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No. of Varieties: 302
Spencer Modern Sweet Pea, 1983

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.

Spencer Modern Sweet Pea, 2000

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.

Spencer Traditional Sweet Pea, 1942

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!

Spencer Traditional Sweet Pea, 1959

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.

Roger Parsons, Modern Introduction, 2011

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.

Spencer Traditional Sweet Pea, 1981

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.

Column or Traditional Tall Stocks

Full, lush, double blooms, with a velvety texture are dressed in a dusky, old-world rose hue. Matthiola ‘Mathilda Antique Rose’ can be sown early in spring to give a summer flowering display or if treated as biennials, the flowers will be ready for Valentine’s Day.

Column or Traditional Tall Stocks

Florists’ bouquets often include stocks. They enchant us with the soft colours of the double flowers and with their intensely sweet scent. The Miracle series is specifically cultivated for cutting. With extremely large flower heads and upright strong stems, they do not branch but grow neatly to about 70cm tall.

Evening Scented Stock, Perfume Plant

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.

Evening Scented Stock, Perfume Plant

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.

Bells of Ireland, Shell Flower

‘Bells of Ireland’ are flowers to please anyone who loves flower arranging. Cut fresh, the bells will last for years and they are very useful for winter arrangements but they also look good in flower borders and with the recent fashion for green blooms are becoming more sought after.

Price range: €2.10 through €9.95

Jasmine Tobacco, Flowering Tobacco

Nicotiana alata ‘Mojito’ is an elegant half‑hardy annual known for its striking chartreuse‑lime green flowers which fit into to a great variety of planting schemes. Its upright habit lends height and structure and it performs well as a cut flower thanks to its tall stems which hold their shape in arrangements.

Jasmine Tobacco, Flowering Tobacco
Nicotiana affinis var. grandiflora

Nicotiana alata ‘Lime Green’ is a sought after variety which produces a mass of bright green flowers which open fully in the afternoon. It provides a new and refreshing alternative to the usual shade annuals: the unusual colouring lifts the summer border and act as a foil to hotter colours.

Langsdorff's tobacco

Nicotiana ‘Bronze Queen’ is a striking annual grown for its unique, bronze-toned flowers. It features star-shaped, tubular blooms in warm shades of coppery bronze that give an airy ethereal presence to the garden.

Langsdorff's tobacco

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.

Love in a Mist

‘Love-in-a-Mist’ as it is commonly known is both beautiful and easy to grow, “Miss Jekyll” bears rich indigo-blue flowers which seem to float amongst the finely cut leaves. It is one of the most interesting shaped flowers you will ever see. They provide a charming show of bloom during the summer months.Once the petals drop, the blossoms transform into little fairy lanterns

Love in a Mist

Nigella ‘Moody Blues’ is ridiculously easy to grow. Sown directly, they will be flowering in just three months and bloom through to October. In cool summer climates, additional sowings can be done every 3 to 4 weeks until mid-summer.

Love in a Mist

‘Albion Black Pod’ is much less common than the usual Nigella varieties, It bears delicate romantic white flowers with intriguing little green stamens that are surrounded by ferny foliage. At the end of the season, the petals drop and the blossoms transform into dark plum fairy lanterns.

Love in a Mist

‘Albion Green Pod’ is an unusual species of Nigella. The flowers are followed by fresh green, very ornamental seed capsules, are held on stiff stems. They dry readily and easily, are very decorative and very useful for fresh and dried bouquets. They can also be dried for winter decorations indoors.

Yellow Fennel Flower, Love in a Mist

An unusual twist on the classic cottage garden flower, Nigella ‘Transformer’ adds intriguing texture with its uniquely shaped flowers and upright, seed pods. A good choice for borders, mass plantings or cut flowers. Used fresh or dried the seed pods are a great filler in bouquets, cut flower production is just 12 to 16 weeks.

Aka Nigella hispanica, Spanish Love in a Mist

Nigella papillosa ‘African Bride’ is a most attractive variety. Deep rich purple stamens that highlight pure white blooms are followed by intriguing red seed pods. also known as White Love-in-a-Mist or Eclipse, this hardy annual is very easy to grow, rather special as a cut flower, and lovely in summer borders too.

Aka Nigella hispanica, Spanish Love in a Mist

An unusual twist on the classic cottage garden flower, Nigella ‘Transformer’ adds intriguing texture with its uniquely shaped flowers and upright, seed pods. A good choice for borders, mass plantings or cut flowers. Used fresh or dried the seed pods are a great filler in bouquets, cut flower production is just 12 to 16 weeks.

Aka Nigella hispanica, Spanish Love in a Mist

Nigella papillosa ‘Midnight’ is a very handsome variety with gorgeous, velvety, dark purple flowers which stand above attractive, lush green feathery foliage. Ornamental, dark purple, spider-like seed pods extend the interest of this border star well into autumn. Sowing to flowering takes just three months.

Argentine Forget-Me-Not
Recently renamed Iberodes linifolia

Omphalodes is a delicate annual that wears its charm lightly. It forms an airy mound of fine, silver-grey foliage. Come late spring, it sends up slender stems topped with small, pure white flowers. They look like forget-me-nots dressed up in white linen.

Minoan Lace or French Meadow Parsley

Orlaya grandiflora ‘White Finch’ is a true flower show star. This outstanding plant displays stunning pure white flowers that form in large, flat-topped clusters which resemble lace-cap hydrangeas. The plants bloom for a remarkably long period and mix easily with others in the garden or bouquet.

Iceland Poppy

Named after ‘Kelmscott Manor’, the country home of the writer, designer and socialist William Morris, Papaver nudicaule ‘Kelmscott Giants’ produce large, luscious, crepe paper-like petals in an array of soft pastel shades.

Antique Flemish Poppy

A range of delicate antique pinks, many with a cream-white base, suffused with rose, pinks and purple hues, beautifully offset by lush, blue-green foliage. Papaver paeoniflorum ‘Antique Shades’ is not a new introduction, but on old, historical variety of the type that were grown in cottage gardens and monasteries several centuries ago.

Peony Poppy, Breadseed Poppy

Perfect for gardeners in pursuit of an easy-to-grow large flowering plant, with thick stalks and broad lettuce like leaves, Papaver ‘Double Cream’ has fascinating, large, fully double, cream flowers with lovely crinkled petals. Sown in early spring, the plants grow quickly and the first flowers appear in early July. One of the easiest ways to add a bit of architecture to your garden.

Peony Poppy, Paeony Flowered Poppy

Papaver paeoniflorum ‘Frosted Salmon’ has fascinating, fully double, coral-salmon blooms with lovely crinkled petals. The edges fade with age, it gives a wonderful effect. An easy-to-grow large flowering plant that is superb in the flower border.

Peony Poppy, Breadseed Poppy

Indescribably elegant, Papaver paeoniflorum ‘Lilac Pompom’ blooms with lush frilled, dark pink-violet, often palm-sized blooms. Perfect for gardeners in pursuit of an easy-to-grow flowering plant, they are showstoppers when they’re in full bloom.

Peony Poppy, Breadseed Poppy

Perfect for gardeners in pursuit of an easy-to-grow large flowering plant, Papaver paeoniflorum ‘Paeony Rose Pink’ produces ultra feminine, large flower heads with lovely crinkled rose-pink petals that look like upturned petticoats. At the end of the season, the seed pods are well-suited for crafts and dried floral arrangements.

Peony Poppy, Breadseed Poppy

Perfect for gardeners in pursuit of an easy-to-grow large flowering plant, Papaver paeoniflorum ‘Paeony Yellow’ produces ultra feminine, large flower heads with lovely crinkled petals that look like upturned petticoats. At the end of the season, the seed pods are well-suited for crafts and dried floral arrangements.

Peony Poppy, Breadseed Poppy

Peony poppies send up thick flower stems that rise as high as five feet and produce five to ten nodding flower heads. Papaver ‘Purple Peony’ has fascinating, fully double, deep violet-purple flowers with lovely crinkled petals. When the flowers do burst, overnight, from their casings, the gardener is treated to some of the most dramatic flowers in the plant kingdom.

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.

Aka 'Sir Cedric Morris'

Offering the finest colours in mauves and smokey tones, Papaver ‘Mother of Pearl’ blooms with single flowers in dove greys, blackberry, lavender and opalescent shadowy tints. They are the easiest thing to establish.

Papaver rhoeas ‘Pandora’ is a strikingly lovely, unique and impressive new variety. A phenomenal combination of shades, from voluptuous deep burgundy red to paler pink-red, broken by silver grey stripes on the lower petals.

Corn Poppy, Flanders Poppy, Field Poppy, Wildflower
With its brilliant scarlet flowers, this native wild flower needs no introduction. Papaver rhoeas offer a profusion of flowers and are a good choice for naturalising in a meadow garden or anywhere for a splash of colour. Organic Seed.
Opium or Breadseed Poppy

Papaver somniferum ‘Hungarian Blue’ is a stunning new deep violet poppy that will bring rich colour and a touch of sophistication to your planting schemes all summer long. A hardy annual that is very easy to grow, plant it outside in drifts where it will cover a large area with its beautiful blooms.

Also marketed as 'After Midnight'

Delight in the mesmerising allure of the Black Poppy. Papaver ‘Midnight’ is an heirloom that boasts large, double blooms in a deep, velvety black hue that adds a touch of drama and elegance to any garden. The deep sumptous colour combines well with many other flowers in the garden or the vase.

Florists Poppy

Grown primarily for its decorative seed pods, Papaver somniferum ‘The Giant’ provides huge blooms in a multitude of colours, each with satiny petals which give way to possibly the largest of all poppy pods. Florists the world over, use the giant pods in floral decorations, either fresh with late summer flowers, or when dried.

Feathered or Fringed Poppy

A profusion of cut petals in burgundy to almost black makes ‘Black Swan’ a must-have flower for cottage gardens. The petals are very deeply pinnately-divided which makes it entirely different from the others, and that is the source of the variant name, laciniatum, from the Latin meaning meaning ‘slashed’ or ‘torn into divisions’.

Feathered or Fringed Poppy

A profusion of cut petals in brilliant crimson-red makes ‘Crimson Feathers’ a must-have flower for cottage gardens. The petals are very deeply pinnately-divided which makes it entirely different from the others, and that is the source of the variant name, laciniatum, from the Latin meaning meaning ‘slashed’ or ‘torn into divisions’.

Feathered or Fringed Poppy

A profusion of cut petals in burgundy to almost black makes ‘Black Swan’ a must-have flower for cottage gardens. The petals are very deeply pinnately-divided which makes it entirely different from the others, and that is the source of the variant name, laciniatum, from the Latin meaning meaning ‘slashed’ or ‘torn into divisions’.

Beardtongue

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.

Beardtongue

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.

Beardtongue

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.

Wildlife, Set-aside, Cover Crop or Green Manure
Listed as one of the top 20 honey-producing flowers for honeybees, Phacelia is rich in both nectar and pollen and attracts bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects to the garden. The flowers have strong stems and also make an excellent cut flower. Organic Seed.
Black-Eyed Susan, Annual Coneflower

Considered by many gardeners as the most complete border flower, when Rudbeckia ‘Cherry Brandy’ was first introduced, it took the plant world by storm. This stunning cultivar is the world’s first red Rudbeckia, it produces a mass of spectacular cherry-coloured blooms all summer long.

Black-Eyed Susan. Coneflower

Rudbeckia hirta ‘Denver Daisy’ has large, golden daisies with chocolate brown centres and marks at the base of each petal. Growing to around 75cm (30in) tall, this lovely variety performs well, is exceptionally heat tolerant and blooms for a long time in summer.

Black-Eyed Susan. Coneflower

Rudbeckia hirta ‘Maya’ is a fabulous variety, bearing beautifully doubled golden daisies with petals so dense they almost look like pincushions. Golden yellow, with a kiss of green in the centre — almost like a Zinnia in appearance. An outstanding cut flower and wonderful in mixed containers.

Black-Eyed Susan, Annual Coneflower

Velvety blooms in subtle shades, pale cappuccino, deep caramel, copper, dusty raspberry and everything in between. Rudbeckia ‘Sahara’ is one of the most spectacular blooms in the late summer border, coming to its peak just as others are starting to fade.

Lavender Blue. Sweet Scabious

Boasting the most desirable of deep blue flowers, Scabiosa ‘Oxford Blue’ is a reselected form that stands out from other varieties. The large, domed, dark centred cushions with contrasting white ‘pins’, bob atop strong stems.

Pin cushion flower

One of the longest-flowering and most glamorous of flowers that you can grow from seed, Scabiosa ‘Summer Fruits’ is a fantastic, fruity blend of delicious colours including raspberry, plum and blackberry. For weekly inclusions in the vase keep the flowers cut to keep the production of flowers right throughout the season.

Sweet Scabious

Scabiosa atropurpurea is one of the longest-flowering and most glamorous of flowers that you can grow from seed. Easy to grow and fast to flower, this invaluable plant will attract many butterflies and bees to the garden and the long, straight stems will supply you with cut flowers throughout the season.

Sweet Scabious

A prodigious bloomer and a tough, hardy garden performer Scabiosa atropurpurea grows quickly and is fast to flower. Rose-pink petals surround a domed, dark centred cushion, this invaluable plant will attract many butterflies and bees to the garden and would look as happy in a wildflower meadow as in a manicured border.

Price range: €2.10 through €9.95