A native of damp meadows, grassland and roadsides, Ragged Robin is enjoying a comeback thanks to its popularity with garden designers. Seen at all of the major flower shows, this little native plant has become a garden must-have almost overnight! Recommended by the RHS as a plant that attracts wildlife pollinators, Lychnis is quick and easy to grow, and is ideal for naturalising - attracting bees, butterflies and other pollinating insects into your garden. With its clusters of star-shaped, deep rose-pink flowers, Ragged Robin is perfect for filling wild gardens or meadows with colour, and being a hardy perennial, will return to your garden year after year. Never before has it been so important to protect pollinators such as bees, and this wildflower is ideal to encourage them into your garden. Bees are invaluable for pollinating a whole range of plants and especially useful for kitchen gardens to enable the formation of many fruits and vegetables. Take a look at our bee book for more details on these fascinating insects. Growing to 40cm (16in) sow indoors March to May or outdoors March to May and September to October, directly where they are to flower. Flowers the year after sowing May to June. Supplied as a pack of 225 seeds, Native grown seed not taken from the wild.
This fantastic Wildlife Friendly Herbs Seed Kit is a perfect and super easy way to grow your own herbs at home. The delicious herbs in this kit are not only tasty, but they are also a magnet for bees, butterflies, and other beneficial wildlife. Plus, what is more satisfying than picking your very own fresh herbs for all your cooking from your very own herb garden whilst helping all our pollinators too. Using innovative seed discs grow five mouth-watering, aromatic, and delicious herb varieties including rosemary, thyme, sage, mint, and chive. This kit comes complete with seed discs, re-useable coloured pots, compost discs, plant labels and a handy bottle top watering spout. The seed discs are made up of the herb seeds and biodegradable paper that are very easy to handle. Very easy to use, you don't even need to worry about spacing you seeds correctly, washing them away when you water them or thinning once the seedling start to emerge. Because they are biodegradable, there is no waste when it comes to re-potting all your growing herb plants. Not only are the seed discs bio-degradable but the durable plastic pots and sow markers are made from recycled materials meaning they can be used for years to come and the handy bottle top watering spout fits on top of your old plastic water bottles to create mini watering cans that you can also use on your house plants. Supplied as a complete kit including: 5 x seed discs, 5x re-useable coloured pots, 5x compost discs, 5x plant labels, 1x bottle top watering spout and 1x instruction leaflet.
This tasty duo of winter Squash produce excellent crops of tasty Acorn type fruits, each weighing up to 700g. These prolific plants produce attractive fruits with smooth skins and pale flesh. The fruits can be baked, roasted or added to soups as a low calorie, high fibre alternative to the traditional spud.
Zinnia 'Double Zahara Strawberry' is one of the best double, dwarf Zinnias currently available. You can enjoy an abundance of vivid, strawberry red, double flowers throughout the summer. These compact and low-growing plants have excellent heat and drought tolerance. Thanks to their disease resistance they require next to no maintenance to keep looking good over their remarkably long flowering period.
Zinnias have certainly increased in popularity as summer bedding in recent years. Swizzles are sure to brighten any display with their eye-catching, bicoloured flowers, in vibrant shades of cherry and ivory. The dwarf, bushy free-flowering plants have exceptional garden performance in sunny borders or in containers, as well as attracting a variety of butterflies to your garden. Height: 25-30cm (10-12in)
Zinnia Jazz is perfect for summer and autumn displays, with bright colours and large flowers to light up your garden. Each plant produces a mass of bi-coloured flowers in pinks and oranges, and are perfect for larger pots and planters, or in borders where they provide useful height. They make great cut flowers too, so you can enjoy them indoors as well as in the garden. Dead-head for longer flowering, these plants are very easy to manage and deliver amazing performance all the way into autumn. This half hardy annual has a height and spread of 75cm (30in) x 30cm (1ft), flowering from July to October. Supplied in a pack of approx. 75 seeds.