Cottage garden collection
cottage garden collection
- Position: full sun
- Soil: poor, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: average
- Hardiness: fully hardy
Create your own cottage garden with swathes of purple, blue and white wildflowers topped by flowering spikes which will last throughout the summer months.Chosen for their colour and beauty, these flowers attract birds, bees, butterflies and moths.
Collection Contains:
Centaurea cyanus
Oenothera biennis
Digitalis purpurea
Lupinus polyphyllus
Leucanthemum vulgare
Dipsacus fullonum - Garden care: After flowering cut back the faded flower-stems down to the ground and add them to your compost heap.
- Sow: March - October
- Flowering: June - September
- Approximate quantity: 2200seeds.
- Harmful if eaten
Goes well with
Nepeta × faassenii
£9.991000000973
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- Will these seeds flower in the first year?
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gardendude
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Hello, This collection does include some annuals, so there is a good chance that you will have some flowers this year (provided you get them sown pretty quickly), howver it is next year that you will really start to get a good show.
Helen
- Can you tell me the best way to plant these seeds - can I just rake and sow?
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Blossom
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Ideally the seeds should be sown in Spring or Autumn into a well-raked seed bed. Scatter the seed rake lightly and firm down well. Keep well watered and weeded in the early stages. There is sufficient seed in this packed to cover two square metres.
Helen
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