Category Archives: Garden
Wild Marjoram – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
This aromatic herb is better known as Oregano, a staple ingredient of Italian cuisine! This hardy perennial is easy to grow, forming a mound of fragrant foliage and nectar-rich, pink flowers in summer, which are loved by bees and other pollinating insects.
Wild Teasel – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
This statuesque biennial is best known and loved by the name Teasel! A native wildflower, Dipsacus fullonum is commonly found among grasssy countryside verges and bordering the margins of fields.
Stock ‘Night Scented’ – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
Scatter these beautifully fragrant annuals throughout borders close to the patio, where you can fully appreciate them on a warm summer?s night.
Sweet Pea – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
Lathyrus latifolius is a charming perennial Sweet Pea which returns year after year. The purple-pink flowers are unscented, and may not be quite as showy as its annual cousins, but this resilient species will happily ramble about without becoming a nuisance in perennial borders.
Poppy (Wild) – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
The wild Poppy, Papaver rhoeas is one of our most iconic wilflowers. The papery red blooms create splashes of colour among cornfields and meadow grasses accross the UK.
Daucus carota – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
Create a relaxed, hazy look in borders with this airy ornamental carrot, more commonly known as Queen Anne?s Lace. Delicate white umbels of flowers create a beautiful frothy effect at the back of borders, attracting bees and other pollinators.
Scabious ‘Perfection Blue’ – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
Scabious are commonly known as the Butterfly Flower for their nectar rich blooms which attract pollinating insects.
Lavender ‘Munstead’ – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
Lavender ?Munstead? is a well-respected English Lavender, boasting a profusion of dark purple flower spikes in late summer.
Marigold ‘Scarlet Sophie’ – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
This vivacious French Marigold creates a dramatic display. The deep red blooms are trimmed with a contrasting gold edge that picks out each and every petal.
Eryngium giganteum ‘Miss Willmott’s Ghost’ – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
Eryngium giganteum ‘Miss Willmott’s Ghost’ is well worth growing for its architectural flower-cones, each encircled by a spikey, ornate bract. The pale silver-green stems rise above steely, heart-shaped foliage.
Malva moschata ‘Snow White’ – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
Malva moschata ‘Snow White’ is a dwarf variety producing masses of gleaming white flowers with delicate pale pink stamens in late summer. This pretty perennial is simple and understated but makes a surprisingly eye-catching display.
Nicotiana alata – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
Fill beds and borders with this superb tobacco plant. Nicotiana alata is a tall annual with dense, weed smothering foliage when planted en masse.
Hesperis matronalis – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
This traditional cottage garden biennial is at its best when grown en masse in sunny herbaceous borders. Its mauve pink flowers and sweet fragrance make it irresistible to gardeners and pollinating insects alike!
Hyssopus officinalis ‘Tricolour Mixed’ – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
Whether you are creating a herb garden, planting a wildlife area or bulking up herbaceous borders ? there should always be space for some Hyssop! This aromatic shrubby herb has a multitude of culinary and medicinal uses, adding a tang to meat dishes or salads, and flavouring teas.
Centaurea nigra – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
Knapweed makes a fabulous low-maintenance perennial, happy even in poor soils and hardy from one end of the UK to the other!
Fennel – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
Fennel may be grown as a herb for its attractive ferny foliage or as a vegetable for its swollen base and stem. With a delicate aniseed flavour the foliage of this hardy perennial makes a tasty addition to salads or as an attractive garnish.
Globe Artichoke ‘Green Globe Improved’ F1 Hybrid – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
Globe Artichoke ‘Green Globe Improved’ bears larger, heavier, and more consistent quality globe-shaped heads. The characteristic sharp spines have been greatly reduced in this improved variety.
Bee Balm – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
Whorls of spidery, pink blooms crown the upright stems of this eye-catching perennial. You won?t be surprised to learn that Bee Balm is a magnet for pollinating insects, which throng to the nectar rich blooms.
Echinops ritro subsp. ruthenicus – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
A superb border perennial which is always busy with the hum of Bees and other pollinating insects. This Blue Globe thistle boasts spherical heads of electric-blue flowers that rise upon slender stems, above the silvery, thistle-like foliage.
Borage – Kew Pollination Seed Collection
A beautiful hardy annual herb with rough leaves covered in silvery hairs and the most attractive celestial blue flowers.
