweet Pea breeders, this stunning new variety already holds a Fleuroselect Novelty award. Producing beautiful blooms in a blend of soft pink, mauve and cream, the unique colouring of Sweet Pea ‘Prima Ballerina’ is coupled with intricate veining and a delightful scent too. Each stem produces an average
Calendula officinalis nana ‘Fruit Twist’
Delightful dwarf calendula in a zesty mix of citrus colours. Pretty, daisy-like blooms are early flowering and very easy to grow, adding bright drifts of colour to a sunny border. Sow in September for an eyecatching late spring display or sow in spring for summer flowering.
Bellis perennis ‘Pomponette’ Mixed
Masses of tightly quilled 1.5in button flowers on compact plants. A bright mixture of red, rose and white. Superb for small beds, edging, windowboxes etc. Growing well in shade they are good for planting under trees or as an edging to patio borders etc. Flowers spring. Height 10-15cm (4-6in).
Campanula pyramidalis (Mixed)
One of the most striking perennials for the border or patio containers. Giant, slender spikes of blooms reach skywards, in shades of blue and white. Plant in containers either side of your front door for a colourful box or bay tree substitute!
Sweet Pea ‘Heirloom Bicolour Mixed’
An impressive mixture of small-flowered, heirloom (Grandiflora type) sweet peas offering the widest range of beautifully scented bicolours. These old fashioned annual Sweet Peas are superb for cutting and the more blooms you cut, the more the plants will flower! Perfect for filling vases indoors with colour and perfume. Try covering a sunny fence or
Wallflower ‘Tom Thumb Mixed’
Very wide colour range, excellent in small spaces, tubs, window boxes. Slightly later flowering
Brachycome iberidifolia ‘Little Missy’
Each pretty lilac blue, daisy-like bloom has a distinctive yellow central eye surrounded by a white halo. Brachycome ‘Little Missy’ blooms over a long period, making it perfect for edging paths and borders or as an eye-catching container plant on a sunny patio. Height and spread: 25cm (10)
Calendula officinalis ‘Neon’
One of the most eye-catching varieties in our flower trials, with glowing orange, double flowers edged in burgundy. The edible flowers of Calendula ‘Neon’ add height and interest to annual borders, and make a stunning cut flower. Quick and easy to grow in almost any garden situation, and even grows well in coastal areas. Height:
Cosmos sulphureus ‘Brightness Mixed’
Possibly the most free-flowering cosmos of this type. Dwarf and bushy plants are covered with flowers in a delightful mixture of gold, lemon, orange and red from early summer through to the autumn frosts. Spectacular when planted towards the front of annual borders or in containers
