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Geneva Bugle
Ajuga genevensis is used throughout the world yet this relatively uncommon form is less well known. This very well behaved, evergreen groundcover has deep gentian blue flower spikes and is by far the showiest of the species. It is often the plant of choice for smaller areas or along edges and pathways.
Bugle. Thunder and Lightning,
For most of the year Ajuga is a pleasant, quiet achiever, a very versatile low growing ground cover, with evergreen, rosette-like foliage that hugs the ground like an evergreen carpet but those weeks in spring when the blue flowers appear are simply quite magical.
'Thriller', 'Irish Silk', Lady’s Mantle
The unpretentious lady’s mantle is extremely useful for both its foliage and its flowers. The foliage has the additional virtue of looking especially beautiful after a rain, when it holds water droplets in the pleats of its surface like many pearls of liquid mercury. 
Queen Anne's Lace, (Syn Visnaga daucoides)
Ammi visnaga ‘Green Mist’ is a new variety of Queen Annes Lace, with larger, darker green and more mounded umbels than its cousin Ammi majus. It flowers from June to September the blooms are initially flattened and lime green, turning white. The textured flower heads are a flower arrangers dream.
Queen Anne's Lace, (Syn Visnaga daucoides)
Ammi lends a delicate airiness to any border and is often used to create a cohesive flower bed. It associates well with both annuals and perennials and makes an excellent addition to wildlife gardens, luring bees and butterflies to the nectar rich flowers. Organic Seed.
Florists Dill or Compact Dill
‘Mariska’ is a little known compact variety of Dill often referred to as ‘Florist’s Dill’. With starry bright yellow flower heads and abundant foliage it is an excellent variety for use as a cut flower, yet is still a great variety for the kitchen.
Ideal for naturalistic planting and for cut flowers
The Semi-Tall Flowers Mix is a richly flowering mixture of that produces large quantities of 50cm (20in) tall annual flowers for the border or for cutting. As well as being ornamental, they will provide nectar and pollen for bees, butterflies and other insects from early in the year to late in the season.
Ideal for naturalistic planting and for cut flowers
Composed of a finely balanced selection of annual flowers designed to provide a long succession of flowers from June to September, the Tall Flowers Mix grows 60 to 70cm (24 to 28in) tall and produces large quantities of flowers that are ideal for the border and for the vase.
Greater Quaking Grass
Ornamental Grass Briza maxima has blue green leaves and flower heads that hang like scaly little heart shaped lockets that are tinged with pink from late spring to mid summer. They make a wonderful cut flower and flowering in 10 to 12 weeks from spring sowing, they are very easy to grow to perfection.
Keys of Heaven, Jupiter's Beard. Pretty Betsy
Centranthus ruber is a Cottage garden favourite that’s made it into the style books. Sweetly-perfumed, dense clusters of reddish-pink flowers appear from July to October. They are ideal for attracting bees and butterflies and other pollinating insects into the garden and lovely when used as a cut flower.
Keys of Heaven, Jupiter's Beard.
Centranthus ‘Snow Cloud’ produces airy clusters of white flowers that appear from July to October on tall, fleshy stems with glaucous leaves. Very long flowering, sweetly-perfumed and easy-to-grow from seed, given an early sowing Centranthus will flower from July right through to October.
Snow in Summer
‘Snow in Summer’ lives up to its name in late spring when the foliage is smothered in luminous white flowers. Beautiful used as a path edging, in a stone wall or cascading over containers. Try it amongst your spring bulbs – tall lily flowering tulips above a dense carpet of white Cerastium… Breathtaking!
A Premium Shade variety
Coleus has enjoyed a resurgence in popularity over the past few years. The new breeding has taken a handful of series and exploded them into hundreds of wild and crazy types of colours and forms. Overwhelmingly the favourite is the Kong series for its sheer presence, each leaf is easily as big as your palm, and probably twice as large as the next biggest Coleus you can buy.
A Premium Shade variety
Featuring huge leaves that are coral in the centre and edged in bright green, Coleus ‘Kong Salmon-Pink’ is a ‘Premium Shade’ variety, that are great for large containers and mass plantings, performing best and showing the most intense colour in full shade, they also work well for indoor plant programs. It’s hard to go wrong with this plant.
Painted Nettle. Flame Nettle
This wonderful Victorian type coleus ‘Black Dragon’ forms a riot of rumpled leaves in velvety purplish black leaves, each bordered by frilly edges. The ruby red centres are sometimes flecked with violet or pink. Easy to grow from seed, they will show their first colours in as little as two weeks.
Painted Nettle. Flame Nettle
Coleus have been perfected, the new varieties have colours that intensify in sun, but can also thrive in shade. “Coral Sunrise” is an excellent example of the new developments, The beautiful coral pink heart-shaped leaves have neatly serrated edges, with shades of olive and intense bright green margins.
Painted Nettle. Flame Nettle
Ten years back coleus were gaudy relics from Grandmother’s generation, but now coleus are back and teetering on the cutting edge. “Wizard Sunset” is one of the softer colours from the Wizard series, with heart-shaped leaves in beautiful shades of bronze – apricot. Excellent in full sun.
Cardoon
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.
Umbrella Plant
Cyperus alternifolius is a very popular both as a house plant and pond plant. The bracts are symmetrically arranged in an umbrella formation and held atop elegant stems that sway with the breeze, giving a tropical touch to the garden. They are also excellent when used in fresh or dried floral arrangements.
Tufted Hairgrass
Deschampsia cespitosa is a lovely variety of ornamental grass especially valued for it’s tall flower plumes. The sprays of airy delicate flowers, eventually changing to bronze add texture and colour to the winter garden and deliver a knock-out punch to cut-flower arrangements.
Marketed as 'Lacy Blue'
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.
Marketed as 'Lacy Mix'
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.
Globe Thistle
One of my favourites for the back row. The rounded, violet-blue flower heads on silvery, branched, leafy stems are actually much softer than they look. An unusual colour and structure, so a great conversation piece and an excellent dried flower.
Alpine Sea Holly, Queen of the Alps
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.
Seaside Eryngo, Sea Holly.
Ancient Crop. Wildflower of Britain and Ireland
Eryngium maritimum is an evergreen perennial plant native to Europe. Often found on sea shores, it is a protected species in many parts of the world. Highly ornamental, it is grown in gardens for its metallic bluish flowers and intensely whitish-glaucous leaves, it is very attractive to bees and butterflies.
Mediterranean Spurge
One of the grandest of plants, Euphorbia characias ‘Wulfenii’ has upright stems clothed with whorls of fleshy, mat grey-green leaves that lend the whole plant a textural quality that is unparalleled. From March to June the plants are topped with intense chartreuse-green flowers’.
Myrtle Spurge
Euphorbia myrsinites is a charming plant, a prostrate-growing evergreen with trailing stems that are clad in spiraling grey-blue leaves. An easy, tough, tidy groundcover and one of the most useful and highly ornamentally plants to grow in the garden. 
Cushion spurge, Many-coloured spurge.
Euphorbias give us some of the best early spring herbaceous colour, but Euphorbia polychroma has the most impact. This compact variety grows to only 50cm with a great mound of yellow-green flowers in spring and echoes the daffodils. 
Herb Fennel, Bronze Fennel.
Used in many culinary dishes, the leaves and seeds of Fennel have a sweet aroma and an aniseed flavour. The fine clouds of feathery, bronze-purple leaves are wonderful in the herb garden or among tall perennials and grasses. The foliage acts as a delicate veil through which flower heads of plants can be seen.
Mixture of species and cultivars
Hardy geraniums are undoubtedly one of the most popular groups of plants. Today’s hybrids are the modern flag bearers, they are beautiful, reliable and endlessly various produces jewel-tone, saucer-shape flowers for months at a time. Exceptionally good value this mix always contain a few real rarities.
Dusky Cranesbill, Mourning Widow
Hardy Geranium
Geranium phaeum ‘Samobor’ has considerable charm, with luxurious, deep maroon-black flowers which are held high on upright slender stems in late spring to early summer. This beautiful and useful hardy geranium is loved for its amazing deeply scalloped foliage with beautiful dark markings
Hardy Geranium.
‘Dark Reiter’, is a fairly new cultivar originating from ‘Victor Reiter’ whose namesake was the legendary California nurseryman. What sets this plant apart is the new leaves that emerge a light maroon colour then fade to a purple-flushed deep green, it produces violet-blue flowers in spring.
Corfu Lily or Funkia
Hosta are grown predominantly for their outstanding foliage, from leaves as small as a teaspoon up to those larger than a dinner plate, colours range from deep blues to silvers, darkest shiny greens to bright yellows, from a single solid hue to the myriad of variegations the choice is almost overwhelming.
Bowles Golden Grass
Milium effusum Aureum has a magical quality, bringing incandescent light to the shady places it prefers. As the season progresses tiny golden, bead-like flowers on hair-thin stems arch gracefully creating fountains of gold.
Fountain Grass
Pennisetum alopecuroides is an especially appealing species, it changes its appearance and colour throughout the growing season. In late summer graceful fountain-like plumes emerge in profusion, they slowly change colour to a blend of green, soft pinks and light-colored maroons before maturing to light tan.
Black Flowered or Dwarf Purple Fountain Grass
Pennisetum alopecuroides is one of the easiest and most visually stunning grasses you can grow. Fountain-like smoky purple-black plumes contrast nicely with the slender arching, glossy, deep green foliage.
Chinese Fountain Grass
Pennisetum villosum is one of the easiest and most visually stunning grasses to grow. Brilliant white, rabbit-tail spikes are produced in abundance from bushy, clump-forming plants.
Lavender Cotton
Santolina, commonly known as Lavender Cotton is a small shrub with soft, woolly, finely divided foliage, that make neat, rounded bushes. They are valuable for mass planting, ideal for knot gardens and small hedging around herb gardens etc. It will stand any amount of clipping and shaping – a perfect plant for control freaks.
Lambs' ears, Woolly Betony
Also known as Stachys lanata, or olympica
What can I say? Its a plant you can pet!…Bees love it…children love it….and you just have to stoke it on the way past! Lambs’ ears is a well-known ground-covering perennial, popular for its soft, fluffy foliage, plus, it’s a great silver accent in between all the green going on in the garden.
Golden Oats
Stipa gigantea is the most dramatically beautiful of all grasses. It has the wonderful and fashionably transparent quality of providing height without bulk, tall stems of golden oat-like flowers allow glimpses into the garden beyond.
Ideal for beds and borders and for cut flowers
As they say, white goes with everything and among theme gardens, the white garden may be the most popular. The White Garden Flower Mix gives a selection of spectacular, bright white annual flowers. Calm, soft and serene this beautiful mix will carry borders into early winter with panache.
Queen Anne's Lace, Bishop's Flower
Ammi majus is tall, branching flower, with finely divided, feathery foliage. In summer, it bears an abundance of large round blooms made up of clusters of tiny white florets on tall, branched, slender stems. The delicate clusters add beauty and depth to bouquets and meadows alike.
Louisiana sage
Prized for its beautiful foliage, Artemisia ludoviciana bear soft, silvery-white leaves. They add a different element to the garden, the texture and leaf form setting them apart from those other garden plants with rather less refined foliage.
Also known as 'Boughton Silver'
Artemisia stelleriana ‘Mori’s Strain’ is a superior, dense, mat-forming selection. Uniquely shaped silver-white felted leaves with deeply divided, rounded lobes, it forms very attractive low mounds, giving an attractive ground-hugging carpet. Its foliage makes a wonderful foil for more colourful flowering plants.
Long leaved hares ear.
Bupleurum ‘Bronze Beauty’ produces small ochre flowers, each surrounded by showy, petal-like bracts, which mature into warm cinnamon-bronze tones that are particularly valued in naturalistic planting schemes.
Round-leaved Hare's Ear
Developed for the florist trade and recently introduced, ‘Green Gold’ produces wonderfully upright plants. Its flowers are produced on long, sturdy stems that have an exceptionally long vase life, lasting up to 10 days in a vase.
A Premium Sun variety
‘Chocolate Covered Cherry’ is one of the prettiest introductions of the series. Velvety leaves painted in a rich cocoa-brown, flushed with glowing cherry red, and trimmed with a bright green margin that sets the whole plant alight.
A Premium Sun variety
Coleus ‘Coral Candy’ features a new plant form – narrow, serrated leaves that gracefully drape down the mounded plants. The first seed coleus to ever win the coveted AAS Winner designation. The Judges noted that this beautiful variety holds its colour well, even when grown in full sun and holds up nicely in the autumn.
Variable-Leaved Sea Holly, Moroccan Sea Holly
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.
Button Sea Holly, Rattlesnake Master
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.
Tasmanian Blue, Florists Eucalyptus
Popularised by social media influencers Eucalyptus cinerea is one of the most desirable floristic materials. The blue-grey, round leaves have remarkable durability in the vase. Add a few stems to your shower and indulge in its powerful aromatic therapy. Relax, recharge, and reinvigorate.
Syn: Corymbia citrodora
Eucalyptus citriodora is a beautiful, fast growing species with sword shaped leaves that have an amazing citrus fragrance when crushed. the essential oils mainly consist of 80-90% citronella – at outdoor events a lush garland helps keep insects at bay.
Cider Gum, Gum Tree
Eucalyptus gunnii ‘Silver Drop’ is a wonderful fragrant foliage in high demand in the cut flower trade. Bred especially to provide small round, blue-green leaves that are better for fine floral work. Use it as filler in mixed bouquets where they add interesting colour, texture and aroma.
Syn: E parvi or E. parvula, Aka Kybean Gum
Eucalyptus parvifolia is an extremely versatile variety that makes a wonderful bouquet addition. It can be grown as an annual from seed if started early, each shrub-sized plant produces loads of stems that are perfect for flower arranging and can also be dried for later use.
Silver-leaved Mountain Gum, Florists Eucalyptus
Eucalyptus parvifolia is an extremely versatile variety that makes a wonderful bouquet addition. It can be grown as an annual from seed if started early, each shrub-sized plant produces loads of stems that are perfect for flower arranging and can also be dried for later use.
Italian Helichrysum, The Curry Plant
Helichrysum italicum is an easy to care for silver-leaved, perennial. In addition to its lovely light silveriness the foliage is endowed with interesting textures which provides contrast among green-leafed plants and the clusters of yellow flowers are useful for cutting. €2.55
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