This ever-popular annual is perhaps more versatile than you might imagine – good in the border, most effective as a cut flower in arrangements, a good pot-plant and, not often appreciated – if carefully dried, the colour of the spikes remains unchanged for a considerable time.

'Aurora' can provide both colour and size wherever it is used. Its bright foliage make it a great accent plant whether it's used separately or in combination with other plants on the patio or in the landscape.

Amaranthus tricolour ‘Early Splendour’ is grown for its beautiful foliage, the large bronzy-green leaves turn to rosy red leaves as the season progresses. It gives colour up to two weeks before 'Splendens' or other strains.

Designing a garden with the focus on flowers is missing half the fun, this fiery colourful foliage will add dimension to any planting scheme. ‘Illumination’ is a stunning tricolour variety of Amaranthus, with upper leaves that are a spectacular scarlet and golden orange set atop olive green foliage.

Fabulous foliage adorns this easy and fast growing annual. This highly ornamental plant adds an explosion of colour to the garden. It is utterly breathtaking in mass plantings and very useful as a temporary shrub.

The Magic Carpet Snapdragon is a dwarf, low-growing plant that has a trailing habit that makes it excellent for containers or in window boxes. They are rust resistant and reliable, the blossom-laden flower heads bloom in spring to early summer in a range of exquisite colours.

Arctotis was born to play a starring role, they are among the most brilliant of all flowers. “Harlequin” is a beautiful strain with large, brilliantly coloured flowers with many different combinations, some with contrasting tones and all with a luminescent sheen. You'd be hard-pushed to find better performing plants.
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Stump your garden buddies with this one! Berkheya Purpurea “Zulu Warrior” is a striking tender perennial from South Africa which has an outrageously impressive show of very pale purple-white flowers with dark purple centres. They are definitely a bloom with class and make a useful cut flower, fresh or dried.

This white flowered form of borage is not often written about. My first introduction was at the celebrated 'white' garden at Sissinghurst in England. The flowers are edible, garden visitors can be converted to herbal advocates simply by offering a taste of its white flower.

Brachycome is a care-free annual that forms clouds of soft colour. It is one of the most profuse and long-flowering annuals. Cheerful little pinwheels and are held above pale green, feathery foliage. It flowers so heavily that the foliage is often obscured.

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.

Aster "Giants of California" are highly prized for their long slender stems which makes them perfect for cutting. The fully double blooms are similar to the popular Ostrich series, have large shaggy flowers with contorted petals. They bloom later than other varieties and last well into autumn.

Aster “Milady” is a wilt-resistant variety which produces masses of perfect blooms whatever the weather. This very heat resistant and virtually worry free variety will produce non-stop blooms from summer to the first hard frost in autumn.