Summer Seed Collection

A well planned border is a magnificent sight in summer! Add some delightful colour to your garden with this great-value flower collection. This specially selected collection of seeds offers variety, vibrancy and great value. Summer flowering annuals are ideal for creating a quick and easy parade of colour for your borders and containers.  With so many to choose from, it can be hard to decide which annuals to grow for the most effective display. We've grouped together these varieties to help you make the best of your borders. 

Collection comprises:

• Cosmos bipinnatus 'Lemonade™' (30 seeds) - Fabulous pale yellow cosmos with striking central white eye. Our plant breeding team took a very bright yellow, but late-flowering Japanese cosmos variety and crossed it with earlier-flowering cosmos with better, shorter habits. The resulting delicate, subtle yellow blossoms of Cosmos 'Lemonade' are produced en masse throughout the summer on short, branching cosmos plants. Height: 60cm (24"). Spread: 40cm (16").
• Nasturtium 'Chameleon' (20 seeds) - Not only do the summer flowers look like exotic orchids, they also change colour - check each bloom every few days - the switch needs to be seen to be believed! As easy to grow from seed as any other Nasturtium. This exclusive variety offers masses of colour on compact plants that won’t run rampant like other varieties can! Height: & Spread: Height: 30cm (12"). Spread: 35cm (14"). 
• Foxglove 'Excelsior Hybrid Mixed' (2500 seeds) - A most effective and spectacular strain of Foxgloves superb for shady shrub and tree areas, back of borders and excellent for cut flowers. They can really bring the early summer garden alive! Flowers early summer. Height 150cm (59")
  Spread 45cm (18")
• Rudbeckia hirta 'Cherry Brandy' (60 seeds) - This stunning cultivar is the world’s first red Rudbeckia, and has gained huge popularity with UK gardeners. These robust plants have outstanding garden performance, producing a mass of attractive, cherry-coloured blooms all summer long.  Triumphing over heat and poor soils, these versatile coneflowers look stunning when planted beds, large patio containers, or as sweeping drifts in herbaceous borders. Height: 60cm (24"). Spread: 40cm (16"). 
• Myosotis sylvatica 'Royal Blue Improved' (250 seeds) - This Forget-Me-Not is a very early and free flowering variety bearing deep indigo-blue flowers to provide masses of colour in the garden in spring. Height 30cm (12") Spread 20cm (8")

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