Summer flowers

An old cottage garden biennial plant. The flower stems grow from a rosette of leaves and can reach 200 cm in height. Cut back in winter. It is ideal for planting along walls and fences or towards the back of a flower border. Althea rosa typically ger...

Edible Amaranth with its impressive hanging flowers, dark read stems and camouflage-coloured leaves is a decorative single plant for sunny sites. The dark red flowers are particularly effective among perennials or in front of shrubs. Can also be grou...

The bushy Umbellifer is an old cottage garden and medicinal plant and an exception food plant for insects. The large white umbels can be combine with virtually every other summer flower and make a wonderful addition to coloured flower arrangements. ...

A colourful and many sided garden perennial, for wild gardens. Anise Hyssop can be sown direct and propages well by self-seeding. The vigorous plant smells of anise and mint. The flowers attract numerous insects and it is particularly loved by butter...

This extraordinary and colourful sunflower is rich in contrast with its lemon yellow petals and black centres. The branching, half-tall plants need full sun and a rich soil.

Small flowered, dark yellow sunflower with a brown centre. Flower diameter approximately 10 cm. The plants grow up to one metre high, branch out and produce many flowers. Long and very upright side shoots and lasts well in a vase. Suitable for profe...

Sunflower 'La Torre' has more than one stem, a branching habit and grows up to two metres high. The flowers tend to be small, around 15 cm in diameter and appear in pale yellow, yellow and red tones. It is an excellent cut flower. Sunflowers need ri...

An unusual sunflower with expressive, velvet red-brown colour, an eye catching plant bfor the cottage garden. The diameter of the flowers reach 20 cm. Rich soil and plenty of water are needed for strong plants. Suitable for professional flower grower...

Strongly branching variety producing many bright yellow flowers with dark centres in late summer. Regular cutting for the vase will encourage more flowers. This sunflower with its many small flowers (diameter around 10 cm) as also a valuable bee pla...

Striking plant, growing up to 2 metres with long, lance-like, dark green leaves and radiant, orange-coloured, velvety tube-like flowers which appear curling above one another. Fine solitary plants which flower long into autumn. Favourite insect plant...

An old medicinal plant which is protected in the wild. Arnica with its attractive, gold yellow flower heads demands a place in every sunny flower border. It needs loose poor and acidic-tending soils with a good humus content. It flowers from the seco...

Large decorative, ornamental plant with great visibility. The daisy-shaped orange-red flowers continue flowering well into the autumn. They need a sunny place and humus-rich soil containing clay.

Growing to a height of up to 120 cm Clary Sage has a very imposing appearance. In its favoured situations Clary Sage will seed itself and ensure its continued presence in the garden. When flowering begins the whole plant gives off a scent. It is a pl...

Well known medicinal herb and preparation plant which can grow up to 1.5 m. The herb requires a sunny position and a soil rich in nutrients. Valerian is particularly decorative in a summer flower border. The scented flowers attract numerous insects....

A sea of lilac-blue parasols that seem to float upon high stems. Recommended for wild gardens since they will be visited by many butterflies and moths such as the Hummingbird Hawkmoth. The seeds take a long time to germinate and we recommend pre-coo...