Achillea filipendulina Cloth of Gold

Free flowering, Achillea Cloth of Gold is an indispensible border plant, with flat, plate-like 4-6 inch mustard yellow flower heads of easy culture and ideal for mixed borders or cutting. The flat flower heads of Achillea Cloth of Gold can also be dried and used as "everlastings". Flowers mid to late summer. Height: 5ft.

Achillea millefolium Cassis

Many stems with masses of attractive, intense cherry red flowers, over a very long period. Achillea Cassis is a first year flowering perennial, making an excellent border filler and cut flower.

Achillea millefolium Summer Berries F2 Hybrid

An easy to grow, first year flowering perennial, Achillea Summer Berries is ideal for adding a sumptuous mixture of fruity colours to borders.

Achillea Summer Berries makes an excellent cut or dried flower, as well as attracting bees and butterflies to your garden.

Height: 60-75cm (24-30in).

Achillea millefolium Summer Pastels F2

A completely new concept in hardy perennials. Achillea Summer Pastels is easy to grow, flowering in just 4 months from sowing and producing lots of flowers from spring to first frosts. The colour range of Achillea Summer Pastels is too wide to describe but includes cream, butter, lemon, all imaginable shades of salmon, orange, red, plus mustard, ochre, bronze, grey and beige, in fact, almost the complete spectrum of pastels. Suitable for border, pots, containers and even windowboxes, or as a flowering pot plant. Flowers can be used fresh or dried. Flowers spring to summer. Height: 60cm (2ft).

Actinotus helianthi

The pure white star blooms of this Australian native, have an intriguing flannel - like texture. Actinotus is sure to make a talking point in the border, as well as an unusual dried flower.

Ageratum houstonianum Blue Mink

A compact plant bearing powder-blue flowers.

Bushy, compact, uniform plants excellent for bedding and edging. Remove spent blooms.

Height: 23-30cm (9-12in)

Annual Grasses Mixed

Wisps and crowns, plumes and spikes, pendulous and cloud like - they are all here in one embracing mixture. Invaluable if you never have enough material available for your arrangements. Ideal for bedding, border, everlasting flowers.

Packet should contain: Agrostis nebulosa, Agrostis pulchella, Briza maxima, Briza gracillis, Brome macrostachys, Brome uniloides, Festuca glauca, Panicum violaceum, Sorghum nigrum.

Astilbe arendsii Showstar

An attractive dwarf mixture of tightly packed upright plumes, ranging from white to cream, through pink shades to red. Very compact, bushy plants, perfect for containers or the front of borders.

Height: 30-45cm (12-18in)

Briza maxima

Graceful, pendant, nodding flowers adding elegance and feeling to summer and winter decorations. Particularly useful at Christmas when they can be sprayed silver, gold etc,. Very easy to grow to perfection.

Candytuft : Dwarf Fairyland Mixed

Very easy to grow, low compact plant that comes into flower quickly from seed. The colours of Candytuft Dwarf Fairyland Mixed radiate through lilac, silver, pink , maroon, carmine and white and after flowering leave behind exquisite seed heads- just right for everlasting flower arrangements.

Catananche caerulea

An easy to raise, free flowering plant for the front of the border. The brilliant sky blue flowers are freely produced and are excellent for cutting, lasting a long time in water. They can also be dried for winter decoration. Will flower the same year from a late winter sowing. Flowers summer. Height 60cm (2ft).

Catananche caerulea bicolor

This first-year flowering hardy perennial is the rarer white form of the blue Cupid's Dart. White semi-double star-like flowers, occasionally flecked with blue, 5cm (2in), stand upon long wiry stems held well above the neat grey green foliage. Together with the silvery buds, this plant makes an eye-catching cut flower, or border plant. Height: 60-90cm (24-36in).

Eryngium alpinum Blue Lace

A spectacular alpinum selection with impressive long lasting clear violet-blue terminal flower heads on stunning blue stems.

Makes an eye-catching addition to any border, and an attractive cut flower.

Height: 85cm (34in).

Eryngium giganteum Miss Wilmott's Ghost

A highly ornate border plant with heart-shaped basal foliage from which rise stems of many decorative steel-blue cones surrounded by a collar of prickly, scalloped leaves. During the summer the foliage transforms from mid green to silvery-grey. Wonderful for dried arrangements, especially at Christmas. Plants can be short lived but often self seed before dying. Height: 90-100cm (36-40in).

Eryngium leavenworthii

An attractive annual originating from the North American prairies. This species has the unusual characteristic unlike other Eryngiums, to flower quickly from seed in the first year. Each plant will produce spectacular spiky glaucus foliage which changes to a rich purple colour on the cones and bracts, followed by reddish-purple tinge in the autumn.

Ideal for adding structure to annual borders, as well as making a decorative long lasting cut flower.

Height 50-90cm (20-36in)

Gourd - Crown Of Thorns

Wonderful small fruits of creamy-white to green and yellow striped. Uniquely shaped, resembling a crown.