For most of the year Ajuga is a pleasant, quiet achiever, a very versatile low growing ground cover, with evergreen, rosette-like foliage that hugs the ground like an evergreen carpet but those weeks in spring when the blue flowers appear are simply quite magical.

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.

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.

Cephalaria gigantea is a gentle giant that has an informal look that is perfect for looser planting styles. With pretty pale butter-yellow scabious shaped flowers, use it as you would Verbena bonariensis planted at the back of a mixed or herbaceous border. The stems are tall but airy and "see-through".

Camomile is a most useful plant. It can be used to make beautiful lawns and raised beds, an infusion of the plant is an ideal family remedy, calming and sedative, perfect for restlessness or travel sickness, while cold camomile tea is effective as a spray to prevent “damping-off” of seedlings

This wonderful Victorian type coleus ‘Black Dragon’ forms a riot of rumpled leaves in velvety purplish black leaves, each bordered by frilly edges. The ruby red centres are sometimes flecked with violet or pink. Easy to grow from seed, they will show their first colours in as little as two weeks.

Unlike most others, the foliage of Coleus Carefree resembles oak leaves, with big, lobed foliage in dazzling rich shades.This pleasingly unique Coleus reach just a foot high and wide, and thanks to their self-branching habit, never need pinching to encourage side shoots

The prettiest and neatest Coleus to come along in quite a while, 'Chocolate Mint' offers rich cocoa coloured foliage with a mint-green scalloped edge on mounding plants. The leaves are very uniform, turn them over and they gleam bright mint. Scrumptious!

This delectable coleus will have you enamoured with its velvety chocolate-brown foliage and scalloped foliage.‘Dark Chocolate’ is breathtaking, its foliage shades darker in part or light shade and leans to burgundy in full sun. Very showy, Dark Chocolate makes an impression, even from a distance.

Kong 'Mosaic' boasts extremely large leaves with irregular edges, which are generally the size of your hand. Grown for its outstanding foliage colours it shows the most intense color in full shade. Kong will add a touch of the jungle to your flower beds or containers.

Coleus have been perfected, the new varieties have colours that intensify in sun, but can also thrive in shade. “Coral Sunrise” is an excellent example of the new developments, The beautiful coral pink heart-shaped leaves have neatly serrated edges, with shades of olive and intense bright green margins.

“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.

This exotic mixture of the favorite Wizard varieties will certainly add some magical charm to your garden. The heart-shaped leaves appear in vivid shades of gold, jade, pineapple, rose, scarlet, sunset and velvet red. It shows its colour early, and keeps its hues right through the worst summer heat and humidity.

Coleus Wizard Series is an excellent example of new developments in breeding and the best seed raised strain for bedding and containers. “Wizard Mosaic” is the most recent introduction to the series, it features green foliage with splashes of burgundy red and cream.