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

Huge flowering heads appear in mid summer which produce a stunning display of saucer size flowers, white centered with a vibrant pink ring around the edge. I highly desirable plant not just for gardeners but also the local wildlife, especially bees which will spend the entire day swarming beds of these poppies. Papaver somniferum has a rich cultural and historical background. It has been cultivated for its seeds, which are used in culinary applications, and for the latex produced by the unripe seed capsules. The latex contains alkaloids, including morphine and codeine, leading to the histor ... 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 ... 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

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

Intensely deepest blue, starry flowers open on elegant racemes above clumps of narrow leaves. This most attractive plant is native to dryish rocky spots in montane regions in the southern Chilean Andes. It will do well in any rich, well drained soil in a sunny spot throughout the year, but must be kept frost-free as it benefits from snow-cover high in the mountains. ... 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

White, purple and lavender sweetly-perfumed flowers are followed by small fruits on this slender, tendriled climbing plant which has unlobed, three pointed leaves resembling the leaves of an Alder tree. It is native to montane rainforests and cloud forests of the Andes mainly in Colombia and Ecuador between 1700 to 3200 m. and therefore, coming from altitude, does well in temperate conditions which are neither too hot in summer or too cold in winter. This plant will provide nectar and pollen for bees, butterflies and the many other types of pollinating insects. ... Learn More