Butterfly Garden
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Erysimum cheiri, Cheiranthus Cheiri 'Fair Lady Mixed'
English Wallflower€1.50‘Fair Lady Mixed' is a classic tried and trusted variety. Reliably hardy, this uniform mixture blooms in a wide range of colours, both pastels and bright colours and includes the more unusual dusky-pink shades. This marvellous; fragrant, floriferous flower is extremely easy to grow and very rewarding.
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Erysimum cheiri, Cheiranthus cheiri 'Fire King'
English Wallflower€1.50Erysimum (formerly Cheiranthus) cheiri ‘Fire King' is another old and tried variety, with striking, flame-like, glowing orange-scarlet flowers. A compact variety with a bushy habit and a rich fragrance, they will supply the household with an abundance of cut flowers for many weeks.
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Erysimum cheiri, Cheiranthus cheiri 'Ivory White'
English Wallflower€1.50What spring garden would be complete without a bed of delightful, sweet-scented Wallflowers, harbingers of warmer weather to come? “Ivory-White” is a fabulous, yet hard to find form. A compact variety with a bushy habit which is ideal as an underplanting to tulips and other spring bulbs.
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Erysimum cheiri, Cheiranthus cheiri 'Persian Carpet'
English Wallflower€1.50This is a classic Wallflower mixture, with the super rich colours you'd expect to see in a Persian Carpet (at a fraction of the cost!) purple, gold, orange, rose, cream and apricot. It is not without reason that this bushy variety so impressed the RHS judges.
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Erysimum cheiri, Cheiranthus cheiri 'Tom Thumb Mix'
Dwarf Wallflower, English Wallflower,€2.10'Tom Thumb' is a fine strain of dwarf, compact plants which feature blooms in a wide spectrum of bright colours. This jaunty late-spring flower is ideal for bedding, borders and containers.They are very easy to grow and very rewarding; they also respond beautifully to the sow and forget technique.
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Erysimum cheiri, Cheiranthus cheiri 'Vulcan'
English Wallflower€1.50Out of stock
'Vulcan' is a very old established, dwarf variety of wallflower with sumptuous, velvety crimson flowers. Highly-scented with an extremely neat habit, they will flower for about eight weeks, the rich fragrance being most pronounced on a sunny day.
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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, '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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Eupatorium fistulosum f. albidum 'Ivory Towers'
Hollow Joe Pye weed, Queen of the Meadow€2.95Introduced in 2010, Eupatorium ‘Ivory Towers’ is relatively new to our gardens yet has already been awarded the RHS Award of Garden Merit . This architectural plant bears generously clusters of ivory-white blooms which are long-lasting and beloved by butterflies. Given an early sowing, will flower the first year.
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Eupatorium maculatum atropurpureum
Spotted Joe Pye weed
Eutrochium purpureum subsp. maculatum€2.70Eupatorium maculatum atropurpureum is handsome in all of its parts. Invaluable for the late-summer border, the mid-green leaves and stems are suffused with a dusky purple. From July they are crowned with large domed panicles of pinkish-purple nectar-rich flowers.
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Evening Primrose, Oenothera biennis, Organic
Evening Primrose, Herb Primrose, King's cure-all
Wildflower of Europe€2.45Oenothera biennis provides a wonderful splash of summer colour in the garden. Flowering begins in June and plants continue growing throughout the season so there is a constant succession until about September. In early summer the sweetly scented, bright yellow flowers open towards evening and are faintly phosphorescent.
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Fragrant Flower Garden Mix
Exceptionally fragrant annual flowersStarting at: €3.75
You can't see it or touch it. But it's so integral a part of the garden experience that it penetrates the very soul. It's fragrance. And none of our other four senses has the power to trigger emotions as strong or memories as sweet as scent does. Practice your own individual form of 'aromatherapy' in the garden.
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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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Gaura lindheimeri ‘Sparkle White’
Lindheimer's Bee Blossom€3.95Out of stock
Gaura lindheimeri 'Sparkle White' is a stunning hardy perennial. A Winner of the Fleuroselect Gold Medal, this bushy, clump forming variety has a neat, compact habit and produces a flurry of dazzling white, starry blooms on graceful slender stems from early summer right through to autumn.
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Gaura lindheimeri ‘Summer Breeze’
Lindheimer's Bee Blossom€2.95Introduced in 2008, Gaura lindheimeri 'Summer Breeze' has now been made available in seed form. A hardier, more robust variety, long blooming and floriferous, it produces open, willowy, vase-shaped plants, with long graceful stems that suspend numerous little, dainty, butterfly shaped flowers at their tips.
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Gaura lindheimeri ‘The Bride’
Lindheimer's Bee Blossom€2.65In the last decade, Gaura ‘The Bride’ has skyrocketed to popularity among gardeners.A graceful, hazy plant with airy spikes of white, star-shaped flowers with long anthers like daddy long-legs, held on slender stems from May to September. RHS AGM
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Geranium pratense
Meadow Cranesbill, Hardy Geranium
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland€2.70The beautiful, soft violet-blue flowers make the meadow crane’s bill one of our most distinctive wildflowers. Perfect for a meadow, it is often planted in gardens as it flowers for a long time, it must be one of our loveliest wild flowers and worthy of a place in any border.
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Glebionis segetum ‘Corn Marigold’
Formerly Chrysanthemum segetum. Golden Cornflower.
Wildflower of Britain and IrelandStarting at: €1.50
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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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Helenium autumnale 'Helena'
Helens's Flower, Autumn Helenium€2.95If there's one plant that can inject a little razzle-dazzle into the border during gloomy late summers it is Helenium. From late July 'Helena' blooms with masses of vibrant blooms in a spectrum of rich colours from gold to mahogany red. Perfect for the back of the border and wonderful for cutting.
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Helenium hoopesii
Mountain helenium, Owls-Claws€2.65Helenium hoopesii is considered by some to be the most valuable of the species. It blooms with bright golden yellow disk florets that each form a kind of rounded knob that transforms the flower from your typical two-dimensional daisy into something much more interesting and sculptural.
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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.