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Locally sourced seeds, carefully collected fresh each year.

I am offering a small range of seeds, all collected by myself, carefully and renewably.

All seed packs £1 each, containing a generous teaspoon-full of seeds.


Classic red poppy Papaver Rhoeas.
PAPAVER RHOEAS: Field or Flanders Poppy.

Classic red poppy with fine, feathery foliage.

Surface sow in late winter or early spring for your very own wildflower meadow.

 


Silver-grey foliage, elegant opium poppy or Papaver Somniferum.
PAPAVER SOMNIFERUM: Garden or Opium Poppy

Large showy poppies with tall blue-grey foliage and flowers ranging from pink to purple.

Sow in Spring as part of your own wildflower meadow, or to fill in a border.

Here you can see the range of colours you can expect from these seeds.

 


Persian Jewels: Nigella or Love in a Mist.
NIGELLA DAMASCENA: Persion Jewels, Love-in-a-Mist

Sow in spring for a succession of blue flowers, followed by inflated seedpods.

 


White Nigella or Love in a Mist.
WHITE NIGELLA DAMASCENA: Persion Jewels, Love-in-a-Mist

Sow in spring for a succession of clear white flowers, followed by inflated seedpods.

NOTE: Although collected from a bed of White-flowered plants, this cannot be guaranteed.

 


Honesty or Lunaria Annua: the pink flowers are pretty enough but the seedpods are like silk
LUNARIA ANNUA: Honesty, Silver Dollars

Biennial

Sow in early summer for flowers the following: the pink flowers are pretty enough, but they are followed by translucent seedpods, which look as though they were made of silk.

Perfect for flower arrangers.

 


Digitalis or Foxglove: classic cottage garden plant
DIGITALIS: Foxglove

Surface sow in spring. Wash hands after handling seeds. Note - these seeds are tiny! Colours will be variable.

 


Eryngium Giganteum or Miss Willmott's ghost
ERYNGIUM GIGANTEUM : "Miss Willmott’s Ghost"
Sea Holly (Biennial)

Sow in spring for flowers the next year. Be careful not to weed them out, the first year!

 


Delphinium: tall cottage garden favourite.
DELPHINIUM: Classic cottage-garden favourite

Sow in early autumn, or wait until next spring.

These often need staking, as the flowers are very heavy. For the best blooms, stake them when they are barely knee-high, before the flowers open.

 


Aquilegia or Columbine: classic cottage garden favourite
AQUILEGIA: Columbine, Granny’s Bonnets

Sow in Autumn: seeds require a period of cold before they will germinate. Colours will be very variable!

 


Aquilegia or Columbine: classic cottage garden favourite
YELLOW AQUILEGIA: Columbine, Granny’s Bonnets

Sow in Autumn: seeds require a period of cold before they will germinate.

Seed collected from a bed of Aquilegia Chrysantha, so most seedlings will be yellow, but this cannot be guaranteed!

 


Later this year, I hope to be offering selected wildflowers as well - so watch this page!

Any questions, do feel free to e-mail me, the address is rachel-the-gardener@ntlworld.com.