Gypsophila elegans 'Improved Mixed' provides a froth of tiny pink and white flowers upon impossibly slender stems. The loose sprays of summer blooms have a light, airy habit that makes superb ?filler? for the front of sunny borders.
The easy to route to summer colour. Simply scatter the seed in any sunny border for months of colour. The perfect floral option for sunny borders, coping well in dry spells. The sheer variety of purple-starry blooms make each stem a standout specimen.
Vivid, single and semi-double 8cm (3in) flowers. Neat, moundshaped bushy plants. Height 30cm (12in).
A patriotic mix with blooms up to 10cm (4in) across. Pollenladen flowers will attrract bees and butterflies. Height 90cm (36in).
Create an ever-changing kaleidoscope of colour with this striking mixture. Florets within each bloom change colour as the flower matures, from pink to bicolour to white producing a fabulous display in the garden as well as an attractive cut flower. Will flower in its first year from a Jan/Feb sowing or can be sown in June/July to flower the following spring
Possibly one of the easiest hardy annuals to sow and grow. Fill whole beds with this mix or simply drop a fewseeds in gaps between other plants and nature will do the rest for you! Height 30cm (12in).
An easy to grow annual lupin that flowers just 12 weeks after sowing. Short flower spikes have a sweet pea-like fragrance. Perfectly suited to growing at the front of borders in large patio containers.
An easy to grow mixture of 10 colourful annuals, which includes species found in our countryside during the Middle Ages such as borage, cornflowers and flax. This mixture has a blue tone base of cornflowers and echium, with added red-orange contrast provided by flax and marigolds, and lastly a touch of antique pink provided by mallow. Height 50-60cm (20-24in).
Like most Viola plants, the pretty flowers of Pansy 'Tasty Mixed' are perfectly edible. These hardy summer pansies have been specially selected for their flavoursome blooms which have a mild, sweet and peppery taste.
Strikingly attractive pitcher plants which give no outward hint of their unusual dietary habits! They attract insects with their enticing scent, alluring colours and the promise of a nectar-like secretion on the lip of the 'pitcher'. A slippery footing on the bloom's rim causes unsuspecting insects to fall inside the cavity of the flower which is filled with a liquid. There is no escape; the insects die and are digested by the plant, it is thought, as a means of augmenting inadequate nitrogen levels in the soil.
Few plants can compare with the spectacular beauty of a tree peony in full bloom. A mature plant can boast in excess of a hundred wonderfully exotic blooms, each one measuring 25cm (10in) or more across. Breathtaking in borders, tree peonies also make exquisite cut flowers. When grown from seed, tree peonies will reward patient gardeners by blooming in 5-7 years from sowing.
Glory of the Snow creates a dazzling splash of colour, in this new mix of blue, mauve and white. It will naturalise beneath trees and shrubs, and make a hardy and low-maintenance addition to rock gardens and patio pots, returning each year. Ht. 15cm.Useful links:How to plant bulbs, corms and tubers