Important For Bees
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Centranthus ruber ‘Coccineus’
Keys of Heaven, Jupiter's Beard. Pretty Betsy€1.95Out of stock
Centranthus ruber is a Cottage garden favourite that’s made it into the style books. Sweetly-perfumed, dense clusters of reddish-pink flowers appear from July to October. They are ideal for attracting bees and butterflies and other pollinating insects into the garden and lovely when used as a cut flower.
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Cephalaria gigantea 'Giant Scabious'
Giant Scabious, Caucasian scabious€3.50Cephalaria gigantea is a gentle giant that has an informal look that is perfect for looser planting styles. With pretty pale butter-yellow scabious shaped flowers, use it as you would Verbena bonariensis planted at the back of a mixed or herbaceous border. The stems are tall but airy and 'see-through'.
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Cerinthe major purpurascens
Blue Shrimp Plant, Honeywort, Blue Wax Flower€2.65This beautiful highly versatile, aristocratic border plant has become very much in vogue in recent years. Oval, fleshy blue-green leaves spiral up the stem with tightly packed, sea blue bracts - and then the finale - small clusters of rich purple-blue tubular, nodding flowers which are adored by bees.
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Cosmos bipinnatus 'Cosimo Collarette'
Semi-Dwarf Mexican Aster€2.75Cosmos bipinnatus ‘Cosimo’ is a series of colours and forms that and give a wonderful effect when planted in combination or in large drifts. 'Cosimo Collarette' blooms with voluptuous semi double flowers, in light pink with white stripes to pure white edged with pink.
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Cosmos bipinnatus 'Dazzler'
The Mexican Aster€2.35Cosmos is a glorious annual unrivaled as long-standing performers in a garden. 'Dazzler' is a relatively new addition, with large, open flowers of deep carmine-pink and delicate, feathery foliage. It is a superb cut flower and an exceptional annual for mixed beds and borders, cottage gardens and mass plantings.
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Cosmos bipinnatus 'Dwarf Sensation Mix'
Dwarf Mexican Aster€1.95Dwarf cosmos are very easy to grow, quick to flower from seed and thrive even on poor soil. 'Dwarf Sensation Mix' bloom over an extended period of time in shades of carmine, pink, pink blush and white. Growing to only 60cm they can be grown in beds or even large containers.
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Cosmos bipinnatus 'Purity'
The Mexican AsterStarting at: €2.25
Cosmos 'Purity' is a well-named newer hybrid, pure white large blooms on a plant that grows only 3 to 4 ft. tall. From June to October the large, graceful, saucer-shaped flowers are handsomely offset by the masses of mid-green feathery foliage. An excellent addition to the cutting garden.
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Cosmos bipinnatus 'Rosetta'
Mexican Aster€2.65Out of stock
'Rosetta’ is an outstanding new variety of Cosmos that has earned the Fleuroselect Award for colour pattern, flower size and shape. Subtle, delicately striped blooms in romantic shades of blush pink and rose, some with an inner collarette of smaller fluffy petals, over light airy foliage.
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Cosmos bipinnatus 'Rubenza'
Semi-Dwarf Mexican Aster€2.45
Conjure up the colour red, fix it in your mind’s eye, and fast forward to a much warmer, dare I say sizzling time in your life…. and then imagine this colour in a flower. Let me introduce you to Cosmos Rubenza. It is red that combines favourably with other colours. The very same colour as Dorothy’s shoes - the ones that got her back to Kansas. -
Cosmos bipinnatus 'Velouette'
Semi-Dwarf Mexican Aster€2.45 Cosmos bipinnatus 'Velouette' is an exceptional new variety with unique dark red blooms, the same sizzling dark red as Rubenza. Semi-dwarf, early flowering and uniform, they give a wonderful effect when planted in combination. They will start to bloom in as little as 70 days from sowing, going on to offer to six months of colour from May to October. -
Cosmos bipinnatus 'Xanthos'
The Mexican Aster€2.95Out of stock
Cosmos bipinnatus 'Xanthos' is a new cosmos that's causing rather a stir in horticultural circles. It adds a completely new colour to the Cosmos range. Unique soft-yellow blooms are produced in profusion on compact dwarf plants. Growing to a height of 60cm tall, this truly exceptional Cosmos has already been granted one of the most prestigious horticultural awards, a Fleuroselect Gold Medal.
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Cynara cardunculus 'Cardoon'
Cardoon€2.20Whether you are into the culinary arts or edible landscapes, you may want to put this plant at the top of your list. Chosen by the RHS as one of the top plants of the last 200 years, Cardoons are aristocrats in both the ornamental and the vegetable world. -
Didiscus caerulea 'Blue Lace Flower'
Marketed as 'Lacy Blue'€2.25Out of stock
Didiscus caerulea, known as the Blue Lace Flower for its unusual sky-blue flower colour. With delicate lacy umbel shaped flowers, each flower head is composed of tiny, star-shaped, sweetly fragrant flowers. Perfect for the cutting garden and suitable for country cottage style or contemporary arrangements.
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Digitalis ambigua 'Cream Bell'
Perennial Foxglove aka 'Créme Belle'€3.65There are not many yellow flowering foxgloves and as they are so rare each one is joyfully celebrated. 'Creme Bell' is often misspelled in a French way - 'Créme Belle' and is simply heavenly. A true hardy perennial variety that produces multiple spires of soft vanilla-cream bells in late spring. -
Digitalis purpurea
Native Pink Foxglove
Wildflower of Britain and IrelandStarting at: €2.25
This lovely native European woodland plant is a beauty to add to any garden and a popular biennial for shaded places. Plants form rosettes of lance shaped leaves, the second year the rosette begins to shoot skyward with beautiful large spikes and drooping bell shaped blooms that are spotted inside.
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Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Camelot Cream'
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove€3.95 Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Camelot Cream' produces towers of a delicate buttercream colour, the dense spikes of blooms are borne all the way around the stem. Developed to flower in the first year, they can be sown anytime from January to September. -
Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Camelot Lavender'
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove€3.95 Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Camelot Lavender' produces towers of an exquisite colour. This premium series has been developed for florists to be first year flowering. Unlike some varieties the dense spikes of blooms are borne all the way around the stem. -
Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Camelot Rose'
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove€3.95 Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Camelot Rose' produces towers of outward facing, pink funnel shaped blooms with mauve interior markings. Developed with the florist in mind, they are long flowering, beautifully uniform in growth and well-branched. -
Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Camelot White'
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove€3.95 Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Camelot White' produces towers of outward facing, white funnel shaped blooms with mauve interior markings. Developed with the florist in mind, they are long flowering, beautifully uniform in growth and well-branched. -
Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Dalmatian Crème'
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove€3.95 Developed for the florist, this premium series provides good-quality spikes that are uniform in height and blooms the first year from an early sowing. 'F1 Dalmatian Crème' produces towers of gorgeous creamy blooms with deep mauve interior markings. -
Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Dalmatian Peach'
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove€3.95 Early flowering and fast growing, award winning Digitalis 'F1 Dalmatian Peach' produces towers of swoon-worthy peachy blooms. Developed for florists the series blooms the first year from an early sowing. Sow successionally for continuity of blooms. -
Digitalis purpurea 'F1 Dalmatian Purple'
First Year Flowering, Florists Foxglove€3.95 Early flowering and fast growing, award winning Digitalis 'Dalmatian Purple' produces towers of gorgeous lavender-purple blooms with deep mauve interior markings. The good-quality spikes are uniform in height, well-branched with excellent habit and compact foliage. -
Digitalis x mertonensis 'Strawberry Foxglove'
Merton's Foxglove€2.45Out of stock
This striking and robust foxglove, a hybrid between the pink flowered D. purpurea and the yellow flowered D. grandiflora produces a beautiful mix of the two shades. The warm pink, speckled blooms are larger than the traditional foxglove but grow on more compact plants. -
Echinacea hybrida 'Cheyenne Spirit F1'
Coneflower€4.25Echinacea purpurea 'Cheyenne Spirit' is the latest Gold Medal Winner of the species, this cultivar will provide a mix of flower colours. Not limited to one colour, each plant can bloom in a sumptuous range of colour, Gold, Scarlet, Orange, Rosy-Red, Cream, Purple and Yellow. This vivid new mixture is a complete innovation in first-year flowering seed perennials.
