Cottage Garden Seeds

A hardy annual with attractive lavender coloured flowers and bright green leaves that have a minty lemon scent when crushed. The leaves are excellent for making herbal tea, flavouring salads and add a great flavour when cooked with fish or gamey meats. The flowers are two tiered and the seed heads can be dried and used in arrangements. Approx. 100 seeds.
 

Beebalm is a hardy perennial growing to 110 cm & has a long history of medicinal use where both the flowers and leaves have been used. The mostly red flowers were used by North Americans Indians to make tea which were used in treatments for colds, stomach aches and insomnia. The edible flowers and aromatic leaves are also used as a culinary addition. As the name implies, Beebalm attracts bees and other beneficial insects. Used as a cut flower. 35 seeds.

A hardy perennial with aromatic foliage and lilac-purple flowers that are magnets for honey bees and other beneficial insects. Growing to 80 cm high it can be planted in a wide range of soils in full sun to part shade. A versatile plant whose leaves are used for tea, culinary and medicinal purposes. Also used as a cut flower. Handles dry conditions. No. 1. 150 seeds.

With its quaint bright blue flowers the Forget Me Not is a favourite in many cottage gardens. A biennial or short lived perennial that flowers in early spring, once established in the correct spot it will happily reappear for you. Handles sun and shade. Use in rock gardens, pots, edging, woodland gardens, wildflower meadows and rocky slopes. 200 seeds.

A Forget Me Not with white flowers rather than the quaint bright blue flowers of the classic Forget Me Not. A biennial or short lived perennial that flowers in early spring, once established in the correct spot it will happily reappear for you. Handles sun and shade. Use in rock gardens, pots, edging, woodland gardens, wildflower meadows and rocky slopes. 100 seeds.

An easy to grow evergreen perennial herb with aromatic, greyish-green leaves. Great for garden and path edges as it adds a soft touch to hard borders. The whitish or light lavender flowers bloom in summer. Cats love this hardy plant. The leaves are used in herbal tea and are said to be good for treating cold/flu symptoms. Dried leaves keep their scent & can be used in pot-pourri or as an insect repellent. Grows to 50cm. 100 seeds.

This useful, evergreen, edging plant has aromatic spikes of small lavender coloured flowers. The leaves are loved by cats. A hardy perennial groundcover that has a long flowering period over summer, extended by deadheading old flowers. It has cool grey-blue foliage and likes well-drained soil. Young leaves have a mint flavour and can be used in salads or for herbal tea. Divide in spring or autumn. 100 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. 70 seeds. No.1. Not to WA.
 

The woodland tobacco is a classy plant that has sweetly scented, long, white tubular flowers that droop from dense panicles. A short lived perennial, growing to 1.5m. When in full flower the heads are eye catching (like a graceful explosion). Flowers over a long period, in cool areas it will flower until frost. Perfect in mixed borders or semi-wild gardens. Leaves are sticky. Self seeds. Grown as an annual in frosty areas. 150 seeds.
 

This popular, frost-hardy annual produces very beautiful, spurred, pure-white flowers over spring and summer. The bright-green feathery foliage is followed by an attractive large seed pod which turns red-brown in autumn. Both seed pods and flowers keep well in a vase. It is easily grown in average garden soil in a sunny to part shady position where it will self-seed. 200 seeds.

An old-fashioned annual bearing unusually spurred, blue, pink and white flowers in late spring and summer. Its attractive light-green seed pod will turn red-brown in autumn. Frost-hardy, with bright-green, feathery and finely divided foliage, this cottage plant makes a beautiful cut flower. It is easily grown in average garden soil in a sunny to part shady position and self-seeds. 400 seeds.

A spicy yet sweet tasting basil that is also used for its flowers. Not only do the leaves and flowers have a culinary use this variety has been bred with long sturdy purple stems for use as a cut flower. The dark purple flower bracts, bi-colour purple & green foliage and cinnamon scent provide an interesting contribution to a bouquet. 200 seeds.