Hardy Annuals
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Echium plantagineum 'Pink Bedder'
Vipers Bugloss€1.75Echium plantagineum 'Pink Bedder' is a companion plant to the original 'Blue Bedder'. The blooms are rich in nectar and pollen, use in the border or as part of wildlife friendly planting schemes. The plant repeat blooms throughout the summer into autumn, providing nectar for bees for overwintering.
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Echium plantagineum 'White Bedder'
Vipers Bugloss€1.75If you don’t want plants that honeybees simply visit, but want to select plants that honeybees clearly love, choose Echium for your garden. Echium 'White Bedder' bears the most beautiful dense spikes of exquisite, pure white flowers. Make successive sowings for continuous flowering throughout the summer.
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Eschscholzia californica
California Poppy. Aurantiaca Orange€1.65Eschscholzia are of the easiest and most colourful annuals to grow, with masses of beautiful silky flowers in shades of gold. They bloom profusely over a very long season, succeed in all soils and garden positions and are heat and drought-resistant. They give a garden performance second to none!
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Eschscholzia californica 'Ivory Castle'
White California Poppy€2.00This is a lovely cultivar of the California poppy, the blooms of 'Ivory Castle' boasts single, creamy white blooms. One of the easiest and most colourful annuals to grow from seed, they bloom profusely from mid summer until frosts. Extremely attractive to bees, they are breathtaking in massed plantings or containers.
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Eschscholzia californica 'Rosa Romantica'
California Poppy€2.70With flowers that resemble a rose, Eschscholzia californica 'Rosa Romantica' is a lovely and quite unique California Poppy, the petals are streaked in the most romantic of shades, soft pink-rose and salmon-fuchsia overlay creamy white on each elaborately painted petal.
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Eschscholzia californica 'Thai Silk' Mix
California Poppy€1.95Eschscholzia 'Thai Silk' boasts large semi-double blooms in breathtaking jewel tones and a chiffon-like texture reminiscent of glorious oriental silks. This exotic mix contains the Thai Silk series of colours: Appleblossom, Rose, Apricot Chiffon, and Pink Champagne.
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Eschscholzia californica Thai Silk, 'Appleblossom Chiffon'
Extra double California Poppy€2.45'Thai Silk' is a stunning range of California poppies of superb quality with silky flowers. 'Appleblossom Chiffon' produces very double flowers in an ethereal shade of shimmering, dappled silvery-pink. Very easy to grow, they are attractive to pollinators and perfect for cutting.
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Eschscholzia californica Thai Silk, 'Apricot Chiffon'
Extra double California Poppy€2.45'Thai Silk Apricot Chiffon' produces silky double, creamy apricot coloured blooms with petals fringed in beautiful coral pink. Very easy to grow, they are attractive to pollinators and perfect for cutting. These clustered flowers are fascinating to the eye and are breath taking in massed plantings or containers.
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Eschscholzia californica, Organic
California Poppy. Aurantiaca Orange€1.65Masses of beautiful silky flowers in shades of gold, Eschscholzia californica is one of the loveliest of all naturalised flowers. With fine dissected foliage they are fascinating to the eye and are breathtaking in massed plantings or containers. The flowers are extremely attractive to bees and butterflies. Organic Seeds
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Felicia heterophylla ‘The Blues’
Kingfisher Daisy, True Blue Daisy€1.85Out of stock
Felicia 'The Blues' is one of the few Felicia’s with entirely blue flowers. It is drought tolerant and very easily grown from seed. Flowering in just 8 to 10 weeks from sowing the stunning electric-blue flowers are borne above tidy, compact foliage.
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Glebionis segetum ‘Corn Marigold’
Formerly Chrysanthemum segetum. Golden Cornflower.
Wildflower of Britain and IrelandStarting at: €1.50
Out of stock
With brilliant golden-yellow flowers surely make this one of the loveliest wild flowers for the garden. The Corn Marigold is at its most impressive when in a meadow setting and as a border plant with other annual cornfield ... or perhaps, regrettably, we must now say 'ex-cornfield' flowers.
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Godetia grandiflora 'Duchess of Albany'
Clarkia, Farewell to Spring€1.50Out of stock
Godetia grandiflora 'Duchess of Albany' Godetia grandiflora produces pure white, cup-shaped blooms that cluster atop 45cm (18in) stems. The petals appear very delicate, they are sheer and almost translucent with a remarkable silky softness yet are quite durable and hardy.
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Helianthus annuus 'Autumn Beauty'
Branching Sunflower.€1.75Sunflower ‘Autumn Beauty’ produces numerous long-stemmed flowers from summer to late autumn in a variety of solid and bi-colour bright warm colours - golden yellow, bronze, brown and burgundy. The long stems are excellent for cut flowers and look absolutely stunning in a vase on their own.
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Helianthus annuus 'Copper Queen F1'
Pollenless, Premium Sunflower€2.65Helianthus annuus 'Copper Queen F1' is a professional quality, pollen-free sunflower with golden yellow petals and rich dark brown disks. 150cm (5ft) tall. The golden yellow petals are ‘dusted’ with a layer of translucent cinnamon-red, giving the large flowers a rich orange appearance. Cut the flowers as soon as all the petals unfurl.
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Helianthus annuus 'Cut Flower Mixture'
Sunflowers€1.75Helianthus annuus 'Cut Flower Mixture' offers a diverse range of sunflower varieties that are suited to outdoor cut flower production. In a wide range of shapes and colours, lemon, golds and reds. The heights range from 80 to 150cm (32 to 60in). They are lovely in borders or vases.
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Helianthus annuus 'F1 Gemini Summer'
Pollenless, Premium Sunflower€2.70Helianthus annuus 'F1 Gemini Summer' is F1 hybrid tall cut flower variety with golden yellow, double flowers. This professional quality sunflower is a pollenless, uniflora type that grows 90 to 120cm tall. Cut the flowers when the petals begin to unfurl from the face.
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Helianthus annuus 'F1 Sunrich Orange'
Pollenless, Premium Sunflower€3.20Out of stock
Developed for the cut flower industry, Helianthus ‘F1 Sunrich Orange’ has brought growing Sunflowers to a higher standard, in the last decade it has been the number one choice in horticulture. This F1 variety produces large petaled gorgeous coloured flowers just two months from planting. It is ‘day length neutral’ and will provide consistent flowers irrespective of the amount of daylight hours that it receives.
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Helianthus annuus 'Giant Single Yellow'
Uniflorus giganteus, Giant SunflowerStarting at: €1.50
Sunflower 'Giant Single Yellow' is a popular tall-growing variety. The blooms have dark centres and attractive bright golden petals, held on tall stems they are capable of growing several metres. Favourites with children, they make beautiful, long lasting cut flowers and are highly attractive to pollinators. -
Helianthus annuus 'Giant Sungold'
Tall Double Sunflower€1.75Great big fluffy golden heads the size of a dinner plate. This whopper of a sunflower has the same stunning densely packed yellow petals as the beloved dwarf 'Teddy Bear' sunflower but on a far larger scale. They make excellent cut flowers, long lasting and are very impressive in a vase.
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Helianthus annuus 'Holiday'
Branching Sunflower€1.95If you like well-branched, free-flowering, traditional sunflowers that are not too tall, 'Holiday' is the one you've been looking for. At 120cm (4ft) tall, with golden yellow petals and dark centres, it bears armfuls of cheery 15 to 20cm blooms. Irresistible for cut flower bouquets and for a large garden planting.
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Helianthus annuus 'Ikarus'
Pollenless, Branching Sunflower€2.35Helianthus ‘Ikarus’ is a fairly recent introduction, but one that has started to make huge waves. This premium pollenless sunflower has a unique habit, they are basal branching, resulting in masses of primrose-yellow blooms each with glorious dark chocolate-brown hearts. They grow 90 to 120cm (3 to 4ft) tall.
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Helianthus annuus 'Medium Red Mix Sunflower' Organic
Branching Sunflower.€2.35Sunflower 'Medium Red Mix' offers a diverse range of varieties that feature the most popular reds, crimsons and bi-colours. Suited to outdoor cut flower production, the heights range from 80 to 120cm tall and are lovely in the garden and the vase, the blooms last up to a fortnight when kept in water. Organic Seeds
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Helianthus annuus 'Mongolian Giant'
Uniflorus giganteus, Giant Sunflower€1.95Giant Sunflower 'Mongolian Giant' is a true giant reaching up to 420cm (14ft) tall with one of the largest flowering sunflower seed heads available, up to 45cm (18in) across. One of the largest-seeded sunflower varieties available to gardeners, the plants are ideal to grow to provide food for birds to eat over-winter.
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Helianthus annuus 'Pro Cut Red'
Pollenless, Premium Sunflower€3.95Helianthus 'Pro Cut Red' is a stunning new dark addition to this widely grown series. Flowers are a deep, rich rusty-red, one of the best dark colours on the market. Dark chocolaty centers gradually give way to ruby ringed petals that fade to a lighter tip. The plants are uniform and vigorous in growth even under low temperatures