These are some cloudy skies that won't ruin your day! Airy plants, covered in orchid-like blooms in glistening white, soft blue and unique bicolour tones. Perfect for filling your beds and borders with quick and easy summer colourPrefers a light, well-drained soil in full sun
A Fleuroselect Bronze Medal winner, Calendula 'Fiesta Gitana Mixed' is an easy to raise hardy annual that will flower virtually all summer long. With a wide colour range of fully double blooms and a compact habit, this is a superb bedding mixture. The plants are tolerant of even the poorest soils and are good subjects for outdoor containers. Height: 30cm (12). Spread: 20cm (10).
A spectacular mix for the garden or the showbench that blends the best sweet peas for beauty, form, colour and fragrance. This sweet pea combines breathtaking scented flowers, colours which glow in the sunlight, soft shades to harmonise, and strong colours to contrast - in fact, almost every tint imaginable. Height: 180cm (71). Spread: 30cm (12)
Glorious poppies of exquisite beauty - that's 'Poppy Angels Choir'. This wonderful mixture of double flowered poppies, with silky texture, in soft colours from whites to apricots and oranges, is the result of almost ten years work. Now the magic of breeders art has transformed the poppy to give you magical garden flowers that leave you spellbound and breathless with their irresistible charm. They are easy to grow in almost any site, looking magnificent in the border, fantastic in large containers and will come up year after year in the garden, if seedlings are left to grow. Flowers summer. Height: 60-75cm (24-30in).
These colourful old varieties laid the foundations for today's modern cultivars, with their intoxicating sweet fragrance and superb colours. Their vigorous growth is best trained as bush plants instead of cordons, for a mass of strong stemmed blooms that will provide an endless supply of cut flowers. Sweet Pea 'Antique Fantasy Mix' is ideal for scrambling over obelisks and trellis in summer flower borders. Height: 180cm (71) Spread: 30cm (12)
Fragrant, fully double and relatively compact. These are lovely 'cushionflowers in maroon, carmine, scarlet, pink, rose and white. Ideal in groups for border or as cut flowers when they last well in water
This dwarf sweet pea has a compact, bushy habit making it ideal for growing in patio containers, hanging baskets and window boxes. Sweet Pea 'Bijou Mixed' produces large, deeply fragrant flowers, in a cheery mix of colours with up to up to five blooms per stem. Height and spread: 30cm (12).
Invaluable summer bedding plants with dense showy spikes of sweet scented flowers. Justifiably popular for beds, borders, cut flowers and they also make magnificent plants for winter flowering in the cold greenhouse.
A regal mix of semi-double and single blooms in cerise, carmine, red, orange and yellow. These dainty hardy annuals are tougher than they appear and positively thrive on poor, dry soils. The papery flowers attract bees and hoverflies, and make excellent, if short-lived, cut flowers. California poppies are easy to grow in beds and borders, or let them self seed throughout gravel gardens to form natural drifts. Height: 23cm (9). Spread: 25cm (10)
A vibrant display of fully double Begonia flowers in a fabulous, bright colour range. Begonia 'Double Flowered Mixed' makes the perfect choice for adding colour to your patio containers, hanging baskets and window boxes. The weatherproof blooms continue all the way through the summer, right up to the first frosts.
Very easy to grow, low compact plant that comes into flower quickly from seed. The colours of Candytuft Dwarf Fairyland Mixed radiate through lilac, silver, pink , maroon, carmine and white and after flowering leave behind exquisite seed heads- just right for everlasting flower arrangements
A vigorous, fast-growing climber for long-lasting summer colour with masses of bright, frilly blooms. An ideal variety for climbing up walls, fences and trellis. Height: 240cm (94). Spread: 150cm (59).Culinary information: Some parts of these flowers are edible. Click here for more details about edible flowers.