Classic Magic Cornflower produces single, semi-double flowers in attractive purple to almost black shades, and purple and white bi-colours. This stunning flower is ideal for cutting or creating swathes of colour when sown in drifts. Sow in early spring for armfuls of flowers to pick all through the summer. Easily grown, it also makes a most attractive pot plant for the cold greenhouse. ... Learn More

Cornflower Classic Romantic is a delightful mixture of charming shades, ranging from light pink to red on lovely single and double blooms. This variety is an easy to grow and long flowering hardy annual, making it a splendid border plant and also a fine flower for cutting. It is attractive to bees and butterflies so is a beautiful way to invite these insect friends into your garden. It also makes a most attractive pot plant for the cold greenhouse. ... Learn More

This gorgeous Cornflower has large, bright blue flowers and strong tall grey-green stems. It is very hardy and one of the easiest flowers to grow; the masses of colourful flower heads produced will be simply stunning. Brilliant as a cut flower, for drying, for confetti and perfect for bees and butterflies. Sow in spring for summer flowers then sow again in autumn. From an autumn sowing cornflowers produce the largest plants and masses of flowers. ... Learn More

A mixture of colurs of the traditional and easy to grow annual corn flower. ... Learn More

This good-looking new variety of Mountain cornflower has bold, deep burgundy, feathery flowers, with typical scaly brown bracts at the base, and attractive lance-shaped leaves. Over time, it will form large clumps, making a wonderful addition to the wild-flower bed, and is ideal for attracting butterflies and bees. It is native to dry meadows and open woodland throughout Europe and in the UK is sometimes found as a hybrid of Centaurea nigra. ... Learn More

An easily grown, cottage garden favourite. It is a bushy plant with deeply cut leaves and bears lovely large, fluffy, sweet-scented flowers. Wonderful for the border and brilliant for cutting. ... Learn More

Sprays of bright, icing-pink flowers appear in mid summer on thin stems bearing glossy, pale green, ovate to elliptical leaves. This lovely, but too rarely seen British native is a member of the gentian family, living in mountain meadows and on windswept cliff tops where it can make compact clumps of bright colour. ... Learn More

The grey-green waxy leaves and very sweetly-perfumed red flowers, occasionally pink or white with no intermediate shades, combine to perfection, and look best grown en-masse on banks, or when allowed to self-seed in walls and paving. They are very attractive to bees and butterflies and other pollinating insects and will even grow well in shallow soil where virtually nothing else will grow. And additionally, in olden times, and even now, both leaves and roots can be eaten, the leaves either fresh in salads or lightly boiled, the roots boiled in soups! ... Learn More

A large, non-spreading clump-forming plant displays long-stemmed sprays of large creamy yellow "pincushion scabious" flowers over an extended period in the summer. This is an exceptional specimen plant either on its own or at the back of the border. ... Learn More

A very low and slow-growing alpine plant, forming a carpet of fuzzy silver-grey leaves with short stems of starry white flowers, which appear in late spring and early summer. It does best in the rock garden or in a gravel scree or alpine trough garden where it does best in a hanging position. ... Learn More

This rare cerastium from the Greek mountains forms a low mat or carpet of silvery-grey foliage, the white star-shaped flowers appearing in late spring for several weeks. This is NOT the common “Snow in Summer” (Cerastium tomentosum) – which can be invasive. This rarely encountered species, unlike other varieties, is well-behaved and not a rampant spreader. It is excellent for edging, for rock gardens or cascading from rock walls and is easily divided in spring or early autumn if desired. It is extremely drought tolerant once established and evergreen in most regions, and is utterly hardy down ... Learn More

This extremely choice shrub or smallish tree, is clad in pink flowers, which open from tiny winter buds which appear on last year's wood, sometimes on the trunk itself, the branches being totally covered with blossom before the heart-shaped leaves appear. The flowers are displayed over a very long period from spring into early summer. ... Learn More

"Honeywort" or "Wax-Flower", much loved by bees and flowering throughout spring and summer, it has deep blue pendulous bracts which are packed onto stems densely clad with waxy blue-green leaves. This treasure is one of the fastest growing plants available. ... Learn More

Amidst light green shiny leaves arise sprays of small, tubular, very fragrant, yellow-green flowers on the ends of the stems, flowering from late spring to autumn, and which produce clusters of small, black, egg-shaped berries during summer and autumn. This easy, hardy, evergreen shrub is quite possibly the hardiest and longest blooming Cestrum of them all, as it perfumes the night for many months. In cooler countries it attracts bees and butterflies, and in the Americas, hummingbirds! In 2004 this species made the Royal Horticultural Society’s list of the top 200 plants of the last 200 years. ... Learn More

This charming relative of the snapdragon is a spreading perennial that produces masses of blue flowers with delicate yellow throats. It makes a lovely display all summer long and is quick growing. Try it dotted around your rockery, or as underplanting in your borders. ... Learn More