The flowers with shades of grey, purple, navy on a white base with intricate deep purple centres make excellent cut flowers as well as being a good garden subject. The unusual seed pods are useful both fresh and dried. Direct sow from mid-autumn until late spring.
This annual fills empty spots in the garden 200cm tall stems clothed in large handsome leaves carry, from mid-summer onwards, large clusters of pure white narrowly tubular flowers, flared at the end.
This always causes excitement when it’s in flower. Possibly the most popular of all poppies. Broadcast seeds into the garden in late autumn, winter or very early spring for a mass spring early summer display.
A tried and true garden strain with all the colours, white, pink, lemon, red, yellow each as beautiful as the next. Easily grown in any sunny garden bed. Broadcast seeds in situ during late autumn and winter for flowering from late winter until early summer.
A unique and impressive new poppy strain, 'Pandora' blooms in surprising combinations of shades from the deepest burgundy red to pinkish red all with silver-grey stripes on the lower petals. Direct surface sow into their final garden position.
A blend of all the diverse Shirley Poppy colours and types with double, semi-double and single flowers many of which are bicolors in pastel pink, apricot, peach, cream, salmon, rose, dove grey and lavender.
This is the strain that the Welsh artist Cedric Morris developed in his Suffolk garden ‘Benton End’. A mixture of soft smoky colours, grey, lilac, mauve, pink, soft orange and white. Many of the poppies are flecked and there are some picotees.
One of the most exciting of all peony poppies carrying bright red single flowers each with a white central cross. Flowers are held on 100cm tall stems. Sow seed in situ from autumn until late winter.
The seed of this deep coral, fully double variety came originally from an old Ballarat garden. A bed of it in the vegetable garden this year occasioned much favourable comment.
Winner of the Royal Horticultural Society’s prestigious Award Of Garden Merit ‘Silver Cup’ has large hibiscus-like flowers, pink with a silver sheen. A strong compact plant growing some 60cm tall by 40cm across. Direct sow seed in a sunny garden bed in spring.
‘Indian Summer’ has the largest flowers of any strain. Each bloom can be 15cm across. Warm yellow black eyed flowers, up to 15cm across are produced on strong 100cm tall stems from early summer until late autumn. Space 40cm apart.
‘Marmalade’ is a dwarf growing strain suited to pot culture or a spot at the front of a garden bed. Warm orange-yellow flowers are produced on 40cm tall stems from early summer until late autumn. Space 30cm apart.
Marvellous both as a garden bedding plant and also as a cut flower, both fresh and dried, this strain copes with hot weather, even humid, and poor soils. Sow in seed trays in early spring for planting out after the last frosts.
Marvellous both as a garden bedding plant and also as a cut flower, both fresh and dried, this strain copes with hot weather, even humid, and poor soils. Sow in seed trays in early spring for planting out after the last frosts.
It's the bracts which makes this annual Salvia so showy. Easily grown and vigorous it will soon make a 50cm tall by 40cm wide plant covered in blue, pink and white flowers during summer and autumn. Sow seeds in situ or in pots during spring and plant out when big enough.
A superb new cultivar representing the best of European flower breeding. Whilst the species is perennial it is best treated as an annual to obtain the best display. Self sows readily. It carries its dark blood red, almost black flowers, on 60cm tall plants.
