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Bean ‘Sadies Horse’ Runner
A beautiful heirloom runner with huge beans have to be seen to be believed! - a gorgeous mix of colors including pink mottled black, lavender mottled brown and pure white. The vigorous vines are covered in a mix of white and almost fluorescent orange/red flowers all summer long and also attracts hummingbirds. Simply breathtaking! (110 days for dried beans) Pole.
approx 15 seeds per packet. Runner beans (Phaseolus coccineus)
Bean ‘Sunset’ Runner
Beautiful peach-pink blossoms are one of a kind! Attractive enough for flower gardens or patios, but this one is in a class by itself with luminous peach to shell-pink blossoms - absolutely unique! Vines to 6' (2m) or so, covered with cascades of runner bean pods, equally wonderful whether used as snaps fresh, canned or frozen, or as shell beans. Can also be used as a dry bean. Lovely!
60-70 days
approx 15 large seeds
Bean ‘Trionfo Violetto’ Pole Bean
Translated from Italian, this bean's name means "purple triumph", and this Italian heirloom will surely win you over! This treasure is a crisp, flavorful treat & highly ornamental. Abundant lavender flowers bloom against lush green foliage with a hint of burgundy that almost seems to be applied with a water-color brush. All of this accented against slender, dark stems, and long, thin, purple beans that are delicious fresh off the vine! It is so pretty you may want to grow it even if you don’t eat a single bean!
Stunning, prolific, and delicious!
Read about growing beans in my blog post here.
Calendula ‘Ivory Princess’
A mix of creamy soft yellow with tips outlined brown & dark brown eye. This unreal beauty is great for bouquets and wedding work.
They are long-lasting cut or dried flowers, and edible too! Deer resistant and can be grown in containers.
Celosia argentea spicata -MIX
Celosia is a genus of edible and ornamental annual or short-lived perennial (zones 9-11) grown as an ornamental for its distinctive, erect flower spikes sort of reminiscent of a sheaf of wheat that give it the common name of wheat celosia. Grown for their unique, textural blooms, celosias are vigorous and free flowering. Easy to grow plants. Brilliant colours in a range of reds, pinks, orange, salmon, yellow and cream.
I originally received this seed called C. 'Pampas Plume' but I do not think it is. It seems more to me a "C. spicata' so have named it such. The pictures are mine and exactly what this mix looks like.
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Chives (Allium schoenoprasum)
Chives have a unique, spicy flavour that's somewhere between the taste of garlic and onions in both the leaves and flowers. A relative of onions and leeks, but classified as an herb with tall, dark green, slender leaves that are hollow inside. The beautiful pale purple blooms made of tiny flower clusters are edible too.
Not only a cinch to start growing, they’re a perennial herb (zones 3 -10) —meaning they will grow in your garden for years!
Used as a garnish mostly, the promising health benefits of these alliums suggest adding them into your diet more often!
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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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.
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.
Millet – ‘Lime Light’ Spray Millet
Setaria italica - Foxtail-type millet. Very popular bouquet filler!
Vibrant lime colour is enough to make this variety a keeper! Excellent fresh and dried cut flowers. Ornamental, but of course also edible... the nutritious grain is good for both humans and birds.
Check out Lisa Mason Zieglers video! I am dedicated to creating a Canadian seed supply, I do not resell seed. All my seed is grown here with regenerative growing methods, chemical free. I am a small conscientious grower doing my best to be the change I wish to see! thank you for your support Canada!