An exciting addition to the ProCut line ‘White Lite’ produces tall, ivory-petaled flowers with golden centres. This blonde beauty is sophisticated enough for use in wedding flowers and sturdy enough for market bouquets.
Helianthus annuus ‘ProCut White Nite’ is a professional, pollenless cut-flower variety that is used by florists all over the world. The cream petals mature to white and contrast beautifully with the dark brown centre. They are uniform and vigorous in growth even under low temperatures
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.
Helianthus ‘Ruby F1’ has a dark centre is surrounded by a dense array of rich deep ruby-red petals that form large 15cm flowers. Suitable as a bouquet flower, cut the flowers as soon as all the petals unfurl.
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.
Helianthus ‘Starburst Panache’ is hard to beat. Fully double blooms with ultra-fluffy, shaggy golden petals surrounding dark green-brown eyes on long, straight stems. The plants keep sending up new buds for weeks, making them exceptionally productive in the cutting patch.
With most sunflowers, the beauty is in the flower petals, but the multi-layered, green outer calyxes of Helianthus ‘Sunfill Green’ create the show. This fast growing annual source of cut fillers for bouquets produce geometric flower heads for use as bouquet greenery. Sow successionally, mid spring right through to mid summer.
Helianthus ‘Sunfill Purple’ is a novel purple sunflower with sumptuous dark centers and petals tipped with edged hints of purple. These fast-growing sunflowers produce geometric flower heads for use as bouquet greenery. Just 50 days to maturity, sow successionally, mid spring right through to mid summer.
Sunflower ‘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 ‘Italian Green Heart’ produces creamy white flowers with contrasting green centres. A branching variety, the flowers are perfect for fresh, cut flower arrangements – especially if gathered while still in bud.
Helichrysum bracteatum is the most well known and is probably the best of all the everlasting flowers. ‘Swiss Giants Mixed’ is a special selection of large flowered, double strawflowers. Vigorous and gorgeous in the garden, and perfect for drying. Fill your beds with colour, these stunning blossoms need very little to thrive other than light watering and good drainage.
Growing to around 90cm tall, Helichrysum ‘King Size Bright Rose’ are very easy to cultivate, growing well with little or no attention. The flowers bloom non-stop from ten weeks after sowing and will continue to flower until late autumn. Useful for beds and borders and one of the finest subjects for bouquets, and to cap it all, pollinators love them.
Helichrysum ‘King Size Creamy-White’ produce creamy-white, vintage-toned blooms that are one of the finest subjects for bouquets and especially valued for wedding work. Once dried, the papery flowers give an excellent natural colour.
Helichrysum bracteatum is the most well known and is probably the best of all the everlasting flowers. King Sized Formula Mixed is a special selection of large flowered, extra double strawflowers that give a superb array of brilliant colours that are perfect cut or dried.
Helichrysum ‘Frosted Sulphur’ is the colour of fresh buttermilk, with a creamy, opalescent quality. They are very easy to grow from seed, established plants grow well with little or no attention, tolerating heat and drought they will bloom non-stop until frost gets to them in late autumn. And to cap it all, pollinators love them..
Known as an ‘everlasting’ because the flowers will last indefinitely when dried, Helichrysum bracteatum bloom non-stop from ten weeks after sowing and continue until late autumn. The soft lemon double blooms on tall, well-branched plants are useful for beds and borders and one of the finest subjects for bouquets.
Helichrysum bracteatum is the most well known and is probably the best of all the everlasting flowers. King Sized Formula Mixed is a special selection of large flowered, extra double strawflowers that give a superb array of brilliant colours that are perfect cut or dried.
Helichrysum ‘Salmon Rose’ is a lovely mixture of buff, peach and salmon colours. Useful in the garden and one of the finest subjects for bouquets, the papery, double flowers will last indefinitely when dried.
The cut flower grower’s staple. Tall vigorous branching plants, filled with large papery flowers. Helichrysum ‘Silvery Rose’ produce large pearlescent white blooms, frosted with a delicate rose pink colour at the tips. They are reminiscent of vintage mother of pearl.
Helichrysum bracteatum is the most well known and probably the best of all the everlasting flowers. One of the finest subjects for bouquets ‘King Size Silvery-White’ is the cut flower grower’s staple, producing substantial slky-white blooms that are especially valued for wedding work.
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.
Squirrel-Tail Grasses are the ultimate architectural plant, adding see-through effects, autumn colour and winter shapes. They carry silky, golden-greyish panicles in early and mid summer, which develop a reddish or purple tinge at the tips. Fantastic in massed groups, or around taller, more stately plants. .
Hyssop famously attracts bees, hover-flies and butterflies. It makes excellent honey and is a must for any wildflower garden. Some beekeepers rub the hive with it to encourage the bees to keep to their home. In cooking, use the same way you would Rosemary. Organic Seed.Hyssopus officinalis ‘Alba’ is a much less well known variety of hyssop. Also known as ‘White Hyssop’ the plants sport bright white flowers from July to October. Widely used as a ‘taste enhancing’ herb or wildlife plant, the plants are a dark, vibrant green with a spiky, upright habit and narrow tongue-like leaves which have a peppery scent when stroked.
Hyssop is a strong-flavoured aromatic herb which is enjoying a revival with home gardeners. An ideal plant for use in containers or as a low hedge or border within the herb garden. Highly attractive to bees, it makes excellent honey and is a must for any wildflower garden.
Throughout the summer, fragrant pure white tubular flowers of Ipomoea alba, up to 15cm (6in) long open quickly at night, releasing sweet perfume into the evening air. The ideal location for this wonderful vine is near your patio where you can enjoy the fragrant scent at evening.
Ipomoea ‘Kniolas Black’ is one of the darkest of all Ipomoea varieties available, it blooms with the most stunning dark velvety purple-black flowers, each with cerise throats. Very easy to grow, this extremely carefree and free-blooming climber will bloom early and load itself with masses of attractive dark purple-black flowers all summer long.
Woad has been grown for its indigo-blue pigment and for its medicinal properties since the 13th century, recently capturing popular imagination as the blue dye for body paint used by the Celts. This fashionable plant has a fresh wildflower appearance that can brighten any garden.
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.
‘Mammoth Pastel Mix’ also known as ‘Goddess Mix’ is a dreamy grandiflora blend in blush, shell-pink, cream, peach and lavender, all richly scented. Extra-early with extra-large blooms, the vigorous plants carry long, strong stems packed with fragrant flowers. It’s one of the best strains for producing early cut flowers.
‘Mammoth Rose Pink’ produces blooms in a clear, mid rose-pink, fresh and flattering rather than hot or cerise. Buds open a shade deeper, then the petals soften to shell-pink with a faint silvery bloom on the wings. Extra early, extra large blooms and an excellent choice for early spring colour and for producing early cut flowers.
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 Salmon Cream’ produce large crimson-red flowers that are borne on beautifully long stems.
Sweet Pea ‘Lord Nelson’ is an old fashioned variety that received an RHS Award of Merit in 1907. With beautiful, rich dark blue flowers and a powerful scent, it combines magnificently with white or with lighter blue shades.
A striking heirloom variety that creates a big impact, Sweet Pea ‘Miss Willmott’ dates back to 1901 but remains as attractive as ever, in the garden or as a cut flower. Attractive pale orange and salmon pink, unusual bicoloured flowers have a superb fragrance.
Originally bred and introduced by a Mr Viner in 1901, Sweet Pea ‘Nellie Viner’ produces long stemmed blooms that have nicely rounded clear pink flowers and is also blessed with the most superb fragrance and make exceptionally fine cut flowers.
The 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.
Lathyrus odoratus ‘Prima Donna’ is a classic Grandiflora sweet pea introduced by Henry Eckford in 1896, during the golden age of sweet pea breeding. It bears rosy-pink blooms that deepen as they mature, each flower beautifully proportioned and carried two or three to a stem.
An elegant Grandiflora sweet pea prized for its refined blooms, long graceful stems and heady perfume, Lathyrus ‘Sicilian Fuchsia’ shows a vivid cerise standard, flanked by paler pink wings, while the keel quietly remains a gentle, soft pink. The colours create a subtle, layered effect.
A delicate beauty that stands out among the bolder varieties, Lathyrus odoratus ‘Butterfly’ bears pale cream blooms softly flushed and veined with lilac and lavender Superb for cutting and a striking presence in the garden or the vase.
Dr Keith Hammett has bred many incredible new varieties of Sweet Pea. These new ‘Modern Grandiflora’s’ feature larger petal sizes and longer stem lengths. Importantly, the scent has been retained. ‘Moody Blues’ combines three of the most popular varieties. ‘North Shore’ , ‘Cocktail’, and ‘Big Blue’.
A modern grandiflora sweet pea, Lathyrus ‘Philip Miller Fleck’ produces soft rose-red, scented blooms, delicately flecked and streaked with violet, giving each flower a painterly charm. It captures the romance of the old-fashioned sweet peas while offering the vigour and reliability of modern breeding.
Among the most sought after flowers, by florists and flower farmers alike is the dramatic Sweet Pea ‘Nimbus’. A spencer type with big, prolific flowers on long stems, Nimbus wears its stormy dark-blue-violet highlights sprayed against a cream background.
Created from the resurgence of interest in breeding sweet peas for scent, Exceptionally fragrant, with a vintage look, Lathyrus ‘Old Times’ produce elegant and unusually coloured blooms on long stems. Dreamy, cream-colored blooms with lavender-blue blush and veins – this variety is a must grow.
Providing the best of all worlds for the gardener, Spencer Modern sweet peas have exceptional scent, combined with large ruffled petals and long stems. ‘Pulsar’ produces fragrant, ruffled white flowers rippled with delicate lilac stripes and flakes.
Wiltshire Ripple is a unique colour combination in the fashionable ripple pattern of claret to chocolate colouring over white scented blooms. Full-size exhibition, Spencer-type, Sweet Pea. Long strong stems. Ideal for cutting, exhibition and garden decoration.
Created from the resurgence of interest in breeding sweet peas for scent, Spencer Modern sweet peas provide the best of all worlds for the gardener. ‘Zorija Rose’ is a brilliantly bright variety with magenta flowers and excellent fragrance. They make exceptionally fine cut flowers.
Lathyrus odoratus ‘Arthur Hellyer’, produces large undulating flowers in shades of soft lavender, white and light purple. named after the English gardener Arthur Hellyer. Highly fragrant with the classic heady and sweet pea scent, they are absolutely irresistible!
Long-stemmed creamy-white with extra-long, thick stems and a wonderful fragrance, Lathyrus ‘Ice-Cream’ is a romantic addition to the garden and perfect for wedding work. Stunningly beautiful, with the most delicious vanilla ice cream coloured large undulating petals.
Bred by Roger Parsons, ‘Just Julia’ is a modern example of the classic Spencer Sweet Pea. Large, frilled blooms on long, strong stems and distinguished by its glowing pink petals with a lilac undertone. Highly recommended.
Introduced in 1981 in celebration of the wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana, Lathyrus ‘Royal Wedding’ produces wonderfully large, slightly ruffled flowers with four to five blooms to a stem. They are of course perfect for wedding work.
Lepidium sativum, commonly called Persian Cress or Ornamental Cress is a trendy filler green among floral artists and they keep it in regular demand. This easy to grow filler foliage grows upright, sturdy branches decorated with tiny, silvery seed pods by the thousands.
Lunaria annua alba has pure white starry blooms which are almost fluorescent at sunset. Over a long season it produces masses of silvery pods. It is properly grown as a biennial, and makes large, well-branched plants in its second year. Very easy to grow it is also a vital nectar plant.
Shorter than the species, Malva moschata ‘Appleblossom’ grows 45 to 60cm in height. The satiny, single flowers in a lovely soft shade of silver-pink, are textured and striated like crepe, they have a lustrous lacquered quality in sunlight. Wonderfully appealing to bees and other pollinators, they also make a good cut flower.
Considered by many gardeners to be the most desirable of the Malva species, this rare white-flowered form is even lovelier than the normal rose-pink Musk Mallow. Flowering throughout the summer, the pure white, scented flowers contrast beautifully with the ferny foliage.
Night or Evening-scented Stock is one of the easiest and rewarding scented plants to grow. The flowers open in the late afternoon and emit a most delightful fragrance. The scent has been compared to vanilla, rose, spice and even cloves. It will become a summer fragrance you will never want to be without.
Matthiola ‘Starlight Scentsation Mix has been developed to give a balanced blend of soft colours and a reliably strong scent throughout summer. They flower rapidly in a modern, soft pastel blend of lilac, mauve, pink and cream. Perfect for borders and containers, they also make a lovely cut flower.
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