A little history.

Our Flowers
Sweet peas are our most popular flower – with good reason. There is no more elegant flower, there is no other flower whose scent can transform a room so wonderfully, there is no other flower with such a range of subtle colours. But growing them outside is difficult, keeping a long season is near impossible, we do our best. After all, you don’t want to pick them in a sweaty poly-tunnel.


Antirrhinum are probably the best designed cut flower ever. They last for weeks in the vase, when they are past their best, they simply shed a lower floret and carry on. They have a lovey range of colours and are bold centre-pieces for any arrangement. Easy to grow outside (hurrah!) and with a long season. They have to be nurtured in the first few weeks (sown in February) but apart from that just brilliant,
Zinnia have all of the glamour of Dahlias but with one great advantage, they are more robust to rain and wind. We used to grow Dahlia (and may again) but an ill timed summer thunderstorm could ruin the whole bed. Zinnia last forever and we have a range of colours, nothing very subtle perhaps but if you look closely the wonderful complexity of the blooms each is an artwork in itself


Do we grow globe thistle (echinops) or do they grow themselves? We did plant a few, way back but since then I think they have pretty much grown themselves. With many perennials we have a problem keeping the perennial weeds out but echinops is tough. I love electric blue and this is also a great flower for drying (though not pressing), because of its shape and structure.
Statice are a filler, a background, supporting cast to the main event? Well they can be but they are better than that.
