Informal / Cottage
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Valeriana officinalis
Valerian, Wildflower of Britain and Ireland€2.25Out of stock
Valeriana officinalis is a graceful wildflower that is native to Europe and Western Asia. The tall, branched flower stalks are held atop a low mound of foliage, the densely clustered flowers are sweetly scented and usually white with a hint of pink.
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Tithonia rotundifolia 'Torch'
The Mexican Sunflower€2.25Brilliant sizzling, orange-scarlet flowers cover this vibrant ornamental plant, with velvety textured leaves and huge dahlia-like blooms. Growing 90 to 120cm tall, this fast growing plant produces one of the best flowers you can grow for attracting butterflies to the garden and the blooms are excellent for cutting.
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The White Garden - Annual Flower Mix
Ideal for beds and borders and for cut flowersStarting at: €3.95
As they say, white goes with everything and among theme gardens, the white garden may be the most popular. The White Garden Flower Mix gives a selection of spectacular, bright white annual flowers. Calm, soft and serene this beautiful mix will carry borders into early winter with panache.
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The Red Garden - Annual Flower Mix
Ideal for beds and borders and for cut flowersStarting at: €3.95
Red flowers are much prized in the garden. They stand out, enlivening the foliage with a burst of colour. Even on the dreariest day, red flowers have a dramatic visual impact. Easy to grow and fast to flower, hardy annuals can be unrivaled for bringing summer colour to the garden.
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The Pink Garden - Annual Flower Mix
Ideal for beds and borders and for cut flowersStarting at: €3.95
In the garden or in an arrangement, pinks are the easiest colours to combine. From rose to magenta, there are more flowers that bloom in these shades than any other colour. Easy to grow and fast to flower, these hardy annuals can be sown directly outdoors where they are to grow. They are unrivaled for bringing summer colour to the garden.
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The Blue Garden - Annual Flower Mix
Ideal for beds and borders and for cut flowersStarting at: €3.95
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Ranging from pale baby blue to deep midnight shades and growing to an average height of 70cm (28in), this mix of annual flowers is ideal for the garden and the vase. Blue flowers are associated with serenity and calm - plant them in spring and then tell me that your pulse rate slows just a little bit!
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Thalictrum delavayi
Chinese or Yunnan meadow rue.€2.95Out of stock
Thalictrum delavayi are invaluable for providing a contrast with heavier flowers, with light airy sprays of flowers that look, from a distance, like a mauve mist hovering among other plants. They flower for several weeks and succeed in a broad range of conditions . -
Thalictrum aquilegifolium 'Purpureum'
French Meadow-Rue, Greater Meadow Rue.€2.55Out of stock
Thalictrum aquilegifolium 'Purpureum' features a basal clump of lacy, blueish-green foliage topped by a hazy, fuzzy show of purple flowers. They produce a shimmering hazy effect in beds and borders wildflower gardens or meadows. Both leaves and flowers are good for flower arrangements.
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Teucrium hyrcanicum 'Purple Tails'
Caucasian Germander€2.85Out of stock
Summer-blooming spiky flowering plants - in garden design parlance ‘the verticals’. We all need some, and there are lots of contenders, but a plant that can go just about anywhere in the garden, cope with almost all situations and bloom with copious plush spikes over several weeks is a very rare treat. -
Tagetes patula 'Tangerine'
French Marigold€1.50Out of stock
Easy to grow and quick to flower, French Marigold 'Tangerine' blooms reliably throughout the summer with vivid orange flowers that are lifted high atop lush, scented foliage. The plant is famously used in companion planting and for making flower garlands.
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Tagetes patula 'Queen Sophia'
French Marigold€1.80Out of stock
Tagetes 'Queen Sophia' is an extremely popular, award winning variety that was introduced in the early 1900’s. Gorgeous to the point of excess, it produces semi-double blooms. Deep orange-to-russet petals that are intricately edged with russet and gold. -
Sweet Annie, Artemisia annua
Sweet wormwood, Qing Hao€2.45Artemisia annua, commonly called Sweet Annie is a graceful annual with tall stems with fine bright green ferny foliage. With sweetly fragrant foliage it has a wide variety of uses both medicinal and for handcrafting but is most often grown for fresh and dried arrangements.
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Stachys byzantina
Lambs' ears, Woolly Betony
Also known as Stachys lanata, or olympica€2.00What can I say? Its a plant you can pet!...Bees love it…children love it….and you just have to stoke it on the way past! Lambs' ears is a well-known ground-covering perennial, popular for its soft, fluffy foliage, plus, it’s a great silver accent in between all the green going on in the garden.
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Solidago canadensis 'Golden Baby'
Aka 'Goldkind' and 'Yellow Springs'.€2.55Solidago canadensis 'Golden Baby' is an easy to grow hardy perennial that bears flat-topped clusters of golden-yellow plumes. Growing to around 60cm tall they are perfect for borders or containers and provide end-of-season colour. Given an early sowing they will bloom in their first year.
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Scabiosa caucasica 'Fama White'
Pin Cushion, Perennial Pin Cushion€3.65The Fama series is well known for its particularly large flowers that are held on long, strong stems. Beloved by flower arrangers, they are considered to be best strain for cutting. This perennial form of Scabiosa are very easy to grow and will flower in their first year from an early sowing.
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Scabiosa caucasica 'Fama Deep Blue'
Pin Cushion, Perennial Pin Cushion€3.65'Fama' is a most elegant flower. With long stems and intense blue blooms, it is the largest flowering and most uniform strain of the Blue Pincushion. They mature into dense tufts of lance shaped, grey-green leaves from which arise a beautiful display of intense lilac-blue flowers each with a silvery centre.
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Scabiosa atropurpurea 'Tall Double White'
Sweet Scabious€2.35This clump-forming plant produces pleasantly fragrant pincushion flowers when newly opened. Delicate white petals surround a domed, central cushion, and as the flowers mature, tiny white stamens emerge adding yet another beautiful detail. The flowers have the most delicious sweet perfume reminiscent of honey and marshmallows.
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Scabiosa atropurpurea 'Tall Double Rose-Pink'
Sweet Scabious€2.35Out of stock
A prodigious bloomer and a tough, hardy garden performer Scabiosa atropurpurea grows quickly and is fast to flower. Rose-pink petals surround a domed, dark centred cushion, this invaluable plant will attract many butterflies and bees to the garden and would look as happy in a wildflower meadow as in a manicured border.
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Scabiosa atropurpurea 'Tall Double Red'
Sweet Scabious€2.35Scabiosa atropurpurea is one of the longest-flowering and most glamorous of flowers that you can grow from seed. Easy to grow and fast to flower, this invaluable plant will attract many butterflies and bees to the garden and the long, straight stems will supply you with cut flowers throughout the season.
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Scabiosa atropurpurea 'Oxford Blue'
Sweet Scabious€2.35Out of stock
Boasting the most desirable of deep blue flowers, Scabiosa ‘Oxford Blue’ is a reselected form that stands out from other varieties. The large, domed, dark centred cushions with contrasting white 'pins', bob atop strong stems. A prodigious bloomer, they will supply you with excellent cut flowers.
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Salvia x superba 'Rose Queen'
Ornamental Sage€2.35Out of stock
The royal sister of ‘Blue Queen’, ‘Rose Queen’ is a wonderful, long-blooming cultivar with slender spires and beautiful mulberry-rose flowers, which open from dark pink buds in early and mid-summer. This tall, easy-to-grow variety with lance-shaped green leaves possess a pleasant aromatic scent.
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Salvia x superba 'Blue Queen'
Ornamental Sage€2.65Salvia x superba 'Blue Queen' is one of the finest Salvias we know. This plant is a spectacular source of dark, intense colour and narrow, vertical form. Masses of pencil-thin, vibrantly colourful bloom spires, so densely set that they present a solid wall of colour in the border.
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Salvia verticillata 'Purple Fairy Tale'
Ornamental, Whorled Sage€2.35Out of stock
Salvia verticillata 'Purple Fairy Tale' is a spectacular first year flowering perennial. The irresistible deep purple petals gather like raindrops in tiered pools to form whorled flowers. Easy to grow, it will begin to bloom just a couple of months after sowing. The plant flowers abundantly and continues right through to September
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Salvia sclarea var. turkestanica, Clary Sage, Organic
Biennial Clary, Muscatel Sage€2.15This hardy biennial Sage has been grown in almost every botanical sanctuary in human history. Each stem is topped with a profusion of pale blue blossoms and large pinkish white bracts. A truly architectural plant. Organic Seed.