A very popular old favourite producing a summer-long succession of heavily doubled, icing-pink flowers. Multi-petalled paeony-flowered forms hang on to their petals much longer than single forms too! Performs best if sown thinly where you need it. ... Learn More

The colour of the large single flowers does indeed resemble a diluted glass of the famous blackcurrant drink. Every flower has a black centre to guide the bees and butterflies to the nectar! ... Learn More

Large papery flowers in shades of red, mauve and pink open in a blazing fanfare in June and July. These flowers usually do best if just sown broadcast where the flowers are needed, simply sprinkle seeds around very, very thinly, either in early spring, or the previous summer or autumn. This is one of the fastest ways to make a dazzling splash in an open spot, and after the petals have fallen the attractive dried seed-heads can be collected on long stems for long-lasting decorations in the house! ... Learn More

A huge, 20 x packet for sprinkling around a larger garden. Huge papery flowers in shades of red, mauve and pink open in a blazing fanfare in June and July. These flowers usually do best if just sown broadcast where the flowers are needed, simply sprinkle seeds around very thinly, either in early spring, or the previous summer or autumn. This is one of the fastest ways to make a dazzling splash in an open spot, and after the petals have fallen the attractive dried seed-heads can be collected on long stems for long-lasting decorations in the house! Packet contains approx 20 times the amount of a standard portion for this variety. ... Learn More

A very generous packet of seeds of the best forms of the opium poppy. This will unavoidably contain a proportion of the common wild pale pink and Afghan bluish forms. These are ideal for sprinkling where needed in the garden. ... Learn More

This unusual poppy features a striking white cross in the centre of the single, red flower and each single petal is fringed with lacy edges. Ideal for informal borders and cottage garden settings. Use the dried seed heads in autumn flower arrangements when flowering ends. ... Learn More

A rare and extremely beautiful poppy with large, floppy, orange-apricot flowers on branching hairy stems. The attractive hairy leaves add to the appeal of this choice and rarely offered plant. ... Learn More

One of the rarest poppies and certainly a contender as the most lovely of them all. From a spring rosette of ferny, finely-divided hairy leaves, grow many branching stems bearing orange tissue-paper flowers. ... Learn More

A statuesque and elegant alpine lily with thin grassy leaves bearing fragrant, green-spotted, white bell-shaped flowers. This beauty is perhaps the only worthwhile member of the asphodel family which will increase by self-seeding. ... Learn More

A rare plant, much like a greatly enlarged "St. Bruno's Lily" (P. liliastrum). From a strong clump of grassy leaves grow stout stems holding outward facing, fragrant white trumpets. A truly lovely hardy flower which possesses the valuable ability to gently self-seed producing attractive drifts of flowers. ... Learn More

From New Zealand South Island, comes this truly exquisite semi-evergreen, prostrate, perennial shrub with rounded, toothed, dark green leaves, bearing dense racemes of white to pale-pink, purple-veined flowers with red centres, which open in early summer for a long period. ... Learn More

This very unusual plant has solitary flowers with four or more narrow, greenish, thread-like petals, and green petaloid sepals, the flower being borne in May above a single whorl of four or more stem leaves. Each plant only produces one blueberry-like fruit, which is poisonous. Growing conditions are the same as for Trilliums, the creeping rhizomes increasing steadily when happy. ... Learn More

This spiny shrub or small tree opens fragrant flowers which are a bright yellow-orange, with the fifth petal elongated, with a warmer yellow, and purple spotted at the base. These grow from a long slender stalk in groups of eight to ten and are most popular with bees and butterflies. The long, unusually thin leaves make the showy flowers even more visible. It is ideal for a small garden or large container. ... Learn More

Bowl-shaped, waxy-looking, greenish-white flowers with delicate green veins, stand singly on thin stems, their lack of numbers more than made up for by their perfection. 'Palustris' means 'of-the-bog' or swampy and this is what this delicate and most lovely, but bone-hardy plant revels in, although it can be grown perfectly well in ordinary moist garden soil, as long as you do not allow lesser flowers to encroach upon it. ... Learn More

Attractive white and purple flowers produce unusual fruits which become dark violet as they mature, but they are definitely not edible like many other passifloras and contain toxic chemicals. Large-lobed leaves add to its attraction, and these have most unusual hooked trichomes which help them to climb, and also makes them adhere to clothes similar to velcro! Once the plant is of sufficient size, flowering can be stimulated by frequent pruning. Originating from Central America, Mexico, and Peru, it must be grown in a sheletered spot or even a large container. ... Learn More