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Wallflower £5.95

Position:   full sunSoil: poor to moderately-fertile, well-drained, neutral to alkaline soil. Rate of growth: average to fast-growing Flowering period: February to July. Hardiness: fully hardy. This long-flowering, bushy, vigorous wallflower produces long spires of deep mauve flowers from late winter to summer above narrow, grey-green leaves. It is a short-lived plant, but makes a vivid display for months in a sunny border. Try it as part of a colour-themed scheme, or contrast it with vivid yellows. It also looks good in a rock garden or raised bed. Garden care: Requires little attention. Provide cloche protection where frosts are very severe or prolonged.This plant is featured in the In The Sun Collection. Click here to view the ready-made border design

Wildflower Border Collection £2.99

Position:   full sunSoil: poor, well-drained soil. Rate of growth: average Flowering period: April to July Flower colour: bright yellow, red, rose-pink and white. Other features: includes: Lotus corniculatus (bird's foot trefoil), Leucanthemum vulgare (Ox-eye daisy), Silene dioica (red campion) and Silene alba (white campion); all parts of bird's foot trefoil are harmful if ingested. Hardiness: fully hardy. Landlife Wildflower Seed Range: By choosing Landlife Wildflower seeds you are directly helping to save wildflowers and the wildlife that depend on them for there survival. Landlife is a charity (reg 290510) who plough. the profits from their sales into environmental activities in creative conservation - in other words developing new spaces for wildflowers to grow as well as safeguarding existing areas.A collection of four native wildflowers forming a tapestry of bright yellow, red, rose-pink and white from April to July. This wildflower border collection includes both spreading, procumbent and taller, slender species. It's perfect for creating a colourful wildflower border for difficult areas of the garden with poor, well-drained soil and for attracting beneficial wildlife. Garden care: When sowing seeds do not use a fertiliser since wildflowers prefer poor soils. Deadhead regularly to prolong flowering. In autumn cut the faded flowerheads down to the ground and compost the dead stems. Goes well with: Knautia arvensis, Centaurea cyanus, Lonicera pericymenum, Briza media, Papaver rhoeas, Agrostemma githago

Windflower £5.45

Position:   full sun or partial shade. Soil: moist, fertile, humus-rich soil. Rate of growth: fast-growing. Flowering period: July and August. Hardiness: fully hardy. Great for adding a splash of colour to the garden in mid to late summer, this anemone produces large, double, deep pink, cup-shaped flowers through. out July and August above clumps of pretty, deeply cut, deep green leaves. These award-winning Japanese anemones are perfect for the middle of a partially shady border, though. they will grow in sun, too. More compact and lower growing than other varieties, they're particularly suitable for small gardens. Garden care: Cut back the stalks after the flowers have faded. Tidy up old dead leaves in March, then mulch well. Avoid moving the plant since it resents disturbance. Where necessary lift and divide congested colonies in early spring.

Windflower £5.45

Position:   full sun or partial shade. Soil: moist, fertile, humus-rich soil. Rate of growth: average Flowering period: July to September. Hardiness: fully hardy. As the name suggests, Hadspen Abundance is very free-flowering and keeps on producing masses of cup-shaped, deep pink, semi-double flowers with reddish-pink outer petals from July through. to September. A fabulous plant for adding late summer colour to the garden, this anemone will also grow in sun or shade. The leaves are semi-evergreen and deeply cut and bring interesting texture to a herbaceous border. It is clump-forming and looks good with most late-flowering plants, especially if it is allowed to spread gently among perennials and shrubs. Garden care:   Cut back the stalks after the flowers have faded, and tidy up old dead leaves in March, then mulch well. Avoid moving the plant since it resents disturbance. Where necessary lift and divide congested clumps in autumn or early spring.

Wood Violet (syn. Viola labradonica var. purpurea) £4.95

Position:   full sun or partial shade. Soil: fertile, humus-rich, moist, well-drained soil. Rate of growth: fast-growing. Flowering period: April and June Flower colour: violet-blue. Hardiness: fully hardy. Delicate, violet blue flowers borne in April and June above attractive, dark purplish-green heart-shaped leaves. This charming wood violet look lovely planted in drifts under deciduous shrubs in a wild or woodland garden. A vigorous, semi-evergreen variety, it needs protection from midday sun and damage from slugs. Garden care: Deadhead regularly to prolong flowering and remove runners as they appear to ensure the best flowering performance.

Wormwood £4.95

Position:   full sunSoil: well-drained, fertile soil. Rate of growth: fast-growing Flowering period: August. Hardiness: fully hardy. Artemisias are prized for their light, almost silver, aromatic foliage rather than for their flowers, which are dull and insignificant. This cultivar has fine, fern-like, aromatic leaves and tiny, yellow-tinged silver flowers in August. The billowing foliage of this woody stemmed perennial is ideal for a sunny rock garden or border. Although. it's one of the hardiest varieties of wormwood, do plant it in a well-drained site, as the plant is likely to be short-lived in poorly drained soil. Garden care: Cut back stems back to ground-level in autumn and apply a generous mulch of well-rotted garden compost or manure around base of the plant.

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