This Cornflower is commonly known as the Great Blue-bottle for its blue flowers with a pink/purple tinge in the centre, during summer. Centaurea montana has simple silvery-green leaves and is known ..
This is a mound-forming perennial with silvery-green lance-shaped leaves which create the perfect backdrop for its striking pink cornflower flowers each with a dark pink centre. C.m 'Joyce' spreads ..
This form of perennial Cornflower has deep green lance-shaped leaves. At the top of upright stems stunning purple cornflowers with tubular petals appear from late spring into summer.
This low growing Knapweed has finely divided foliage of a silvery-green colour. The small pinkie mauve flowers stand on upright stems which protrude from the mound-forming foliage.
The jewel bright colour combination of this perennial is quite wonderful with vivid blue flowers highlighted by red stems and green foliage - great autumnal colour
'Innocence' has an upright habit, with several stems forming a tight clump with dark green foliage. During the autumn misty pink daisy-like flower heads protrude.
During autumn small, double, vibrant yellow blooms appear in sprays on upright stems covered in deep green foliage. 'Yellow Pom Pom' is a good hardy garden variety which will make perfect cut flowers
Thistle-like flowers bloom red/purple during spring and summer. Cirsium rivulare 'Atropurpureum' is a form of Plume Thistle, it is an upright clump forming perennial. Divided, non-prickly leaves form
'Trevor's Blue Wonder' is not truly blue, in fact it has light purple flowers during late spring and early summer. This clump-forming thistle-like perennial has divided, spineless foliage which ...