Informal / Cottage

Offering a wide range of colours, the Peony Duchess Aster Mix is a favourite for the cutting garden. This early blooming variety produces large blooms that look more like a chrysanthemum than an aster, with their masses of incurved petals, but early blooming season and ease of care sets them apart. From sowing to flowering takes just 90 days.

A stately plant of distinction, Campanula latifolia var. macrantha 'Alba' is an outstanding plant for the border with tall upright stems bearing large, elegant white blooms in summer. A very hardy plant and one of the most adaptable. Use it in formal borders or set it free in a wild or woodland garden.

Campanula persicifolia is an old-fashioned cottage garden flower of great charm. From late spring to early summer the tall stems of wide-open blue bell flowers appear regularly. The flowers are held above the mound of leaves on tall, straight stems, making them ideal for cutting.

Campanula persicifolia alba is earlier flowering than many other varieties, the charming flower spikes are good for cutting if you can bear to do without them in the garden. Planted en masse, this is an attractive variety to associate with many old-fashioned varieties.

Catananche caerulea 'Amor Blue' is a charming plant, with blue, star like flowers each with a dark eye and unique papery petals. They look best when grown in groupings, rather than one or two plants and don’t mind crowding. Plant en-masse in prairie style or meadow plantings, mix them up a little with other hardy perennials and grasses.

Catananche caerulea 'Amor White' produces stunning blooms of white, star like flowers each with a dark purple-blue eye and unique papery petals. The blooms rise on single stems above neat clumps of grey-green foliage. Super when planted the border, they also make a wonderful, long lasting cut or dried flowers.

This beautiful highly versatile, aristocratic border plant has become very much in vogue in recent years. Oval, fleshy blue-green leaves spiral up the stem with tightly packed, sea blue bracts - and then the finale - small clusters of rich purple-blue tubular, nodding flowers which are adored by bees.

Chrysanthemum x superbum 'Crazy Daisy' is a new variety of the much-loved Shasta Daisy, It is one of the first medium tall varieties with the classic large, white flower with a yellow eye, however many of the flowers have quill like petals giving Crazy Daisy a fluffy appearance.

Dazzling gold stripes on mahogany-brown petals mark each bloom as unique on this very free-flowering, semi-double Coreopsis. Irresistible to butterflies but left alone by deer and untroubled by heat, humidity, and drought, this carefree beauty self-sows freely, going from seed to bloom in just 12 weeks.

Dazzling gold stripes on mahogany-brown petals mark each bloom as unique on this very free-flowering, semi-double Coreopsis. Irresistible to butterflies but left alone by deer and untroubled by heat, humidity, and drought, this carefree beauty self-sows freely, going from seed to bloom in just 12 weeks.

In adorable shades of apricot, peach with a soft rose centre, the new Cosmos bipinnatus 'Apricotta' will soon become a firm favourite amongst florists and gardeners. The tall plants are early to flower, they make a wonderful display in borders and the long stems are perfect for cutting .

Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Cosimo’ is a series of colours and forms that and give a wonderful effect when planted in combination or in large drifts. 'Cosimo Collarette' blooms with voluptuous semi double flowers, in light pink with white stripes to pure white edged with pink.

Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Cosimo’ is a series that have each been awarded one of the most prestigious horticultural awards, the Fleuroselect Award. Early flowering and uniform, the plants grow to a height of 50 to 60cm, short enough to be used at the front of the border, they can also be used in larger container planting.

Cosmos "Daydream" is a superb new colour, palest pink with a deep rose pink centre makes this a unique and delicate addition to any garden. The flowers are very early and are freely produced over a long period. Very easy to grow, making it a perfect choice for children or the less experienced gardener.

Cosmos is a glorious annual unrivaled as long-standing performers in a garden. 'Dazzler' is a relatively new addition, with large, open flowers of deep carmine-pink and delicate, feathery foliage. It is a superb cut flower and an exceptional annual for mixed beds and borders, cottage gardens and mass plantings.

The latest colour in the Cosmos 'Double Click' series, 'Snow Puff' has spectacular white, pom-pom flowers that sit on sturdy stems and make a gorgeous cut flower Perfect for wedding work, this award winning variety will flower over a long season and provide a vibrant display all summer long.

At last, the beauty of Cosmos without staking or shading out other plants. Cosmos 'Dwarf Early Vega White' are easy to grow and quick to flower. Growing to only 60cm tall with beautiful feathery foliage they bloom from May right through to August. Pure white disks balancing gracefully on strong slender stems.

Renowned for its surprisingly large ruffled blooms, Cosmos ‘Psyché Mixture’ grows to a height of around 90 to 120cm and throws up hundreds of elegantly waved, upright blooms in crimson, rich lavender pink, and white. They provide plenty of colour in the garden and vases full of cuts flowers.

Cosmos ‘Psyché White’ is renowned for its surprisingly large blooms. Huge, crepe paper petals form loose, elegantly waved, upright, pure white blooms. An excellent choice if you are looking for an easy to grow, no fuss annual that will thrive on minimal care and provide vases full of cut flowers.

Cosmos 'Purity' is a well-named newer hybrid, pure white large blooms on a plant that grows only 3 to 4 ft. tall. From June to October the large, graceful, saucer-shaped flowers are handsomely offset by the masses of mid-green feathery foliage. An excellent addition to the cutting garden.