Hardy annual
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Briza Maxima – Greater Quaking Grass (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2025***
£2.20 Add to basketBriza Maxima – Greater Quaking Grass (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2025***
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)
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Dyer’s Coreopsis (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2025***
£2.40 Add to basketDyer’s Coreopsis (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2025***
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 -
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 -
Calendula – Ivory Princess (Organic)
£2.50 Add to basketCalendula – Ivory Princess (Organic)
Large double and semi-double creamy-yellow blooms with a contrasting dark centre disk. This is a wonderful new addition to our catalogue for 2024, we have totally fallen in love with this variety. The delicate and contrasting colours make it a superb addition to the garden and it looks wonderful in bouquets.
Its long stem length compared to other calendulas we’ve grown make it particularly suitable as a cut flower.
(Approximate seed count – 100)£2.50 -
Poppy – Angels Choir (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2025***
£2.10 Add to basketPoppy – Angels Choir (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2025***
A delightful poppy with ruffled blooms in a spectrum of soft pastels from white to grey, orange and pink. This variety offers a charming mix of single and double flowers that add a cheerful touch to the garden and vase alike with colours ranging from creamy white and blush pink to smoky lavender and warm orange. With its delicate and fleeting beauty and long flowering period, Angels Choir is a stunning addition to any space. Self-seeds easily and loved by pollinators.
(Approximate seed count – 500)£2.10 -
Ammi majus/ Bishop’s Flower (Organic)
£1.95 Add to basketAmmi majus/ Bishop’s Flower (Organic)
Popular filler for flower arrangements with lacy flower heads.
This tall, branching plant with crisp white flower heads and finely feathered foliage provide invaluable additions to late spring and early summer bouquets. Ammi majus is one of the most useful and productive filler flowers you can grow from seed. Air dry flowers for two to three weeks in a dark, dry place for making dried flowers. Darkness is necessary to keep the flowers white.
(Approximate seed count – 500)
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Cornflower – Black Ball (Organic)
£2.25 Add to basketCornflower – Black Ball (Organic)
A quirky variety producing very dark maroon double blooms. The flowers are so dark they are almost black and have a very dramatic appearance. They make a great cut flower, as well as looking fantastic in the garden. As with all cornflowers, they are edible too.
(Approximate seed count – 130)£2.25 -
Lupin – Sunrise (Organic)
£2.25 Read moreLupin – 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 -
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 -
California poppy – Appleblossom Chiffon (Organic)
£2.30 Add to basketCalifornia poppy – Appleblossom Chiffon (Organic)
A stunning and unique variety producing mainly double flowers of creamy rose and cranberry. This is a new variety for us and we really love it. It’s a real show stopper. It flowers over a very long season, especially if picked or dead-headed. California poppies are drought tolerant so very low maintenance.
If using as a cut flower it acts as both filler and thriller due to its delicate lacy foliage.
(Approximate seed count – 100)£2.30 -
Nigella – African Bride (Organic)
£2.25 Add to basketNigella – African Bride (Organic)
White petals with contrasting dark maroon spidery centres borne on delicate green foliage. We totally love this variety and regularly had to stop and admire it as we walked past it in the field. It’s a really prolific producer of some of the most elegant blooms we have ever grown.
The flowers have a great vase life and develop into striking dark ornamental seed pods after the petals have dropped.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.25 -
Nigella – Miss Jekyll Rose (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2025***
£2.25 Add to basketNigella – Miss Jekyll Rose (Organic) ***NEW FOR 2025***
A popular cut flower that’s long-lasting and great for arranging and drying. Also known as Love in a Mist, these hardy annuals take their name from the lovely delicate tendrils that surround each flower head. This variety has beautiful pink petals and is a great workhorse for the cut flower enthusiast, producing abundant flowers and seed pods great for arranging and drying.
(Approximate seed count – 200)£2.25
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