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 coolurs of the traditional and easy to grow annual corn flower. ... Learn More

"Yellow Hardhead" or "Great Golden Knapweed". Too rarely seen in gardens. From robust clumps arise strong stems bearing tennis-ball sized rich yellow blooms enclosed in intriguing silver-brown papery bracts. Perfect for cutting or drying. ... 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

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 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

Robust sprays of fragrant, creamy white flowers open above compact stems, bearing leathery, slightly hairy, little-divided leaves, an unusual feature within this group of plants. A new, rare and extremely garden-worthy plant from the windy Azores Islands, it will puzzle even the most knowledgeable plant enthusiast! ... Learn More

Bright pink heads on short stems, with ferny feathery foliage, make this exceptionally compact umbellifer a must for the front of a choice border. It is very slow to spread and certainly not invasive, as well as being bone hardy. As a bonus, the entire plant smells of apples! "To be sought, few herbaceous plants can hold a candle to it in early May." (Graham Stuart Thomas) ... Learn More

This easy-to-grow, clumping palm bears abundant soft fronds, and slender, bamboo like stems. It is probably the best palm for screening when planted in groups, and perfect for use in smaller gardens, under planting or next to pathways. The palm spreads and fills out quickly creating a lush, tropical look, making numerous new stems constantly. It looks superb in relatively sheltered spots in part shade to full sun, but also does well indoors ,or even in planters and containers outdoors. ... Learn More