Summer Seed Collection

Description

This amazing collection of stunning flowers will fill your garden with blooms all summer long and well into autumn. We have selected some of the very best flowers that when is full bloom will complement each other effortlessly. A stunning mix of pinks, oranges, and purples that when planted together will create a magical cottage garden feel, and they’re great for cutting too. Wildflower Wild Foxglove Digitalis Purpurea: Velvet trumpets of pink-purple make this woodland native a must-have for wildlife gardens. Becoming rarer in the wild, foxgloves make very striking garden plants. Their beautifully dappled blooms attract pollinating insects and are a favourite of our native bumble bees. Growing to 60cm (24in). Sow outdoors, April-July, directly where they are to flower. Flowers May – July. Californian Poppy Monarch ‘Art Shades’: Californian Poppy ‘Monarch Art Shades’ is a compact and wonderfully colourful addition to the summer garden. The plants produces double or semi-double flowers in powerful shades of orange. Perfect in pots and at the front of borders or scattered amongst your planting to give intense highlights. Growing to 30cm (1ft). Sow outdoors, March-May or August-October, directly where they are to flower. Flowers June – August. Cosmos ‘Sensation Mixed’: Bring a classic cottage garden feel to your borders and large pots with Cosmos ‘Sensation’. Exceptionally free flowering, giving a succession of blooms. With its delicate feathery foliage ‘Sensation’ makes a lovely cut flower too. It’s pollen rich, yellow centres are a magnet for bees all summer long. Growing to 120cm (48in). Sow outdoors from April – May directly where they are to flower. Flowers June – October. Supplied as 3 x seed packets, 1 x foxgloves, approx. 900 seeds, 1 x Californian Poppy, approx. seeds, and 1 x Cosmos, approx. 200 seeds.