Hardy annual
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Snapdragon – Appleblossom (Organic)
£1.95 Add to basketSnapdragon – Appleblossom (Organic)
A stunning snapdragon variety producing spikes of single petalled blooms in varying hues of pink, peach and white. This has been a real show stopper and we’ve taken great delight in the variety of delicate colour combinations it produces and its popularity with pollinators. Appleblossom produces abundant long stemmed blooms perfect for cutting or fits delightfully in a cottage garden border.
(Approximate seed count – 500)
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Calendula – Triangle Flashback / Zeolights (Organic)
£2.58 Add to basketCalendula – Triangle Flashback / Zeolights (Organic)
A stunning version of the regular calendula with fully doubled blooms and of peach, gold and bronze petal colour. This calendula variety is a real treasure. Pastel shades of orange, pink and peach are tinged with yellow towards the petal base. The backs of the petals are maroon. A pure joy to look at. We were so excited to have found this strain of calendula, bred by Frank Morton from Wild Garden Seeds in Oregon, USA. The flowers don’t only look good in the garden or as cut flower, they are also edible and can be used for medicinal purposes, too. An abundance of beauty for your garden!
(Approximate seed count – 80)£2.58 -
Drumstick Scabious – Sternkugel (Organic)
£1.95 Add to basketDrumstick Scabious – Sternkugel (Organic)
A unique form of scabious bred for its delicate lantern-like seed heads. Sternkugel is the perfect choice for the dried flower enthusiast, producing beautiful pale blue pincushion flowes turning into decorative seed heads great for adding interest and sculpture to arrangements or bouquets.
(Approximate seed count – 30)£1.95 -
Calendula – Orange (Organic)
Price range: £2.28 through £3.90 Add to basket This product has multiple variants. The options may be chosen on the product pageCalendula – Orange (Organic)
Also known as ‘Pot Marigold’. This is the classic calendula, producing abundant large orange blooms over a long season. We love calendula and would never go a season without it. It is really easy to grow and loved by humans and insects alike. There is something magical about finding bumblebees sleeping in calendula flowers early in the morning. The flowers are edible and make a great addition to salads. The petals have good medicinal properties and can be taken as an infusion in hot water or turned into a powerful tincture. Calendula’s medicinal actions include but are not limited to: anti-inflamatory, astringent, vulnery, and anti-microbial.
(Approximate seed count – 125)
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Sweet Pea – Castlewellan (Organic)
£2.95 Add to basketSweet Pea – Castlewellan (Organic)
A long-stemmed sweet pea variety producing delicate blooms in a peach-blush. Castlewellan’s blooms are sweetly scented and the plants have a long flowering season and a vigorous growing habit. Perfect for cutting with a vase life of up to 5 days.
(Approximate seed count – 15)£2.95 -
Sweet Pea – Painted Lady (Organic)
£1.95 Add to basketSweet Pea – Painted Lady (Organic)
One of the oldest and most popular sweet pea varieties with pink and white flowers and a fragrant scent. Painted Lady is bi-coloured and sweet scenting with delicate pink and creamy white flowers. It is one of the oldest sweet pea varieties and has been grown in England for centuries. It makes a great cut flower and is a delight for every garden.
(Approximate seed count – 30)
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Sweet Pea – Jilly (Organic)
£2.95 Add to basketSweet Pea – Jilly (Organic)
A beautiful and highly productive sweet pea producing an abundance of delicate cream blooms. This is Ronja’s favourite sweet pea of 2023, producing a huge amount of incredible blooms, the performance was incredible and beautiful in its simplicity. The scent of the flowers wafting through the field in July brought a very special feeling to the patch and we were sad to see the blooms go. Luckily they were followed by lots of plump seed pods which we were equally excited about as now we can offer this variety to you!
(Approximate seed count – 23)£2.95 -
Cornflower – Mixed (Organic)
£2.10 Add to basketCornflower – Mixed (Organic)
A stunning mix of pink, blue and white double flowered blooms, ideal for the border and for the cutting garden.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.10 -
Iceland Poppy – Pink Fizz (Organic)
£1.95 Add to basketIceland Poppy – Pink Fizz (Organic)
Eye-catching flowers with gentle fizzing tones of watermelon pink, white and apricot. These beauties are great as cut flowers or for filling borders with sumptous bursts of colour. this is a short lived hardy perennial often grown as a biennial here in the uk, flowering from June- August.
Best sown thinly under vermiculite or sand and watered from below as the seeds are very small, plant out as soon as 2 true leaves have formed, they do not like root disturbance so handle gently.
(Approximate seed count – 250)£1.95 -
Scabiosa – Black Knight (Organic)
£2.45Out of stock. Join the waitlist to be notified when this product becomes available.Scabiosa – Black Knight (Organic)
Dark red almost black velvety blooms on long stems, a favourite in the flower garden.
We were absolutely taken by this elegant flower with dark crimson to burgundy colours, some really going into black with contrasting creamy white stamen. This scabious makes an amazing cut flower and keeps impressing throughout the summer months. Flower heads make way for lovely seed heads with the shape of pin cushions.
Can be used as a dye flower producing over green and blue to purple dyes depending on mordant and modifiers.
(Approximate seed count – 50)
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Lupin – Sunrise (Organic)
£2.25 Add to basketLupin – Sunrise (Organic)
A beautiful and deliciously fragrant lupin producing multicoloured blooms of azure blue, white and yellow. We are really wowed by this variety, and frequently stop just to admire it when we walk past it in the field.
The incredibly cheerfully coloured blooms are borne on strong stems making it ideal for cutting as well in the border.
(Approximate seed count – 25)£2.25 -
Dyer’s Coreopsis (Organic)
£2.40 Add to basketDyer’s Coreopsis (Organic)
No dye garden would be complete without the addition of Coreopsis, otherwise known as Dyer’s Tickseed. With cheerful beautiful blooms of bright yellow and a ruby heart, Coreopsis flowers produce a beautiful warm orange natural dye. It’s also a beautiful addition to the garden border for it’s tall stem length, drought tolerance and long flowering window, producing masses of flowers from midsummer to autumn.
(Approximate seed count – 300)£2.40 -
Ornamental carrot – Dara (Organic)
£2.20Out of stock. Join the waitlist to be notified when this product becomes available.Ornamental carrot – Dara (Organic)
A variety of carrot bred for its white delicate umbels that turn pink once opened. Dara is a staple in any cut flower garden, producing abundant delicate stems that are often ready just as Ammi finishes. They are a fantastic variety for pollinators and attract a wide range of beetles, hover flies and bees. The seed heads are good for drying and it be autumn sown for early blooms in spring.
(Approximate seed count – 150)£2.20 -
Cornflower – Blue (Organic)
£2.10 Add to basketCornflower – Blue (Organic)
Bright shades of blue flowers attractive to bees and other pollinators, great as cut flower as well. A flower that makes every garden happy. Cornflowers produce masses of stunning blue shaded blooms and attract bees and other insects as well. They were once native to European corn fields, but have mostly disappeared from the landscape due to large scale use of herbicides. Today they are mainly fond in gardens and allotments – we grow them in amongst our vegetables.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.10 -
Ammi visnaga – Green Mist (Organic)
£1.75 Add to basketAmmi visnaga – Green Mist (Organic)
Visnaga is a robust version of Ammi, producing dense and delicate white flowers perfect for the cutting garden. Ammi Visnaga is hardy annual that produces an abundance of white frothy Angelica-like flowers with delicate green foliage. It can grow up to 120cm tall and is a fantastic addition to any ornamental garden or as a cut flower for bouquets or arrangements from June – September.
(Approximate seed count – 1000)£1.75 -
Briza Maxima – Greater Quaking Grass (Organic)
£2.20 Add to basketBriza Maxima – Greater Quaking Grass (Organic)
An essential annual grass for cut flower growers, Briza Maxima adds delicate beauty to any arrangement or garden. This variety is also known as Greater Quaking Grass which describe its beautiful heart shaped heads that nod in the breeze and shine as they catch the light. Briza Maxima produces stems from June – August and is also great for drying, turning straw-coloured when dried.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.20
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