Wildlife Friendly
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Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Dalmatian Crème'
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove€3.95Developed 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.
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Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Dalmatian Peach'
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove€3.95Early 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.
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Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Dalmatian Purple'
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove€3.95Early 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.
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Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Dalmatian Rose'
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove€3.95Developed for the florist, this premium series provides good-quality spikes that bloom the first year from an early sowing. 'Dalmatian Rose' produce gorgeous rose pink blooms with deep mauve interior markings. Grow for the vase or the garden, their lofty spires add vertical accents to planting schemes and arrangements.
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Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Dalmatian White'
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove€3.95Developed for the florist, this premium series provides good-quality spikes that bloom the first year from an early sowing. 'Dalmatian White' produces towers of gorgeous white tubular flowers with deep mauve interior markings. Unlike traditional varieties, Dalmatian blooms the first year from an early indoor sowing.
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Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Dottie Mix'
First Year Flowering Foxglove€3.95A new a super-fast, first year flowering perennial, 'Dottie Mix' blooms just 20 to 24 weeks from sowing. The plants grow quickly and are more compact at flowering than other F1 series, the showy spikes carry large blooms and quickly fill large pots with ease. In a range of soft, modern colours: White, Cream, Purple, Rose and the gorgeous Soft Rose.
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Digitalis purpurea 'Snow Thimble'
Dwarf Foxglove€2.20Digitalis purpurea 'Snow Thimble' is bred for its large pure-white, bell-shaped blooms, born on short spikes only 100cm tall. It is one of the most elegant dwarf Foxgloves, easy to place in the garden it is especially suited to cottage gardens, shade gardens, wildflower and cutting gardens.
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Digitalis purpurea heywoodii 'Silver Fox'
Aka 'Pink Champagne'€2.70Digitalis 'Silver Fox' is one of the most beautiful dwarf Foxgloves for the cottage garden and border. Growing to just 60 to 70cm tall, the creamy-white speckled bells are flushed with soft lavender-pink. An elegant and rare foxglove that is ideal for borders or containers.
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Digitalis purpurea var gloxinioides
Aka 'The Shirley'€2.45Digitalis purpurea var gloxinioides is an outstanding and unusual strain of Foxglove. Resembling the Gloxinia plant, the open flowers are tubular, each with frilled edges. With tall dense spikes of blooms, they are held horizontally and display the heavily spotted throat markings to better advantage.
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Dipsacus sativus fullonum
Fuller’s Teasel, Wildflower of Britain and Ireland€1.95Fullers Teasel a sub-species of the common teasel. The bristly flower heads were cultivated, matured and dried. Inserted into wooden frames, they were used to bulk up the pile on woolen cloth. The variant name 'fullonum' refers to the name of the trade of the 'fullers' to raise the nap on woolen cloth - to 'tease' it. Teasel is still used today by some who weave wool by hand.
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Dipsacus sativus fullonum, Organic
Fuller’s Teasel, Wildflower of Britain and Ireland€2.45Fullers Teasel is perfect for attracting wildlife to your garden, especially bees and butterflies while birds love to feed on the seed. It is unique in the plant world in the way in which it blooms: purple-pink flowers form first in a ring around the middle of the head, it grows in width over a few days. Organic Seed.
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Echinacea angustifolia, Organic
Western Coneflower, Narrow Leaf ConeflowerMedicinal Herb €2.75Out of stock
Echinacea is a perennial herb, the purple flower is in the form of a high cone. Valued as a short-term stimulant to the immune system. Until the late 1930s, Echinacea angustifolia was the only species used in medical practice. Organic Seed.
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Echinacea pallida
Pale Purple Coneflower€2.70Echinacea pallida is one of the more rare members of the Echinacea family. They have much longer, ray flowers than those of the more familiar purple coneflower, the plants bloom earlier and continue to bloom sporadically through the autumn months.
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Echinacea purpurea
Purple Cone FlowerStarting at: €1.75
Echinacea purpurea is one of the most versatile perennials for the garden. Flowering from early July right through to September, it is sturdy and self-supporting, hardy and easy to grow, undemanding and suitable for both the formal border and the meadow look.
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Echinacea purpurea 'Magnus'
Magnus' Purple Coneflower€2.45Echinacea ‘Magnus’ is an outstanding selection of the 'Cone Flower'. Distinguished by the warm bright colour of its exceptionally large flowers, and horizontal petals. This award winning variety has for many years been one of late summer's most garden worthy forms
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Echinacea purpurea, Organic
Purple Coneflower€2.35Echinacea purpurea is one of the most versatile perennials for the garden. Flowering from early July right through to September, it is sturdy and self-supporting, hardy and easy to grow, undemanding and suitable for both the formal border and the meadow look. Organic Seed.
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Echium plantagineum 'Dwarf Blue Bedder'
Vipers BuglossRegular Price: €1.75
Special Price €0.95
In summer Echium plantagineum bears the most beautiful dense spikes of exquisite, violet-blue flowers. Compact and bushy and growing to only 30cm tall, they are rich in nectar and pollen and are ideal for attracting butterflies and bees. RHS AGM.
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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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Echium vulgare 'Vipers Bugloss'
Wildflower of Britain and IrelandRegular Price: €1.95
Special Price €1.35
Echium 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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Echium vulgare 'Vipers Bugloss', Organic
Wildflower of Britain and Ireland€2.65Viper'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.
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Starting at: €3.95
This fabulous range of Edible Flowers and Herbs give decorative petals and leaves for use as garnishes and flavourings. Some are spicy, and some herbaceous, while others are floral and fragrant, the range is surprising. They will bring a stunning finish to the food and drinks you that you love.
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Eryngium planum
Blue Sea Holly€1.60This attractive sea holly forms clumps of evergreen, soft, deep green heart-shaped leaves. In early summer, the thin wirey stems emerge, set with spiny leaves. The branched stems carry a profusion of small, sea holly flowers in bright, steely blue. It prefers full sun and well-drained soil.
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Erysimum allioni, Cheiranthus allioni
Siberian Wallflower€1.55Siberian wallflowers are at their best in early to mid-May. With cheerful deep orange blooms, they are very easy to grow and combine well with other plants; indeed wallflowers demand companions and set the mind racing regarding potential planting combinations.