This long flowering perennial is a magnet for butterflies from June right through to October. The soft pink, pincushion flowers of Scabious ?Kudos Purple? are borne in profusion, never losing momentum until the cooler autumn weather arrives. Scabious is a well loved herbaceous perennial, though often has a slightly gangly habit - but not ?Kudos!?.
A favourite in cottage gardens and patio containers alike, Scabious ?Kudos White? will give you an exceptionally long season of colour in the garden as the delicate white blooms cover the plant from June all the way through to October! ?Kudos White? will produce flowers over and over again, much to your delight, and that of pollinating insects such as butterflies and bees, who?ll love the huge number of flowers! Height: 45cm (18). Spread: 30cm (12).
A compact, perennial scabious producing masses of lilac-blue blooms throughout the summer, above neat cushions of green foliage. These charming pincushion flowers are highly attractive to bees and butterflies and their slender wiry stems can also be cut for a posy or small vase indoors. Scabious 'Blue Jeans' makes a fabulous addition to the front of cottage garden borders, where it blends well with any colour scheme.
Beloved by butterflies, 'Chirocco' will add vibrant late-spring colour to borders in a lovely mix of pinks, reds, purples and whites! What's more, they are winter hardy perennials that will return year after year, so you can enjoy them for many years! These fabulous plants are ideal for planting into garden borders, plus the gorgeous blooms make wonderful, long-lasting cut flowers too - often flowering up to Christmas in milder years. Much loved by garden designers, these are a cottage-garden staple, but are equally at home in more formal gardens and even in pots, where they make a fabulous display. Plant either as specimen plants, dotted around the garden or in drifts where their airy stems and pom-pom flowers blend in marvellously with other flowering perennials. Supplied as 12 plug plants ready for you to pot up and grow on before planting out into the garden.
A nice addition to cottage gardens, Scabious 'Kudos Collection' is two types pf pincushion flower; Scabious 'Kudos White' and 'Kudos Purple'.
Scabious 'Butterfly Blue' is great in wildlife gardens because, as its name suggests, it attracts scores of butterflies and bees between July and October. These pollinators flock to the hardy perennial's lavender-blue blooms, which protrude on dainty stems above grey-green, lance shaped foliage. Scabiosa atropurpurea, which is sometimes called Pinchushion Flower or Sweet Scabious, grows best in sunny, cottage garden borders, but also makes an interesting cut flower. Height: 40cm (1'4). Spread: 40cm (1'4).
These delicate looking yet totally tough Scabious plants are perfect for any cottage garden border or patio container. You'll get wave after wave of exquisitely beautiful blue pincushion blooms from June to September every year, held on tall elegant stems. As with all herbaceous perennials they die back to ground level in late autumn only to return gloriously the following spring year after year. Admire them in your garden and pick posy after posy for your home as your plants come back bigger and better every year! Supplied as an established plant in a 9cm pot, ready for immediate planting. Will reach approx 50cm x 50cm.
A truly elegant border perennial with blooms in blue, mauve and white on long slender stems which are much in demand for cut flowers. Flowers summer. Height 30in
The purple-blue pincushion flowers of Field Scabious add a splash of colour wild flower meadows. Their pretty summer blooms rise upon slender, swaying stems.
A classic bee and butterfly magnet, the nectar-rich blooms provide a continuous show throughout summer and well into autumn. The beautiful pale mauve pincushion flowers for Knautia arvensis (Field Scabious) are held on slender, tall upright stems, providing a relaxed, air effect in borders and wildflower meadows alike.
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
An easy to grow annual, producing tall stems covered in masses of stunning, mid-blue, pin cushion flowers. A classic cottage garden plant, ideal for cutting and loved by bees and butterflies. Beautiful plants for the cottage border