Summer Seed Collection

Just £11.97
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Key Features

  • A gorgeous selection of seeds to fill your garden with shades of pinks, purples, and oranges.
  • Create extraordinary and perfect cottage garden theme with this stunning mix.
  • Each variety is adored by many beneficial pollinators such as bees and butterflies.
  • So easy to grow, sow them in their flowering position and you'll have thousands of blooms in no time.
  • Supplied as 3 x seed packets, 1 x foxgloves, approx. 900 seeds, 1 x Californian Poppy, approx. seeds, and 1 x Cosmos, approx. 200 seeds.
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Description

This amazing collection of stunning flowers will fill your garden with blooms all summer long and well into autumn.

We have selected some of the very best flowers that when is full bloom will complement each other effortlessly. A stunning mix of pinks, oranges, and purples that when planted together will create a magical cottage garden feel, and they're great for cutting too.

Wildflower Wild Foxglove Digitalis Purpurea: Velvet trumpets of pink-purple make this woodland native a must-have for wildlife gardens. Becoming rarer in the wild, foxgloves make very striking garden plants. Their beautifully dappled blooms attract pollinating insects and are a favourite of our native bumble bees. Growing to 60cm (24in). Sow outdoors, April-July, directly where they are to flower. Flowers May - July.

Californian Poppy Monarch 'Art Shades': Californian Poppy 'Monarch Art Shades' is a compact and wonderfully colourful addition to the summer garden. The plants produces double or semi-double flowers in powerful shades of orange. Perfect in pots and at the front of borders or scattered amongst your planting to give intense highlights. Growing to 30cm (1ft). Sow outdoors, March-May or August-October, directly where they are to flower. Flowers June - August.

Cosmos 'Sensation Mixed': Bring a classic cottage garden feel to your borders and large pots with Cosmos 'Sensation'. Exceptionally free flowering, giving a succession of blooms. With its delicate feathery foliage 'Sensation' makes a lovely cut flower too. It's pollen rich, yellow centres are a magnet for bees all summer long. Growing to 120cm (48in). Sow outdoors from April - May directly where they are to flower. Flowers June - October.

Supplied as 3 x seed packets, 1 x foxgloves, approx. 900 seeds, 1 x Californian Poppy, approx. seeds, and 1 x Cosmos, approx. 200 seeds.

Care Information

Wildflower Wild Foxglove Digitalis Purpurea

  • Sow 0.5cm (žin) deep, directly into prepared soil.
  • Before sowing, rake the soil to a fine tilth and water well.
  • When seedlings appear (usually 21-35 days) thin them to 25cm (10in) apart.
  • Water well and regularly until plants are established.
  • Outdoors, keep plants weed free to avoid competition.
  • Alternatively, sow seeds indoors, April-July, 0.5cm (žin) deep, in a tray of compost.
  • Water well and place in a cold frame, unheated greenhouse, or on a cool windowsill.
  • Transplant individually, when large enough to handle, to 7.5cm (3in) pots.
  • Gradually accustom young plants to outside conditions, before planting out into moist soil, September-October, 25cm (10in) apart.
  • Flowers: May to July, the following year.

Californian Poppy Monarch 'Art Shades'

  • Sow outdoors, 0.5cm (žin) deep, Mar - May or Aug - Oct.
  • Sow onto watered soil. Keep moist.
  • Seedlings usually appear in 14-28 days.
  • Thin to 15cm (6in) apart when large enough to handle.
  • Flowers: June - August.

Cosmos 'Sensation Mixed'

  • Sow indoors, February - April, 0.5cm (žin) deep, in trays of compost.
  • Water well and place in a warm position. A temperature of 15-20°C (60-68°F) is ideal.
  • Keep moist. Seedlings usually appear in 14-21 days.
  • Transplant 5cm (2in) apart, to other trays when large enough to handle, holding by a leaf, never by the stem. Grow on in cooler conditions.
  • Gradually accustom young plants to outside conditions before planting out, May-June, 30cm (1ft) apart, into well-drained soil, when all risk of frost has passed.
  • Alternatively, sow outdoors April - May where they are to flower, 1.5cm (―in) deep in finely prepared soil.
  • Flowers: June - October.
Delivery Information

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. Pre-ordered items will be sent as soon as possible after the date quoted and we'll generally ship your entire order with your pre-ordered items. When your order is dispatched, we'll send you another email with details of how to track it.

Most orders are sent on a fully-tracked courier service with Yodel. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, no signature is required, and our courier is asked to leave your order in a safe place on your property.

We'll send a tracking link when we dispatch your order, so you know when its due to arrive. Please note, once delivered we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your property. If you have any specific delivery instructions, please let us know - there's an option to enter a short message for the courier at the checkout.

Smaller, lighter, single-item orders may be sent through the post with Royal Mail - in which case no tracking is available.

Our experienced nursery team will always send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive when you plant them, so although most plants are very tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme frosts or heatwaves, we avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme weather is forecast, or over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

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