This is one of the most profuse and long-flowering annuals, each plant producing clouds of blue to purple flowers from July until late autumn. Flowering so heavily that the feathery foliage is often obscured, its tidy, mounding growth habit is useful in borders or as an edging. Also a good choice for filling in around tall, leggy plants and carpeting bare spots. Especially effective draping over retaining walls, in pots and hanging baskets. ... Learn More

This lovely plant is a rare UK native wild flower, bearing perfoliate leaves (speared around the stem like a kebab), and large showy umbels of tiny yellowish-green flowers surrounded by attractive, pointed, bright green bracts. ... Learn More

This is the true wild form of this lovely, ancient cottage garden flower. A fast growing annual or biennial, it has aromatic leaves and heads of vivid-orange daisy-like flowers which are borne in long and seemingly everlasting succession in the summer and autumn until the first hard frosts. The daisy-like flowers are excellent for cutting and can also be added to salads as an edible flower. They can even be used as a substitute for saffron when colouring rice dishes, and also can be made into tea. Finally, they are very bee-friendly! ... Learn More

A stunning variety with gorgeous large golden-yellow, pom-pom shaped flowers and contrasting dark centres. Perfect for beds and borders, it will flower throughout the summer producing eye-catching, tall plants. Also deal for filling containers and pots. ... Learn More

A dwarf, compact, branching Calendula that is ideal both for borders and containers. The plants become smothered in striking double blooms of a vibrant orange colour with contrasting dark brown centres. Low maintenance and unfussy, they're the perfect choice for virtually any sunny spot. ... Learn More

Well-branched compact plants produce masses of cheery yellow cactus like flowers throughout most of the summer. Low maintenance and relatively undemanding, this is a plant which really works hard in the garden, rewarding you with months of colour with very little fuss. Ideal for borders and containers. ... Learn More

This cheerful mix of cream, lemon and orange flowers in both single and double forms will brighten up any spare patch in your borders or veg garden, and will seed itself freely to give years of effortless pleasure. ... Learn More

This exciting mix won a Fleuroselect award because of its consistent quality. It provides a stunning, low maintenance mix of single, semi-double and double blooms in a variety of bright, pastel and buff colours. Ideal for adding interest to pots and borders. ... Learn More

Calendula Winter Sun is perfect for brightening up those cold, grey winter days. Its bushy habit and vivid yellow/orange blooms are ideal for adding splashes of colour to winter hanging baskets, containers or the winter beds. Producing flowers throughout the autumn months up until early spring it enjoys both full sun and partial shade. ... Learn More

Another superb Chinese Aster, with huge, fragrant, double flowered discs in all colours from white to deepest purple, which are held on 2 foot stems. These fabulous flowers which are easy and fast to grow are quite irresistible to butterflies and bees. ... Learn More

Fragrant flowers in pink, red coral/apricot, light blue and creamy-white bloom from mid summer to early autumn. Plant should be watered regularly, although over watering should be avoided. These plants self-sow freely and you will need to deadhead if you do not want self-sown seedlings next season. ... Learn More

One of the most typical cottage garden flowers, Campanula medium, or "Canterbury Bells", has a timeless charm and grace. Masses of bells are produced in an astonishing range of blues, whites and pinks. Flowers appear all summer long and are from 60-90cm high (2-3ft). They will grow in almost any position whether sun or semi shade. ... Learn More

A beautiful double flowering form of Campanula medium. Each flower is surrounded by a calyx of the same colour as the petals making it appear a double bloom and from which it derives its common name of 'Cup and Saucer'. Excellent for cottage gardens, this charming, old-fashioned plant in shades of purple, blue, pink and white also makes an excellent cut flower. Needs protection from the wind. ... Learn More

This introduced ornamental wild flower bears panicles of funnel-shaped, blue or white flowers in July and August. But additionally it is a most unusual salad plant! It is grown both for its white, firm and crisp roots from October through winter and its salad leaves which are used like spinach. And another fact: The Brothers Grimm's tale of Rapunzel took its name from this plant! ... Learn More

The traditional flower used in wedding button holes, the flowers of Carnation Hardy Border Mixed may not be quite as tightly double as the annual types but they are full of fragrance, and in milder areas they can be a fully perennial variety. This variety produces a brilliant show of colour in July, with beautifully perfumed blooms and long stems perfect for cutting. ... Learn More