Cottage Garden Seed
A splendour of fragrance and colour outside your door, a hand-picked gift for your friend, or a simple posy to brighten a room. Everyone loves flowers and other ornamental plants. Here you will find many cottage garden classics, as well as unusual additions that will be hard to find elsewhere. The right-hand column lists our selection using their botanical name. To search using their common nameuse the search button on the left hand side of the page. If you’re in the mood to browse, click on the ‘garden tour’ button on the right for a virtual wander down our garden path.
This multi-stemmed cottage plant is covered in dozens of small, spiny, steel-blue flowers in summer and autumn. Over the cooler months, the flower bracts have a green, silvery sheen. An evergreen, salt-tolerant perennial that grows easily in well-drained, soil with extra lime and full sun. Beautiful, long lasting cut flower, fresh or dried. 20 seeds.
A popular large, pyramid shaped plant that is sweetly scented. This annual is used for it dark green fern-like foliage that is used in flower arrangement or for drying (where the scent is retained). Small yellow flowers are produced in late summer. Plants can be cut anytime for foliage displays or drying. 150 seeds.
The pineapple lily is a hardy perennial that is easy to grow and deserve a spot in any garden. Beautiful purple striped racemes of white flowers with prominent purple tepal margins and ovaries appear in late summer. The leaves are light green with attractive wavy margins to 70 cm long. Can be grown easily in pots. Flowers need support in exposed areas. 30 seeds.
A mix of colours (blue, lilac, pink and chocolate maroon) all with striped and flushed 2-tone flowers. A strong climber or ground cover. This annual grows well in fertile moist soil in a warm spot protected from the wind. A heavily scented, beautiful cut flower. 15 seeds.
A beautiful annual or short-lived perennial covered in lime green, hanging, tubular flower bells for most of the year. Belonging to the Tobacco family this tough, self-seeding, border plant, prefers a sunny, part shady position with well-drained soil. Native to Brazil. All parts are poisonous if eaten. 100 seeds. No.1. Not to WA.
An impressive evergreen grass that flowers in summer with golden arching oat like flower heads to 1.8m. The plants retain the seed heads into the autumn where they provide a good architectural feature in the garden. The flower and seed heads can be used in flower arrangements or dried. 20 seeds.
A long flowering attractive plant that provides a touch of elegance to the cottage garden with a mass of white starry flowers with pink veins in summer. Used in flower arrangements. Prefers cool-temperate areas, in warmer climates provide midday shade. Can be used as a ground cover when planted as a group. Deadhead to prolong flowering and self seeding. 20 seeds.
These ground-covering plants form large, evergreen carpets with a spectacular flowering display in summer. Vibrant colours range from white, pink, red, lemon to apricot with petals only opening on a sunny day. A heat and drought tolerant, succulent annual for full sun with good drainage. Excellent for mass displays or smaller pots. 200 seeds. No. 1.
This early blooming campanula produces large, funnel-shaped, purple flowers in dense clusters in spring and early summer. The hardiest of all tall bell flowers, it forms big clumps in a sunny position with limy garden soil. Hardy perennial for full sun/part shade. 300 seeds.
Ornamental kale provides something unique and unusual for the garden or bouquets. Florists love these attractive small headed leaf cabbages. Best grown in places where the temperature drops below 10˚C, so ideal for autumn and winter. ‘Sunset’ has red centre with dark outer leaves. 20 seeds.
