A beautiful variety of Nigella that, in summer, produces a mass of deep blue flowers borne over the finely cut green foliage. The flower heads are followed by attractive seed pods which can be dried for winter decorations. Excellent for cut flowers and a favourite for scattering wherever there’s a gap in the flower border. ... Learn More

The classic cottage garden annual. Persian Jewels is a lovely jumble of semi-double flowers in varying shades of blue, pink and white borne over the finely cut green foliage. The flower heads are followed by attractive seed pods which can be dried for winter decorations. Excellent for cut flowers and a favourite for scattering wherever there’s a gap in the flower border. ... Learn More

A very popular cottage garden plant with variably splashed and mottled silver-grey and blue petals, which form a disc-like base for the prominent plum-purple stamens. This beautiful, delicate looking flower is ideal for cutting and arranging either fresh or dried. And as the flowers fade they are replaced with fascinating seed heads which look amazing in floral arrangements. ... Learn More

An unusual but useful alternative to Petunias. A spreading succulent plant, its bright, sky-blue trumpets with a creamy yellow throat appear in profusion all summer, studding the top of the bushy, creeping stems. Long blooming and low maintenance, it’s easy to grow from seed and is tolerant of drought. It’s perfect for using for ground cover, to edge paths and in hanging baskets. Prefers well-drained soil in full sun. Deadhead spent blooms to prolong flowering. ... Learn More

The first year sees an unimpressive little green cushion which miraculously grows bigger and bigger all autumn. In late winter hundreds of buds swell, on prostrate, extending, radiating stems heralding a long early spring display of countless primrose yellow blossoms when very little else is yet in flower. ... Learn More

Strong spikes of large, flared, china-blue, outwards-facing bells arise on this choice, early summer-flowering lily-relative. It can make an impressive clump in a well-drained bed, and is especially suited to life in a large container which, in two or three years, it will fill with bulbs. ... Learn More

Another rare and unusual lily relative. Strong stems support beautifully flared creamy white flowers in spring and early summer. Will bulk up steadily in a raised bed with plenty of humus incorporated. ... Learn More

If you are looking for what is most likely the widest ranging, and most exclusive random mixture, of annual, perennial and biennial, herbaceous and evergreen flowers of all heights widths, colours and growing habits that we managed to completely forget the exact name of when collecting, then this is the mixture for you! But do not worry, we know they are not giant trees, vegetables or exotics from much warmer places! The only thing we can guarantee is a generous scoop of seeds to sow in trays or sprinkle directly onto the garden if you're feeling more adventurous. ... Learn More

Whilst being no relation to the true primrose, this is the original "Evening Primrose" beloved by gardeners and herbalists alike. Furthermore the epithet 'biennis' is not necessarily strictly true, this plant often behaves as a perennial, producing large, floppy, gently-perfumed, primrose yellow flowers on robust stems, until the late autumn. A final contrariness: the flowers actually do open during the day! ... Learn More

Large, floppy, delicately-perfumed yellow flowers with prominent, pollen covered anthers, adorn this strong-growing 'evening primrose'. Self-seeds gently where it is happy. ... Learn More

This new and lovely dwarf plant with the same cushion-forming habit as aubrieta, produces an extremely long succession of yellow-rimmed, red-eyed flowers all season long on prostrate stems. ... Learn More

One of the finest "Evening Primroses" this makes a compact, herbaceous perennial with deep bronze, lance-shaped leaves. Over a long period in summer, it bears sizeable, yellow, bowl-shaped flowers that open from reddish buds. In the daytime too! ... Learn More

Numerous, very large (three inch), fragrant yellow blooms ageing to orange over a long period in summer. Furthermore, this "Evening Primrose" produces flowers, contrarily, in the day time! ... Learn More

From the foothills of the Chilean and Argentinian Andes comes this showy, night-flowering plant with large, perfumed, luminous yellow flowers on extremely long-tubed seed pods. With constantly dividing stems clad in unusual silvery-haired leaves, it soon grows into a quite compact dome, an unusual habit for an oenothera. ... Learn More

A valuable mixture of all of the taller "Evening Primroses" (oenotheras) we grow here: pinks, oranges and yellows. Colour all summer long. ... Learn More