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.
Lavandula angustifolia, also called Lavender vera is the best Lavender for medicinal and aromatherapy purposes. It is a staple plant for the herb garden, the fragrant flowers have been used in perfumes, poultices and potpourris for centuries. Organic Seed.Fragrant, free flowering and heat and drought tolerant. Lavandula angustifolia ‘Vicenza Blue’ bloom the first year from seed. This especially fine lavender has bold clustered flower spikes of deep lavender-blue from mid July to early September.
‘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.
Nepeta grandiflora is a superb catnip garden performer and one of the best garden plants in this family. ‘Border Ballet’ is a striking new catmint, lusher than true catnip, with dark green leaves. It flowers in shades of blue and pink in perfect harmony. This easy to sow and grow perennial flowers in the first year of sowing.
Nepeta ‘Dark Blue Panther’ is the dark blue flowered variety and sister to ‘Pink Panther’ and the beautiful white ‘Snow’ Panther. This award winning variety starts to flower just 15 weeks after sowing and can be can be grown as an annual or as a flowering perennial.
Nepeta subsessilis ‘Pink Panther’ is a bright pink form of large-flowered Nepeta which is grown from seed and flowers during the first year. It can be grown as an annual or as a flowering perennial. Flowering from June until the end of September, they work well as an informal low hedge or mixed in with other larger plants.
Recognised as having the largest flowers of all the nepetas and only one with white flowers, Nepeta subsessilis ‘Snow Panther’ flowers during the first year and can be grown as an annual or as a flowering perennial. This award winning variety is extremely attractive to bees and butterflies they are also excellent for containers.
Pennyroyal is a cottage garden plant of old. This highly aromatic herb has a strong peppermint scent to its dark green leaves, even more so than other mints.With attractive whorls of lilac-blue flowers, it can be used to carpet a shady corner or make a ‘lawn’ smelling deliciously of peppermint.
Grown for the sweet ambrosial scent of its flowers which are used in flower arrangements, potpourri and perfumery. As a dye plant, Weld produces a yellow that all other yellows are judged by. Alongside Madder, Woad and Chamomile they produce the very best natural dyes for temperate areas.
A fresh twist on a classic, Rosemary ‘Rosy’ keeps all the familiar virtues of this herb garden favourite but dresses them in soft pink. Neatly branching plants carry slender, aromatic leaves and, from early spring, are studded with clouds of small rose-pink flowers that hum with bees and other pollinators.
Artemisia annua, ‘Sweet Annie’ has tall stems with fine bright green, ferny foliage that is sweetly fragrant. This herb has a wide variety of uses but is most often grown for fresh and dried arrangements.
Aromatic French Summer Thyme has more narrow, pointed leaves with a bit of a grey tint. The famed culinary thyme from France, it is higher in essential oil content than other varieties and reputedly the most flavoursome Thyme you can grow with a stronger and sweeter taste.
Orange Scented Thyme is a useful and versatile plant, the leaves are extremely fragrant with a delicious scent of balsam and oranges. An excellent herb, they blend their essence with both savory and sweet dishes to create some memorable flavours.
Valeriana officinalis is a graceful wildflower that is native to Europe and Western Asia. The tall, branched flower stalks are held atop a low mound of foliage, the densely clustered flowers are sweetly scented and usually white with a hint of pink.
English gardeners are very familiar with this plant and consider it essential for a well-structured garden. Verbascum phoeniceum ‘Hybrids Mix’ flower freely, giving a glorious plethora of colours from delicate salmon to rich claret. A true perennial which can flower the first year given an early sowing.
Cultivated in Switzerland in 2004 from the famous ‘Queen Charlotte’, One would think that ‘Reine de Neiges’, or ‘Snow Queen’ would be a white bloomer. The flowers are almost white, a clear crisp ice-blue. Long blooming and upward facing, their fragrance is intense.
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