Informal / Cottage
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Helianthus annuus 'Sonja'
Sunflower, Branching Sunflower€2.45A new introduction that can be grown for use as a patio plant or as a cut flower. Early blooming and growing to just 100cm (3ft) with golden-orange petals and dark brown centres 'Sonja' produces a spray of flowering side branches that surround the main stem. Durable in the garden and long lived in the vase.
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Helianthus annuus 'Soraya'
Sunflower, Branching Sunflower€2.45Sunflower 'Soraya' is the first Sunflower ever to win an AAS award. It produces lovely rich tangerine-orange flowers with dark brown centres The vigorous, self-supporting plants stand 150 to 180cm (5 to 6ft) tall. Prized for cut flower arrangements, they produce 20 to 25 flowers from each plant.
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Helianthus annuus 'Valentine'
Sunflower, Branching Sunflower.€2.65Sunflower 'Valentine' is a fantastic mid-size variety with beautiful lemon-yellow flower heads with dark centres. These vigorous upright plants are multi-branching giving a very bushy appearance, producing numerous gorgeous blooms which makes excellent cut flowers. -
Helianthus annuus 'Velvet Queen Sunflower' Organic
Branching Sunflower.€2.35Velvet Queen is a branching sunflower in an opulent shade of rich crimson on strong stems. It is one of the earliest sunflowers to bloom and will grow to 150cm (5 feet) tall. They make excellent cut flowers, alternatively leave them on the plant for the birds to enjoy the seed-heads that follow. Organic Seeds -
Helianthus debilis 'Vanilla Ice'
Also marketed as 'Ice Cream'€1.65Helianthus ‘Vanilla Ice’ is one of the prettiest sunflowers varieties available. With clusters of delicate pale creamy-yellow flowers with dark chocolate centres this compact variety grows to just 120 to 150cm (4 to 5ft) tall is suitable for the border or can be left add a naturalised charm to a wildlife friendly garden.
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Helianthus maximiliani
Maximilian Sunflower, Perennial Sunflower€2.35Perennial sunflowers typically don’t grow quite as tall and large as their annual friends. However Helianthus maximiliani is a wonderful exception. It grows slowly through the summer months as a group of short stems, until late summer when the stems bolt and the flowers head for the sky.
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Helianthus mollis
Downy or Ashy Sunflower, Perennial Sunflower€2.10Most gardeners are familiar with the annual sunflower, however, it is the perennial varieties that coexist most happily with other garden plants. Helianthus mollis is a lovely perennial with butter-yellow flowers. It grows 120cm tall and requires little more attention than an annual cutting to the ground.
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Helichrysum bracteatum 'Golden Yellow'
Strawflower, Everlasting, Paper Daisy, Immortelle€2.10Helichrysum bracteatum is the most well known and is probably the best of all the everlasting flowers. They make one of the finest subjects for bouquets, apart from being useful for beds and borders. They are easy to cultivate and established plants grow well with little or no attention and bloom from mid-summer right up to frost.
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Helichrysum bracteatum 'Purple Red'
Strawflower, Everlasting, Paper Daisy, Immortelle€2.10Helichrysum make one of the finest subjects for beds and borders and for bouquets, the flowers bloom from mid-summer right up to frost. Deep purple-red blooms are held atop strong multi-branching bright green stems. Known as an 'everlasting', they make one of the best dried flowers, both the colour and shape will last indefinitely.
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Helichrysum bracteatum 'Scarlet'
Strawflower, Everlasting, Paper Daisy, Immortelle€2.10Helichrysum bracteatum is the cut flower grower's staple, producing tall vigorous branching plants that are filled with large papery flowers. The scarlet red flowers are perfect for cutting, they have a subtle silky sheen and are striking in all stages, from bud to fully opened.
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Hesperis matronalis alba
White Sweet Rocket, Dames Violet, Summer Lilac.€1.85Gorgeously scented pure white flowers are held above rosettes of dark green leaves. Like all sweet rockets it is highly attractive to bees and other beneficial insects, the fragrant flowers perfume the air in late spring and early summer evenings. The night-scented stock is a close relative.
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Hesperis matronalis, Mixed Colours
Sweet Rocket, Dames Violet, Summer Lilac.€1.75Dames Rocket produce flowers varying in colour from deep rich purple, through all the paler lilac shades to white. Highly attractive to bees and other beneficial insects, the fragrant flowers perfume the air in late spring and early summer evenings.
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Hesperis matronalis, Purple-Violet.
Sweet Rocket, Dames Violet, Summer Lilac.€1.75Dames Rocket was the favorite flower of Marie Antoinette. The genus name Hesperis is Greek for evening, a reference to this plant's aroma becoming ever more conspicuous towards evening. The fragrance is as sweet as a violet's. The night-scented stock is a close relative.
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Iberis umbellata 'Lilac' Candytuft
Annual or Globe Candytuft€1.25Out of stock
An extremely easy to grow, hardy annual plant, Iberis umbellata is quick to grow and is in bloom within two months from a spring sowing. This beautiful lilac form has glossy green leaves and the familiar clusters of fragrant flowers which are attractive to bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects.
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Iberis umbellata 'Rose-Cardinal' Candytuft
Annual or Globe Candytuft€1.25Iberis umbellata 'Rose-Cardinal' is quick to grow and is in bloom within two months from a spring sowing. Extremely easy to grow, they are invaluable for underplanting and for use in rock gardens and containers. They are considered one of the best plants grown for edging purposes.
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Iberis umbellata 'White' Candytuft
Annual or Globe Candytuft€1.25Iberis umbellata is a popular and easily-grown annual plant that is perhaps more versatile than you might imagine. Considered one of the best for edging purposes, they are also invaluable for underplanting, for rock gardens and containers. Easy to grow and fast to flower, this fragrant hardy annual will quickly cover any unsightly bare spots in the garden.
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Ipomoea tricolor 'Heavenly Blue'
Morning Glory€1.50'Heavenly Blue' is one of the loveliest of all climbers. The buds are long and tightly furled, but as the morning sunshine reaches them, they steadily unfold themselves into wide sky-blue trumpet-shaped flowers of deep azure-blue, the colour of a Mediterranean sky. -
Knautia macedonica 'Melton Pastels'
Macedonian scabious. Also marketed as 'Watercolours'€2.65'Melton Pastels' is a great border plant, densely flowering plant with strong stalks of pin cushion flowers in shades of shades of pink, cherry red, mauve and purple. The tall stems make excellent cut flowers and are good for the middle of the border, giving a succession of blooms through till autumn.
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Lathyrus odoratus 'Matucana'
Grandflora Sweet Pea. 1907€2.45'Matucana' was first introduced into this country from Sicily in 1699, this delightful heirloom dates back at least three centuries, highly valued for its wonderfully strong, sweet scent as well as its brilliant bicoloured blooms of richest purple and violet . -
Lathyrus odoratus, 'Mammoth Crimson'
Early Multiflora Gigantea Sweet Pea€2.25Out of stock
Mammoth Sweet Peas belongs to a type of sweet pea called an 'Early Multiflora Gigantea'. Marked by the longest stems, and large fragrant blooms, they are very popular with commercial cut flower growers. 'Mammoth Crimson' produce large crimson-red flowers that are borne on beautifully long stems.
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Lathyrus odoratus, 'Mammoth Mix'
Early Multiflora Gigantea Sweet Pea€2.25Extra early, extra large blooms are the feature of this award winning sweet pea, an excellent choice for early spring colour and the best strain for producing early cut flowers. If you have never seen this kind of sweet pea on long stems before, and don’t quite understand what all the fuss is all about…they are marvellous …guaranteed to make you fall completely in love with them.
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Lathyrus odoratus, 'Mammoth Salmon Cream'
Early Multiflora Gigantea Sweet Pea€2.25Mammoth Sweet Peas belongs to a type of sweet pea called an 'Early Multiflora Gigantea'. Marked by the longest stems, and large fragrant blooms, they are very popular with commercial cut flower growers. 'Mammoth Salmon Cream' produce large flowers that are borne on beautifully long stems.
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Lathyrus odoratus, Grandiflora 'Heirloom Mix'
Grandflora Sweet Pea. 1600 to 1800'sStarting at: €1.95
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The Heirloom Mixture is a wonderful mixture of the Heirloom Grandiflora Sweet Peas. Representing most of the colours of this type and containing varieties that date back to the 16th century. Fabulous flowers in great colours that grow on vigorous plants, each have an intense full bodied perfume.
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Lathyrus odoratus, Grandiflora 'Painted Lady'
Grandflora Sweet Pea. 1730€2.25The original ‘Painted Lady’ sweet pea arose as a sport from 'Cupani' in about 1730. It was the very first named sweet pea cultivar. Recently reselected, this modern form produces larger, more numerous flowers and retains the distinctive colour combination of lotus-pink and white petals with a rich, old-time sweet scent.