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.
‘Fizzy Purple’ brings something genuinely unusual to the cosmos family, a rich, deep purple that is rarely seen in the species. The semi-double flowers carry an extra inner ruff of shorter petals at the centre.
One of the most striking introductions to the Fizzy cosmos series, ‘Fizzy Rose Picotee’ takes the classic cosmos flower and adds a second layer of charm. The semi-double blooms open white to soft blush, with petal edges painted in a deep raspberry-red
Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Purity’ is the definitive white cosmos. Large, graceful, saucer-shaped blooms float over a haze of mid-green feathery foliage, Rising to a graceful 90 to 120cm they flower in fourteen weeks with wave after wave of clear white blooms. An excellent no fuss annual that is very easy to grow and thrives on minimal care.
‘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.
Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Velouette’ is an exceptional new variety with unique dark red blooms, the same sizzling dark red as Rubenza. Semi-dwarf, early flowering and uniform, they give a wonderful effect when planted in combination. They will start to bloom in as little as 70 days from sowing, going on to offer to six months of colour from May to October.
A totally new cosmos that has been causing rather a stir in horticultural circles, the unique soft-yellow blooms are produced in profusion on compact dwarf plants. Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Xanthos’ was immediately granted one of the most prestigious horticultural awards, a Fleuroselect Gold Medal.
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.
Whether you are into the culinary arts or edible landscapes, you may want to put this plant at the top of your list. Chosen by the RHS as one of the top plants of the last 200 years, Cardoons are aristocrats in both the ornamental and the vegetable world.Daucus carota ‘Dara’ is a large flowered chocolate coloured Queen Anne’s Lace, with delicate, lacy, flat-topped clusters that bloom for most of the summer from just one planting, they pair well with almost anything in the garden or the vase.
Daucus carota ‘Purple Kisses’ is a striking ornamental carrot variety featuring delicate, lacy white flowers tinged with soft purple hues. The are spectacular when used in mixed bouquets or simply arranged in a great cloud of their own. The lacy umbels come in a range of sizes and shades and bloom for most of the summer from just one planting.
Queen Anne’s Lace has up to a thousand tiny white flowers are produced in delicate, lacy, flat-topped, two- to four-inch clusters, sometimes with a solitary dark, purple flower in the centre. It is at home in informal settings and is a natural addition to a wildflower meadow. Organic Seed.No other blue quite measures up to the almost iridescent hues of Delphinium “Cliveden Beauty”. The multi-branching plants grow to just 75 to 90cm tall so are suitable for most gardens and do not need staking in most situations. The many individual blooms are clear light blue, each with a white centre.
Didiscus caerulea is known as the Blue Lace Flower for its unusual colour. The delicate lavender-blue flowers, each composed of tiny, star-shaped, sweetly fragrant flowers are perfect for the cutting garden.
Recent developments of Didiscus caerulea have broadened the colour range. Didiscus ‘Lacy Mix’ produce the same lacy umbel shaped domes and finely cut foliage. In a pastel blend of powder-blue, lavender, soft pink and white, the plants branch freely, filling borders with a light, floaty feel and masses of stems for cutting.
Fullers Teasel a sub-species of the common teasel. The bristly flower heads were cultivated, matured and dried. Inserted into wooden frames, they were used to bulk up the pile on woolen cloth. The variant name ‘fullonum’ refers to the name of the trade of the ‘fullers’ to raise the nap on woolen cloth – to ‘tease’ it. Teasel is still used today by some who weave wool by hand.
Native to the central and south-eastern parts of the United States, Echinacea angustifolia is valued as a short-term stimulant to the immune system. This classic purple flower is easy to grow and continues to be a favorite in home and public gardens, a ‘tried and true’ classic sure to please any home gardener.
A complete innovation, Echinacea ‘Cheyenne Spirit’ is the latest Gold Medal Winner. Not limited to one colour, each plant can bloom in a sumptuous range of colour, gold, orange, scarlet, purple, cream and yellow. First year flowering and a must have for borders.
Echinacea ‘Paradiso’ is an outstanding series, distinguished by the exceptionally large flowers in a large range of shades including some lovely, soft hues. Very easy to grow, the plants thrive in average soils or hot, dry conditions, shrug off cold, and are equally at home in full sun or partial shade.
Echinacea ‘Magnus’ is an outstanding selection of the ‘Cone Flower’. Distinguished by the warm bright colour of its exceptionally large flowers, and horizontal petals. It has for many years been one of late summer’s most garden worthy forms. Echinacea pallida is one of the more rare members of the Echinacea family. They have much longer, ray flowers than those of the more familiar purple coneflower, the plants bloom earlier and continue to bloom sporadically through the autumn months.
Echinacea paradoxa is a true paradox – a rare and highly unusual yellow variety of the much loved “Purple Coneflower”. With large, yellow ray flowers and the classical raised cone, the blooms are slightly fragrant and make excellent cut flowers. Echinacea paradoxa is a beautiful, elegant and easy plant to grow.
Echinacea is a perennial herb, the purple flower is in the form of a high cone. Valued as a short-term stimulant to the immune system. Until the late 1930s, Echinacea angustifolia was the only species used in medical practice. Organic Seed. Echium vulgare is a valuable native plant and is exotic enough to earn a place in a flower border. The plant is much loved by almost all bee species. If you don’t want plants that honeybees simply visit, but want to select plants that honeybees clearly love, choose Echium for your garden.
Viper’s bugloss is one of, if not THE very best plant to attract bees to your garden. Along with Borage and Phacelia, the plant is much loved by almost all bee species, especially bumblebees. For months this plant is a stable source of nectar. Organic Seed.This fabulous range of Edible Flowers and Herbs give decorative petals and leaves for use as garnishes and flavourings. Some are spicy, and some herbaceous, while others are floral and fragrant, the range is surprising. They will bring a stunning finish to the food and drinks you that you love.
Producing a profusion of daisy like blooms from May right through till November, Erigeron is easy to grow and an amazingly versatile plant, being low-growing, happy in sun or partial shade and thriving in any well-drained soil. Eryngium alpinum Superbum is an elegant species, with metallic stems and large flowers that mature to an intense steel blue/purple in summer and autumn. A fascinating architectural plant for the border.
Eryngium variifolium ‘Miss Marble’ is a spectacular evergreen perennial. The neat mound of basal leaves are attractively marbled with silver veining. In summer upright stems bear silvery-blue flowers, each thimble is surrounded by long, slender bracts which splay outwards, adding to the prickly appearance.
Long sword-shaped leaves, tight set white spheres and ivory-white bracts on smooth stiff stems. Eryngium yuccifolium have a unique structure that make it highly desirable.
Siberian wallflowers are at their best in early to mid-May. With cheerful deep orange blooms, they are very easy to grow and combine well with other plants; indeed wallflowers demand companions and set the mind racing regarding potential planting combinations.
Renowned for its striking, jewel-like hues that stand out even in cooler weather. ‘Sugar Rush Orange’ produce bright orange, spicily scented blooms on compact plants. With multiple side branches that accompany the main flower spike, they create a dense, mounded display perfect for borders, containers, or window boxes.
This old English cottage plant is making a comeback, and no wonder. Blood Red’ is a favourite with gardeners, the astonishing, deep crimson, velvety red flowers they are sure to be a focal point. Ideal for borders and edging, they could also be used in large containers….and of course, walls!
‘Cloth of Gold’ is a favorite with gardeners, each plant wears a cloak of the finest gold and the large golden-yellow flowers are filled with a sweet fragrance, from mid-spring and throughout summer. They are a perfect foil for daffodils and many other spring bulbs.
‘Fair Lady Mixed’ is a classic tried and trusted variety. Reliably hardy, this uniform mixture blooms in a wide range of colours, both pastels and bright colours and includes the more unusual dusky-pink shades. This marvellous; fragrant, floriferous flower is extremely easy to grow and very rewarding.
Erysimum (formerly Cheiranthus) cheiri ‘Fire King’ is another old and tried variety, with striking, flame-like, glowing orange-scarlet flowers. A compact variety with a bushy habit and a rich fragrance, they will supply the household with an abundance of cut flowers for many weeks.
What spring garden would be complete without a bed of delightful, sweet-scented Wallflowers, harbingers of warmer weather to come? Erysimum cheiri, formerly Cheiranthus cheiri ‘Ivory-White’ is a fabulous form. A compact variety with a bushy habit which is ideal as an underplanting to tulips and other spring bulbs.
This is a classic Wallflower mixture, with the super rich colours you’d expect to see in a Persian Carpet (at a fraction of the cost!) purple, gold, orange, rose, cream and apricot. It is not without reason that this bushy variety so impressed the RHS judges.A favourite with gardeners, Erysimum cheiri ‘Scarlet Emperor’ is a classic wallflower with bold, fiery blooms in shades of rich scarlet and glowing crimson. Strongly scented, the flowers carry the sweet, spicy perfume that wallflowers are famed for.
This is a lovely cultivar of the California poppy, the blooms of ‘Ivory Castle’ boasts single, creamy white blooms. One of the easiest and most colourful annuals to grow from seed, they bloom profusely from mid summer until frosts and are breathtaking in massed plantings or containers.
‘Thai Silk’ is a stunning range of California poppies of superb quality with silky flowers. ‘Appleblossom Chiffon’ produces very double flowers in an ethereal shade of shimmering, dappled silvery-pink. Very easy to grow, they are attractive to pollinators and perfect for cutting.
‘Thai Silk’ is a stunning range of California poppies of superb quality with silky flowers. ‘Appleblossom Chiffon’ produces very double flowers in an ethereal shade of shimmering, dappled silvery-pink. Very easy to grow, they are attractive to pollinators and perfect for cutting.
A beautiful and sophisticated variety, Eschscholzia californica Thai Silk produces extra double silky flowers, ‘Pink Champagne’ in a unique shade of soft champagne-pink on a cream base. Very easy to grow, they are attractive to pollinators and perfect for cutting.
Introduced in 2010, Eupatorium ‘Ivory Towers’ is relatively new to our gardens. This architectural plant bears generously clusters of ivory-white blooms which are long-lasting and beloved by butterflies. Given an early sowing, will flower the first year. Crowned with large panicles of purple flowers, Eupatorium atropurpureum fall into the ‘naturalistic’ category. They share the physical characteristics of native species, albeit transplanted to another country.
Evening Primrose is a classic plant, with its beautiful yellow flowers is a feast for the eyes as well as the belly. The whole plant is edible: the leaves can be cooked as greens, and the nutty-flavoured roots can be boiled and eaten like parsnips. The flowers make a lovely salad garnish.Galega officinalis is an ancient ornamental plant that produces a delightful natural effect in the garden. The plants errupt in spring to produce countless sprays of fragrant lavender-blue flower spikes.
Gaura ‘Cool Breeze’ is a stunning new variety that is now available from seed. It produces a flurry of dazzling pure white, starry blooms on graceful slender stems. They have pale green stamens and buds instead of the usual pink. A first year flowering perennial, very easy to grow it will bloom in around 14 weeks from an early sowing.
Gaura ‘Emmeline Pink Bouquet’ is a graceful perennial with an airy, romantic presence. Light on her feet, she never asks for much – just sun, well-drained soil, and a bit of space to dance.
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.
In the last decade, Gaura ‘The Bride’ has skyrocketed to popularity among gardeners.A graceful, hazy plant with airy spikes of white, star-shaped flowers with long anthers like daddy long-legs, held on slender stems from May to September. RHS AGMIf there’s one plant that can inject a little razzle-dazzle into the border during gloomy late summers it is Helenium. From late July ‘Helena’ blooms with masses of vibrant blooms. Very hardy and easy to grow, all this plant needs is sunshine and well-drained soil.
Helenium hoopesii is considered by some to be the most valuable of the species. It blooms with bright golden yellow disk florets that each form a kind of rounded knob that transforms the flower from your typical two-dimensional daisy into something much more interesting and sculptural.
Sunflower ‘Autumn Beauty’ produces numerous long-stemmed flowers from summer to late autumn in a variety of solid and bi-colour bright warm colours – golden yellow, bronze, brown and burgundy. The long stems are excellent for cut flowers and look absolutely stunning in a vase on their own.
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