With feathery, apple- green foliage and large daisy like semi-double flowers in white and all shades of pink, these will add height and interest to summer borders. A classic cottage garden plant, Cosmos are easy to grow, and flower all summer right up until the first frosts. Excellent for cutting, they will last well over a week in fresh water. The more flowers you cut the more the plants produce. These are amazingly productive plants and what's more our bees and butterflies love them too! ... Learn More

A luscious, crimson red Cosmos with delicate slashes of white striping. Of all the annual plants you can grow in your cutting garden, few are more productive per square foot than Cosmos. The more you cut, the more they bloom. Eye-catching and dramatic, this variety is brilliant at the back of the border, in a tall container or cut for the vase or bouquets. ... Learn More

Very free-flowering , tall, stocky, well-branched plants open hundreds and thousands of two inch, dazzling yellow flowers over a sustained period, whether in the open garden or in containers. Easy-to-grow, they will make a bright statement from late spring and on through the summer. We are offering the true, unhybridised wild form which has all the strong vigour of the original plant. In the wild they are native to Mexico, Central America, and northern South America, and have naturalized in other parts of North and South America as well as in Europe, Asia, and Australia. ... Learn More

Possibly the most vigorous and free-flowering Cosmos of this type, dwarf bushy plants are covered with flowers in a delightful mixture of gold, lemon, orange and red from early summer through to the autumn frosts. These gorgeous flowers are spectacular when planted towards the front of annual borders or in containers. ... Learn More

Bunches of daisy-like flowers and graceful feathery foliage make these a delight in both colour and texture, attracting both birds and butterflies. Considered drought resistant, Cosmos grows best in full sun, but will grow well and flower earlier in poor, fairly dry soils. Easy to grow from seed, they make excellent cut flowers. Sow direct into the flowering position in April-May or in March for pots and containers. ... Learn More

Attractive dazzling red bracts open out into bright yellow flowers. These are displayed at the tops of strong robust shoots with large, spiralling leaves, making an entrancing display. Thriving as evergreen plants outdoors in subtropical and tropical areas, they grow from large underground rhizomes, but can be grown outdoors in colder countries and USA Zones 7 to 11. But but where frosts occur, as with other gingers, they will be cut down to ground level and grow anew each year. They are also ideally suited as houseplants in bright locations, or grown in a pot in a conservatory or greenhouse, ... Learn More

Also known as crepe or Malay ginger, (Syn. Cheilocostus speciosus) this is possibly the best known cultivated species of the genus Costus. These plants differ from the common ginger by having only one row of spirally arranged leaves. The flowers appear in late summer or early autumn, and are quite unusual looking, forming large red cone-shaped bracts, with several, pure white, crinkled flowers protruding from each cone. The flowers look like crepe paper - thus the common name of crepe ginger. After the flowers fade away, the attractive red cone-shaped bracts remain. This is the most cold- ... Learn More

This is without a doubt one of the most attractive of summer-flowering shrubs with flowers which are pinkish-coloured, feather-like inflorescences, produced in profusion in June and July, and resembling puffs of smoke, all set amidst long rounded oval leaves which change to all sorts of bright colours in the autumn. A worthy RHS 'AGM' Award Winner ... Learn More

A rare and most unusual plant bearing disproportionately-large, erect pink or purple flower heads with spherical, spiny, woolly-haired involucres. The erect spiny cottony stems hold deeply pinnately-lobed spiny leaves, white and cottony beneath. Rarely seen or offered, this high altitude herbaceous plant is found on stony ground in the Himalayas from Afghanistan to West Nepal and Tibet, at altitudes of 3000-4200 m, where it flowers in July and August. ... Learn More

A new plant from the South African mountains. Thick stems carry fleshy, clasping green leaves. Large terminal clusters of pointed buds open into flared sprays of deepest vermillion flowers over an extended period. ... Learn More

This lovely variant of the hawthorn flowers in May, and produces its unusually attractive fruit from September to October. Unlike the common Hawthorn, dense clumps of these striking berries are deepest maroon to purple-black. ... Learn More

One of the most distinctive features of the English countryside in spring is this sweet-smelling tree or shrub which is smothered with blossom in May, hence one of its more common names. In Autumn, the bushes are heavily laden with bright red fleshy berries, much loved by birds. And for the obsessively curious it is also known as: Ske (Old Irish), Porn (Old Norse), Hag (Old English), Hagthorn, Azzy Tree, Holy Innocents' May, Quickthorn, May-Tree, Whitethorn, White-May, Thorn-bush, Quick, Mother-die, Awes, Asogs, Azzies, Aglets, Agags, Arzy-garzies, Boojuns. ... Learn More

A rare medium-sized tree with prolific white blossom in spring followed by yellow haws. Practically thornless. Thrives in any soil other than waterlogged, in a sunny position. Dotted hawthorn is often used in landscaping for its ornamental features, including its fragrant flowers and decorative berries. It can be employed in hedges, as a specimen plant, or in naturalized areas. The berries of Crataegus punctata are a valuable food source for birds, contributing to its ecological significance. ... Learn More

This rare and beautiful daisy, which bears nodding, dark-eyed yellow daisies with twisted petals, grows high in the Himalayas where it thrives in damp shady meadows. A challenge to grow but worth the effort! ... Learn More

Orange-red flowerheads, usually red in bud, open in spring over tight tussocks of lance-shaped to obovate, light green hairy leaves. Native to the Alps and also the Balkan peninsula, this rugged alpine will perform well either on a rock garden or in the border. ... Learn More