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Cress ‘Wrinkled Crinkled Crumpled’
Lepidium sativum Cress is a salad green, aka pepper grass with distinctive peppery pungency. When it goes to seed it makes a bullet proof, versatile cut flower filler - fresh or dried!
(seen on US Floret Flowers)
Perfect for late season mixed bouquets and fall wreaths with silvery panicles covered in shimmery seeds, turning golden at the end of the season.
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Delphinium Mix
There is nothing quite like a stand of stately Delphiniums to behold! and the hummingbirds love them too! Fresh or dried fantastic in floral arrangements! They hold their colour well when dried. 150+cm, 4-6' tall
This stunning mix provides many different colours, light & dark blue, purple & bi coloured tones.with black or white "bees" ( the middle part of the flower).
An excellent cut flower and will attract bees and butterflies to your pollinator garden.
Dianthus – ‘Sweet William Mix’
(Dianthus Barbatus) So beautiful! The array of colours, including white, pink and bi-colour varieties are so charming! An irresistible, colourful, biennial, or short-lived perennial, flower with single or double blooms , blooming most profusely in the spring and summer. The plants require minimal care & give lovely, low-maintenance colour to borders, beds and containers. The flowers are edible and may have medicinal properties. Attracts bees, birds, and butterflies.
Dianthus – Pinks “Lace Perfume”
A highly fragrant "pinks" or dianthus with dainty laced and fringed blossoms that look like softly coloured snowflakes with a spicy/ sweet clove-like fragrance that wafts seductively in the air. The sturdy branching plants grow 12"+ tall with flowers in rose, lilac, soft pink, white and many delicate bi colours. When cut for bouquets, the lacy blossoms of these fragrant flowers seem to arrange themselves.
Christopher Lloyd extolled these sweet blooms from the 1920s as "one...that I would never want to be without."
Short-lived perennial to Zones 4+
Eryngium – Sea Holly
Eryngium planum, commonly called sea holly, is a remarkable clump-forming perennial that features a summer bloom of steel-blue, thistle-like flower heads on branched stems rising from a rosette of dark green basal leaves. Attracts pollinators! Stiff, branched, violet-blue stems (to 32” tall), bearing abundant, egg-shaped, thistle-like, violet-blue flower heads, rise from each basal rosette in summer. Each flower head is a spherical-cylindrical umbel that is packed with tiny, stemless, violet-blue flowers. Summer bloom is often profuse.
Excellent for cut or dried flower arrangements.
Fennel ‘Bronze Leaf’
Foeniculum vulgare dulce 'Rubrum' this beautiful perennial plant is the host for the Swallowtail butterfly, is a long lasting, fragrant filler in bouquets, is edible, tasting like anise (leaves and seeds) and medicinal. What more could you ask for????!! Highly recommended as a long lasting unusual bouquet filler, similar in appearance to dill, its smokey bronze colour contrasting beautifully with the mustard yellow blooms. An aromatic herb that attracts beneficial insects!
If you follow Georgie Newbury at Common Farm Flowers in England you will know this is one of her favourites for filler too!
Feverfew -Matricaria
Matricaria, also known as feverfew, botanical name Tanacetum parthenium, is very cheerful, prolific branching flower, excellent as a filler in bouquets!
Long, strong stems that support abundant, 1/2–1" daisy like blooms with yellow disks and white petals. Easy to grow and harvest.
Feverfew is believed to aid digestion, and lower blood pressure. There is some scientific evidence that drinking feverfew tea, or adding a few fresh leaves leaves to a sandwich everyday, can for some people, reduce the frequency and severity of migraine headaches.
Feverfew ‘MALMESBURY’ (Tanacetum parthenium)
These curious propeller-like flowers produce stubby white tubular petals which surround the yellow disc on this unique and unusual form which produce a shimmering effect when wind moves them. The name derives from Malmesbury in Wiltshire where it was found by Martin Cragg-Barber of the Natural Selection nursery. Matricaria, also known as feverfew, botanical name Tanacetum parthenium, is very cheerful, prolific branching flower, excellent as a filler in bouquets! Reminds me of little cogwheels and is a stunning bouquet filler!
Figwort (Scrophularia nodosa)
Figwort is a hardworking perennial herb that will flower the first year from seed if started early. Great for medicinal use, cut flower filler and pollinator magnet! Recommended by Erin at Floret
Branching plants produce an abundance of long stems smothered in rather inconspicuous, chocolate and green hoodlike blooms, similar to snapdragons, which ripen into egg-shaped seed capsules and those seed pods are just the perfect bouquet filler for interest and movement!
Figworts are among the most prolific nectar producers in the plant world!
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Foxglove ‘Silver Fox’
Digitalis purpurea Heywoodii 'Silver Fox' has soft, touchable felted leaves and spires of clustered thimble-shaped flowers in dewy pink and cream, with "beauty spots" scattered within. Nectar-rich florets are irresistible to bees. Late spring to summer bloom.
Foxglove Mix
Stately Digitalis purpurea, also known as foxglove, has tall stunning spikes of tubular flowers. The long-stemmed flowers are good for cutting and drying. This old fashioned mix is a beautiful blend of lavender-blush, pink and white spires with freckled throats, as well as some pure white. Stunning in the garden and when arranged en masse.
Lupin Mix
A member of the pea family, Lupins are a wonderful old-fashioned flower, with spires of blue, yellow, pink, purple, white, peach and bicolours.. Although they are perennials, lupins are in the class of short-lived perennials. They put all their energy into those magnificent flower stalks and wear themselves out in the effort. Lupins live in the range of two to five years, but luckily they will self seed and the butterflies and bumblebees will love you.