Cottage garden cutting garden collection
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- Seed Packets (only) £2.95
- Position: Full sun
- Soil: Moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: Fast
- Flowering period: June to September
- Hardiness: Fully hardy
Introducing our exquisite cut flower collection, curated for the discerning gardener and florist seeking elegance and fragrance. This handpicked assortment features delicate larkspur blooms, known for their graceful spires in soft pastel hues, and the wonderful ornamental Persian cress - a beautiful filler plant to showcase the blooms. Complementing them are enchanting scented stocks, prized for their captivating fragrance and charming, multi-petaled blossoms plus the ever popular (and almost everlasting!) jewel-like love-in-a-mist. Sow in succession for a long season of desirable and long-lasting cut flowers.
The collection contains one packet of seeds for each of the plants listed below. They will all come with their own specific sowing instructions.
- Consolida regalis ‘QIS Dark Blue’: A decadent, branching hardy annual with dissected mid-green leaves and spikes of dark blue flowers, centred with purple and finished with a bright button of golden stamens. Uniform and upright, this fabulous larkspur has long-lasting properties for cut flower vases. Grows to 1.2m.
- Consolida regalis ‘Fancy Purple Picotee’: An elegant and eye-catching well-branched hardy annual, with ferny, palmate mid-green leaves, and spikes of pale purple blooms edged with a darker purple. 'Fancy Purple Picotee' is a beautiful and easy to grow larkspur for the border, providing colour throughout the summer as well as wonderful flowers for cutting which last a long time in water. Grows to 1.2m.
- Lepidium sativum: Persian cress, a popular choice among floral artists, boasts sturdy branches adorned with countless silvery-green coin-like seed pods, making it an filler in bouquets and wreaths, whether fresh or dried. Grows to 1m.
- Matthiola incana ‘Apple Blossom’: Heavily scented spring flowers and a valued cutting flower, this highly scented, pale pink-blush stock provides long-lasting pastel perfection. Grows to 75cm.
- Nigella damascena 'Miss Jekyll': Sky-blue, disc-like flowers appear on upright stems clothed in wispy-tipped foliage from midsummer. This easy to grow annual well-drained border. Ideal for the novice or young gardener, the blooms make excellent cut or dried flowers. Grows to 45cm.