Cut Flowers

Despite it’s recent revival in popularity Cleome 'Rose Queen' is actually an heirloom flower, having been grown in gardens since 1817. A beautiful variety with deep, rose-pink flowers that fade to light pink. The large, open, airy flowers have a strong scent bloom throughout the summer until frosts.

With vivid deep-violet flowers, Cleome 'Violet Queen' provide long lasting, big beautiful swathes of colour that makes a dramatic statement in any garden. The spidery flowers and palm-like leaves are great for adding vertical interest to a perennial border, or use as accent plants in large tubs for an exotic feel.

Coreopsis 'Mayfield Giants’ are one the tallest and most robust of all the Coreopsis cultivars, their dazzling display of large, golden yellow daisy like flowers begins in late spring and continues throughout the summer. Very easily grown, a hardier, more beautiful flower would be difficult to find.

Coreopsis‘Sunray’ is a newcomer to the numerous coreopsis offerings, with double flowers this shorter variety grows to around 45 to 50cm in height. When it comes to all out colour Coreopsis Sunray is hard to beat, they are very easily grown are pest resistant and will flower the first year from an early sowing.

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.

Cosmos ‘Antiquity’ is a completely unique colour of Cosmos in the colours of a beautiful faded tapestry. It is a very dwarf variety, growing to only 15in tall and teeming with 2in flowers. The flowers are rich burgundy on opening and change to an antique bronze-salmon when ageing.

Cosmos Candystripe is a lovely plant and a very unique cosmos, giving attractive large white flowers with a crimson picotee edge. No two blooms are alike; some have splashes and flecks of colour, some have stripes, occasionally, some pure crimson flowers may occur.

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 bipinnatus ‘Cosimo’ is a series of semi-dwarf Cosmos varieties that can be planted together, designed to give maximum impact in the border. 'Cosimo Red-White' blooms with beautiful bicoloured flowers, each striped in purple-red and white.

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.

Cosmos 'Double Click Cranberries' has fabulous eye-catching carmine-red coloured double flowers with some single variations. It is easy to grow and is such a lovely ‘cut and come’ again variety that just flowers and flowers over a long season.

Dwarf cosmos are very easy to grow, quick to flower from seed and thrive even on poor soil. 'Dwarf Early Vega Mix' bloom over an extended period of time in shades of carmine, pink, pink blush and white. Growing to only 60cm tall, they can be grown in beds or even large containers.

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.

When it comes to annuals, probably no plant adds more colour to the garden than Cosmos. Cosmos 'Radiance' produce the classic flowers that everyone adores, but on shorter plants. With glorious deep magenta petals, the plants grow to around 3 to 5 feet tall.

'Rosetta’ is an outstanding new variety of Cosmos that has earned the Fleuroselect Award for colour pattern, flower size and shape. Subtle, delicately striped blooms in romantic shades of blush pink and rose, some with an inner collarette of smaller fluffy petals, over light airy foliage.

Conjure up the colour red, fix it in your mind’s eye, and fast forward to a much warmer, dare I say sizzling time in your life…. and then imagine this colour in a flower. Let me introduce you to Cosmos Rubenza. It is red that combines favourably with other colours. The very same colour as Dorothy’s shoes - the ones that got her back to Kansas.