Cut Flowers

Zinnias are back in fashion with a vengeance. 'State Fair' is a lovely old series of giant dahlia-flowered zinnias. A time tested winner, in a full range of bright uniform colours, it performs well both in the garden and in the vase. Sow successively from March to July for flowering until autumn.

Zinnia elegans 'Scarlet Flame' feature large 10 to 12cm scarlet-red blooms. They'll keep blooming all through a hot season. Growing 75cm tall, with thick straight stems that are less likely to bend when being cut. They make wonderful cut flowers and have a long vase life.

Zinnia elegans 'Queeny Lime' is the solid green sister of 'Queeny Red Lime'. In fashionable chartreuse, it is an improvement on the traditional green zinnia ‘Envy’. Fully double, very long-lasting, and fade-resistant, their unusual colour makes a good companion for every other flower in the garden.

The latest addition to this wonderful series, Zinnia ‘Queeny Lime with Blush’ has a wonderful ombré gradient on their petals, the coloration transitions from a soft lime green to a muted dusty raspberry,. An excellent flower for bridging between different colour spectrums.

An exciting new addition to the Zinnia Queeny Series, ‘Lime Orange’ is the most beautiful range of iridescent raspberry, apricot, and smoky peach with a dark cranberry centre. An award winning unique zinnia and a winner of the Fleuroselect Gold Award - There is no other flower on the market quite like it.

Zinnia ‘Queeny Lemon Peach’ is the latest award winning colour in the series. As the blooms age, they have a a reverse fading habit that presents beautiful colour shades, the colour starts a delicate creamy lemon and transition to a soft coral-peach. This gorgeous cut-and-come-again flower yields multiple cuts over the season.

Years of breeding have brought striking new colours, shapes, sizes, and to the humble zinnia. Zinnia elegans 'Polar Bear' feature large 10 to 12cm white blooms. Once popularly called 'youth and old age' because old blooms stay fresh as new blooms open, they grow to 75cm tall with thick straight stems.

Zinnia elegans 'Isabellina' is a beautiful soft cream-yellow zinnia, this heirloom zinnia originally introduced in 1955. Recently re-introduced, this densely-petaled variety makes a long lasting cut flower. An elegant addition to borders of pastel-hued flowers, or for the white garden. Extremely easy to grow from seed.

Zinnia are back in fashion with a vengeance. They are extremely easy to grow from seed and provide colour from mid-summer to autumn. They are the perfect flower for beginners and are a favourite flower of gardeners and florists around the world. 'Illumination' feature large 10 to 12cm (4 to 5in) pink blooms.

Years of breeding have brought striking new colours, shapes, sizes, and growing habits to the humble zinnia. Zinnia elegans produces large golden yellow blooms, atop thick straight stems that are less likely to bend when cut. They make wonderful cut flowers and have a long vase life.

A slightly eccentric variety of Giant Cactus Zinnia, 'Señorita' produces wonderful large, peach, cherry and salmon-pink blooms each with ruffled, ribbon-like petals. These reliable plants produce a bumper crop and the more you harvest, the more they bloom, providing colour from mid-summer to autumn.

So named for their unique spiky appearance, Cactus Flowered Zinnias have semi double, large blooms each with re-curved, quilled and twisted petals, they bloom in a wide range of colours. Growing 75cm tall, with thick straight stems, they are perfect for a bouquet or for the vase.

In Zinnias, 'Dahlia-flowered' means multi-petaled, piled up, dome-shaped blooms that really do resemble dahlias. 'Dahlia-Flowered Salmon' feature gorgeous, large 8 to 10cm (3 to 4in) salmon-pink blooms. Extremely easy to grow from seed, they provide colour from mid-summer to autumn.

Popular wonderful flowers, reminiscent of Dahlias on tall robust plants, Zinnia elegans 'Dahlia-Flowered Rose' are extremely easy to grow from seed, they provide colour from mid-summer to autumn and with thick straight stems that are less likely to bend when being cut. They are perfect for cut flowers.

Popular wonderful flowers, reminiscent of Dahlias on tall robust plants, Zinnia elegans 'Dahlia-Flowered Pink' are extremely easy to grow from seed, they provide colour from mid-summer to autumn and with thick straight stems that are less likely to bend when being cut. They are perfect for cut flowers.

Xeranthemum 'Lumina' is a hardy annual and one of the prettiest of all the everlasting flowers. The attractive double crested paper-like blooms stand gracefully aloft strong stems, they are simply charming in borders with an abundance of dainty blossoms in four distinct colours of white, rose, crimson and purple.

Cultivated in Switzerland in 2004 from the famous 'Queen Charlotte', One would think that 'Reine de Neiges', or 'Snow Queen' would be a white bloomer. The flowers are almost white, a clear crisp ice-blue. Long blooming and upward facing, their fragrance is intense.

Introduced in Germany in 1900, 'Konigin Charlotte' are famously grown for their perfume. The violet coloured flowers are extremely fragrant, This cultivar is unique in that its flowers turn upward making them viewer friendly. It is also one of the longest flowering violets with scented flowers.

To garden with an Oudolf-esque plant like Veronicastrum, it is not necessary to turn your outdoor space into a prairie: you are allowed to keep your flower beds. Naturalistic planting travels well, and Veronicastrum holds its own in a formal border as well as in the middle of a lawn which has turned into a meadow.