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Cottage Garden Seeds
A smaller variety of the old-fashioned romantic named favourite, ‘Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate’. This hardy annual grows to 150 cm and provides plenty of interest due to the arching branches fabulously loaded with rosy-red flower spikes. The large heart shaped leaves also provide an exotic and impressive appeal. Flowers well into autumn and a great beneficial insect attractor. 25 seeds.
A hardy annual that bees, hoverflies and parasitic wasps love, making it is a great companion plant in the garden. A prolific bloomer with dense, curved, bell shaped blue-lilac flowers. It grows to 80 cm and makes a useful border plant that will supply you with cut flowers. Also used as a green manure to suppress weeds and to add organic matter to the soil. Sow in spring for summer flowering or in autumn to protect the soil through winter and early spring blooms. 100 seeds. No.1.
An unusual creeping groundcover with purple-rose flowers in rounded heads. An easy to grow perennial with narrow, pale green musk scented leaves in whorls that give a star-like appearance down the stems. Prefers well drained soil. Tolerates drought periods when established. Not to W.A. 50 seeds.
These cheerful, orange-red ‘lanterns’ are easy to grow. The seed pods, with their papery husks, make unusual cut or dried flowers. An herbaceous perennial with pretty white flowers, it grows to 60cm and can spread so large tubs or pots are a good option. 70 seeds.
An adaptable perennial that produces flower buds like small, inflated balloons that expands, which look like they will burst, finally opening to graceful blue flowers. Flowers and seed heads can be used for cutting. Prefers well drained soil in full sun or part shade. 75 seeds.
This early spring flowering perennial has beautiful, 20cm tall, nodding purple blue flower bells with yellow centers and finely divided leaves, covered in silvery gray hairs. It forms small clumps and is a great rock garden plant for a sunny or part shade position with cool, well drained soil. A very frost hardy alpine species. 20 seeds/No.3/
A popular Australian native perennial with long-stemmed, golden globe flowers rising above narrow woolly grey-green leaves. It is long flowering through spring and summer and attracts a range of beneficial insects. It prefers a moist, well-drained soil but is also pretty tough, handling some dry periods, coastal area and frost. A low maintenance plant for gardens, rockeries, pots and courtyards. Great as a cut or dried flower. 40 seeds.
Native to the American prairies this unusual plant is both drought resistant and hardy. The plant name comes from the remarkable drooping brick-red flowers, edged with yellow, that surround a tall prominent cone. Attractive, finely cut foliage. Fun and easy to grow. Great for sunny borders and meadows. Flowers in first year. 50 seeds. No. 1.
This perennial plant is covered in masses of perfectly shaped golden-yellow flowers with a black central cone. Growing to 70cm and flowering in summer and autumn, it looks best in bold groups. Full sun and fertile soil, quickly forms large clumps when established. 30 seeds.
A shorter, 40cm tall type of the Rudbeckia with large, single, golden-yellow, horizontal petals and black, shiny centres. This brilliant cut flower is also a long blooming border plant over summer and early autumn. Has traditionally been used to dye wool and fabric. It grows well in good, fertile garden soil in full sun. A short-lived perennial with good drought tolerance. 30 seeds.
A beautiful, bright-yellow coneflower with a greenish centre that grows on deeply-lobed leaves. When in full flower this plant is a beautiful site. A perennial herb native to the floodplains of North America, it is an easy-to-grow cut flower that does well in any moist soil in full sun. 30 seeds.
This unusual coneflower is easy to grow and makes a long-lived cutflower and striking dried flower or seedhead. Its stunning green sepals and large, black cones are striking and appear in summer and early autumn. The flowers provide lots of food for bees. Foliage is grey-green. This mountain meadow plant prefers full sun to light shade in moist soil. 25 seeds.