October

Echinacea pallida is one of the more rare members of the Echinacea family. They have much longer, ray flowers than those of the more familiar purple coneflower, the plants bloom earlier and continue to bloom sporadically through the autumn months.

Echinacea paradoxa is a true paradox – a rare and highly unusual yellow variety of the much loved 'Purple Coneflower'. With large, yellow ray flowers and the classical raised cone, the blooms are slightly fragrant and make excellent cut flowers. Echinacea paradoxa is a beautiful, elegant and easy plant to grow.

Siberian wallflowers are at their best in early to mid-May. With cheerful deep orange blooms, they are very easy to grow and combine well with other plants; indeed wallflowers demand companions and set the mind racing regarding potential planting combinations.

Erysimum cheiri 'F1 Sugar Rush Primrose' produce a pale primrose, cream-yellow blooms in both autumn and spring. With multiple side branches that accompany the main flower spike, they create a dense, mounded display, 30cm tall. Perfect for borders, containers, or window boxes

Renowned for its striking, jewel-like hues that stand out even in cooler weather. 'Sugar Rush' is ultra-fast in production and does not require cool temperatures for flowering. Emerging with an apricot/burgundy flush, the spicily scented, bi coloured flowers of 'Sugar Rush Purple' turn lilac/purple as they mature.

Erysimum cheiri 'F1 Sugar Rush Red’ has upright clusters of deep, bright red blooms blooms that fill the air with delicious scent. Tough and easy to grow, they are hardy enough to overwinter in many regions and will often flower over several months from spring and right through to early summer.

One of the most notable features of the 'Sugar Rush' series is its unique dual-season flowering. Unlike traditional wallflowers that primarily bloom in spring, 'Sugar Rush' flowers in both autumn and spring​. 'Yellow’ produces upright clusters of bright, golden-yellow blooms that fill the air with delicious scent.

Renowned for its striking, jewel-like hues that stand out even in cooler weather. 'Sugar Rush Orange' produce bright orange, spicily scented blooms on compact plants. With multiple side branches that accompany the main flower spike, they create a dense, mounded display perfect for borders, containers, or window boxes.

Erysimum cheiri 'Sugar Rush F1' is a versatile and hardy biennial that stands out for its striking, jewel-like hues and for its repeat blooming cycle in both autumn and spring​. In a mix of sweetly scented vibrant shades, they can be in flower as little as 9 weeks from sowing. The perfect addition to autumn and winter gardening.

This old English cottage plant is making a comeback, and no wonder. The astonishing, velvety Wallflower 'Blood Red' with deep crimson-red flowers is a favourite with gardeners. They are ideal for borders and edging, they could also be used in large containers….and of course, walls!

Wallflower ‘Cloth of Gold' is a favorite with gardeners, each plant wears a cloak of the finest gold and the large golden-yellow flowers are filled with a sweet fragrance, from mid-spring and throughout summer. They are a perfect foil for daffodils and many other spring bulbs.

‘Fair Lady Mixed' is a classic tried and trusted variety. Reliably hardy, this uniform mixture blooms in a wide range of colours, both pastels and bright colours and includes the more unusual dusky-pink shades. Marvelous, fragrant and floriferous, they are extremely easy to grow and very rewarding.

Erysimum ‘Fire King' is another old and tried variety, with striking, flame-like, glowing orange-scarlet flowers. They are especially valuable because they bloom in the period between primroses and summer annuals and will supply the household with an abundance of cut flowers for many weeks.

What spring garden would be complete without a bed of delightful, sweet-scented Wallflowers, harbingers of warmer weather to come? Erysimum cheiri, formerly Cheiranthus cheiri 'Ivory-White' is a fabulous form. A compact variety with a bushy habit which is ideal as an underplanting to tulips and other spring bulbs.

One of the grandest of plants, Euphorbia characias 'Wulfenii' has upright stems clothed with whorls of fleshy, mat grey-green leaves that lend the whole plant a textural quality that is unparalleled. From March to June the plants are topped with intense chartreuse-green flowers'.