A later blooming, beautiful sunflower with 5-6" (12-15cm) flowerheads of golden petals with a ring of red surrounding the chocolate brown centre. Heavily branching, each plant will provide a good number of blooms, perfect for cutting or for a fiery display in your border. If not cut, flowers may produce seeds for wildlife, another benefit to growing any sunflower. ... Learn More

Attractive racemes of dazzling, showy, bright red pea-like flowers, open over a long period, followed by sizeable, pink-tinged, bladdery, inflated seed capsules, which many children love to "pop" with an audible bang!Probably the most beautiful of any berry.. ... Learn More

This unusual Spencer Sweet Pea has exceptionally large, fragrant, bold, cherry red flowers, and it was specially bred to have up to 8 florets on long stems, making it ideal for cutting or for showing. ... Learn More

This incredible multi-coloured variety was developed from traditional Indian corn and produces long cobs with kernels of yellow, red, black, purple, pink, even marbled! The corn grows to of a height of between 1.5m and 2.0m. The cobs are often used for decorative purposes but the kernels are completely edible if you want a change from uniform cobs. In fact this makes great pop corn. Just brush the cob with butter and put the cob in a microwaveable dish with cling film on top into the microwave. ... Learn More

This delightful, fast-growing lewisia relative bears impressive rosettes of succulent golden yellow leaves, above which arise up many red-stemmed dainty sprays of pink gypsophila-like flowers. It is excellent either in the garden or in a container. ... Learn More

Cyphomandra betacea 'Yellow', commonly known as Yellow Tamarillo or Yellow Tree Tomato, is a fast-growing, evergreen shrub or small tree native to the Andes region of South America. It produces large, heart-shaped leaves with a purple tinge, adding ornamental value to gardens. In spring to early summer, it bears clusters of small, fragrant, pink-white flowers, which give way to egg-shaped, glossy yellow fruits approximately 10 cm (4 inches) in length. The yellow fruits have a milder, sweeter flavor compared to the red variety, making them ideal for fresh consumption or culinary uses such as ja ... Learn More

The flowers clusters of this unusual British native, which is dioecious, with separate male and female plants, are greenish-yellow, with the male flowers produced in slender 5-10 cm racemes. However, its main attraction is in autumn and early winter, when the sizeable bunches of dazzling red berries, which are not edible, become extremely conspicuous as they have twined through the now leafless hedges. So do not consume any part of this plant! An unusual, and most attractive British native, it has an unusual growth habit in that it climbs through the hedgerow like a vine, vigorously weaving it ... Learn More

Taraxacum officinale, commonly known as dandelion, is a well-known perennial plant belonging to the Asteraceae family. Dandelion is characterized by a basal rosette of deeply lobed leaves. The plant produces distinctive yellow flowers, each consisting of numerous tiny ray florets. The flower heads are borne on hollow stems that rise above the foliage. After flowering, dandelions form the iconic spherical seed head known as a "dandelion clock" or "parachute ball." Each seed is attached to a feathery pappus, allowing it to be carried by the wind. Dandelions typically bloom in spring and early su ... Learn More

This rare and most unusual dwarf "dandelion" makes a tiny rosette of beetroot-red, almost black leaves, with short-stemmed yellow flowers. An attractive little gem which could certainly never become a weed, it sets very few seeds for a start!! ... Learn More

"Fringe Cups" A North American plant suited to a shaded spot producing, from solid clumps of hairy leaves, numerous long arching stems each bearing racemes of many lime green flowers which age to a deep wine. Long-loved by flower arrangers as a cut flower. ... Learn More

Impressive sprays of pink-lipped, lime green flowers age to red on numerous stems, over a clump of rounded hairy purple-brown leaves. A fabulous, long...long-lived hardy plant! ... Learn More

This is a brand new, drought-tolerant variety, forms of which are now on sale at high prices, with sprays of green and pink flower opening on arching stems in late spring. The leaves are attractively marked with silver in spring and summer before turning shades of bronze with bright red veining in the autumn and winter. The markings and colours on the foliage of these seedlings will vary so choose the prettiest to grow on. ... Learn More

The only one Graham Stuart Thomas cares to describe and what a beauty it is! A priceless mid and late summer plant, with crowded spikes of deep purplish-red flowers above a low bush of aromatic sage-like growth. ... Learn More

This lovely shrub or small tree has glossy dark green leaves, and fragrant saffron-yellow to orange or peach coloured flowers. The long funnel-shaped flowers are in terminal clusters and produce deep red fruits which form black seed pods and are not edible. It makes an ideal container plant for a sunny deck or patio. In USA Zones 8-10, these plants are used in a variety of landscape applications including hedges, screens, foundation plantings and borders. Native to the West Indies, southern Mexico and Belize, the generic name of this tropical evergreen shrub honours the 16th century French Fra ... Learn More

Masses of goblet shaped, carmine-red flowers open amidst dark green, deeply-carved, soft fuzzy leaves on this very rare shrub, which can eventually become a compact tree. A magnet for butterflies and bees, in the wild it is actually pollinated by hummingbirds, where it thrives high in the cloud forests and paramo of the Andes, in Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador between 2400 and 3800 m. Seldom yet seen in cultivation, it will make an outstanding specimen in cool temperate climates. ... Learn More