A selection from Nemesia speciosa, a new and delicate introduction from the African mountains. Compact mounds of bright green foliage are formed, liberally spangled with a long succession of confetti-like, purple-veined white flowers. ... Learn More

Exceedingly pretty white flowers with blue veined petals and a deep violet-blue spot at each petal tip. Very easy to grow and ideal for borders, edging or rock gardens. ... Learn More

Stunning purple to almost-black flowers with a frosted white edge and white undersides to petals. With a low-growing but spreading and trailing habit, Penny Black is perfect for ground cover and provides excellent contrast for containers and hanging baskets. ... Learn More

An easily grown annual, Baby Blue Eyes will produce an abundance of exquisite, blue-and-white, saucer-shaped flowers all summer. This low spreading shrub-like plant is particularly suitable for rockeries, containers, baskets or massed as border plants in annual gardens. ... Learn More

Large, white-centred, blue funnel-shaped flowers appear over an extended period above lush green foliage. One of the fastest growing plants yopu will ever find, it can reach three feet in only eight weeks after an early summer sowing! It is called the "Shoo-fly Plant" as it is reputed to deter whitefly. ... Learn More

This lovely variation carries large, white-centred, blue funnel-shaped flowers over lush foliage dramatically splashed with creamy yellow. Can reach three feet in only eight weeks after an early summer sowing! The "Shoo-fly Plant" is reputed to deter whitefly. ... Learn More

Nocturnally fragrant, long-tubed, yellowish-green to white flowers, much larger than most other forms, appear on this ornamental plant. Numerous cultivars, hybrids and uses have been derived from this superb species. Indeed, in Iran, narghila tobacco is sometimes produced from it where it is not chopped like cigarette tobacco, but is broken up by hand. This variety has bigger flowers than most tobaccos as you can see right into their innards when they are fully open. ... Learn More

These are the ones which everyone grows to perfume their own gardens and often the entire neighbourhood's! Striking tall border plants in a dazzling variety of colours produce long, star-shaped flowers profusely all summer long. These gorgeous flowers remain open during the day, but in the evening, the powerful fragrance from the many coloured blooms will fill the air. ... Learn More

One of the valued introductions of recent years. Makes a solid bushy thicket with an endless succession of greenish-yellow pendulous flowers. ... Learn More

Large compact clusters of chubby, greeny-yellow flowers, have widely flared lips. This flower is an ideal talking point for people searching for new plants, and the common name is a perfect description as it does indeed resemble one of these Victorian caps. In addition it is a very potent variety of tobacco and is also used for entheogenic purposes by South American shamans, as it contains up to nine times more nicotine than common North American smoking varieties such as Nicotiana tabacum. In Russia, it is called "makhorka", and it was smoked before normal tobacco became widely available, ... Learn More

This lovely plant is actually a species of wild tobacco known by the common names of "Woodland Tobacco" or "South American Tobacco". It is native to South America, and is often grown in gardens for its scented flowers, which can be quite overpowering at night, so as to attract pollinating moths. This is one of the plants from which the leaves can be dried and used for smoking although we do not recommend this practice ... Learn More

One of the most spectacular of all of the flowering tobaccos, this easy-to-grow annual makes a dazzling display of lime-green flowers from early summer onwards. It does best if sown in situ, although in colder climes it can be sown early under cover before being transplanted. They are moth pollinated,so pour out the fragrance when the moths are around in the evening. ... Learn More

(N.Knightiana) We must apologise to Mike Oldfield, but tubular bells, thousands of long green ones, are what heavily clad the countless thin dividing branches on this new exciting dense shrubby plant. A fascinating introduction. ... Learn More

Large showy blue flowers open over finely-cut, feathery, almost fern-like foliage and are perfect for cutting, whilst the inflated seed-pods are also popular with flower arrangers. They may gently self-seed but very rarely become a nuisance! ... Learn More

A beautiful variety of Nigella that, in summer, produces a mass of sky-blue flowers borne over the finely cut green foliage. The flower heads are followed by attractive seed pods which can be dried for winter decorations. Excellent for cut flowers and a favourite for scattering wherever there’s a gap in the flower border. ... Learn More