Category Archives: Garden
Hesperis matronalis – Seeds
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.
Teasel – Seeds
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
Calendula officinalis ‘Neon’ – Seeds
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:
Brachycome iberidifolia ‘Little Missy’ – Seeds
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)
Sweet Pea ‘Heirloom Bicolour Mixed’ – Seeds
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
Everlasting Sweet Pea – Seeds
Conspicuous carmine, rose or white blooms. Covers fence, wall etc
Sunflower ‘Choco Sun’ – Seeds
Possibly the smallest and quickest flowering sunflower available. The dwarf multi-flowering plants of Sunflower Choco Sun produce their first blooms in eleven to twelve weeks from sowing. Ideal for adding interest to containers and fun for children to grow.
Candytuft ‘Hyacinth Flowered’ – Seeds
A favourite hardy annual, very colourful and easiness itself to grow as it thrives in any ordinary garden soil. Beautiful for the border or cutting and producing a profusion of sweetly scented hyacinth shaped blooms throughout the summer. Flowers summer. Height 30-38cm (12-15in).
Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Double Click Snow Puff’ – Seeds
The spectacular white, pom-pom flowers with a delicate hint of blushed pink of Cosmos Double Click Snow Puff sit on sturdy stems making this latest colour in the ‘Double Clickseries. Makes an excellent cut flower as well as adding height and interest to borders all summer
Verbena bonariensis – Seeds
Tall heads of bright, eye -catching rosy lavender, adding a tranquil tropical feel to borders. Height: 120-150cm (4-5ft)
Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Sweet Sixteen’ – Seeds
Eye-catching soft blushed pink blooms, each have distinct darker pink picotee edges and an attractive double frill in the centre of each flower. Cosmos Sweet Sixteen is ideal for adding height and interest to borders as well as making an intriguing cut flower
Zinnia elegans ‘Purple Prince’ – Seeds
Outstanding in trials, these robust plants show excellent garden performance, flowering over a long period and producing an abundance of fully double, deep pink-purple, dahlia-like flowers. This is a taller-than-usual variety of zinnia which will add colour and height to border displays as well as to cut flower arrangements. Zinnia Purple Prince will flower all
Gypsophila paniculata – Seeds
A very popular border plant for its clouds of flowers which are useful for flower arrangement, everlasting flowers or just for providing a pretty, misty background for other flowers. Flowers summer. Height: 3-4ft.
Sweet Pea ‘Statesman Mixed’ – Seeds
An exclusive blend of two very distinguished, small-flowered heirloom (Grandiflora) varieties. Sweet Pea ‘America’ and Sweet Pea ‘Senator’ complement each other beautifully with their deeply scented flowers, each individually striped and marbled in shades of pink and lilac. Sweet Pea ‘Statesman Mixed’ is perfect for cut flower arrangements and adds a bright splash of colour
Gaillardia aristata ‘Goblin’ – Seeds
An outstanding variety, which often flowers in the first year from sowing. Mid-height plants produce masses of fiery red blooms surrounded by a ring of rich flame yellow. Can be used as annual bedding, or year after year as a perennial. Excellent for beds and borders; flowers in first year from seed. Height: 30-45cm (12-18in)
Salvia farinacea ‘Seascape Mixed’ – Seeds
A relaxing blend of three varieties of salvia with stunning flower spires in shades of blue with silver. These compact, branching and early flowering salvias will add a wonderful new dimension to bedding displays as they sway in the slightest breeze creating a truly tranquil border feature
Meconopsis baileyi ‘Hensol Violet’ – Seeds
Indulge yourself by growing this rare, mauve form of the exquisite Himalayan Blue Poppy. Scintillating, silky blooms aloft downy foliage give an absolutely breathtaking effect when planted in groups in shady borders and woodland areas. A collector’s item for the border. Prefers a deep, moist, loamy soil in part shade.
Nepeta cataria – Seeds
No cat should be deprived of this! Their reaction to the aromatic silver grey foliage is fascinating. Flower spikes of violet spotted white.
Foxglove ‘Summer King’ – Seeds
Commonly known as the Strawberry Foxglove. This very compact variety produces neat flower spikes with huge, eye-catching strawberry-rose bells. A vigorous variety which is sure to make any early season garden shine, as well as attracting nectar-loving bees. Digitalis Summer King is a naturally occurring cross between the yellow-flowered Digitalis grandiflora and lavender-rose-flowered Digitalis purpurea
