Alcea ficifolia, with its pale butter-yellow single flowers is a most impressive plant. Reliably perennial, it produces many upright stems resulting in a bushy form. Very easy to grow from seed, it is extremely hardy and will flourish in full sun and rich soil. The long stems make for excellent cut flowers.

Amaranthus caudatus viridis is the green form of the popular drooping amaranthus. The lime green flowers, which slowly fade to cream as they age, form dramatic tassel-like panicles which can grow to 60cm long and seem to drip from the branches in profusion throughout summer and early autumn.

‘Mariska’ is a little known but hardy and compact variety of Dill. With starry bright yellow flower heads, abundant foliage and growing to only 60cm, this well behaved smaller dill is an excellent variety for use as a cut flower filler and is a great variety for the kitchen garden, windowsill or container.

The corn chamomiles are lovely plants for a sunny well-drained border, covered with bright, single daisy-like flowers and attractive ferny grey-green foliage throughout the main summer season. An ideal plant for naturalised plantings, wild flower meadows or just a wild part of your garden.

This shrubby brugmansia is a heavy bearer of stunning pendulous yellow flowers, it is delightful when grown in a patio pot and may be grown indoors with bright light and warmth, where it can be pruned to desirable size. The flowers are especially fragrant in the evening.

This wonderfully intriguing annual makes a great companion plant for showier flowers in the garden or the vase, the blooms of chartreuse green bring out the colours of other flowers, especially bright ones. Easily grown from seed, it is a particularly unique dried or cut flower.

These rare seeds are for the world famous Cananga odorata tree. 'Ylang-Ylang' which means 'flowers of flowers', and is among the most celebrated flowering trees in the world. The blossoms are distilled to obtain "cananga oil" which is used to manufacture the world famous Chanel No. 5.

Centaurea macrocephala is a magnificent perennial that ideal for providing vertical interest in a sunny, well-drained herbaceous border. The golden-yellow shaggy thistle-like blooms are on strong stems and mid-green, lance-shaped leaves are followed by attractive seed heads.

“Wizard Jade” is one of the most distinctive and most useful colourways. With clear ivory heart-shaped leaves, each edged with a green margin, they work well in most situations accentuating the hues amongst annuals or perennials, they excel when used in combination with other shade lovers.

Coreopsis ’Mayfield Giants’ are one the tallest and most robust of all the Coreopsis cultivars, their dazzling display of large, golden yellow daisy like flowers begins in late spring and continues throughout the summer. Very easily grown, a hardier, more beautiful flower would be difficult to find.

Coreopsis‘Sunray’ is a newcomer to the numerous coreopsis offerings, with double flowers this shorter variety grows to around 45 to 50cm in height. When it comes to all out colour Coreopsis Sunray is hard to beat, they are very easily grown are pest resistant and will flower the first year from an early sowing.

Datura ‘Golden Queen’ is a much sort after form, with magnificent double, lemon-yellow flowers that are exquisitely whorled and twisted. Beginning in early summer, the plant is covered with immense, upward facing ruffled blooms which are so fragrant that a single plant perfumes the garden.