Informal / Cottage
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Helenium autumnale 'Helena'
Helens's Flower, Autumn Helenium€2.95Out of stock
If there's one plant that can inject a little razzle-dazzle into the border during gloomy late summers it is Helenium. From late July 'Helena' blooms with masses of vibrant blooms in a spectrum of rich colours from gold to mahogany red. Perfect for the back of the border and wonderful for cutting.
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Helenium hoopesii
Mountain helenium, Owls-Claws€2.65Out of stock
Helenium hoopesii is considered by some to be the most valuable of the species. It blooms with bright golden yellow disk florets that each form a kind of rounded knob that transforms the flower from your typical two-dimensional daisy into something much more interesting and sculptural.
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Helianthus annuus 'Autumn Beauty'
Branching Sunflower.€1.95Sunflower ‘Autumn Beauty’ produces numerous long-stemmed flowers from summer to late autumn in a variety of solid and bi-colour bright warm colours - golden yellow, bronze, brown and burgundy. The long stems are excellent for cut flowers and look absolutely stunning in a vase on their own.
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Helianthus annuus 'Cut Flower Mixture'
Sunflowers€1.75Out of stock
Helianthus annuus 'Cut Flower Mixture' offers a diverse range of sunflower varieties that are suited to outdoor cut flower production. In a wide range of shapes and colours, lemon, golds and reds. The heights range from 80 to 150cm (32 to 60in). They are lovely in borders or vases.
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Helianthus annuus 'F1 Gemini Summer'
Pollenless, Premium Sunflower€2.75Helianthus annuus 'F1 Gemini Summer' is F1 hybrid tall cut flower variety with golden yellow, double flowers. This professional quality sunflower is a pollenless, uniflora type that grows 90 to 120cm tall. Cut the flowers when the petals begin to unfurl from the face.
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Helianthus annuus 'F1 Lemon Cutie'
Pollenless Dwarf Sunflower€3.45Dwarf sunflowers for small gardens and containers are always in demand and ‘Lemon Cutie’ looks to have everything we need in a dwarf sunflower. Semi-double and pollenless. Not only is it dwarf with multiple branches, but you will never have seen such a stunning and unusual, lemon coloured Sunflower.
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Helianthus annuus 'F1 Sunrich Limoncello Summer'
Pollenless, Premium Sunflower€2.95Developed for the cut flower industry, the 'Sunrich' series has been the market leader for the last fifteen years. Vibrant lemon yellow petals with creamy lemon tips surround a dark center disk, It is ‘day length neutral’ so will provide consistent flowers, just two months from planting, irrespective of the amount of daylight hours that it receives.
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Helianthus annuus 'Giant Single Yellow'
Uniflorus giganteus, Giant SunflowerStarting at: €1.65
Sunflower 'Giant Single Yellow' is a popular tall-growing variety. The blooms have dark centres and attractive bright golden petals, held on tall stems they are capable of growing several metres. Favourites with children, they make beautiful, long lasting cut flowers and are highly attractive to pollinators. -
Helianthus annuus 'Giant Sungold'
Tall Double Sunflower€1.75Great big fluffy golden heads the size of a dinner plate. This whopper of a sunflower has the same stunning densely packed yellow petals as the beloved dwarf 'Teddy Bear' sunflower but on a far larger scale. They make excellent cut flowers, long lasting and are very impressive in a vase.
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Helianthus annuus 'Ikarus'
Pollenless, Branching Sunflower€2.35Out of stock
Helianthus ‘Ikarus’ is a fairly recent introduction, but one that has started to make huge waves. This premium pollenless sunflower has a unique habit, they are basal branching, resulting in masses of primrose-yellow blooms each with glorious dark chocolate-brown hearts. They grow 90 to 120cm (3 to 4ft) tall.
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Helianthus annuus 'Medium Red Mix Sunflower' Organic
Branching Sunflower.€2.35Sunflower 'Medium Red Mix' offers a diverse range of varieties that feature the most popular reds, crimsons and bi-colours. Suited to outdoor cut flower production, the heights range from 80 to 120cm tall and are lovely in the garden and the vase, the blooms last up to a fortnight when kept in water. Organic Seeds
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Helianthus annuus 'Mongolian Giant'
Uniflorus giganteus, Giant Sunflower€2.65Giant Sunflower 'Mongolian Giant' is a true giant reaching up to 420cm (14ft) tall with one of the largest flowering sunflower seed heads available, up to 45cm (18in) across. One of the largest-seeded sunflower varieties available to gardeners, the plants are ideal to grow to provide food for birds to eat over-winter.
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Helianthus annuus 'Ring of Fire'
Pollenless, Branching Sunflower€2.35Out of stock
Looking a little like a solar eclipse, ‘Ring of Fire’ is a dark centred sunflower that blooms with glowing red petals that gradually flare outwards to golden-yellow tips. Growing to a manageable 100 to 120cm (3½ to 4ft) tall with a branching habit, the flowers are pollenless. It is considered one of the best varieties for use as a cut flower.
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Helianthus annuus 'Ruby F1'
Uniflora Sunflower€2.75Out of stock
Helianthus annuus 'Ruby F1' has a dark centre is surrounded by a dense array of rich deep ruby-red petals that form large 15cm (6in) flowers, on plants that are 150cm (5ft) tall. Suitable as a bouquet flower, cut the flowers as soon as all the petals unfurl. sown directly where they are to grow, they are very easy to grow and fast to flower.
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Helianthus annuus 'Solara'
Pollenless, Uniflora Sunflower€2.75Out of stock
Helianthus ‘Solara’ is a professional quality sunflower and one of the longest lasting cut flower varieties available. A pollenless, uniflora type that grows to around 130 to 150cm tall. It has a dark centre, surrounded by a dense array of rich golden yellow petals that form large 15cm flowers.
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Helianthus annuus 'Sonja'
Sunflower, Branching Sunflower€2.45A new introduction that can be grown for use as a patio plant or as a cut flower. Early blooming and growing to just 100cm (3ft) with golden-orange petals and dark brown centres 'Sonja' produces a spray of flowering side branches that surround the main stem. Durable in the garden and long lived in the vase.
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Helianthus annuus 'Soraya'
Sunflower, Branching Sunflower€2.45Sunflower 'Soraya' is the first Sunflower ever to win an AAS award. It produces lovely rich tangerine-orange flowers with dark brown centres The vigorous, self-supporting plants stand 150 to 180cm (5 to 6ft) tall. Prized for cut flower arrangements, they produce 20 to 25 flowers from each plant.
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Helianthus annuus 'Valentine'
Sunflower, Branching Sunflower.€2.65Sunflower 'Valentine' is a fantastic mid-size variety with beautiful lemon-yellow flower heads with dark centres. These vigorous upright plants are multi-branching giving a very bushy appearance, producing numerous gorgeous blooms which makes excellent cut flowers.
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Helianthus annuus 'Velvet Queen Sunflower' Organic
Branching Sunflower.€2.65Velvet Queen is a branching sunflower in an opulent shade of rich crimson on strong stems. It is one of the earliest sunflowers to bloom and will grow to 150cm (5 feet) tall. They make excellent cut flowers, alternatively leave them on the plant for the birds to enjoy the seed-heads that follow. Organic Seeds
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Helianthus debilis 'Italian Green Heart'
Branching Sunflower€2.10Helianthus debilis 'Italian Green Heart' produces creamy white flowers with contrasting green centres. Growing 100 to 120cm tall, the flowers are perfect for fresh, cut flower arrangements - especially if gathered while they are still in bud.
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Helianthus debilis 'Vanilla Ice'
Also marketed as 'Ice Cream'€1.65Helianthus ‘Vanilla Ice’ is one of the prettiest sunflowers varieties available. With clusters of delicate pale creamy-yellow flowers with dark chocolate centres this compact variety grows to just 120 to 150cm (4 to 5ft) tall is suitable for the border or can be left add a naturalised charm to a wildlife friendly garden.
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Helianthus maximiliani
Maximilian Sunflower, Perennial Sunflower€2.35Out of stock
Perennial sunflowers typically don’t grow quite as tall and large as their annual friends. However Helianthus maximiliani is a wonderful exception. It grows slowly through the summer months as a group of short stems, until late summer when the stems bolt and the flowers head for the sky.
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Helianthus mollis
Downy or Ashy Sunflower, Perennial Sunflower€2.10Most gardeners are familiar with the annual sunflower, however, it is the perennial varieties that coexist most happily with other garden plants. Helianthus mollis is a lovely perennial with butter-yellow flowers. It grows 120cm tall and requires little more attention than an annual cutting to the ground.
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Helichrysum bracteatum 'Swiss Giants Mixed'
Strawflower, Everlasting, Paper Daisy, Immortelle€1.95Helichrysum bracteatum is the most well known and is probably the best of all the everlasting flowers. 'Swiss Giants Mixed' is a special selection of large flowered, double strawflowers. Vigorous and gorgeous in the garden, and perfect for drying. Fill your beds with colour, these stunning blossoms need very little to thrive other than light watering and good drainage.