Important For Bees
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Galega officinalis, Goat's Rue
Goat's Rue€2.00Galega officinalis is an ancient ornamental plant that produces a delightful natural effect in the garden. The plants have handsome foliage and they errupt in spring to produce countless sprays of fragrant lavender-blue flower spikes, each with mini-sweet pea shaped flowers.
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Echium vulgare 'Vipers Bugloss', Organic
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland€2.45
Viper's bugloss is one of, if not THE very best plant to attract bees to your garden. Along with Borage and Phacelia, the plant is much loved by almost all bee species, especially bumblebees. For months this plant is a stable source of nectar. Organic Seed. -
Echium vulgare 'Vipers Bugloss'
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland€2.25Echium vulgare is a valuable native plant and is exotic enough to earn a place in a flower border. The plant is much loved by almost all bee species. If you don’t want plants that honeybees simply visit, but want to select plants that honeybees clearly love, choose Echium for your garden.
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Echinops ritro 'Globe Flower'
Globe Thistle€2.10
One of my favourites for the back row. The rounded, violet-blue flower heads on silvery, branched, leafy stems are actually much softer than they look. An unusual colour and structure, so a great conversation piece and an excellent dried flower. -
Echinacea hybrida 'Paradiso Yellow'
Coneflower€3.95Echinacea 'Paradiso' is an outstanding series of the familiar 'Cone Flower' and one of late summer's most garden worthy forms. A first year flowering perennial they are distinguished by the exceptionally large flowers which grow 8cm to 10cm (3 to 4in) wide. Echinacea 'Paradiso Yellow' blooms in beautiful, illuminating warm yellow shades.
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Echinacea hybrida 'Paradiso Tall Mix'
Coneflower€3.95Distinguished by its exceptionally large flowers, Echinacea 'Paradiso Tall Mix' blooms in a large range of shades including some lovely, soft hues. Very easy to grow, with good vigour and robust strong stems that branch from the base, the plants can be used for perennial beds and high-impact landscaping and as a cut or dried flower.
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Echinacea hybrida 'Cheyenne Spirit F1'
Coneflower€4.75Out of stock
Echinacea purpurea 'Cheyenne Spirit' is the latest Gold Medal Winner of the species, this cultivar will provide a mix of flower colours. Not limited to one colour, each plant can bloom in a sumptuous range of colour, Gold, Scarlet, Orange, Rosy-Red, Cream, Purple and Yellow. This vivid new mixture is a complete innovation in first-year flowering seed perennials.
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Digitalis x mertonensis 'Strawberry Foxglove'
Merton's Foxglove€2.45This striking and robust foxglove, a hybrid between the pink flowered D. purpurea and the yellow flowered D. grandiflora produces a beautiful mix of the two shades. The warm pink, speckled blooms are larger than the traditional foxglove but grow on more compact plants. -
Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Dalmatian Purple'
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove€3.95 Early flowering and fast growing, award winning Digitalis 'Dalmatian Purple' produces towers of gorgeous lavender-purple blooms with deep mauve interior markings. The good-quality spikes are uniform in height, well-branched with excellent habit and compact foliage. -
Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Dalmatian Peach'
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove€3.95 Early flowering and fast growing, award winning Digitalis 'F1 Dalmatian Peach' produces towers of swoon-worthy peachy blooms. Developed for florists the series blooms the first year from an early sowing. Sow successionally for continuity of blooms. -
Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Dalmatian Crème'
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove€3.95 Developed for the florist, this premium series provides good-quality spikes that are uniform in height and blooms the first year from an early sowing. 'F1 Dalmatian Crème' produces towers of gorgeous creamy blooms with deep mauve interior markings. -
Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Camelot White'
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove€3.95 Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Camelot White' produces towers of outward facing, white funnel shaped blooms with mauve interior markings. Developed with the florist in mind, they are long flowering, beautifully uniform in growth and well-branched. -
Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Camelot Rose'
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove€3.95 Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Camelot Rose' produces towers of outward facing, pink funnel shaped blooms with mauve interior markings. Developed with the florist in mind, they are long flowering, beautifully uniform in growth and well-branched. -
Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Camelot Lavender'
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove€3.95 Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Camelot Lavender' produces towers of an exquisite colour. This premium series has been developed for florists to be first year flowering. Unlike some varieties the dense spikes of blooms are borne all the way around the stem. -
Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Camelot Cream'
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove€3.95 Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Camelot Cream' produces towers of a delicate buttercream colour, the dense spikes of blooms are borne all the way around the stem. Developed to flower in the first year, they can be sown anytime from January to September. -
Digitalis purpurea
Native Pink Foxglove
Wildflower of Britain and IrelandStarting at: €2.10
This lovely native European woodland plant is a beauty to add to any garden and a popular biennial for shaded places. Plants form rosettes of lance shaped leaves, the second year the rosette begins to shoot skyward with beautiful large spikes and drooping bell shaped blooms that are spotted inside.
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Digitalis ambigua 'Cream Bell'
Perennial Foxglove aka 'Créme Belle'€3.65There are not many yellow flowering foxgloves and as they are so rare each one is joyfully celebrated. 'Creme Bell' is often misspelled in a French way - 'Créme Belle' and is simply heavenly. A true hardy perennial variety that produces multiple spires of soft vanilla-cream bells in late spring. -
Didiscus caeruleus 'Blue Lace Flower'
Marketed as 'Lacy Blue'€2.55Didiscus caerulea, known as the Blue Lace Flower for its unusual lavender-blue flower colour. With delicate lacy umbel shaped flowers, each flower head is composed of tiny, star-shaped, sweetly fragrant flowers. Perfect for the cutting garden and suitable for country cottage style or contemporary arrangements.
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Cynara cardunculus 'Cardoon'
Cardoon€2.20Whether you are into the culinary arts or edible landscapes, you may want to put this plant at the top of your list. Chosen by the RHS as one of the top plants of the last 200 years, Cardoons are aristocrats in both the ornamental and the vegetable world. -
Cosmos bipinnatus 'Xanthos'
The Mexican Aster€2.95Cosmos bipinnatus 'Xanthos' is a new cosmos that's causing rather a stir in horticultural circles. It adds a completely new colour to the Cosmos range. Unique soft-yellow blooms are produced in profusion on compact dwarf plants. Growing to a height of 60cm tall, this truly exceptional Cosmos has already been granted one of the most prestigious horticultural awards, a Fleuroselect Gold Medal.
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Cosmos bipinnatus 'Velouette'
Semi-Dwarf Mexican Aster€2.65 Cosmos bipinnatus 'Velouette' is an exceptional new variety with unique dark red blooms, the same sizzling dark red as Rubenza. Semi-dwarf, early flowering and uniform, they give a wonderful effect when planted in combination. They will start to bloom in as little as 70 days from sowing, going on to offer to six months of colour from May to October. -
Cosmos bipinnatus 'Rubenza'
Semi-Dwarf Mexican Aster€2.65Out of stock
Conjure up the colour red, fix it in your mind’s eye, and fast forward to a much warmer, dare I say sizzling time in your life…. and then imagine this colour in a flower. Let me introduce you to Cosmos Rubenza. It is red that combines favourably with other colours. The very same colour as Dorothy’s shoes - the ones that got her back to Kansas. -
Cosmos bipinnatus 'Rosetta'
Mexican Aster€2.65'Rosetta’ is an outstanding new variety of Cosmos that has earned the Fleuroselect Award for colour pattern, flower size and shape. Subtle, delicately striped blooms in romantic shades of blush pink and rose, some with an inner collarette of smaller fluffy petals, over light airy foliage.
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Cosmos bipinnatus 'Purity'
The Mexican Aster€2.45Cosmos ‘Purity’ is the definitive white cosmos. Large, graceful, saucer-shaped blooms float over a haze of mid-green feathery foliage, Rising to a graceful 90 to 120cm they flower in fourteen weeks with wave after wave of clear white blooms. An excellent no fuss annual that is very easy to grow and thrives on minimal care.
