Cottage Garden Seeds

With electric blue flowers this stunning hardy perennial will stop a smurf in its tracks. The bright blue, parrot beaked flowers appear on loose racemes above the ovate mid-green foliage. Flowering over 4-5 months through summer and autumn the blooms attract the attention of admirers and pollinators. A low maintenance plant that prefers well drained soils. Grows to 40-50 cm. Dead head to prolong flowering. Cut back in early winter. A native to Mexico. 25 seeds.

An aromatic perennial wildflower from Europe, western Asia and northern Africa. Beautiful blue-dark purple flower spikes to 60+ cm that attracts beneficial insects to the garden. A hardy woody stemmed plant that can be included in a meadow mixture. A honey-bee food plant and culinary herb where it has been used in flavouring beer and wine. Flowers in its first year. 30 seeds. No. 1.

A biennial or perennial sage with long, loose terminal spikes of tubular white-pink flowers and thick square stems with large heart shaped, hairy leaves. This one metre tall, bushy, medicinal herb is strongly scented and needs plenty of sun and will bloom all summer even in poorer soils. Salt tolerant Zone 2. 25 seeds/No.2/

This clump-forming perennial has oblong leaves and dense, maroon flower spikes in summer and autumn. Its mildly flavoured leaves add a cucumber taste to salads.
Native to northern hemisphere grasslands and grassy banks, it’s ideal for erosion-prone areas. Used for years in Chinese medicine to treat burns and skin ailments. Grow in sun or partial shade in moderately fertile soil that is reliably moist. 40 seeds.
Not to W.A.

A textural joy with fluffy white drooping cylindrical flowers and feathered foliage. The unusual flowers are elegant on long stems, making them great cut flowers. A clump-forming perennial flowering in summer and autumn. Dead head to prolong flowering. Grow in sun or partial shade. Grows to 120 cm and can self seed. 20 seeds.
 

Deep dark maroon, almost black flowers on long elegant stems make this a striking annual. The compact, uniform flowers on tall stems make great long lasting cut flowers or an eye catcher in the garden. Needs full sun and well-drained, limy soil in a protected position. Sow in spring for a summer flowering and mid to late summer for a winter flowering. 20 seeds.

This tall (90cm) annual produces fragrant, cone-shaped purple, pink, blue or white flowers in summer and autumn. A beautiful and long-lasting cut flower named for the grey pin-like stamens that protrude from the dense "cushion" of petals. Needs full sun and well-drained, limy soil in a protected position. 30 seeds.

An impressive evergreen grass that flowers in summer with golden arching oat like flower heads to 1.8m. The plants retain the seed heads into the autumn where they provide a good architectural feature in the garden. The flower and seed heads can be used in flower arrangements or dried. 20 seeds.

One of the happiest bushy perennials you will come across. It is covered in golden-orange marigold flowers most of the year and the light-green leaves release a sweet, passionfruit scent when brushed up against or the breeze catches the bush. It grows to 1.5 metres, is ideal for cottage gardens and rockeries, needs a warm, sheltered position with plenty of sun. Handles a very light frost. 50 seeds.

A happy and hardy annual that is easy and fast to grow, bringing colour and beneficial insects to the garden. The petals of the bright yellow and oranges flowers are edible, having a citrus taste. Plant amongst vegies as the leaf helps to repel whitefly while the flowers attract bees, butterflies. Secretions from the root also have an insecticidal effect on nematodes in the soil and is effective as a green manure for this purpose. 70 seeds.

This evergreen, groundcovering perennial is native to the West Coast of North America and grows well in a woodland garden in the light shade of deciduous trees. In spring-summer they produce dozens of small, bell shaped creamy white to pale pink flowers on 50cm tall stems. The basal bright green, heart shaped leaves are covered in fine hairs. 200 seeds/No.9/

A beautiful old-fashioned cottage garden plant with fluffy mauve-pink or sometimes white, 120 cm tall flowerheads in early summer. It has very attractive blue-green foliage, like Columbines and thrives in moist soil near water or in good garden soil in sun or part shade. 50 seeds/No.3/