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BUY WITH CONFIDENCE.  All seeds hand-harvested as they ripen, I return time after time after time to each plant to ensure seeds are picked when naturally ripe, that means germination should be easy and prolific.

 HOW MANY SEEDS IN A PACKET? Usually 'enough'! Usually at least 25 seeds and usually many more (100s if not 1000s), unless stated below where you'll see the lowest number is 6 so buy carefully!  Certainly plenty to germinate enough seedlings, Hint, do not sow too thickly to avoid having problems at pricking-out times.  Occasionally I have to use last years seeds when this years are out of stock... no worries, I will double the packet size to make up for any reduction in viability.

Verbena rigida    = slender Vervain... but I haven’t heard of this common name!  Rich purple flowers on a low spreading plant. Sow March-July

Antirrhinum mix = good old snapdragons! mainly from pinks and cerise shades, an odd white or yellow may also creep in. These are the old fashioned tall ones that will come back each year... and seed around if you let them! Sow Feb-July

Nettle-leaved bellflower = Campanula trachelium  One of my plants I never want to be without. So many bellflowers are fussy and so quickly eaten by slugs, not this stalwart, and it’ll self-sow for you if you let it. Sow spring/summer. Sow Feb-June... note, tiny seeds so tiny seedlings, don’t sow too thickly!  Now also the ethereal white double form. 

Daucus carota ‘Purple Kisses’= a special purple flowered ornamental carrot! Honest! I must admit, to me they are more burgundy than purple... and I never took a pic when fully open, sorry. Although carrots are biennials, some of these flowered the first year from seed... so acted an annual. Sow as soon as you get the seeds.

Geranium palmatum = extraordinary and special One of my absolute favourites. Not always hardy in the colder areas of the UK, I suggest siting them in a sheltered position, and close to a wall, fence or shrub to give protection. Even if they happen to die in winter (mine have survived the heavy frosts before Christmas... most unusual here... killed top growth of my osteospermums), its nearly worth it for the first year foliage alone... very lacy, lush and exotic looking. Sow outside in (late) April/May, or in a sheltered spot/under glass from March.

Geum Ladies Mix!  This is seeds from ‘Mrs Bradshaw’ and ‘Lady Stratheden’. Mrs is a great scarlet colour and the Lady is yellow. Both have flowers about 50-60cms tall, waving over shorter, interesting foliage. Sow winter/spring/early summer

Sweet Rocket, Hesperis Great late spring biennial/perennial growing quite tall, about 3-4’ in flower, arising from a short clump of medium sized leaves. Scented, clove/carnation type of fragrance.  Sow March-June

Impatiens balfourii = Poor man’s orchid. Note Schizanthus also has that common name. Highly desirable hardy/half-hardy annual.  Sow April (earlier with protection). Like a shorter, bushier Himalayan Balsam. Will self-seed. DO NOT GROW if you have a watercourse in/by your garden or the seeds (explosively distributed) could potentially invade streams/rivers like its bigger relative does, not a good thing for the environment. Sow Late March -May

Sidalcea ex ‘Party Girl’ Seems to come true from seed in my garden, and also can flower the year you sow them (and from then on). Sow March-June

Silene Ray’s Golden Campion = Golden leaved form of our wild Rose Campion. Golden leaves light up garden areas well, strongest yellow foliage in full sun. Sow March-June

Magenta Spreen= Tree Spinach. One of my ornamental yet edible garden annuals. In decent conditions, expect a large plant a good meter tall, and possibly as wide, sow March on, and enjoy the incredible magenta shoots in your salads!

ychnis coronaria ex cerise form of rose campion, dusty miller.

Lychnis coronaria ex ‘Alba’ = White form of rose campion, dusty miller. Furry, low growing silver foliage, from which soar the silver stems bearing, here, white flowers. Sow Feb-June.

Lychnis coronaria ex ‘Angel’s Blush’ = Occulata form of rose campion, dusty miller. Furry, low growing silver foliage, from which soar the silver stems bearing, here, blushed white flowers. Sometimes the plant has more white, sometimes more plink flowers, it varies, interestingly, through the season!  Sow Feb-June.

Poppy, red, black semi-double  I grew this for the first time on 2020 and am struck by the strong vigorous growth and proliferation of flowers. Sow feb/April... they don’t take root disturbance so sow direct or in modules.

Poppies mix, =  includes the above, and shirley poppies singles and doubles, with some opium poppies as well A great selection, sow where they are to flower, or in modules to transplant

Malope trifida  Quick growing hardy annual, sow March/April.  large flowers, rather like popular Lavatera, on plants to about 50-60 cms tall. Gotta grow this for its specific name alone... a trifid!!!!

Malva moschata = musk mallow, pink. I particularly appreciate perennials that will flower the first year from seed, from an early sowing... Feb-April should do it.  The first year the plants will be more scrawny but the following years they’ll broaden out nicely.

Meconopsis cambrica = Papaver cambricum = Welsh Poppy. Buy your Welsh poppy seeds from Wales!  Bright clear yellow-flowered perennials, sow Jan-June. Germination often slow and erratic... please be patient and don’t let the seed compost dry out. It’s ok to transplant seedlings, unlike most other poppies.

Meconopsis cambrica aurantaica = Papaver cambricum = Welsh Poppy from rare orange forms Buy your Welsh poppy seeds from Wales!  Shades of orange-flowered perennials, sow Jan-June. Germination often slow and erratic... please be patient and don’t let the seed compost dry out. It’s ok to transplant seedlings, unlike most other poppies.

Meconopsis cambrica DOUBLE aurantaica  = Papaver cambricum = Welsh Poppy from rare orange DOUBLE forms Buy your Welsh poppy seeds from Wales!  These double flowered ones are highly desirable, and so rare that garden visitors often have difficulty knowing what on earth these can be! Shades of orange-flowered perennials, which should give a good proportion of full double flowers, sow Jan-June. Germination often slow and erratic... please be patient and don’t let the seed compost dry out. It’s ok to transplant seedlings, unlike most other poppies

Bowles’ Golden Grass = Milium effusum. All seedlings should come true so you will see the golden colouration as they germinate. hardy perennial, Sow almost anytime.

Giant quaking grass = Briza maxima fantastic annual grass that will be with you forever as it self-sows! Keep it in check by collecting the ‘flower’ heads in a vase indoors... they will dry naturally and last years.  At Gardeners’ World Live Plant Heritage display garden I labelled these and wrote ‘please touch me’.... to later find out that people automatically read it as ‘please do not touch me’ !!! So tactile... you just have to reach out!

Schizostylis coccinea = Hesperantha coccinea = Kaffir Lily. What a delight! An easy-to-grow bulb with dramatic scarlet flowers in autumn when most plants well past their best. You may still have some flowers at Christmas....  Sow whenever you have the seeds.

.Cerinthe major purpurascens   20 seeds (H)HA/B Glorious sight in full bloom, and best sown late season to make big plants to flower next year... if the winter is mild enough for the plants to survive... perhaps try some sown early and some late, say July/August?