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Grown for the sweet ambrosial scent of its flowers they are used in flower arrangements, potpourri and perfumery. As a dye plant, Weld produces a yellow that all other yellows are judged by. Alongside Madder, Woad and Chamomile they produce the very best natural dyes for temperate areas.
The wild rose bursts with lightly scented, usually flesh pink flowers (though they can be pinker or whitish) in summer. They are followed by a terrific show of bright red hips, they can be used to make jam, jelly, syrup, marmalade and wine. Delicious and an excellent natural source of vitamin C.
Prized for their beauty, fragrance, novelty and adaptability, miniature roses are the queen of flowers. This diminutive Chinese native grow to about 12 to 18 inches high in containers and baskets and blooms just 3 to 5 months from sowing. Although hardy, it can be grown as an annual when started early.
In early spring, Father Hugo’s Rose rose is literally covered with hundreds of single primrose-yellow blossoms. Shrub roses are extremely winter hardy and make wonderful hedges and look great in a mixed shrub border or grown as a specimen plant.
This is a familiar rose in old-fashioned gardens. Its fragrant, single blossoms have a star shaped form, and are a dark pink on the outside with a pale pink centre and yellow stamens. They appear in large numbers in mid-summer but it is the remarkable foliage that attracts gardeners.
This select stock of Rosa rugosa is recommended by many garden journalists and magazines. Not to be confused with common briars, it is a pedigree proven rose that grows thicker and better each year. It is covered in richly perfumed large white flowers with sun gold centres.
Rosa rugosa rubra is the original pink form of the species that founded the Rugosa Class (1796) and is one of the highest rated roses by the American Rose Society. Eagerly used by hybridisers in the late 19th Century and is again being used by serious hybridisers again today.
Rudbeckia are one of the top ten favorites of many gardeners'. Goldsturm is a compact form of the yolk-yellow black-eyed Susan, it is short enough not to need staking and never flops. An excellent cut flower and a great choice for mass planting. '“Giant Tetra Double” is a new compact Rudbeckia variety that produces masses of voluptuous, deep yellow, double flowers from early summer till frost. Plant en mass, prairie style for a blaze of sunny colour, or in small groups in borders and beds, they make an excellent cut flower.
A delightful dwarf Rudbeckia which flowers from late June to the end of summer, in shades of mahogany, amber and gold. Growing to only 60cm tall, they are an ideal choice for a small garden or the front of a narrow border, wonderful in containers and perfect for cutting.
Rudbeckia "My Joy" has golden yellow flowerheads that are up to three inches in diameter. They are produced from midsummer until mid autumn and make an excellent cut flower. Given even a modicum of sunshine, flower follows flower until the entire plant glows.
An absolute gift to flower arrangers, this is a noble and ornamental plant for the back of any border making nice clumps of foliage. It is, of course, the flowers that are remarkable: three or four inches across, “green” is one’s immediate impression on seeing them.
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