Introduced for the 2016 season, Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Xanthos’ is causing rather a stir in horticultural circles. Unique soft-yellow blooms are produced in profusion on compact dwarf plants.
Salvia farinacea ‘Fairy Queen’ is an attractive new variety that bears multiple spikes of bicolour blue and white flowers on dark distinctive flower stems from June to October. With a bushy, compact habit and thick stems. A small white spot on each sapphire blue flower creates the illusion of fairy dust.
Agastache ‘Arcado Pink’ is a magnificent first year flowering perennial. An extremely floriferous variety with lovely purple-pink flower spikes and fresh green aromatic foliage. This Fleuroselect Novelty Award Winner is both vibrant in colour and stamina. The aromatic leaves are edible, young growth can be sprinkled in salads, used to decorate cakes, to make a tea or floated in drinks. Agastache added to your Pimms lifts it to a higher sphere altogether.
‘Astello Indigo’ is the most exciting breakthrough in Agastache yet. Awarded Europe’s coveted Fleuroselect Gold Medal, it is ideal for Northern European-type climates, they are at their best in more temperate conditions.
Antirrhinum majus ‘Lucky Lips’ has been awarded the Fleuroselect Award. The judges were impressed by its height and compact plant habit. Blooming with distinctive contrasting bicolour purple-red and white flowers, a colour way that is often referred to as a ‘silver bi-colour’, it is ideal for adding height to borders or for cutting.
A unique new colour in Calendula, ‘Double Lemon’ is an award winning variety that produces large double, pale lemon blooms, each with a deep yellow heart. Compact, bushy and free flowering. it is an excellent variety for borders and containers.
Softly vibrant, feathery plumes that start pale pink and gradually mature to silver add an enchanting, subtle beauty to the garden. Whether fresh or dried, the tall spires of Celosia, ‘Xantippe’ provide charm and an airy, wispy aesthetic to the vase.
Cornflowers are the most splendid of annuals. Centaurea cyanus ‘Classic Fantastic’ blooms in a mixture of captivating blue shades, ranging from light heavenly blue to dark blue. The flowers are often in two shades of blue or have a dark center and lighter petals. They are breathtaking when they’re grown in dense drifts.
The ‘Classic’ series of Cornflowers offers flower lovers three fabulous shade-mixtures. A harmonious mixture of exceptional shades, ‘Classic Magic’ produces blooms from light mauve with a dark centre to flowers that are close to black with white tip on each petal. For magical borders and bouquets.
‘Classic Romantic’ is a delightful mixture of charming pink and pretty rosy-red shades. The flowers are often in two shades of pink, or have a dark center and lighter petals. Many flowers are rosy-red and have white tips. By sowing this variety you will add some romance to the border, and to summer bouquets.
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, Cosmos ‘Apricotta’ will soon become a firm favourite amongst florists and gardeners. Early to flower the unusual blooms have a magical iridescence and the long stems are perfect for cutting .
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.
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.
Feathery petals burst from the golden centres, adding another flounce to the velvety, red-purple silks and satins of this new cosmos. The fantastic strong colour paired with a very early flowering period and medium-high growth earned ‘Fandango’ a well deserved Fleuroselect award.
‘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.
A unique variety of cosmos with unusual blooms that have a magical iridescence. Magenta, rose and raspberry pinks are overlaid with an apricot- peach undertone. As each flower matures, the colour fades to a warm, antique rose.
Early 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.
Early flowering and fast growing, award winning Digitalis purpurea ‘Dalmatian Peach’ produces towers of swoon-worthy peachy blooms with freckled interiors. A huge bonus is that the series blooms the first year from an early indoor sowing. Sow successionally for continuity of blooms
Early 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. Gaura lindheimeri ‘Sparkle White’ is a stunning hardy perennial. A Winner of the Fleuroselect Gold Medal, this bushy, clump forming variety has a neat, compact habit and produces a flurry of dazzling white, starry blooms on graceful slender stems from early summer right through to autumn.
Dwarf sunflowers for small gardens and containers are always in demand and ‘Lemon Cutie’ looks to have everything we need in a dwarf sunflower. Not only is it dwarf with multiple branches, but you will never have seen such a stunning and unusual semi-double, lemon coloured Sunflower.
Looking a little like a solar eclipse, Helianthus ‘Ring of Fire’ is a dark centred sunflower that blooms with glowing red petals that gradually flare outwards to golden-yellow tips. Pollenless with a branching habit, it is considered one of the best varieties for use as a cut flower.
A new introduction that can be grown for use as a patio plant or as a cut flower. Early blooming and growing to just 100cm 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.
Helipterum ‘Pierrot White’, commonly known as Everlasting Daisy or Paper Daisy, is a stunning annual flower that is prized for its papery white petals. The crisp contrast between the petals and black and golden disk florets gives the flowers a striking appearance, making them a popular choice for both fresh and dried floral arrangements.
Whether planted in borders, scattered in pots, or cut for a vase, Nicotiana ‘Starlight Dancer’ brings a lightness and rhythm to the garden. Always moving, always dancing, it blooms without pause and will flower all summer long when deadheaded regularly. It adds an element of sparkle and movement to arrangements.
A cult favourite of high-end florists who reserve ‘Amazing Grey’ for their finest design work. Sown in spring, by June you will be blessed with goose neck, prickly buds and shortly after, gorgeous pearl greys, pewter and mauve coloured, luminescent blooms.
When it comes to cut flowers, the poppy may be the ‘Internet darling’ of the moment. arranged in mason jars and in hand-tied bouquets, the poppy attracts the hip and stylish with their vintage, casual feel. The pure white colour form has been separated out and is now available to gardeners.
Awarded the Fleuroselect Gold Medal for striking colour, plant habit, and flowering performance, Penstemon barbatus ‘Twizzle Scarlet’ is a first year flowering perennial that will add height and high-impact colour to the border. Giving superb flowering performance from mid to late summer.
Penstemon barbatus ‘Twizzle Coral’ adds a graceful twist to the garden. A first year flowering perennial, that boasts twice the length of flowering stem giving longer, more elegant wands for the vase. Hardy and vigorous the plants bloom over a long period from summer through to autumn.
A first year flowering perennial that boasts half the foliage of older varieties and twice the length of flowering stem, Penstemon ‘Twizzle Purple’ produces trumpet shaped magenta-violet blooms that flutter all along the tall, slender stems.
‘Sugar Stars’ is a fabulous new annual Phlox variety that blooms with a confection of purple-blue and white clustered blooms. One of the most useful of annuals they flower from mid July right through to October. For spectacular display, romantic excess and sweet fragrance, they are without peer.
‘Tip Top, Pink Blush’ is a premium series that provides uniquely coloured flowers that are a great addition to the nasturtium family. Vintage-cream flowers, finely veined with apricot-pink. The subtle palette gives a relaxed, modern look to borders and larger containers alike.
Verbena bonariensis ‘Vanity’ is a new compact cultivar of a perennial favourite. This award-winning variety has an open habit with gorgeous, intense purple-blue clusters atop branching thin, wiry stems. Its garden friendly neat habit makes it sturdier and easier to maintain while you create a pollinator paradise in your garden.
Verbena ‘Obsession Apricot’ is a new pastel colour of this exquisite series. Bred to be earlier to flower, the evenly spread buds open to reveal showy clusters of star-shaped, peach-apricot flowers at from late spring to mid autumn. They bring an extremely fine and delicate texture to any garden composition.
A beautiful pastel mixture of this exquisite series, Verbena ‘Obsession’ plants are compact with a trailing habit of growth they eventually spill over the edges of hanging baskets and containers. This award winning variety is an excellent performer flowering over a long period throughout summer, regardless of the weather.
An exciting new addition to the Zinnia Queeny Series, ‘Lime Orange’ is the most beautiful range of iridescent raspberry, apricot, and smoky peach with a dark cranberry centre. Winner of the Fleuroselect Gold Award – There is no other flower on the market quite like it.
Zinnia ‘Queeny Red Lime’ is a unique zinnia that is coveted for its unusual colouring. From a smoky dark rose to a subtle maroon red crowned with lime green. There is no other flower on the market quite like it.
‘Zinderella Lilac’ produces large flowered blooms, layered thickly with a stunning crown and contrasting dark centres. A favourite of gardeners and florists around the world, they are extremely easy to grow. Sow successively from March to July for flowering until autumn.
Zinnia ‘Zinderella Peach’ is a unique zinnia that produces large flowered apricot-orange blooms with cream and rose detailing and contrasting dark centres. Sown successively from March to July they will be in bloom from summer right through to autumn.